The late Diane Keaton selected an unconventional path to parenthood when she adopted her youngsters nicely into her 50s — and was candid in regards to the cause behind her resolution.
“I didn't suppose that I used to be ever going to be ready to be a mom,” Keaton — who died on the age of 79 on Saturday, October 11 — beforehand instructed Girls' Residence Journal. “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn't resist. It was extra like a thought I'd been considering for a really very long time. So I plunged in.”
Keaton welcomed daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25, by way of adoption and as a single mother in her 50s. Whereas Keaton by no means married throughout her tenured and prestigious movie profession, she did date just a few well-known faces, together with Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino.
In 2019, the One thing's Gotta Give actress opened as much as Individuals about her resolution to by no means take a stroll down the marriage aisle.
“Right now I used to be enthusiastic about this — I'm 71 and I believe I'm the one one in my era, and possibly earlier than, who has been a single girl all her life,” she instructed the outlet on the time, earlier than including that it could “not have been a good suggestion for me to have married.”
“I'm actually glad I didn't, and I'm positive they're joyful about it too,” she added, referring to her Hollywood exes.
Later, in 2023, the actress as soon as once more reiterated that she was joyful to stay life as a single mother.
“I don't date,” she instructed AARP The Magazine on the time, whereas insisting that it was “extremely unlikely” that she would discover herself in one other romantic relationship sooner or later. “I don't bear in mind anybody calling me, going, ‘That is So-and-So, I'd prefer to take you out.' They don't occur. After all not.”
Diane Keaton in 2019. Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage
The famed actress went on to elucidate her longstanding stance on marriage – a mindset she established when she was a teen.
“I bear in mind sooner or later in highschool, this man got here as much as me and mentioned, ‘In the future you're going to make a superb spouse,'” she mentioned. “And I assumed, ‘ I don't need to be a spouse. No.'”
Whereas Keaton's household requested for privateness within the wake of her dying, lots of her costars and fellow Hollywood stars paid tribute to the late actress.
“The good, lovely, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died,” Keaton's The First Wives' Membership costar Bette Midler shared by way of Instagram on Saturday. “She was hilarious, an entire unique, and utterly with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star. What you noticed was who she was … oh, la, lala!”
Diane Keaton lived life to the fullest up till her dying. On October 11, information broke that the actress had died in California on the age of 79. A spokesperson for her household confirmed her dying to Individuals and added that Keaton's family members have “requested for privateness.” Whereas the Oscar-winning actress had a exceptional profession […]
Keaton's former Father of the Bride costars additionally paid tribute to the late actress.
“This breaks my coronary heart. Attending to work with Diane Keaton will at all times be one of many highlights of my life,” Kimberly Williams-Paisley — who famously performed Keaton's daughter within the iconic movies — wrote within the feedback part of Individuals‘s Instagram submit asserting the actress' dying, alongside a crimson coronary heart emoji.
Steve Martin, who performed Keaton's husband, the anxiety-ridden George Banks, within the movies, additionally responded to the late actress's dying.
“Beloved!” Martin, 80, wrote by way of X on Saturday, , alongside a black and white throwback photograph of a younger Keaton.
