Last year, I became obsessed with Jeff Goldblum and his then-fiancee and now wife, Emilie Livingston. They got engaged last summer, then married in November. And now they’re expecting their first kid together (and first kid overall for both of them). Jeff Goldblum is 62 years old. Emilie is 31. Like, she’s literally half his age. And they’re always bragging about how they’re #InItForLife. Ha. Anyway, Jeff made the announcement last Friday on The Late Show:
In case you don’t feel like watching it (I actually wasn’t going to, but his voice is like butter for some reason), Jeff says that Emilie told him she was pregnant the day before they married last November. He also says she’s three months along and they’re expecting a boy. They already have a name picked out too: Elliott Charlie Goldblum. You know what? Even though the age difference is skeevy and even though Jeff will be 80 years old when his son graduates from high school, I’m kind of rooting for these two. Damn it, I hope they are #InItForLife!
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How do they know the sex at three months?
Hope she knows it’s highly likely she’ll be raising a teenager and taking care of a sick old man at the same time.
Blood test or amnio synthesis. I had blood work done and new eary.
amniocentesis*
Yes. 🙂
Not necessarily. My friend found out at 12 weeks on ultrasound. No Amnio. When its a boy, its much easier to tell thx to that little protruding organ. We found out at 14 weeks, although it was a girl.
Plus shes only 31, why would she get amnio? Im 35 and preggo and even so my doc didnt recommend it and chose to go with the blood tests.
Yes. If she looks glowing, it’s a girl. If she’s bloated and tired, a boy. Foolproof way to determine the sex.
Huh. I thought it was the other way around—“girls steal your beauty” and all that jazz.
I was just talking about this with my friend–Jeff Goldblum creeps me out. I don’t know why, but he has strong Chester the Molester vibes to me. Like he seems like he’s one of those guys that thinks he’s insanely sexy, and will hit on every woman within the vicinity. I don’t know why I think of him like this, but every time I see a pic of him, all I see is CREEPER CREEPER CREEPER! Like Terry Richardson, but……
His lady is living out one of my worst nightmares.
Lol, me, too. I have never found him anything but creepy.
Poor Kiddo, she must be heartbroken. She loves his hands.
He triple creeps me out. He has this creepy, very slow way of talking in interviews that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
The pregnancy seals the deal for her future. Whew. Now she can relax.
Hahah – so. Husband (hereby known as Mr.NoPants – seriously. Pants are apparently very optional in our home haha – thankfully I have not legally changed my name so I am not Mrs. NoPants) and I were watching random stuff on youtube and I the Letterman clip. I giggled and put it on because it was talking about his wife being a former gymnast so I knew she’d be on there. I was like “hey, Mr.NoPants, how old do you think that lady is?” and he sat there for a moment and was like “I don’t know…probably late 40’s? He’s probably like late 50’s early 60’s right?” I laughed – and felt a little bit bad. But my goodness, she doesn’t look her supposed age. She looks way younger and way older at the same time – I think that’s why there’s a weird fascination on it.
Erinn,
Yes!!! I was thinking the same thing when I looked at her picture above. At first I thought that she looked to be in her twenties, but then I thought that she had the unlined face of someone in their forties. Very strange.
lol, Renee, I really think that’s what it is. Because the first time I saw her I thought ‘boy she’s young’ then I looked a bit closer and was like ‘Wait. No, she’s just got good skin for her age.’ I’m curious to see how she’ll continue to age – because as it is it could easily go either way.
Jeff looks like he’s aging pretty well. He must take decent care of himself though men who manage to keep a head of hair seem to have an unfair advantage haha.
Yes, it will be interesting to see how she ages. Jeff does look pretty good for his age too. Their kid will have the best skin, lol.
maybe this is why? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeVo9b25OFU
I’ve never found him creepy except in the Fly. I do get the eccentric quirky vibe from him.
I’d have his babies. Although I’m 36, so that might put me out of his age bracket 😉
Yeah, I find him very attractive, always have. His voice has this – what?- intimacy? Not sure but I always enjoy his interviews and like him in movies even when he is playing a villain.
I wondered about the ability to determine sex of child at 12 weeks also. I have heard there is a blood test that can be done @ 16 weeks. Do the boy parts even show in ultrasound @ 12 weeks?
My guess is that, due to his age, they may have had some genetic testing via amnio? That would show the sex. I don’t think an ultrasound could tell gender reliably before 3 months gestation. I had mine at 19 weeks, and the u/s tech told us the gender, but also added that she could be wrong.
I kinda agree……OBs tend to freak out when the mom is over 40, I have to believe that with a dad who is 62 they’re probably doing more testing rather than just waiting for the 20 week ultrasound.
A blood test of the mother will tell you the sex of your baby at 8 weeks. If a Y chromosome shows up, you have a boy and if it doesn’t, you have a girl. I did it when I was pregnant 7 years ago.
