Hollywood legend Robert De Niro got all choked up in an interview discussing his baby daughter Gia.
The actor became a father for the seventh time last year, at 79 years old.
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Gia’s mother is De Niro’s girlfriend Tiffany Chen, who is 45.
During an interview with AARP, the Oscar-winner, now 80, became emotional when he talked about his little girl.
“I’m an 80-year-old dad, and it’s great,” he said.
“Everything that I’m consumed with or worried about just goes away when I look at her.”
Pausing, De Niro was overcome with emotion, struggling to find the right words before adding: “It’s wondrous”.
“She has a very sweet kind of way of looking at you and just taking you in,” he continued, adding that he was reminded of the way his daughter Helen looked when she was a baby.
“I don’t know where it’s gonna go with her later when she gets older,” he continued of Gia.
“But she’s thinking and she’s observing every single thing.
“It’s really interesting.
“I want to be around for as long as I can to enjoy it and enjoy her.”
De Niro has six other children to three different women.
He is father to Drena, 51, and Raphael, 46, from his first marriage to Diahnne Abbott in the 1970s.
He also has twin sons Julian and Aaron, 27, with model and actress Toukie Smith, and son Elliot, 24, and daughter Helen, 11, with his second wife Grace Hightower, from whom he split in 2018.
De Niro and Chen welcomed Gia in April 2023.
He dropped the news during an interview with ET Canada last year when the reporter asked how his six children were doing.
“Seven, actually,” he responded.
“I just had a baby.”
Later, asked about becoming a dad again later in life, he said: “I’m OK with it. I’m good with it.”
“It never gets easier,” he added.
Speaking to The Guardian in October, he admitted that Chen was doing most of the “heavy lifting” when it came to raising Gia.
“I’m there, I support my girlfriend,” he said.
“But she does the work.
“And we have help, which is so important.”
De Niro was first romantically linked with Chen in August 2021, People reported, but they had met before, in 2015.
Chen, a martial arts instructor, had a role in a film called The Intern, in which De Niro also starred.
She played a Tai Chi instructor who helped De Niro’s character, but love blossomed later — as De Niro was married to Grace Hightower at the time.
Since 2021 they’ve been spotted out and about at various events and on dates, and they live together in Los Angeles.
An insider told People that Chen had been present on set when De Niro was filming Wise Guys in early 2023.
“Tiffany seemed supportive,” the source said.
“He seemed excited to have her around.”
In a career already littered with awards and accolades, De Niro has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor at this year’s Oscars for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon.
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