David Foster has no regrets about welcoming a child in his 70s
David Foster has no regrets about becoming a dad again in his 70s.
The music producer, 72, and his wife, Katharine McPhee, welcomed 20-month-old son Rennie last February.
And while having a baby at this stage of his life was “not something” he thought was going to happen, he told People he hasn’t “regretted a single day of it.”
“I’ve loved every single day,” Foster told the outlet in a joint interview with McPhee, 38, published Thursday.
“It’s the standard thing of like, ‘Oh, well, you were so young when you had your children, and you were working day and night, you never saw them.’ And there is some truth to that, sadly, for my [older] kids. I was just working a lot. Even though I’m working a lot now, I’ll cancel anything just to hang with him. It’s just different.”
Foster, who has been married four times before, also has five daughters: Allison, 52, Amy, 49, Sara, 41, Erin, 40, and Jordan, 36.
McPhee, who became a first-time mom when she gave birth to Rennie, told People she always “hoped” to have a baby with Foster but knew there were “no guarantees.”
With a 34-year age gap, Foster and McPhee “know [they’re] an unconventional couple” but feel that what they have just works.
For Foster’s part, he recalled noticing the “big age difference” between Céline Dion and her late husband, René Angélil, when he first began working with the musicians. But after a while, it “just looked and felt normal.”
“I think we’re over that hump now with five years of being together,” he said, “and hopefully people just start looking like we belong together because we feel like we do.”
McPhee added, “Even if they don’t, we don’t care. We just love our history, how we met and where we are now. Sometimes we look at each other like, ‘This is so wild that we’re together.'”
Their paths first crossed in 2006 on the set of “American Idol” Season 5 — when Foster was a mentor and McPhee was a contestant.
The singer marveled that they “stayed friends through all these years.”
The two were first linked romantically in 2017 and made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala the following year.
In July 2018, Foster proposed, and in June 2019, the two said “I do.”