Celeb super broods as Jude Law becomes dad-of-7… from Hollywood legend with 10 kids to singer having 5th with new hubby
THEY are blessed with good looks, talent and charm.
And it appears some celebs are keen to pass on their genetic luck by having broods of kids.
Stars are well known for their lively love lives and their romantic entanglements often mean they end up with big blended families.
It emerged this week that actor Jude Law has become a dad for the seventh time.
The Closer actor has seven kids with four women after a tumultuous love life which included a relationship with actress Sienna Miller - ended by a messy affair with his children’s nanny back in 2005
Jude, 50, has three kids with ex-wife Sadie Frost: Rafferty, 26; Iris, 22; and 20-year-old Rudy.
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He has a daughter Sophia, 13, with model Samantha Burke, who he met while filming Sherlock Holmes. They had already split when Samantha discovered she was pregnant.
Jude also has a seven-year-old daughter Ada with singer Catherine Harding.
Now he and wife Phillipa Coan, 35, a behavioural psychologist, who had their first baby in 2020 during lockdown, have now welcomed a second.
Here we take a look at the other blended families in the land of celebrity..
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Kerry Katona
Kerry is a mum of five to three different dads.
The Atomic Kitten singer last year lamented being called a ‘5x3 mum’ and called out sexism saying: “Nobody says anything about the dads!”
Kerry, 42, has five children: Molly Marie, 21; Lilly-Sue, 20, who she shares with ex Brian McFadden; Heidi Elizabeth, 16, and Maxwell Mark, 14, who were born to taxi driver Mark Croft; and Dylan-Jorge Rose Kay, eight, whose dad George Kay died of a drugs overdose in 2019.
Kerry said: “I didn’t grow up thinking that I wanted five children by three different men, but that’s how life worked out.
“We all grow up watching Disney films, but that’s not realistic. Everyone deserves a happy ever after and it doesn’t matter how you get there.”
Rod Stewart
He once asked Do You Think I’m Sexy? And it seems plenty do.
Rod is father to eight children with five different women.
The legendary rocker was only 17 when he had his first daughter Sarah Streeter, 59, with girlfriend Susannah Boffey in 1963.
Sarah was put up for adoption but the pair reconciled in 2007 and she later said: “I feel like I am a genuine part of his extended family which is wonderful.”
Rod married model and actress Alana Stewart, 77, in 1979 but they split five years later after having daughter Kimberley, 43, now a fashionista and model, and son Sean, 42.
He welcomed his fourth child Ruby Stewart, 35, with model Kelly Emberg in 1987 before having daughter Renee, 30, and son Liam, 28, with New Zealand model Rachel Hunter in 1992.
He and wife Penny Lancaster have two kids: Alastair, 17, and eleven-year-old Aiden.
Natasha Hamilton
Natasha has revealed that she and husband Charles Gay are expecting their first child together in September.
The Atomic Kitten star, 40, shared the news on Instagram, dubbing the baby ‘a little miracle’.
Natasha is already a mum-of-four, sharing son Josh, 20, with bodyguard Fran Cosgrave; Harry, 17, with actor Gavin Hatcher; twelve-year-old Alfie with ex-hubby Riad Erraji; and eight-year-old Ella with boyband star Ritchie Neville.
Natasha has previously told how she ended up in psychiatric care shortly after giving birth to Ella in 2014.
She said she ‘lost the plot’ after her divorce from Riad.
Natasha also suffered post-natal depression after son Josh too in 2002.
She said: “When I had my little girl I had a full breakdown and I was under the care of a psychiatrist. It was then, I was just like, ‘We can’t keep doing this Tash. You need to sort your s*** out.’”
Eddie Murphy
The actor has ten kids to five women including Spice Girl Mel B.
The Coming to America star has two with current fiancee Paige Butcher: Izzy Ooona, six, and Max Charles, four.
He had his first son Eric Murphy in 1989 to Pauline MCNeely, though little is known about her or their relationship. The same year he had a daughter Bria with music producer Nicole Mitchell.
In 1990 he had another son, Christian, 32, with casting director Tamara Hood before going back to Nicole who he wed in 1993. They went on to have daughters Shayne, 23, Zola, 23, Bella, 21, and son Myles, 28.
After his divorce from Nicole in 2005, Eddie started dating Mel B and they have a 15-year-old daughter together, Angel Iris.
Comedian Tracy Morgan trolled Eddie, 61, at the Golden Globes last month after presenting him with an award saying: “Your pull-out game is weak, Eddie.”
He blanked the remark but went on to praise his kids and thank them for their “love and support”.
Katie Price
Former glamour model Katie has a notoriously tricky love-life but is fiercely protective of her five kids to three fathers.
Her eldest Harvey, 20, was born following a fling with former Manchester United footballer Dwight York. He initially denied Harvey was his until Katie proved it with a DNA test.
Harvey is partially blind, on the autistic spectrum and had Prader-Willi syndrome, which can leave sufferers feeling constantly hungry.
In 2021 Katie made the heartbreaking decision to place Harvey in full-time care in a residential home because of his complex needs.
Katie then had two children Junior, 17, and Princess, 15, with Mysterious Girl singer Peter Andre, who she met in the jungle on I’m a Celebrity in 2004.
She shares son Jett Hayler, nine, and sister Bunny, eight, with ex-husband, stripper Kieran Hayler, who famously cheated on her with the family nanny.
Katie, 44, was recently criticised for putting on make-up and using a makeup filter on her youngest daughter.
Elon Musk
The tech whizz appears to be on a one-man mission to help populate the world after once saying: “If people don’t have more children, civilisation is going to crumble.”
Elon, 51, had his first child Nevada with wife Justine Wilson in 2002 but the little boy sadly died at just 10 weeks from sudden infant death syndrome.
In 2018, Elon wrote to parents who had lost their son in a Telsa car crash: “There’s nothing worse than losing a child.My firstborn son died in my arms. I felt his heartbeat.”
After their loss the couple went on to have twins Griffin and Vivian in 2004 and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian two years later. Vivian, now 18, recently came out as transgender and changed her name from Xavier.
She told the court she wanted nothing more to do with her father but Musk wrote in 2010: “Custody of our five children is split evenly. Almost all of my nonwork waking hours are spent with my boys, they are the love of my life.”
After splitting from author Justine, Musk and singer Grimes had a baby boy they unusually called X AE A-XII in May 2020 - sending the internet into frenzy over the pronunciation.
The following year, the billionaire gave a rare interview about his child.
He said: “Well, babies are just eating and pooping machines, you know?
“I think babies are super cool and really people need to have more babies because, it sounds obvious, but if people don’t have enough babies, humanity will disappear.”
Two years later the couple announced they had secretly added another baby, a girl called Exa Dark Siderael Musk, to their family via surrogate. But by that time the couple were no longer dating.
By then Musk had fathered twins with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain-chip company Neuralink. The children were reportedly conceived via IVF and Musk and Zilis didn’t have a real relationship.
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He tweeted: “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
Elon has had an on-off relationship with British actress Tululah Riley, but they have no kids together.