# Female celebrities who have had children by more than two men **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481 "2010-06-25T13:36:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dukette71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@dukette71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dukette71)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/21 "2010-06-26T00:46:00Z")
Who can forget Melanie Griffith? ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/22 "2010-06-26T00:54:32Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Lassie ? [Lassie was a boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie#Portrayers). ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/23 "2010-06-26T01:42:02Z")
Isadora Duncan, although her third child died shortly after birth ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/24 "2010-06-26T02:07:13Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Isadora Duncan, although her third child died shortly after birth That doesn’t seem to be a disqualification. Alma Mahler, mentioned earlier, only seems to have had 1 of her 4 children survive into adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/25 "2010-06-26T03:01:03Z")
I’m sure there are lots more than we know about. IMDB tends not to mention out-of-wedlock births. I vividly recall reading about Kim Basinger having a child by Prince, but no online source mentions any child other than her daughter by Alec Baldwin. I’m not saying celebrities shouldn’t be able to control their personal information, I just don’t think we’ll get a meaningful answer to the OP’s question. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/26 "2010-06-26T03:09:08Z")
Elizabeth Taylor only had children with two of her husbands. She and Richard Burton adopted a child. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/27 "2010-06-26T04:57:56Z")
Mia Farrow only had 4 biologically but you have to give her a volume award for the adoptees she added. 15 kids total. From Wiki > [@](#): > > With André Previn > > Matthew Phineas Previn (born February 26, 1970; twin of Sascha) > Sascha Villiers Previn (born February 26, 1970; twin of Matthew) > Fletcher Farrow Previn (born March 14, 1974) > > Adopted with Previn > > Soon-Yi Previn, (born in South Korea, October 8, 1970; adopted c. 1978) > Lark Song Previn, (born in Vietnam, February 15, 1973, died in New York, December 25, 2008; adopted 1973) > Summer Song Previn (also known as Daisy), (born in Vietnam, October 6, 1974, adopted 1975) > > With Woody Allen > Ronan Seamus Farrow (born December 19, 1987), (birth name Satchel O’Sullivan Farrow) > > Adopted with Allen > > Moses Amadeus Farrow (also known as Misha Farrow) (born January 27, 1978, adopted 1980) > Dylan O’Sullivan Farrow (also known as Eliza Farrow, current name is Malone, born July 11, 1985) > > Later adopted solely by Farrow > > Tam Farrow (1979 – March 2000) > Isaiah Justus Farrow (born 1992) > Kaeli-Shea Farrow (now known as Quincy, adopted 1994) > Frankie-Minh (born 1991, adopted 1995) (named after Frank Sinatra) > Thaddeus V. Farrow (born c. 1988, adopted 1994) > Gabriel Wilk Farrow ---
**Author:** ![There\_Goes\_a\_Tenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@There\_Goes\_a\_Tenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/There_Goes_a_Tenner)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/28 "2010-06-26T06:35:53Z")
Erykah Badu has 3 kids by 3 different men. She even sings about it in her song, “Me” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/29 "2010-06-26T06:48:58Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > I’m sure there are lots more than we know about. IMDB tends not to mention out-of-wedlock births. I vividly recall reading about Kim Basinger having a child by Prince, but no online source mentions any child other than her daughter by Alec Baldwin. I’m not saying celebrities shouldn’t be able to control their personal information, I just don’t think we’ll get a meaningful answer to the OP’s question. Or it may be that you are mis-remembering. If it were common enough knowledge that you read about it, it would still be out there. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/30 "2010-06-26T10:07:08Z")
In astro’s post, it’s a little strange that Wikipedia gives an exact date of birth for Soon-Yi Previn and an estimated date for her adoption. It’s actually just the opposite. Her true date of birth is unknown because she was found wandering the streets as a child and put in an orphanage (in South Korea). When she was adopted in 1978 by Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, they were told that no one knew her exact age, but the orphanage officials estimated that she was about 8. Farrow and Previn decided arbitrarily on a birthday for her. The exact day for her adoption is of course known. Also, Mia Farrow doesn’t really fit into this thread because she had biological children by only two men. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/31 "2010-06-26T10:32:16Z")