Huh. That’s pretty cool. I know we have those 3D baby ultrasounds around here- and people have been told the wrong gender – I guess because of position of the baby or whatever. Is this a routine blood test? Or only done in certain situations? I honestly don’t want a surprise if I can help it haha. I’m so bad with waiting for exciting things, and I think it’d make it feel more real. But I dont’ think I’d go around telling people either – my mother has made it very clear that when I have a child she does not support my ‘I kneed to know’ line of thought.
I don’t know if Dr. offices offer it now, but when I did it, I ordered it online. I pricked my finger a couple times into a tube and mailed it off. We got the results a week later. Like you, I am bad with waiting haha. I was SO impatient, and I do think it helped me bond with him a little earlier than not knowing. I think it cost around $200 back then to do it, but it was so worth it to me!
It’s call a CVS and they check for all kinds of birth defects and tell by the chromosomes whether it is a girl or a boy. Both my friend and I had it, and we joked well if we aren’t having a boy we are having one chromosonally messed up kid. They are done very early around 10 weeks or even earlier.
I just did the test at 12 weeks. I’m “geriatric” at 37, and they’re suggesting the test for all of us old ladies now.
The “parts” do indeed show up! I had an ultrasound at 13 weeks and there was no mistaking my twins were boys.
She’s the contortionist, right?
There are some really detailed style of scans… but yea, it seems early to be verifying the sex of a child.
I remember my sister telling me once… she does this baby stuff for a living… that it was easier to mistake a boy… for a girl… on a sonogram.
But rarely does a girl get mistaken for a boy on a sonogram. I know that seems odd. It has something to do with swelling in the hoo ha area… that can fake looking like a boy.
And she said there were some awful behavior, from men in the delivery room, over that issue. Were as the new Mother will be thrilled with a safe delivery and healthy baby. No matter what the sex might be… men expecting a boy…. can act out in a unfortunate manner.
Ugh, I hate that. I know one guy who made it clear that he’s wanted a boy for FOREVER…..and he’s a massive a-hole, but when you first meet him, you think he’s one of those nice guys….
They are probably doing tests to verify the health of the u bien baby, precisely because of his age.
That’s such a shame. I mean – my dad was super hoping for a son. He got one on the next round (though my brother wasn’t a result of needing that heir bullshit). I think it’s natural for a lot of guys to want a little mini-me because they have a hard time imagining what they’d have in common with a little girl. But as soon as dad found out he had a daughter he was pretty darn excited. He lucked out really, because I was quite a tom-boy growing up. I wanted to play with legos – I’d watch hunting and fishing and target shooting shows on TV with him, and wound up with the cleft chin and high forehead. He keeps saying that up until I was about two there was absolutely no denying I was his because I unfortunately had the same hairline haha.
We’ve hit the age where kids are something that’s nearing up on us – waiting on Mr.NoPants to get his red seal for plumbing or to at least be almost to that point – but while he thinks he’d potentially do better with a little boy, he’s already planning on turning any daughter into a starwars and video game fanatic -which won’t be hard I’d imagine, given that her mama is a website dev/designer- there’s no way we’re not going to have kids with nerdy tendencies.
That’s so sad. My mother used to tell me, after she and my father divorced, that she thought they would have stayed together if I had been a boy. She told a five year old girl that her daddy left because he didn’t want a daughter. Sometimes I say this stuff out loud and I’m actually shocked and impressed with myself for turning out so normal. My parents were pretty jerky.
Fortunately I married the best man around. We have two girls and he LOVES them like crazy. He and the oldest one are two peas in a pod. She’s tomboyish and they build with Legos and go mountain biking and do really dangerous science experiments in the back yard. They also laugh really hard at fart jokes, which I’m hoping they BOTH grow out of. But the rest is super cute. 😉
JB, I’m sorry. That was a huge failure on your mother’s part, and beyond cruel. I’m glad you’re ok.
Thanks. I really am good now. Actually I never took it that personally because she was so matter-of-fact about it. It wasn’t until I was older and I told the story in front of a class in college that I realized how awful it was. Literally the whole class, including the professor, just sat and stared at me with their mouths hanging open and I was like, “Oh. Yeah. That’s pretty bad, isn’t it?”
Crap, that is awful. FWIW, I think that men may want boys, but they get along much better with their daughters. That is anecdotal, but it is true of so many people I know including in my own family.
JB, you sound remarkably well-adjusted!
My aunt and uncle had planned only two children, but they kept trying for a boy. They stopped when #s 4 & 5 were twin girls. I always thought karma was toying with them.
I watched the video with a fairly open mind thinking that seeing them together would somehow charm me into thinking this match is suitable. I was still grossed out like I was watching a guy talk about how proud he is of his daughter’s gymnastic accomplishments. Whatever. Men will always have the upper hand when it comes to dating, marrying, and procreating with women half their age. We will always see old men with younger women. Nothing new here but it still doesn’t make it not creepy.
