CNN's Chris Wallace on Friday, February 24 that when she was younger, she didn't always know how to be the type of parent she wanted to be. Fonda, who has three children, 55-year-old Mary Williams, 54-year-old Vanessa Vadim, and a 49-year-old son Troy Garity, told the host, “I was not the kind of mother that I wished that I had been to my children. I have great, great children—talented, smart.