Dame Helen Mirren has no regrets about not having children. The 78-year-old actress has accepted that it was not her destiny to have babies and she has "never had a moment of regret" about not having kids of her own.
While it's true that not everyone has a maternal urge, Dame Helen's reasons for not wanting a baby are apparently because of the world's population problems! "There are far too many people in the world. It's my contribution to ecology," Dame Helen said.
Mirren was born in London of a Russian-born father and a Scottish mother. (The family's last name was Mironoff until Helen's father decided to Anglicize it when she was 10 years old.) She joined Britain's National Youth Theatre at age 18 and the Royal Shakespeare Company a year later.
Mirren began dating American director Taylor Hackford in 1986. They were married on 31 December 1997, Hackford's 53rd birthday, at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. They met on the set of White Nights (1985). It is her first marriage and his third.
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Mirren, a beloved figure in the entertainment industry, spoke openly about her decision not to have children, emphasising that she has never experienced any regret regarding this choice. "I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought.
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Helen and Menelaus had a daughter, Hermione. Different sources say she was also the mother of one or plus sons, named Aethiolas, Nicostratus, Megapenthes and Pleisthenes, but according to others these were instead illegitimate children of Menelaus and various lovers.
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"I admire her work and her person [now], and I have all the same degree of admiration for her as I did then," Ford told multiple outlets, including PEOPLE. "She's wonderful, she's just a lovely person, and so it's been both a professional pleasure and a personal pleasure working with her again."
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Helen, for her part, suffered a miscarriage after discovering that she was pregnant with her ex Ryan's (Michael Shenefelt) child. She chose not to tell Ryan about her pregnancy, so Erik (Dion Johnstone) was the one who helped her through the miscarriage.
