Dad of seven Robert De Niro has admitted there’s one thing he doesn’t do for his latest child. His first child, 48 year old Raphael De Niro, started out acting before moving to a successful real estate career.
De Niro was 79 when his seventh child was born in 2023, making him one of the oldest dads on record. De Niro started acting in the mid-1960s and has had a long, very successful Hollywood career.
He’s still working today and is set to star as infamous mob bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in Alto Knights. Despite his busy schedule, he still tries to spend as much time as possible with his daughter.
De Niro and girlfriend Tiffany Chen welcomed baby Gia in April 2023
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“I’m an early riser,” he told the Sunday Times. “I’ve got a 19-month-old baby. I spend my mornings watching [YouTuber] Ms Rachel with her, and I give her her bottle.”
However, De Niro does have limits, admitting he doesn’t change nappies (though he claims he did for some of his other children), reports the Express.
De Niro told Entertainment Tonight that he knows there will be parenting challenges ahead: “You know, my kids disagree with me at times, and they’re respectful.
Robert De Niro became a dad again at the age of 79
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“My daughter, she’s 11, she gives me grief sometimes and I argue with her. I adore her, but, you know. And my youngest now, that’ll be more to come. But, that’s what it is.”
Gia’s mum is Tiffany Chen, a 45 year old US-born martial arts expert who De Niro met on the set of The Intern in 2015. She shared the shocking moment she was hit by a bout of facial paralysis known as Bell’s Palsy while in labour, a condition unusually common in expectant mothers without a clear explanation.
Speaking to CBS News, she recounted how Robert De Niro reassured her that he couldn’t notice any alteration to her looks, yet she felt her face was “melting on itself.”
For Chen, a significant concern brought on by the paralysis was her inability to kiss her newborn daughter, confessing: “The thing I did worry about was ‘What if it didn’t get better? ‘ Was my kid going to get made fun of for having the weird-looking mom? That’s the only time, like, vanity comes into play. It’s how it affects the child.”