Robert De Niro emotional as he opens up on being a dad to a baby girl at 80
Topics: Robert De Niro, Film and TV, Parenting, Celebrity
Callum Jones
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Topics: Robert De Niro, Film and TV, Parenting, Celebrity
Robert De Niro has opened up about being an 80-year-old dad to a baby girl in a brand new interview.
The Killers of the Flower Moon star has been involved in some of the biggest film projects, though his home life is pretty busy too.
While most men his age would be retiring and taking up golf, De Niro welcomed his seventh child, Gia Virginia, last year.
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As well as his baby girl, De Niro shares his oldest kids with ex-wife Diahnne Abbott, adopting her daughter Drena, while the couple had son Raphael together.
With ex Toukie Smith he has sons Julian and Aaron via a surrogate, and from his marriage to Grace Hightower there is son Elliot and daughter Helen, born via a surrogate.
The Oscar winner, who shares his newest arrival with girlfriend Tiffany Chen, got emotional in a recent interview as he opened up about parenting his little girl.
Speaking in AARP The Magazine February/March edition, De Niro said 'it's great' being a parent again at the grand age of 80.
“Everything that I’m consumed with or worried about just goes away when I look at her. It’s wondrous," he added.
"When she gets older — who knows? But that very sweet way she has of looking at you, taking you in, thinking and watching and observing," he added, becoming teary.
Having dealt with dirty diapers in nearly every decade of his life, the actor is taking a more, um, relaxed approach to parenting these days.
“It doesn’t get easier,” he explained to the Guardian last October, when asked about becoming a dad in his golden years.
The acting legend added: “It is what it is. It’s OK. I mean, I don’t do the heavy lifting. I’m there, I support my girlfriend. But she does the work. And we have help, which is so important.”
De Niro's announcing he had welcomed his seventh child came as a bit of a shock to a lot of folks last year as he was speaking about his upcoming movie My Father when when the conversation turned to his own children.
"I mean, there’s no way around it with kids. I don’t like to have to lay down the law and stuff like that. But you just have no choice," he said.
"And any parent, I think, would say the same thing. You always want to do the right thing by the children and give them the benefit of the doubt but sometimes you can’t."
As the interviewer began the next question, they mentioned the actor’s six children, to which he interrupted with ‘seven actually’.
"I just had a baby," De Niro revealed nonchalantly, without giving any further detail about his new daughter.