Alec Baldwin had so many kids later in life ‘because work got ‘less interesting’

ALEC Baldwin recently opened up about why he decided to have such a big family, explaining that work got “less interesting” later in his career.

The 66-year-old actor – who has Ireland, 28, with ex-wife Kim Basinger, and Carmen, 10, Rafael, 8, Leonardo, 7, Romeo, 5, Eduardo, 3, Lucia, also 3, and Ilaria, 16 months with spouse Hilaria – loves his career but has found the projects he is offered don’t appeal as much as they used to, so he’s found contentment in his personal life instead.

Speaking on the Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson podcast, he said: “I found that as I got older, work became less interesting to me.

“I’m interested, you know, I wanna work and I like to work. But they just don’t make that many films anymore that I think are interesting.

“Then all of a sudden I met my wife, who I love dearly. And every time the (youngest) baby would get to be 2 years old, we go, ‘Maybe it’s time for one more baby.’

“We had seven kids in nine years. It’s crazy.”

But actor confirmed that he is likely “done” with expanding his family any further.

He said: “I’m the only person I know who drops four kids off at school in the morning and comes home and I still have three kids waiting for me when I get home.

“I got my oldest daughter. She has a baby and she and her boyfriend are living in Oregon.”

The actor recently joked that “every moment” he and his wife manage to catch away from their children counts as a date night.

“It’s a cup of coffee we usually have every evening together. My wife, she bathes and feeds and puts the kids to bed every night, then we go off and have some time together.”

She quipped: “He gets a little bit of attention” before he noted: “A very little bit!” |