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Baseball legend Alex Rodriguez's daughter, Ella, has admitted that growing up in the spotlight wasn't all that it is cracked up to be.
The 17-year-old appeared alongside her older sister, Natasha, in the new HBO docuseries, 'Alex vs ARod,' which focuses on the New York Yankees icon's life on and off the field.
The two sisters provide a candid outlook on their relationship with their famous father and life under a lens.
While Natasha admits that, like her father, she's a 'social butterfly,' Ella branded her childhood 'weird.'
'I don't like calling myself "A-Rod's daughter,"' Ella said during the second episode of the series, via The New York Post. 'I actually hate that. Growing up people have always been like, "Your dad is A-Rod? A-Rod's going to be here?"
'Then I just hear that and I'm like, "Guys, he has a name — it's Alex. He's a real human."
Alex Rodriguez's daughter, Ella, has admitted that growing up in the spotlight was 'weird'
The Yankees legend is pictured with his two daughters Ella (second right) and Natasha (right)
The baseball icon shares the two girls with his ex-wife during his tenure with the Yankees
'I don't know, it's always just been a little bit weird for me… I think I'm very ambitious because of him. When he really sets his mind there is no telling him otherwise. All three of us are like that. A lot of the discipline that I have is from him.'
Meanwhile, Natasha, who is a student at the University of Michigan, appeared to welcome the limelight more than her younger sister.
The 20-year-old claimed that she and her father, who spent 22 years in the major leagues, are 'carbon copies' of one another.
'My dad and I are kind of like twin flames in work ethic, in passion, in drive [and] ambition,' Natasha said. 'We're social butterflies but our circles are very small. So we're kind of carbon copies of each other.
'… Alex is the best, but your ego thrives off of your achievements and all the things you can list that you do, which is something that I do all the time… And A-Rod has a lot of those.'
Rodriguez's ex-wife, Cynthia Scurtis, who he shares the two girls with, also made an appearance in the second part of the miniseries.
And the former teacher didn't tiptoe around the brutal reality of being the wife or girlfriend of a baseball player.
'It was exciting but it was also really hard,' Scurtis said of Rodriguez's Yankees tenure. '… You're on a baseball schedule. And I'm not going to pretend that it was wonderful. It was not wonderful.
Natasha, a student at the University of Michigan, appeared to welcome the limelight more
Ella gave a candid outlook on growing up in the spotlight in HBO's new series on her father
The World Series champion married Cynthia Scurtis in 2002 before they divorced in 2008
'… It was a different level of notoriety, different amounts of people watching, it was just different, it was New York.'
The World Series champion and Scurtis tied the knot in 2002 after meeting in the late 1990s before divorcing in 2008.
Scurtis filed for divorce just months after giving birth to Ella, citing that their marriage was 'irretrievably broken because of the husband's extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct.'
She also claimed in the petition that the 14-time All-Star had 'emotionally abandoned his wife and children.
However, the pair now appear to be good friends and co-parents with Scurtis even attending the premier of the documentary in New York City.
'He wanted to have kids like right after we got married and I was the one that wasn't ready to have kids,' Scurits said in the episode.
'He wasn't going to be able to contribute much with his schedule so I knew the majority of it was going to land on my shoulders. But he's very convincing. When he wants something, he's very convincing.'