[Ulrika Jonnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika_Jonsson) - she’s had 4 kids with 4 different fathers. She’s probably not too well known in the USA, but most people in the UK will know of her. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/32 "2010-06-26T20:14:20Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > In astro’s post, it’s a little strange that Wikipedia gives an exact date of birth for Soon-Yi Previn and an estimated date for her adoption. It’s actually just the opposite. Her true date of birth is unknown because she was found wandering the streets as a child and put in an orphanage (in South Korea). When she was adopted in 1978 by Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, they were told that no one knew her exact age, but the orphanage officials estimated that she was about 8. Farrow and Previn decided arbitrarily on a birthday for her. The exact day for her adoption is of course known. That must not be too uncommon for Korean orphans. I knew a Korean girl with the same situation, no one knew how old she was exactly when she got adopted, they just kinda guessed, “oh she’s probably about 13”. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/33 "2010-06-26T23:33:57Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Or it may be that you are mis-remembering. If it were common enough knowledge that you read about it, it would still be out there. Yeah, it sounds like a rumor or mistaken memory to me too. I don’t think Kim Basinger has the power to go all Ministry of Truth on something that had already been reported. A little Googling indicates that Prince had a son in 1996 with his then-wife (not Basinger), but the baby suffered from serious congenital health problems and died a few days after birth. Prince and Mrs. Prince apparently did their best to keep this quiet, but weren’t successful in keeping the story out of the media. Here’s an [Entertainment Weekly article](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,295564,00.html) about it. Basinger (who had previously dated Prince) had her daughter with Alec Baldwin about a year before Prince’s son was born, so **Krokodil** may be mixing up the two celebrity gossip items. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/34 "2010-06-27T13:32:35Z")
Sinead O’Connor has four children by four different fathers. [Sinéad O'Connor - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor) Alice Neel, the artist, had four children by three different fathers. [Alice Neel - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Neel) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/35 "2010-06-27T18:07:36Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > _ **Obviously** _, finding male celebrities that have fathered children by more than two women is barely a thought. But what about the reverse?(bolding mine) Why “obvioulsy”? Your question is somewhat loaded isn’t it ? ie “Males are feckless and shag anything in a skirt & go around fathering endless offsrping…”. Now I’m not in the USA so may know less celebrity gossip than I but no names leapt to mind for either gender. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/36 "2010-07-01T00:51:32Z")
Professional athletes alone would number in the hundreds who qualify, with some bonus extreme cases. For example, Travis Henry (NFL) has 9 children by 9 different women. I find your objection naive, buying into the feminist fiction that all differences between the genders are a result socialization. It’s pretty obvious that men and women had millions of years of evolutionary pressure to approach sex in different ways. One of those ways for men was to spread their seed, and that was very different from the successful strategies for women. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/37 "2010-07-01T00:57:54Z")
> [@Cat\_Jones](#): > > Why “obvioulsy”? Your question is somewhat loaded isn’t it ? ie “Males are feckless and shag anything in a skirt & go around fathering endless offsrping…”. Now I’m not in the USA so may know less celebrity gossip than I but no names leapt to mind for either gender. Just purely physically, it’s only possible for a woman to have one child at a time (not counting twins, triplets, etc) but a man can have multiple children gestating simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/38 "2010-07-04T00:21:53Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > For example, Travis Henry (NFL) has 9 children by 9 different women. Wow, what a slut. In seriousness, though, you have to wonder what the last 5-6 women were thinking when they hooked up with him. Sadly, you’ve gotta think at least some were looking at dollar signs from sports player child support… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/39 "2010-07-04T00:45:14Z")
I used to work with a woman who had three children from three different men (all of whom were co-workers but none of whom had been married to her). We used to joke that she had done it to maximize her child support. Standard child support at the time was 18% of the father’s salary for one child, 30% for two children, and 40% for three. But by their being three different fathers, she collected the full 18% for each of her children. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481/40 "2010-07-04T04:03:20Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > In seriousness, though, you have to wonder what the last 5-6 women were thinking when they hooked up with him. Sadly, you’ve gotta think at least some were looking at dollar signs from sports player child support… Some? Even money says 9 for 9. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-celebrities-who-have-had-children-by-more-than-two-men/544481.md?page=3)