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Robert De Niro opens up about the “wonderful” new addition to his family in a candid new interview.
The 80-year-old actor welcomed his seventh child, a daughter named Gia, with his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, last April.
talked with AARP the magazine in an interview published Thursday about becoming a father again at this stage of his life.
“I’m an 80-year-old dad and it’s great. Everything that consumes me or worries me or this or that just disappears when I look at her,” he told the outlet for its February/March 2024 issue.
“That in itself is, you know, wonderful,” he said, while appearing to get emotional.
“She has a very sweet way of looking at you and accepting you,” adding that her daughter, Helen, who is 13he also shares that in common with Gia.
“I don’t know where he’ll go with her when he grows up, but he’s thinking and he’s watching everything and he’s watching,” she added. “It’s really interesting. I want to be here as long as she can to enjoy it (and) enjoy her.”
The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star announced that she had welcomed her seventh child during an interview. with Entertainment Tonight Canada back in May.
When interviewer Brittnee Blair asked the artist about his six children, he said “seven, actually” and added, “I just had a baby.”
Days later, De Niro shared more details about his newborn in an interview with Gayle King for a a “CBS Mornings” segment. King noted at the time that the actor told him that “this baby is planned.”
De Niro has six other children from previous relationships, including daughter Drena, 52, and son Raphael, 47, with his first wife Diahnne Abbott.
He also has 28-year-old twin adult sons, Julian and Aaron, from a previous relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Toukie Smith.
With his second wife, Grace Hightower, De Niro shares son Elliot, 25, and daughter Helen, 13.