{"id":89718,"date":"2024-04-13T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/steve-martin-reveals-why-becoming-a-dad-at-67-was-the-best-decision-for-him\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T08:01:28","slug":"steve-martin-reveals-why-becoming-a-dad-at-67-was-the-best-decision-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/steve-martin-reveals-why-becoming-a-dad-at-67-was-the-best-decision-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Martin reveals why becoming a dad at 67 was the best decision for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-04-13\" datetime=\"1712995288\" pubdate=\"\">13 April 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/steve-martin\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,steve-martin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Martin<\/a> would&#8217;ve been a &#8220;lousy father&#8221; if he&#8217;d had a child any earlier than he did.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Steve Martin became a dad in his late sixties<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old actor has 11-year-old Mary with wife Anne Stringfield and explained that by becoming a dad in his late sixties, he avoided having to give his attention over to his career. <\/p>\n<p>He told Closer US: &#8220;I think if I&#8217;d had a child earlier, I would have been a lousy father because I would have misplaced my attention on my career. Now I&#8217;m just<\/p>\n<p>hanging around the house playing with [my daughter]. It&#8217;s great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Trains, Planes and Automobiles&#8217; star has opened up on his like like never before in the new Apple+ documentary &#8216;Steve!&#8217; and mused that he has had such an &#8220;odd&#8221; time so far as he recalled being &#8220;riddled with anxiety&#8221; during his younger years but &#8220;really happy&#8221; now. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I see it as an antidote to the sort of anodyne interviews, generic things I&#8217;ve talked about a million times. What an odd life&#8230; How did I go from riddled with anxiety in my 30s, to [age 78] and really happy? How did this happen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the years before he started up his entertainment career as a comedian and then made the transition into Hollywood in the 1970s, the &#8216;Cheaper by the Dozen&#8217; actor worked at Disneyland and reflected that there was &#8220;no experience like it&#8221; as he remembered working up to 10 hours a day and &#8220;learning so much&#8221; during his time at the world-famous theme park. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I worked there from age 10 to 17 I learned so much. I was a magician at the magic shop, doing it eight to 10 hours a day. There&#8217;s no experience like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/steve-martin-reveals-becoming-dad-67-best-decision-1397825.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 April 2024 Steve Martin would&#8217;ve been a &#8220;lousy father&#8221; if he&#8217;d had a child any earlier than he did. Steve Martin became a dad in his late sixties The 78-year-old actor has 11-year-old Mary with wife Anne Stringfield and explained that by becoming a dad in his late sixties, he avoided having to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7477,2086],"class_list":{"0":"post-89718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-anne-springfield","9":"tag-steve-martin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}