Al Pacino expecting fourth child at 83 and joins podium of famous older dads. Al Pacino is set to join the old dad club at 83 as his girlfriend is revealed to be eight months pregnant.
Al Pacino recently passed Robert De Niro as the oldest dad in Hollywood when he announced that he is expecting his first child with his 29-year-old girlfriend, Noor Alfallah. 83-year-old Pacino already has three kids, who are well into adulthood.
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert De Niro revealed that he recently welcomed his seventh child. The 79-year-old's rep confirmed the news to FOX Television Stations Tuesday.
Charlie Chaplin had 12 kids. The silent film star was 73 when he welcomed his youngest child, Christopher James, with wife Oona O'Neill in 1962. Charlie passed away 15 years later.
It's been announced that Robert De Niro recently welcomed his seventh child just months away from his 80th birthday, with the news shared by him this week. The actor, 79, announced the arrival of his newborn baby in an interview to promote his upcoming film About My Father, when he was asked about having six children.
Naomi Campbell, 50
This week supermodel Naomi Campbell surprised the world by announcing she had become a mother for the first time at 50. The iconic model revealed that she had welcomed a baby girl and shared a picture of herself holding her daughter's feet.
Susie and Tony Troxler became first-time parents at 50 and 61. They say their daughter Lily is the poster child for hope. Their fertility journey is inspiring people everywhere. Susie and Tony Troxler became first-time parents at 50 and 61.
Rupert Murdoch, 72
The youngest, Chloe, was born in 2003 to his former wife Wendi Deng, when he was 72.
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.
1. Alec Baldwin. To kick off this esteemed list, the one and only Alec Baldwin. Despite recent legal issues, the 65-year-old actor and his wife, Hilaria, welcomed their seventh child together, Catalina Irena, in September 2022.
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.
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.
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases, the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.
Jennifer Park became a mother at 42.
At 38, Jennifer Park met her husband, who was eager to become a father. She knew that, statistically, the odds of conceiving would only decrease with time, so they started trying to get pregnant right after they married. A year and a half ago, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
Brazilian television star Claudia Raia says she got the surprise of her life when she discovered she was pregnant at 55. At the time, Raia believed she was in menopause, which happens around age 51, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Though there are two unconfirmed reports of older fathers, Les Colley holds the official record after his partner gave birth to a son in 1993. The Australian pensioner had his ninth child, Oswald, to his third wife two months before he turned 93.
The Guinness World Record for most children born to one mother goes to Valentina Vassilyev, the wife of a Russian peasant Feodor Vassilyev. She birthed 69 babies total in her lifetime.
There are a select few examples where women over the age of 60 have conceived naturally at this later life stage. For example, 60-year-old Claudette Cook had twins, and although the twins were premature, and were birthed through a c-section, she was absolutely thrilled after struggling to have children in the past.
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.
Cameron Diaz became a mother at the age of 47, as did Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon.
A 62-year-old Spanish woman is eight months pregnant and is due to give birth to a baby girl in October. Doctor Lina Alvarez, from Lugo in north west Spain, says she started the menopause 20 years ago but is now expecting her third child after undergoing fertility treatment.
Pregnancy in Your 40s
If you get pregnant after 35 years old, experts call this an “advanced maternal age” pregnancy. But it's still possible to get pregnant and deliver a healthy baby in your 40s. Childbirth at older ages has become more common too. Since the 1990s, birth rates in people aged 40-44 have gone up.