Helena Christensen Informed Son Mingus ‘Free Lease Is Up’ After Commencement (Unique)

Helena Christensen saved it actual along with her son when he graduated from school.

Whereas chatting with PEOPLE on the TriBeCa Ball on the New York Academy of Artwork on Tuesday, April 15, the mannequin, 56, shares the hilarious remark she made to her son Mingus, 25, whom she shares with The Strolling Useless actor Norman Reedus, when he graduated from school.

“I want I gave him nice recommendation,” she admits to PEOPLE. “We have been simply so pleased that he had come to that milestone, and I used to be like, ‘Okay, free lease is up now that you’ve got graduated.'”

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The proud boy mother welcomed her solely son with Reedus, additionally 56, in October 1999. Since then, she’s had a front-row seat to his progress as an grownup and musician.

“Since he was little or no, he was at all times musical,” she tells PEOPLE. “I’m so obsessive about music and would play it on a regular basis when he was in my stomach and when he grew up all through his childhood, and his title can also be in honor of clearly jazz and Charles Mingus.”

“It simply actually makes me really feel so grateful and pleased that he’s so captivated with music as properly, and that he creates these lovely items,” she provides.

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Christensen additionally opened as much as PEOPLE about how having a baby has modified her life and what her son has taught her through the years.

“Having a baby makes you be taught daily since you see it by means of your kid’s eyes,” she says. “Your baby mainly makes positive that the kid that is at all times in you, however generally a bit of additional away, comes again to the floor.”

“That is sort of the place you … uncover every thing by means of the curious eyes of a really younger particular person,” she continues. “And I feel that is in all probability one of many biggest items having a baby offers you — the truth that you rediscover the kid in you.”

“I at all times really feel related, anyway, to the curiosity and the child-likeness in me, however having a baby, you get to have enjoyable with it once more, and, I imply, it is such a blessing,” she concludes.