Robert De Niro, Bernie Ecclestone, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood all welcomed children past the age of 70. Al Pacino has welcomed his fourth child at the age of 83, according to his publicist.
But none of them come close to the number one spot, held by Ramjit Raghav, who became a celebrity when he fathered his second son at the age of 96 in 2012, becoming the oldest father in the world.
Some of Hollywood's biggest stars welcomed children later in life. Robert De Niro, Richard Gere, David Foster and more A-listers became fathers again in their 70s. In May 2023, Robert revealed he secretly welcomed his seventh child at the age of 79. “I'm OK with it.
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood and Alec Baldwin are just a few A-list actors who have become dads by welcoming children later in life: read on to meet more members of Hollywood's older dads club.
According to Guinness World Records, the oldest father who had the documentation to prove it was Australian Les Colley, who in 1991 fathered a son with his third wife when he was 92. Here are some other notable men who had their mojos working well into their golden years.
There's no maximum age that stops a man from being able to have a baby. You can become a father long into your older years, but there are risks.
She gave birth via C-section on Saturday night.
An Indian woman has become the "world's oldest mother" after giving birth to a baby weighing just 1lb 5oz. 75-year-old Prabha Devi welcomed her first child - a baby girl - via C-section last week in Kota's private Kinker Hospital in Rajasthan.
This may be one evolutionary, ultimate reason why older parents are more likely to have daughters. Parents may be evolutionarily designed to have more daughters when they are older, so that, when they die, they are less likely to leave sons who have not sexually matured.
The scientists also note that at the age of 35, the proportion of sperm carrying an X chromosome also seems to increase, meaning older dads are more likely to have daughters. In human reproduction, the Y chromosome is responsible for making a male child.
In a random international sample of 11,548 men confirmed to be biological fathers by DNA paternity testing, the oldest father was found to be 66 years old at the birth of his child; the ratio of DNA-confirmed versus DNA-rejected paternity tests around that age is in agreement with the notion of general male infertility ...
Robert De Niro has welcomed another child. The 79-year-old is now the father of seven. A representative for De Niro confirmed the birth to The Associated Press on Tuesday but said no other details or statement were expected.
Meet the (much older) parents
In a world where US birth rates were declining, one man decided to embark on a heroic journey to father as many children as he could. That man is called Robert De Niro and he has just had his seventh child at the grand old age of 79.
Doctors say that at 74, Yaramati is the oldest person in the world to give birth, though this was not immediately verifiable. Three years ago, another Indian woman, Daljinder Kaur, gave birth in her early 70s. She was reported by the Guardian to be 72, though her age was also not verifiable at the time.
Giving birth at that age is rare but not unheard of. Hayer gave birth less than two years after Frieda Birnbaum, 60, of Saddle River, N.J., had twins boys after undergoing in-vitro fertilization. Still, Hayer's obstetrician, Colin Birch, told CBC that he was initially disbelieving.
Surprisingly, Mel Gibson has 9 children, Mia Farrow had a whopping 14. DMX has had addiction issues, but has managed to have 15 kids along the way. And of course, Bob Marley spread his love all over the world, mainly in Jamaica, as he had 11 kids.
Peak male fertility is around 25-29 years old. Sperm quality begins to decline at 30. At 45, men begin to experience a significant decrease in semen volume. Older men can also take longer to conceive a child.
A more recent study in the same journal employed a larger set of photos than were used by either Christenfeld and Hill or Brédart and French in their studies and still concluded that most infants resemble both parents equally.
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Men inherit a tendency to have more sons or more daughters from their parents. This means that a man with many brothers is more likely to have sons, while a man with many sisters is more likely to have daughters.
Not Quite 50/50: Understanding the Odds of Having a Boy or a Girl. According to the World Health Organization, for every 105 boys born globally, there are about 100 girls born. This is called the sex ratio at birth.
Debbie Hughes of Daventry, gave birth naturally to her son Kyle at Northampton General Hospital in June 2011 at the age of 53, after a natural conception. She had no plans to become a mother again when she became pregnant, as she had been taking contraceptive pills.
A woman's peak reproductive years are between the late teens and late 20s. By age 30, fertility (the ability to get pregnant) starts to decline. This decline happens faster once you reach your mid-30s. By 45, fertility has declined so much that getting pregnant naturally is unlikely.
While stories about women giving birth in their 50s, 60s, and even 70s make for good headlines, these pregnancies are usually accomplished with donor eggs and in vitro fertilization (IVF). There is no set oldest age when you can get pregnant naturally, but fertility starts to decline as you age.