21 Ex-Celebrity Couples We Either Forgot Or Never Had Any Idea They Had Kids Together

The majority of these celebrities have handled it maturely.

Maryjane

• Published in Film & TV
• June 30, 2022

Relationships in the movie industry move so quickly that it’s pretty hard to keep up with. With so many casual relationships, marriages, and separations or divorces, it appears that breakups and makeups are happening all the time.

Quite often, two celebs become parents together. But because the news cycle moves so quickly or they are so personal about it, fans may be unaware that they share children.

It’s been nearly 20 years since Helena Christensen and The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus split up, but their son Mingus, born in 1999, will always bind them together. Reedus, who is now married to Diane Kruger, still calls Christensen on Mother’s Day.

Eddie Murphy, the star of Coming to America, has ten children, but did you know that ex-Spice Girl, Melanie Brown, is the mother of one of them? She and Murphy had a baby girl named Angel in 2007, who is now a teen, but their marriage didn’t last long.

To keep you up to date on your favorite celebrities, we’ve compiled a 21-name list of former celebrity couples who you may have forgotten or were unaware had children together. And the majority of them have handled it maturely.

So keep scrolling down to check them all out:

1. Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen stayed together for 8 years

They actually have a daughter named Lily Mo Sheen

2. Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen were together for five years

They have a son named Mingus Lucien Reedus and he's a model

3. Catherine Keener and Dermot Mulroney were married for 17 years

Both have a son named Clyde

4. Kimberly Stewart and Benecio Del Toro were once an item

Both have a daughter named Delilah

5. Here is Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen and they were together for a decade

They are parents to two kids, and that includes Charlie McDowell

6. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were married for nine years

They have a daughter named Ireland Baldwin

7. Colin Firth and Meg Tilly were together for 5 years

Both have a son named William. He is in the picture below with his half sister and his aunt, Jennifer Tilly

8. Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley were together for almost a decade

Here is their daughter named Alexa Ray Joe

9. For about 7 years, Billy Crudup and Mary Louise Parker were together

They have a son named William Atticus Parker

10. Jeff Perry and Laurie Metcalf were married for three years

Both have a daughter together named Zoe Perry

11. Thomas Jane and Patricia Arquette's marriage lasted for almost a decade

They have a daughter named Harlow

12. Lara Dern and Ben Harper's marriage lasted from 2005 down to 2013

They have two children named Ellery and Jaya

13. Robin Wright and Sean Penn's marriage lasted for 14 years

They both have two children named Dylan and Hopper Penn

14. Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke were an item for seven years

They have two kids: one is the Stranger Things star, Maya Hawke, and the other is Levon Hawke

15. James Cameron and Linda Hamilton were an item for two years

They have a daughter named Josephine, but she literally nowhere to be found on the internet

16. Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan were married for a decade

They have a son named Jack Quaid

17. Téa Leoni and David Duchovny's marriage lasted for 17 years

They have two children named Madelaine West Duchovny and Kyd Miller Duchovny

18. Courteney Cox and David Arquette's lasted for 14 years

They have a daughter named Coco

19. John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal's marriage lasted for eight years

They have three children: Emily, Sean, and Kevin. They are with their grandpa, Ryan O'Neal in the picture below

20. Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky were together for almost 10 years

They have a son together named Henry

21. Jessica Lange and Mikhail Baryshnikov were together for six years

They have a daughter named Shura

There are a lot of things happening in this world, and there are even more happening around our favorite celebrities at a very high speed. No wonder it is often difficult to keep up with things about these celebrities, especially things that happened years ago, just like kids they had with their exes.

A comprehensive list like ours does the magic perfectly by always refreshing these details in our memories. Which celebrity couple in our world were you stunned to find out had kids together?

Maryjane