With Robert De Niro saying this week that he’s welcomed his seventh youngster at age 79, the Academy Award-winning film star has grow to be one of many oldest male celebrities to ever make the most of a organic truth: Males produce sperm till they die.
Definitely, 79 feels like a sophisticated age to be tasked with always altering diapers or strolling a fussy new child round in the midst of the night time. Wouldn’t he quite simply go on a cruise? In fact, it’s fully potential that his much-younger companion Tiffany Chen, or a nanny, will deal with these parenting duties.
Truly, the “Raging Bull” actor already has expertise with superior paternal age. He was 68 in 2011 when he and his ex-wife, Grace Hightower, welcomed their daughter, Helen Grace, by way of surrogate.
Nonetheless, if he’s searching for emotional help as he embarks on this superior however exhausting new duty, he might type a dad’s group with another well-known older fathers, together with Mick Jagger, Steve Martin and fellow New Yorker Alec Baldwin, who, at 65, has seven kids underneath the age of 9. De Niro may take coronary heart in the truth that some wealthy and well-known males grew to become fathers previous the age of 79. Then once more, a few of these males sadly didn’t get to spend a lot time with their new kids.
Here's a checklist of some well-known older dads, and the ages at which they welcomed their kids.
Julio Iglesias Sr., the Spanish gynecologist father of singer Julio Iglesias and grandfather of singers Enrique Iglesias and Julio Iglesias Jr. was 90 in 2004 when his second spouse, Ronna Keith, gave start to his third youngster, a boy named Jaime. His fourth youngster, Ruth, was born in 2006, seven months after he died.
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow was 84 in 2000 when his fifth spouse, Janis Freedman, gave start to his fourth youngster and first daughter. Bellow died in 2005.
Anthony Quinn, the Academy Award-winning “Zorba the Greek” star, was 81 when his secretary and girlfriend Katherine Benvin gave start to the youngest of his 12 kids in 1996. Quinn died 5 years later.
“Star Trek” star James Doohan’s third spouse, Wende Braunberger — whom he married when he was 54 and he or she was 18 — gave start to his youngest youngster, a daughter, in 2000, when he was round 80. Sadly, the actor, well-known for enjoying Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on “Star Trek,” was sick in his last years and withdrew from public life in 2004, as a consequence of Alzheimer’s illness and Parkinson’s illness, the BBC reported. He died in 2005.
Tony Randall, star of TV’s “The Odd Couple,” was 78 when he and his second spouse, Heather Harlan, welcomed their second youngster, a boy, in 1998. Randall was 75 and Harlan 25 once they married in a ceremony officiated by then-New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Randall died in 2004.
As for different well-known older fathers, two members of The Rolling Stones continued to procreate of their 60s and 70s, Mother and father journal reported. Mick Jagger, 79, welcomed his eighth youngster — a son, with girlfriend Melanie Hamrick — on the age of 73 in 2016. Ronnie Wooden and his spouse Sally Humphreys, who's 31 years his junior, welcomed twin ladies in Might 2016, simply two days earlier than his 69th birthday.
Different well-known males having children of their 60s embody Clint Eastwood, who was 66 when his second spouse, former TV anchor Dina Ruiz, gave start to his youngest youngster, Morgan, in 1996.
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas was 69 when he and his spouse Mellody Hobson welcomed their daughter, Everest, in 2014. In 2012 and at age 67, Steve Martin grew to become a first-time father together with his spouse Anne Stringfield, whereas singer Billy Joel was 68, when his fourth spouse, Alexis, welcomed their second daughter in 2017.
Superstar-world’s most well-known older procreator lately might be 65-year-old Alec Baldwin, who has a complete of eight kids, beginning together with his 27-year-old daughter Eire, from his marriage to his first spouse Kim Basinger. At age 55 in 2013, Baldwin welcomed the primary of seven kids together with his second spouse, influencer and yoga teacher Hilaria Baldwin. The youngsters, often called Baldwin’s “Baldwinitos,” are ages 7 months to 9 years.