While it’s difficult for women to safely carry healthy babies past a certain age, it’s certainly much easier for men to continue fathering children well into retirement. Having a child sometimes feels like something you must do while you’re young, but these famous older dads are breaking the mold! Check out this gallery to see which of your favorite celebrities squeezed in this life-altering event after the benchmark of 60.
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Richard Gere
Though he already had a son with actress Carey Lowell, named Homer James Jigme, Richard Gere became a father to another baby boy (Alexander) with his new wife Alejandra Silva at 69, and now at 71 he’s a new dad yet again!
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Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum became a dad for the first time at the age of 62. His son, Charlie Ocean Goldblum, reportedly governed the actor’s sleeping schedule—which he said was perfect since that meant he could go to bed at 8 pm.
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Jeff Goldblum
Two years later, his son River Joe was born, and Goldblum was 64. Ever the vivacious spirit, Goldblum doesn’t feel strange about being a late father. “I feel right on schedule,” he told Us Weekly.
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Billy Joel
Though Billy Joel first became a father at 36, it took another 30 years to have his second child. After his fourth marriage, to Alexis Roderick, he had his second daughter, Della Rose Joel, when he was 66. Two years later, in 2017, the couple had another daughter, Remy Anne.
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Steve Martin
The hilarious actor became a first-time dad at age 67 when he and his wife, Anne Stringfield, welcomed a baby girl named Mary. Now he’s really happy about his decision to wait. “If I’d had a child earlier, I would have been a lousy father, because I would have misplaced my attention on my career,” he told AARP The Magazine.
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Elton John
The famed singer had his first child when he was 62, welcoming Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John through a surrogate, with his partner David Furnish.
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Elton John
So in love with being fathers, the pair welcomed a second boy, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, three years later, when John was 65.
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Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones rock star now has eight children with five women. Most impressively, however, is that two years after becoming a great-grandfather in 2014, Jagger again became a father when ballerina Melanie Hamrick gave birth to his son, Deveraux Jagger.
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Ronnie Wood
Similar to his bandmate, Wood has six children with a few different women, but his most recent daughters, twins Gracie Jane and Alice Rose, were born two days before Ronnie’s 69th birthday. His wife Sally told Hello Magazine that even following his battle with cancer, they plan on having more.
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Robert De Niro
The actor already had five children when he and his second wife, actress Grace Hightower, received his sixth via surrogate, by which time he was 68. However, De Niro and Hightower have since separated.
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Rod Stewart
The British rock star is also a doting father of eight, by five different mothers. In his third marriage, however, to model Penny Lancaster, Stewart had his seventh child, Alastair Wallace Stewart, at age 60.
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Rod Stewart
Six years later, the pair were ready for more, and they had another son, Aiden Patrick Stewart, when the singer was 66.
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Mel Gibson
The actor had seven children with his first wife, Robyn Denise Moore, then one more with Russian pianist Oksana Grigorieva in 2009. After a messy divorce, he found writer Rosalind Ross, and she gave birth to Gibson’s ninth child, Lars Gerard, when the actor was 61.
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Gary Busey
The actor had two children by two different women earlier in his life, but when he was 65, Busey’s partner Steffanie Sampson gave birth to their son, Luke Sampson Busey.
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Warren Beatty
The Hollywood star and his famous wife, actress Annette Bening, have four children together—Stephen, Benjamin, Isabel, and Ella—the last of whom Beatty welcomed into the world when he was 63. He told People that his kids are “the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me … That’s bigger than fame, and it came not a moment too soon.”
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Paul McCartney
Sir Paul McCartney first became a father at age 27, and he had his last child when he was 61. The rocker has five kids: Heather, Mary, Stella, James, and Beatrice.
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Clint Eastwood
Eastwood made headlines in 2018 when eight of his seven known children showed up to support him at the premiere of ‘The Mule.’ His youngest daughter Morgan, who he’d had when he was 66, shared a picture to Instagram confirming that the eighth and secret child, Laurie, was her sister.
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Larry King
The famed TV host had three children before he was 60, but King’s seventh wife, Shawn (who he’s now in the process of divorcing), gave birth to his fourth child, Chance, when he was 64.
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Larry King
Shawn King also gave birth to his fifth child, another son named Cannon, when Larry was 66.
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Al Pacino
Although he has never married, Pacino has fathered three children, the eldest of whom, Julie Marie, was born when he was nearly 50. A decade later, Pacino had twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose, with actress Beverly D’Angelo.
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Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin was notorious for seducing young women, first having a child with teen actress Mildred Harris when he was 30. The baby tragically passed after three days, and he later had two sons, Charles and Sydney, with another woman. He went on to have eight children with his fourth wife—a woman 36 years his junior—the last of whom she’d had when he was 73.
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Pablo Picasso
The famed artist had four children by three women, becoming a father for the first time at age 40. After having Paulo and Maya Picasso with Olga Khokhlova and Marie-Thérèse Walter, respectively, he had two children with French artist Françoise Gilot—Claude and Paloma, when he was 66 and 68.
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Nick Nolte
The actor first became a father when he was 45, but had his daughter, Sophie, when he was 67. The father-daughter duo actually starred in a film together, ‘Head Full of Honey’ (2018), where they play a grandfather and a granddaughter, which apparently wasn’t so weird for Nolte. He told People, “She calls me Grandpa, anyway. I asked her why and she said, ‘Because you’re twice the age of most of my friends’ parents!'” Fair enough.
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Hugh Hefner
The late Hugh Hefner first became a father at 26, with his daughter Christie following not too long after by his son David. After remaking himself as the Playboy, he married Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad (who was 36 years his junior) and they had two sons, Marston Glenn and Cooper Hefner, when he was 64 and 65, respectively.
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Tony Randall
The late actor had two children, the first of whom, Julia Laurette, was born when he was 77 years old.
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Tony Randall
After his first wife died, Randall married Heather Harlan, an intern in one of his theatrical programs, when he was 75 and she was 25. That might help explain why he, at 78 years old, helped welcome another child into the world, a son named Jefferson Salvini.
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Anthony Quinn
The Academy Award-winning actor had five children with actress Katherine DeMille, though their first tragically drowned very young. Quinn later married costume designer Jolanda Addolori, and they had three sons. During that marriage, Quinn fathered two sons with an event producer, and it was his 10th child that landed on the other side of 60.
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Anthony Quinn
But Quinn wasn’t done there! He later had two children with his secretary, Katherine Benvin, in the ’90s, when he was 78 and 81. He died five years after his last child was born.
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Luciano Pavarotti
The Italian operatic tenor had four children: three daughters—Lorenza, Cristina, and Giuliana—with his first wife, and another daughter, Alice, much later in life, with his former personal assistant. Pavarotti was 68 when Alice was born. Her twin brother, Riccardo, was sadly stillborn. Pavarotti died three years later.
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Rupert Murdoch
The media mogul has been married four times and has six children: Prudence, Lachlan, James, Elisabeth, Grace, and Chloe. Murdoch was 70 and 72 at the time of his last two daughters’ births. What’s for sure is that any child of Murdoch’s is guaranteed a very comfortable life.
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George Lucas
The filmmaker first became a father with Marcia Lou Griffin after adopting a daughter, Amanda, when he was 37. After they divorced, he adopted two more kids, Katie and Jett, as a single dad. With his second wife, Mellody Hobson, he had another daughter, Everest Hobson Lucas, born via surrogate. Lucas was 69 at the time.
See also: Celebs with a whole lot of children.
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