10 Well-known Dad and mom Who By no means Thought They’d Have Youngsters

Discover out what these celebrities needed to say about parenthood…

Earlier than Cameron Diaz tied the knot with Benji Madden, she didn’t suppose kids have been in her future. Whereas reflecting on her life, Cameron shared that she had by no means been drawn to being a mom and being child-free had made her life simpler.

“It’s a lot extra work to have kids. To have lives in addition to your personal that you’re liable for — I did not take that on. That did make issues simpler for me. A child — that’s all day, each day for eighteen years,” Cameron instructed Esquire.

She continued, “Not having a child may actually make issues simpler, however that does not make it a straightforward choice. I like defending individuals, however I used to be by no means drawn to being a mom. I’ve it a lot simpler than any of them. That’s simply what it’s. Doesn’t imply life isn’t typically laborious. I’m simply what I’m. I work on what I’m. Proper now, I feel, issues are good for me. I’ve finished so much. And I do not care anymore.”

Cameron has since welcomed two kids with Benji: Raddix and Cardinal.

Jeff Goldblum by no means thought he was going to be a father however after beginning to date his now-wife Emilie, he started to rethink issues. The couple talked it over for a number of years earlier than deciding to tie the knot and welcome kids. They now share two children: Oceans and River.

“I by no means thought that I used to be going to do it. I had by no means been notably passionate [about fatherhood] or envisioned it for myself — I don’t have any nieces or nephews, had by no means seen a delivery earlier than. Within the couple of pretty earlier marriages I had, there was some fantasy speak about it, however by no means any severe enterprise. And I all the time thought it was a very good factor that I didn’t have any drama with children and breaking apart,” he instructed Radio Instances.

George Clooney didn’t all the time have children on his thoughts. Earlier than he met his spouse Amal, he didn’t suppose that he would in the future turn out to be a father. Again in 2006, he stated that he didn’t suppose it was in his DNA to turn out to be a father.

“I feel it’s essentially the most accountable factor you are able to do, to have children. It’s not one thing to be taken frivolously. I don’t have that gene that individuals have to copy. However every part in my life has modified over time,” George instructed Individuals.

George and Amal have since welcomed twins: Ella and Alexander.

Rising up, Angelina Jolie by no means thought she was going to have kids. She says that as a result of she “was not a really secure youth,” she didn’t see herself as being anybody’s mother. However that modified earlier than she adopted her first baby in Cambodia — and he or she’s now the mother of six kids.

“It’s unusual, I by no means wished to have a child. I by no means wished to be pregnant. I by no means babysat. I by no means considered myself as a mom,” Angelina instructed the Related Press. “After I first got here to Cambodia, it modified me. It modified my perspective. I noticed there was a lot about historical past that I had not been taught in class, and a lot about life that I wanted to grasp, and I used to be very humbled by it.”

Jeannie Mai by no means thought motherhood was in her future. Whereas she’s now the mother of a daughter named Monaco who she shares with ex Jeezy, she defined that “belief points” beforehand saved her from eager to turn out to be a mother. After she was sexually abused by a member of the family as a toddler, she says she feared she wouldn’t be able to defending her personal baby from an identical expertise.

“As a toddler, if you end up taken from issues that really feel good and entire and secure, it’s laborious to see something as reliable transferring ahead. I understand that the explanation I didn’t need to have children is as a result of that feeling once I was a child was so actual and so damaging to the purpose that I’m 42 immediately nonetheless coping with belief points and confidence,” Jeannie shared on her YouTube channel. “It nonetheless scares me whether or not or not I can hold a child secure from another person who may damage them.”

Jeannie added that after remedy, her coronary heart started to shift and he or she determined she wished to present a child the childhood “we by no means had.”

As a younger lady, Diane Kruger thought she wasn’t going to have any kids and felt that she was “too egocentric” to turn out to be a mom. However as she bought older, Diane admits she opened as much as the concept of getting a child. Diane and her companion Norman Reedus now share a daughter named Nova.

“I didn’t suppose I wished kids for a very long time. I used to be too egocentric,” she shared with PORTER Edit. “However by the point I bought to about 35, I believed, sure, I most likely do need one. However then you need to look forward to the correct particular person to return alongside. I’m glad I waited.”

Earlier than Amy Schumer met her husband Chris Fischer, she didn’t suppose that getting married or having kids was one thing she’d ever do. Whereas she didn’t need to have kids, being married to Chris fully modified her thoughts. The couple now share a son named Gene.

“I by no means wished to get married. I by no means wished to have children. I didn’t even give it some thought. Like children — like little women play weddings? I used to be, like, taking part in that I used to be a fortune teller, you already know?” she shared throughout Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 Imaginative and prescient: Your Life In Focus Tour. “However then I met this dude. And I used to be, like, I need to companion up with you for all times. And I do need to get the federal government concerned. And I need you to signal. I need to make a vow. Everybody right here heard you and now you might be mine.”

Eva Mendes didn’t have children on her thoughts till she met Ryan Gosling. Wanting again, Eva says she was extremely targeted on work and wasn’t in the correct mindset to be a mom. However as soon as she met Ryan, she knew she wished to have a household with him.

“I used to be fortunate sufficient to work my bum off for 20 years. I by no means wished infants earlier than till I fell in love with Ryan, and it type of labored out to the place I used to be 40 and having my first child,” Eva defined on the Fitzy & Wippa radio present. “I feel I used to be 42 for the second, so it labored out in that method that I had a profession after which I alter my focus to my household.”

The couple now shared two little women: Esmeralda and Amada.

When Zooey Deschanel was in her early 30s, she didn’t see herself turning into a mother. Although her sister Emily had lately turn out to be a mom, Zooey defined that it wasn’t one thing she noticed for herself.

“My sister was all the time very motherly, baby-sitting and stuff,” she instructed Marie Claire. “I like children, and I like being round children – however it was by no means an ambition.”

A number of years later, Zooey and her then-husband Jacob Pechenik welcomed two children: Elsie and Charlie.

Simon Cowell as soon as was very set in his opinion that children weren’t for him. Again in 2009, he admitted that he didn’t suppose he may deal with kids and that on a regular basis you needed to dedicate to their care would drive him loopy.

“God, no. I couldn’t have kids,” he shared. “If I had them right here drawing on the partitions, I’d go nuts. You’ve bought to be up at a sure time. Bought to hear. When all you need to do is sit in a nook considering.”

Over time, Simon’s opinion did change and he later welcomed his son Eric together with his companion  Lauren Silverman.