Dwayne Johnson, a Hollywood A-lister who turned 49 yesterday, i.e. May 2, 2021, recently confessed that people often mistook him for a woman when he was younger. Dwayne reminisced on his early days in an interview with Willie Geist on Sunday Sitdown, saying that as a boy, his “soft features” and “soft Afro hair” puzzled a lot of people.

“I would say between the ages of 7 and 11, people thought that I was a little girl because I had really soft features and I had really soft Afro hair,” Johnson, 46, told Willie Geist, the show’s host.

Dwayne Johnson says people thought he was a girl growing up due to having ‘soft features’. (Instagram)

During his conversation with the podcast host, The Rock also recalled an incident from his fifth-grade first day when a student asked him if he was a boy or a girl.

I sit down next to a kid, and within 60 seconds, he goes, ‘Can I ask you something?’” Johnson recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘Are you a boy or a girl?’”

Johnson also did not rule out a political career. “If the time comes where there is a good amount of people who want to see that happen, then I’m going to consider it,” he told Geist.

For the uninitiated, Rocky Johnson’s adored son traveled a lot as a youngster, attending 13 different schools before entering high school.

“I have had a Forrest Gump-ian childhood growing up,” Johnson told Geist. “Wrestling in the ‘80s and in the ‘70s was way different than it is today. A lot of the times, including my father, the wrestlers would live paycheck to paycheck.”

Fortunately, The Rock can now laugh at those once-unfortunate mix-ups. His latest program, “Young Rock,” which premiered in February, portrays his childhood as he travels with his father as a professional wrestler.

According to Forbes, Johnson is the world’s highest-paid actor, with a net worth of $87.5 million (about $113.4 million). Young Rock, his new sitcom starring Bradley Constant and Aussie starlet Lexie Duncan, covers his life leading up to his pro-wrestling career.

Dwayne Johnson with his parents Michael Tran/FilmMagic

It has been renewed for a second season. On his birthday, he rushed to Instagram to share the exciting news with his followers. He wrote, “Breakin’ out the fanny pack with awesome news to kick off my birthday weekend. Our @NBC’s YOUNG ROCK officially back in the saddle for SEASON 2!! A huge mahalo for joining me on this wild and unbelievable journey.”

At NBC’s TCA press tour in January, Johnson revealed that working on Young Rock with executive producer Nahnatchka Khan and writer Jeff Chiang was “incredibly complicated” and “tough.”

“Growing up, and you know we specifically went with these timelines in my life that were very defining times at 10 years old, 15 and 18 … there’s a lot of things in between those years that took place … but it was complicated and the relationship that I had with my dad was incredibly complicated — that was fueled by tough love,” Johnson said of his late father, who died on January 15, 2020, at the age of 75.