Steve Martin Becomes a First-Time Dad at 67: Is It Ever Too Late to Have a Baby?

Steve Martin a first-time dad at 67
Last Updated: 9:38 AM, February 13, 2013
Posted: 12:16 AM, February 13, 2013



Steve Martin’s become a first-time dad at 67, Page Six has exclusively learned. The “It’s Complicated” star and his wife, Anne Stringfield, 41, welcomed a child in December and have been spotted nearby their LA home with the bundle of joy. “They’ve had a baby, and how they kept it a secret nobody knows,” a source said. “Steve’s very private.” The source added, “They are thrilled. They worked hard to have the baby.” The couple married in 2007 at Martin’s home in a surprise ceremony where guests, including Tom Hanks and Diane Keaton were told it was a party. Martin, meanwhile, has written of his own dad: “My father’s attitude toward my show-business accomplishments was critical. After my first appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’ . . . he wrote a bad review of me in the newsletter of the Newport Board of Realtors where he was president.” But Martin wrote in 2008, years after his father died, “In his death, my father . . . did something he could not do in life. He brought our family together.” A rep for Martin declined to comment.

Bluesmama wrote:Many of them probably make very good fathers, but here's some strikes against them: Trying to keep up with a growing child in their 70's; dealing with a teenager in their 70's and even 80's, and; a greatly increased chance of not seeing their grandchildren.
To each his own, I guess, but I fail to understand why any man would want to take this on so late in life.

AtownPeep wrote:I don't so much blink twice at people who are older and have ANOTHER baby. But in cases like this where you become a FIRST TIME parent past a certain age seems a bit "late" IMO.

Nystyle709 wrote:Prob....but who cares. Babies come when they come. I have a chauvinistic male co-worker who pissed me off a few weeks ago. He said because I'm a woman, I can't have kids past the age of 35 and since I'm already old because I'm near that age, I need to have them right away. I wanted to slap that nigga.

Nystyle709 wrote:Prob....but who cares. Babies come when they come. I have a chauvinistic male co-worker who pissed me off a few weeks ago. He said because I'm a woman, I can't have kids past the age of 35 and since I'm already old because I'm near that age, I need to have them right away. I wanted to slap that nigga.

Bluesmama wrote:Many of them probably make very good fathers, but here's some strikes against them: Trying to keep up with a growing child in their 70's; dealing with a teenager in their 70's and even 80's, and; a greatly increased chance of not seeing their grandchildren.
To each his own, I guess, but I fail to understand why any man would want to take this on so late in life.

Bluesmama wrote:Many of them probably make very good fathers, but here's some strikes against them: Trying to keep up with a growing child in their 70's; dealing with a teenager in their 70's and even 80's, and; a greatly increased chance of not seeing their grandchildren.
To each his own, I guess, but I fail to understand why any man would want to take this on so late in life.