Eddie Murphy’s Family Guide: Meet His 10 Kids With Nicole Mitchell, Mel B, Paige Butcher and More
usmagazine.comQuite the clan! Eddie Murphy has welcomed 10 children over the years — and he’s spoken highly about each member of his blended brood.“I am so blessed with my kids.
I don’t have one bad seed,” the Saturday Night Live alum said during a March 2021 appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast. “I don’t have any like ‘Oh, you are the one.’ I don’t have any of that.
My kids are so great, normal people — and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid.”The New York native added that his offspring served as a compass for him over the years, helping him choose projects that were right for him.“The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that s— is over … along the way, I realized that if you put your children first you never make a bad decision,” the comedian shared. “When you hit a crossroads moment or you have got some s—, you think, ‘Well, what is best for my children?’ If you go that route, then you never make a bad decision.”Murphy became a father for the first time in July 1989 when his then-girlfriend Paulette McNeely gave birth to their son, Eric.
The comedian then welcomed two more children within the next 16 months — daughter Bria in November 1989 with Nicole Mitchell and son Christian in November 1990 with Tamara Hood.The Nutty Professor star married Mitchell in March 1993 and the pair became proud parents to five children, including Bria, over the course of their relationship: son Miles, born in November 1992, and daughters Shayne, Zola and Bella born in October 1994, December 1999 and January 2002, respectively.
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