Couldn’t be happier. Robert De Niro shocked fans with the arrival of his seventh child, but the 79-year-old Oscar winner’s reaction to becoming an older dad was quite the opposite.When asked whether he was surprised by his family’s latest addition at the New York City premiere of his new film About My Father, De Niro simply told Page Six, “No,” noting that the pregnancy was a “planned” one. “How you could not plan that kind of thing?” he added on Tuesday, May 9.One day earlier, De Niro revealed that he had become a father of seven in an ET Canada interview.
He corrected a reporter who asked about his “six kids” by stating, “Seven, actually. I just had a baby.” The mother appears to be his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen.The Raging Bull star shared more insight about welcoming his new bundle of joy on the About My Father red carpet.
The film, which hits theaters May 26, stars De Niro as the fictionalized version of comedian Sebastian Maniscalco’s dad.
The father-son duo grow closer while spending a wild and wacky weekend with Maniscalco’s fiancée’s (played by Leslie Bibb) family.“I’m OK with it.
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