Though one sometimes assumes they'll grow to be a grandparent later in life, some fortunate few get the uncommon likelihood to be younger grandmas and grandpas — celebrities included.
Stars like Whoopi Goldberg, Jim Carrey and Mick Jagger all turned grandparents earlier than the age of 55. In August 2025, former Bachelorette Emily Maynard discovered she would earn the title of grandma on the age of 39 due to her oldest daughter, Ricki, then 20.
Goldberg's daughter, Alexandrea Martin Dean, was simply 16 when she received pregnant. “It will not have been what I might have chosen for her, however on the identical time, I assumed, ‘What an ideal factor that she's assured sufficient in me to inform me,'” Goldberg instructed the Los Angeles Instances in 1989.
Goldberg's granddaughter Amara Skye Dean was born on November 13, 1989 — which additionally occurred to be her grandma's birthday. (Alexandrea additionally shares two youngsters along with her now-ex-husband, Bernard Dean.)
Beneath, see extra stars who turned grandparents younger:
