Diane Kruger Recalls Thinking She ‘Would’ve Had a Kid With or Without a Man’ Before Welcoming Daughter Nova With Norman Reedus
23.02.2023 - 05:03
/ usmagazine.com
A perfect plan! Diane Kruger loves being a parent with Norman Reedus — but she was prepared to be mom whether she met her fiancé or not.
“You know, I don’t know. Maybe it is what people say about women and that time clock, just all of a sudden kicks in. I mean, the truth is I would’ve had a kid with or without a man attached,” Kruger, 46, said during the Wednesday, February 22, episode of Dear Media’s “Divorced Not Dead” podcast. “I remember starting to feel like [it] in my mid-30s. Like, ‘What am I doing all this for? Why am I running so hard, trying to make money and trying to live this life? What’s it all worth it?'”
The Inglorious Basterds star, who was in a decade-long relationship with Joshua Jackson before meeting Reedus, 54, in 2017, hinted that she and the Dawson’s Creek alum, 44, tried to have a child together before calling it quits in 2016.
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“I was in a very serious relationship at the time. We tried very hard to have a child, which didn’t work out,” she shared. “And then, I was single, and I thought, ‘Oh, you know what? Maybe it’s just easier to do it on your own anyways.'”
She added, “You don’t have to ask anyone for permission on schooling or where you’re gonna live. Let’s do it on your own.”
The Germany native revealed that she began looking into the different ways of becoming a single mother before she and The Walking Dead alum began dating. However, less than a year into their romance — when Kruger was 42 years old — the couple welcomed daughter Nova Tennessee. (Jackson, for his part, married Jodie Turner-Smith in 2019. The pair share 3-year-old daughter Janie.)
Kruger realized that finding her forever love with the Florida native allowed fate to take