Actor Robert De Niro welcomes his seventh child at the age of 79
79-year-old actor Robert De Niro announced the birth of his seventh child in an interview for his latest project.
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Robert De Niro, who is famously private about his personal life, has shared some insight into his family life months after the birth of his seventh child.
In an interview with The Guardian published on Sunday, the 80-year-old The Godfather actor said: “It’s going well” when asked about how things are going with his partner Tiffany Chen and his youngest daughter, Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro , who was born on April 6th, is running . When it comes to raising children, De Niro added, “It doesn’t get any easier.”
“It is what it is. It’s fine,” he said. “I mean, I don’t do the hard work. I’m here, I support my friend. But she does the work. And we have help, which is so important.”
Three months after giving birth to Gia, Chen spoke to Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” in July about her experience with postpartum Bell’s palsy.
When she got home from the hospital, the martial arts instructor noticed that her tongue felt strange and “my face just felt weird.” About a week after giving birth, she called her doctor when she realized she had nothing could eat and started slurping.
“When I got home it was like everything was falling apart, like my face was melting,” she said. “The moment I got to the hospital I lost all facial function.”
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After almost five decades of experience as a father, De Niro still enjoys being a father.
“It’s different with a baby than with my 11-year-old. My adult children. My grandchildren,” he told the Guardian. “Everything is different.”
“You think more about time. Every summer, every new season, everything, you say, ‘Well, I’m going to use these few months of summer to be with my kids and my family,'” he said of his ambition to “stay alive.” Everything , what I do is important in terms of time. Whatever I want to do in two years, I’d better think about doing it now.”
De Niro adopted Diahnne Abbott’s daughter Drena De Niro, 52, in his first marriage to Abbott. Their son Raphael De Niro, 46, was born in 1976. He and Abbott divorced in 1988.
He has twins Julian and Aaron, 27, with Toukie Smith, whom he never married. Elliot, 25, and Helen Grace, 11, were born during his marriage to Grace Hightower. The couple married in 1997 and filed for divorce in 2018.
He has three grandchildren after Drena’s 19-year-old son, Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, died of an accidental drug overdose in July.
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De Niro’s latest collaboration with Martin Scorsese, “Killers of The Flower Moon,” hits theaters October 20.
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