{"id":196173,"date":"2025-09-30T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/michelle-pfeiffer-surprises-fans-by-revealing-she-is-now-a-grandmother\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:01:20","slug":"michelle-pfeiffer-surprises-fans-by-revealing-she-is-now-a-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/michelle-pfeiffer-surprises-fans-by-revealing-she-is-now-a-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Pfeiffer surprises fans by revealing she is now a grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-09-30\" datetime=\"1759212080\" pubdate=\"\">30 September 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/michelle-pfeiffer\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,michelle-pfeiffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a> has revealed she became a grandmother for the first time last year.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Michelle Pfeiffer became a grandmother last year<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old actress has adopted daughter Claudia, 32, and a 31-year-old son called John with her television writer husband David E. Kelley, but she didn&#8217;t disclose which of her two children had welcomed a child into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the SmartLess podcast, she shared: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have time nor the desire to go that deep for that long and not be present. I realise I have a finite amount of time left and \u2014 I might announce on this show \u2014 that I became a grandmother last year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been very quiet about it and it is \u2014 it&#8217;s heaven. It&#8217;s ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Marvel star &#8211; whose upcoming roles include a part in her spouse&#8217;s Apple TV+ limited series Margo&#8217;s Got Money Troubles &#8211; admits she would have reigned in her work hours sooner if she had known she was set to become a grandparent.<\/p>\n<p>\nPfeiffer continued: &#8220;And if I had known that I was going to be a grandmother, I wouldn&#8217;t have taken on so much work, but I&#8217;ve enjoyed everything and I&#8217;m really grateful.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved \u2014 I love each of these projects. And so the weird thing is that giving up that angst about the process has freed me up and I feel in some ways has made me better.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Hairspray actress has largely kept her children out of the spotlight and took a break from her career to bring up her children.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, she previously admitted she was taken aback by claims she had retired from acting when she was just trying to raise a family.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe First Lady actress reflected on her decision to take a break from Hollywood for around five years after the attention on her and her family made things difficult for her brood when they were growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\nRecalling her decision to protect her children, she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022: &#8220;[It was] &#8216;Well, I\u2019ll only shoot in the summer, and I\u2019ll only shoot here, and I\u2019ll only blah, blah, blah, blah,\u2019 and finally it was just too much trouble to hire me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nPfeiffer and Kelley moved their family away from Los Angeles, and after five years she was surprised by the way others saw her career.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;I would start to hear that I had retired, and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Wait, no.\u2019 &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Batman Returns star admitted the move was down to the more challenging aspects of life in the spotlight, and it became even more of an issue with children.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe explained: \u201cI just couldn\u2019t bear seeing photos of me picking them up in carpool for public consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd then they\u2019d follow me home with them in the car, which was terrifying to me &#8230; There were cameras right in their little faces, and it traumatized them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nClaudia and John didn&#8217;t understand their mom&#8217;s fame for a while, but that changed when her daughter was in second or third grade, while they were still in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe recalled: \u201cMy daughter came home from school one day, and she said, \u2018Mom, I know when someone\u2019s coming up to talk to me because they want to be my friend or because you\u2019re my mom&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd I asked, \u2018How?\u2019 and she said, \u2018Well, if they\u2019re older and they talk to me for too long, it\u2019s not because they want to be my friend.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/michelle-pfeiffer-surprises-fans-revealing-now-grandmother-1430564.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 September 2025 Michelle Pfeiffer has revealed she became a grandmother for the first time last year. Michelle Pfeiffer became a grandmother last year The 67-year-old actress has adopted daughter Claudia, 32, and a 31-year-old son called John with her television writer husband David E. 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