5 celebrity grandparents
Celebrity Baby Scoop looked at five celebrity grandparents, just in time for National Grandparents Day. Credit: Celebrity Baby Scoop
In celebration of National Grandparents Day on September 8, CelebrityBabyScoop.com looked at five famous grandparents and their joys of watching the generations grow.
Grandpa Brooks, 51, said this about his first grandchild’s birth: “Our family would first like to thank everyone for their warm wishes and sweet celebration of Baby K’s arrival,” he said. “Our children’s lives have always been extremely private and they have been endlessly encouraged to be their own people. We have always wanted them to be individuals and not be known as ‘someone’s daughters.’”
He added: “I have been amazed and grateful how the press has always respected this. I now ask that respect to please continue as this young family begins the greatest days of their lives.”
“Welcome Rio! Our first baby girl to join our family!” Hawn proudly tweeted. “Oliver and Erinn thank you for bringing so much joy to our lives! #happiness.”
According to the "Private Benjamin" star, being a grandmother is “Love with a capital L!” She said she hopes to teach them "to become as resilient as they can. We all get knocked down, but the measure of the man is how fast you get up. And I think that’s what I’d really like to instill in the kids. We’re all going to fail, we’re all going to mess up, but it’s not as much about that as it is learning from your mistakes and getting up real fast.”
“I just spent most of the weekend with Kimberly, my daughter, helping her with Delilah,” Alana said. “She’s been a full-time mother 24/7 and by the weekend she really needs Nana (that would be me!) to give her a break now and then.”
She added: “Delilah is a barrel of energy. She’s just adorable and quite a little character. She’s very strong-willed, stubborn, and doesn’t like to take “no” for an answer. I guess you could say it runs in the family.”
“My daughter Bryce has a son … and I love being with him,” Howard said. “I didn’t remotely understand how profound the experience of being a grandparent is until you become one. It’s interesting, when you become a grandparent you start bumping into other folks who have had that experience. And there’s this sort of wink and a nod like it’s sort of a club or something.”
“I don’t feel like a grandmother with them,” she said. “I get on my hands and knees and act like a complete fool! We have a lot of fun together.”
And it sounds like she’d love the whole family -- including famous son-in-law, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin -- to live a little closer.
“I would love them next door, banging away on the drums, and Chris writing new songs,” she added.
