vin dieselVin Diesel has said he’s loving fatherhood after becoming a dad for the first time earlier this year.

The actor and girlfriend Paloma Jimenez welcomed their daughter at the start of April and the xXx star told Parade magazine recently: “Someone once told me that, when you have a child, it opens up parts of your heart that you never knew existed. And it is so true.

“It’s like you have a child and you think, ‘Everything that I’ve done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.’ It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.”

He added that he took to the practical side of parenthood with ease too: “I had a lot of practice growing up.

“I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making.

“I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.”