Diane Kruger turned a mom at 42 — and would not have it some other method.
In a brand new interview with the Sunday Telegraph, the German actress, who shares a 3-year-old daughter with fiancé Norman Reedus, opened up about having fun with first-time motherhood in her 40s.
“I am so glad I did not have a kid at 30,” the 45-year-old star stated. “I think I would have absolutely resented it for all the things that you have to give up, because today I am happy to do so. I have been to every party, I have been to every country that I wanted to visit. So I’m 100 percent ready and willing to give my kid that attention. But at 30, I know I would not have been ready to do this properly.”
Currently starring within the women-led motion thriller The 355, Kruger admitted that she wasn’t certain if she’d ever have children. Divorced from French actor and director Guillaume Canet — now the companion of Oscar winner Marion Cotillard — in 2006 and recent from a decade-long relationship with actor Joshua Jackson, Kruger began courting her Sky co-star Reedus in 2016, welcoming their daughter two years later.
“She was definitely a surprise,” Kruger famous. “I sort of had given up on the idea of that happening. And then you know, things happen.”
She and Reedus, 52, at the moment are engaged, although marrying once more was one other factor Kruger had dominated out.
“I can’t even put my finger on what’s changed, because I’ve definitely said, ‘I’m never getting married again,'” she shared. “And who knows when we’re going to get married. But just the symbolism of that ring. It’s like a family heirloom, you know, because it’s going to be hers one day. I still look at my ring and think, ‘Wow, this is crazy!'”
Kruger described Reedus as a faithful father to their little woman, sharing, “He is completely under her thumb. When he’s around it’s like, ‘Papa, Papa, Papa!’ They’re very cute together.”
The Walking Dead actor can also be father to 22-year-old son Mingus, with whom he shares together with his ex-girlfriend Helena Christensen. But Kruger, who met the Danish supermodel earlier than she met Reedus, resists the thought of being thought-about a stepmother.
“He was 16 when I met him,” she identified. “He doesn’t live with his dad, so I would only see him sporadically. I’m not his stepmom… we’re friends. … And you know, they have been split up for 16 years or something. So there is no weirdness.”
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