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Celebrity Couples and Their Famous Kids

Josephine Baker

When two celebrities start dating, gossip magazines immediately run stories about the two having children. While not all celebrity couples stay together long enough to have children, others enjoy a long and happy life together and raise a family. Then there are the couples who stay together just long enough to have a child. By the time Bridget Moynahan gave birth to their son, Tom Brady was in another relationship, and Bencio Del Toro left Kimberly Stewart while she was pregnant with their child. Despite these failed relationships, Hollywood does see some couples who manage to make things work.

When many people think of celebrity couples with the most children, they naturally think of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. When Angelina Jolie adopted her first child, she probably didn’t think she would one day top the list of celebrity families, but she and her partner now have six children. At the time, Jolie was a wife to Billy Bob Thornton. The two adopted Maddox Chivan from Cambodia, but their relationship ended a few months later. She later announced that Thornton had no association with the adoption. Jolie then adopted her daughter Zahara Marley from Ethipoia.

Their lives changed during the filming of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” when Jolie met her co-star Brad Pitt. Pitt later left his wife Jennifer Aniston to embark on a relationship with Jolie. He admitted several years later that their relationship began on the set. In 2006, Pitt officially adopted Jolie’s two children. A few months after the adoption, Jolie gave birth to their first natural child, who they named Shiloh Nouvel.

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The couple kept adding to their family in the coming years. The year after Shiloh’s birth, Jolie adopted Pax Thien from Vietnam. The couple could not adopt the child together because they did not have a marriage license. Pax’s last name is now Jolie-Pitt, which represents the last names of his parents. The couple followed the adoption with another birth. In 2008, Jolie delivered twins. They named their son Knox Léon, and they named their daughter Vivienne Marcheline. In 2012, the couple officially announced their engagement and revealed that they had plans to have more children in the future.

Pitt and Jolie are far from the only Hollywood couple with multiple children. Take for example, Paul Newman and Joann Woodward. Paul already had three kids by his first wife when he met Woodward. The two later married, had three children, and celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Michael J. Fox married his actress wife Tracy Pollan at the height of his popularity, and the couple welcomed four children together.

Some couples find that adoption is the best option to grow their families. Mia Farrow adopted three children with her ex Andre Previn, and the two had three children naturally. Farrow then had another child with her ex Woody Allen before they adopted two more children. Bob Hope and his wife Delores adopted four children together as well.

Then there are the couples who have children naturally, but the children come from multiple relationships. Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have a total of seven kids. Jessica Capshaw was Kate’s daughter from a previous relationship, and Kate also adopted a son before marrying Spielberg, who has a son with his previous wife. The couple later adopted another child and had three children naturally.

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Eddie Murphy is another celebrity who has multiple children. Murphy has a total of seven children by three different women. He and his first wife Nicole share five children. He had a son with Tamara Hood, and he later had a daughter with singer Melanie Brown. Singer Sting has two children by his first wife and four kids by his current wife. Actor Dustin Hoffman also has six children: four with his current wife and two with his ex-wife. Mel Gibson is another celebrity with children by two different women. The actor has seven children by his ex-wife, and he shares a daughter with his ex-girlfriend.

There are also couples from the older days of Hollywood that have multiple children. Legendary singer Josephine Baker married Joe Boullion, and the couple adopted 12 children together. Politician Robert Kennedy and his wife Ethel had 11 children naturally. Famous cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife had three children together. After she died, he married Arline Rogers, and the two adopted four kids together. When it all comes down to numbers, few celebrities can beat Micky Rooney. Rooney has a total of nine children and eight marriages under his belt. It will be interesting to see if any current celebrities will beat Rooney’s number.