See, I think their ages aren’t a huge deal. For myself, I never enjoyed dating anyone who was significantly older or younger than the ages of my friends. So, when I was in my early 20s, most of my friends were 21-35 – and that was my comfortable dating range. However, in my 30s, my friends range from 28-65 – if I were dating now, I think that would be a comfortable range for me. To me, it only rings strange when the age disparity is so outside what a natural friendship would be, that it’s weird – like 22 and 65 – or 18 and 42.
“Men will always have the upper hand when it comes to dating, marrying, and procreating with women half their age.”
Though women have been bullied and browbeaten to keep their expectations oh so low when it comes to men, the vast majority of women, rich or poor, does not want to partner with a significantly older man.
Troubling though that women don’t seem to care about the significant health risks they expose their unborn to by having such an old father let alone the foolish old men themselves. Of course you stake out more of a financial claim if you have a child with the old creep you’re married to, better still, if you squeeze out son, right?
Seems incredibly selfish to me that these old men need to prove their obvious sagging virility by make their children guaranteed orphans when they are still relatively young. Does a 10 year old really need a 72 year old father?
Is it bad that I think this is irresponsible? Death of a parent is traumatizing and he’s pretty much setting his child up to deal with it at an earlier age. Also, genetic problems come up more often with older fathers too, it’s not just women. This is coming from someone whose parents were both in their early-mid 40s when they had me, so pretty late in life…
Yeah, kids with older parents tend to have heavier responsibilities early in life. It’s not the simple running errands thing. I remember a seventh grade classmate who has to miss school because she has to take care of her aging dad.
I understand what you mean but he could become one of those super-energetic 80 year olds and she could die in some freak contortionist accident at 35. You just never know what will happen.
FLY!! You go man! Yeah, somehow it doesn’t feel gross me too, I like this guy. Wish them well, congrats.
I am sure GC is banging his head against the wall right about now and start whining like a baby. Wonder if Amy Pascal can fix it for him..again. Hahahha……
Oh, what a lucky baby! He gets a daddy and a granddaddy all in one man!!!!!!!
For a short time, anyway. Sorry, that was mean.
I’m SURE if 62 year old Jeff worked at Walmart, instead of being a rich actor, then this 31 year old would still be in “love” with him! Yeah right!
#NodisrespecttoWalmartworkers
+100 and I love the hash tag.
You hit it! There are 62 year olds and then there are rich, famous 62 year olds. A world of difference in attracting a younger woman.
Yep!^^
The only thing I could think of was “Life…errrr…finds a way…”
OMG!! No.You.Didnt!! That was hilarious.
Congratulations! He’s still so sexy to me!!
Congrats to them both! He seems very excited and I always loved Goldblum.
However; if this was a 62 year old woman expecting her first child with her young husband, would people be so happy for them? I have a strong feeling that society would be very against this. Hell, a 45 year old woman who is expecting her first child gets burned at the stake most times.
^THIS.
(I think it’s mildly irresponsible and narcissistic to have a child so late in life no matter the gender.)
I call this the “third life crisis” – they’re in the last third of their life and for some reason they think that knocking up someone changes that or at least makes it easier to bare??
the problem is that they’re putting a new person into the world, a person they very likely won’t be able to spend quality time with outside of their childhood/adolescence.
the problem with the final-third-of-life crisis is that you can’t just put a human being away in the garage if you’ve outgrown the phase that made you get one like you could do with the stereotypical midlife-crisis sports car…
My dad was 61 when I was born lol mom was 41.
Died last year at 90. It’s not that bad with an older parent hahaha
I don’t care for Jeff Goldblum. It always surprises me when a wealthy person doesn’t have children/heirs. I feel like I did when Letterman became a first time father at a late age. Maybe they were too selfish to have children when they were younger, but in old age, they are ready. Anyway, congrats. The child is very wanted.
I have some foggy memory about Letterman saying that he had wanted children. But had not been able to have them biologically. Not that he had intended to have them late. It just never happened for them. And was thrilled when the long term girlfriend suddenly got pregnant. In her mid 40’s. Which is Mother Nature’s way of screwing with a girl, one last time.
You have started menopause… your hormones are out of whack. Yet, you can still get pregnant.
And its a popular thing in my family, for the women.
Lots of those “late in life babies” in my family tree. Which has made me extremely cautious. I am not about to birth out a surprise baby. 🙂
The fact that Jeff was able to have a child is what fascinates me. He’s keeps himself looking so fit. I’m happy for him.
I wonder if he has ever considered that any child would still need a father after their 19th birthday.
For all we know, it’s not his sperm.
That could be true, but since men’s sperm can still be viable up into their 90’s, it’s possible.
I’ve always thought Jeff Goldblum was sexy! Something about him just pings my heart strings! Congrats to both of them! That will be one hot grandpa!
Im so happy for jeff it looks like all his christmas’s have come at once and deserves it.
So Happy for them!
So he’ll be a grandpa…
The one thing I would say about all these old guys hooking up with young girls really is that they don’t just have to worry about how old they’ll be when their children are graduating from high school. I read recently that while men can still have babies into their 80’s or more, it’s not without consequence. Many researchers are now suggesting that older men having children after their 50’s have a much better chance of having autistic children.