Ian Somerhalder Shares an Important Lesson He's Teaching His Kids

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Nikki Reed Gives a Rare Look astatine Her and Ian Somerhalder’s Private Life Together (Exclusive)

Ian Somerhalder is passing down invaluable household lessons to his ain kids.

The Vampire Diaries alum, who shares 2 children with woman Nikki Reed, emphasizes the value of "building transportation wrong the community" and giving back.

"What my parents taught america precise aboriginal is, if you look around, determination is simply a equilibrium successful nature," Ian told E! News astatine favored nutrient company's Nutro's Pawtail Hour lawsuit successful Los Angeles, Sept. 12, " If you springiness backmost arsenic overmuch oregon much than you take, past you volition find an tremendous bounty of wellness and happiness and occurrence and each these things that radical privation and dream."

The 45-year-old continued, "That's what we thatch our kids and our friends thatch their kids, is to beryllium respectful of the equilibrium and truly admit that equilibrium and unrecorded that balance. And with that equilibrium comes boundless harmony and boundless nutrient and vigor and amusive and each those things that we want, but you can't conscionable instrumentality and instrumentality and take. It doesn't work."

Several years ago, Ian and Nikki, 36, enactment their acting careers connected the backmost burner and moved with their kids to a California farm. The actor, who shares with his woman a passionateness for the situation and surviving a sustainable life, had told E! News successful November that they nutrient astir of their ain food.

But the modulation to becoming a husbandman wasn't easy. Ian said determination was "a batch of failure" involved.

"You larn immoderate of the things that you effort and works whitethorn not work, but different ones do," helium said successful his latest interview. "And past you get into this strategy of erstwhile the kids are progressive and you and past your community's involved, and past you find yourself surviving this truly chill sharing, bartering strategy with your neighbors."

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Ian continued, "People person immoderate corn, and I've got beans. And it's conscionable precise cool. It's similar the mode it utilized to beryllium done, and it feels acold and I'm not trying to dependable similar benignant of incendiary oregon anything, but to me, it's acold much gratifying and feels mode much elevated than being each fancy, which is amusive too, but astatine the extremity of the day, this is wherever the rubber meets the roadworthy and it's connective."

The Lost alum's latest interrogation took spot 2 days earlier helium hosted a farmer's marketplace for dogs successful Los Angeles arsenic portion of his concern with Nutro, which had successful 2022 launched a $5 cardinal committedness to assistance bid and enactment growers successful the implementation of steadfast ungraded practices.

One of Ian and Nikki's dogs, Nietzsche—a stray helium rescued aft a time of filming The Vampire Diaries successful 2013—, accompanied him to some the farmer's marketplace and his interview.

"Are you eating kale?" helium asked her astatine the second aft she began chewing kale leaves connected a branded Nutro display. "That’s a workplace dog."

Look backmost astatine respective of Ian and Nikki's cutest pics implicit the years...

—Reporting by Amanda Champagne-Meadows

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Nikki's First TikTok

Nikki and Ian wage tribute to their Twilight and Vampire Diaries characters successful the actress' archetypal TikTok, shared Jan. 18, 2024.

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New Year's Eve 2023

The Vampire Diaries histrion wrote connected Instagram Dec. 31, "Yeahhhhhhh 2024!"

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Giving "Gratitude"

The Lost histrion praises his woman for helping him get "out of a unspeakable concern situation" that near him successful the hospital. "This pistillate present decided that she didn't privation to spot her hubby ruin his body/mind/spirit and pulled up her bootstraps and got down successful the trenches assembling a squad to get to the negotiating array to find a mode out," helium shared. "She devoted her beingness to getting maine retired of that messiness and it astir killed her on the way. I americium wherever I americium BECAUSE of this woman. Brothers Bond Bourbon is really present contiguous due to the fact that of this woman. I was capable to commencement my beingness implicit due to the fact that of this woman."

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Birthday Boy

In December 2020, Nikki shared a saccharine day tribute to her husband, writing, "Happy Happy day to this antheral close here. The astir creative, certifiably genius, deepest thinker of anyone I person ever known with the astir giving spirit."

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Rainforest Sips

Ian and woman Nikki celebrated outpouring (and being joined 4 years) by sipping connected bush chai successful the rainforest successful April 2019. 

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Pure Bliss

The histrion shared this romantic photo, on with a saccharine caption about his woman emotion connected their 4th wedding day successful 2019. "I'm wholly blown distant by you...," helium began, adding, "Whether dancing astatine our wedding, swimming crossed the seas, cuddling 1 of our furry creatures, jumping connected airplanes astir the world, snapping beauteous photos oregon sitting manus and manus looking astatine the water with a beer: we bash it each together. It's been thing abbreviated of astonishing to respire the aerial of the agleam bluish entity each implicit this satellite with you."

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Defying Gravity

This duo's emotion is 1 that intelligibly defies the laws of physics.

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Precious Peck

The lovebirds truly similar locking lips with each other!

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Sweet Snuggles

In this throwback representation from 2015, the precious brace enjoyed immoderate not-so-covert makeout time.

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Cute Carry

In different flashback photo—this clip from 2014—the Vampire Diaries histrion whisked his wife right disconnected her feet!

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Romance successful the Rain

During New York Fashion Week, the cute mates shared a saccharine smooch successful the rain.

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Flawless Family

For Father's Day, the CW prima threw it backmost to this adorable infinitesimal wherever helium planted a peck connected Nikki's increasing baby bump.

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Fun successful the Sun

The 2 showed disconnected their fit figures while retired connected the h2o successful this photo. And clearly, they couldn't support their hands disconnected each other!

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Crazy Kiss

The actress loves doing acrobatics and her hubby loves supporting her (literally!).

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Polaroid Perfection

This precious photograph was posted successful grant of the couple's 3rd day and we can't get implicit the cuteness.

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Valentine's Day View

Aw, however romantic. The lovebirds smooched nether the mounting prima connected Valentine's Day.

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Awards Show Smooch

Aren't these 2 truthful cute sharing a buss astatine the Golden Globes?

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Greener Pastures

The carnal lovers look truthful cozy laying connected the writer adjacent to immoderate beauteous horses successful this snap.

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Black-and-White Bliss

The couple loves their PDA.

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