I’ve always enjoyed the term “late-in-life baby.” It implies, to me, a whisper of money and glamour. Like, only people with a lot of money and late-in-life love can afford to have a late-in-life baby… in my mind. I know that’s not always the case. For George Clooney and Amal Clooney, the idea of babies has been percolating for a while, pretty much as soon as they got engaged. Is Amal “the one”? Is she the one who will make George Clooney a father? Will Amal debut a small baby bump at the Golden Globes? You get the idea. Right now, Amal is 36. She still has several years of fertility, although most experts I’ve seen on TV would probably tell her that she needs to get on it right now. George is 53 – a bit long in the tooth to just now start a family, but hey, he’s got his younger wife, etc. So, will the late-in-life baby happen? Well, The Daily Mail says that George and Amal might adopt!
As they settle into wedded bliss, it’s only natural that George and Amal (nee Alamuddin) Clooney are thinking about the next step in their marriage. And it’s now been revealed that the handsome pair are rumoured to be making plans to welcome their first child.
According to the latest issue of Woman’s Day Magazine, the Clooneys are looking to adopt an orphan from a war-torn country. A source told the magazine that the 53-year-old actor and the stunning 36-year-old human rights advocate lawyer are hoping to use the ‘adoption to highlight the plight of orphans in countries like Syria.’
The source added that George sees some of his best friends, such as Matt Damon, Cindy Crawford, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, being parents- and he wants that for him and his wife too. George and Amal married in front of family and a host of celebrity pals in Venice, Italy in October.
A lot of you have yelled about Woman’s Day Magazine before – apparently, it’s a pretty junky Aussie tabloid, so take this however you want. I think it’s possible that George and Amal would adopt, but I find the details of this story to be very sketchball. I hate when tabloids act like celebrities can just parachute into a warzone and grab a baby. It really doesn’t work like that. If anything, war zones and refugee crises make it more difficult for orphaned children to get adopted, because the legal infrastructure isn’t there to ensure that children are going to proper homes.
Oh, and the Mail says Amal gave George a special wedding gift: cufflinks that read “George” in Arabic. That’s better than the other gift she gave him, napkins and napkin holders!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Why would they have children at all? They are hardly on the same continent. I guess George has a career that he can tailor to his needs, so maybe he plans on doing that.
It’s inevitable that the tabloids will speculate about their having children. To me they hardly seem like the kind of couple to maintain a nice cozy home where an orphan can feel secure and form strong ties to his/her new parents in a new country. Amal seems to enjoy her PR engagements, and George would helicopter in every couple of weeks to make an appearance with his little war-torn statement.
“Why would they have children at all? They are hardly on the same continent….”
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Why does the media always need to cram a baby, into every high profile relationship? Immediately. Geez.
Maybe attempting to learn to live with each other, would be a better idea. It is hard to live with a new spouse. Trying to find a new groove for how the day runs. Especially when both work high profile jobs. And really, are they even living under the same roof?
I am still waiting to see if this marriage can last 3-4 years. Adding a baby into it just seems way too soon. So the media needs to find a new angle. Maybe let them pick out a nice cat and grow from there. 🙂
“Maybe let them pick out a nice cat and grow from there.”
As a long time cat owner, I would suggest that neither A nor G is suitable as a cat owner. Cats are very sensitive and they don’t like change. This comment is made at the request of my cats Oscar and Marley.
Because George and Amal are in LURVE. They’ve been on the same continent since their wedding. They stay glued to each other’s sides, while they’re out saving war torn countries, marbles, and directing/acting in Oscar rated films.
So yeah–the media won’t acknowledge anything that’s wrong with the relationship until they separate…..haha.
‘Maybe attempting to learn to live with each other, would be a better idea.’
+1, especially since they barely got together before the engagement and marriage.
I think this whole thing is to start his/hers/ both MAYOR political career (conspiracy theory), so they need kids. that’s just me….
If Leonardo Di Caprio gets engaged and start a family in the near future I ‘m ready to move to Mars.
Leo would move with you.
Nah, Leo would send his wife 🙂
Isnt Leo still in his late 30’s?
Not unusual for a guy in 30’s to still be single.
Leo’s not a mid 50yr old.
I never get the issue some have w Leo still being single?
Actually he just recently turned 40, celebrating with his “bros” and a bunch of models (which is pretty standard for him). But its his life, and he’s free to live it at he chooses. It’s not like he’s hurting anyone. 🙂
Leo just turned 40. I feel old.
Since I just get the feeling George and Amal aren’t really love, maybe this marriage is to make him seem younger and not just an old single guy skirting younger women. Can’t fight father time gets you in the long run anyway. Hope the war torn orphan isn’t true as this just seems like such a bad idea to two people with their schedules. Wonder if we will hear a denial on this since George seems to run to the press or at least gossip cop all the time lately.
Well said smcollins.
@smcollins: I agree & will take Leo on yachts with models any day before Kirk Cameron’s dribble. At least Kirk didn’t rub off too much on Leo during Growing Pains. Who cares if a rich, single guy parties & doesn’t have kids? I wish more guys thought about not spreading their seed if they don’t want to care for a baby! If I were Leo I’d be on a yacht right now drinking bubbly, eating crab & getting my shoulders rubbed……..
“A source told the magazine that the 53-year-old actor and the stunning 36-year-old human rights advocate lawyer are hoping to use the ‘adoption to highlight the plight of orphans in countries like Syria.’”
Sounds like a great reason to adopt a child. PR for your job. *eyeroll*
come on this is bull*hit.
Not even King George and the Hair Flip are this shallow.
I know. This is crap and Daily Mail is just a rag. I dont believe anything they say about anything anymore.
Yeah, this is BS.
Too bad though, I’d love to see their baby’s street style.
LOL Who in the world can take this Daily Fail story seriously?
I agree. This story is full of baloney!
Leave the napkin holders out of this, Kaiser!
LOL!! He wore that gold cufflinks with Arabic “George” for the wedding, they are from her parents. Traditional gift for the groom from the in laws.
I like the black and white dress.
She probably thinks that they can just waltz in there, scoop up a baby out of an orphanage, and waltz back out again. In any case, neither Iraq nor Syria allow international adoptions by anyone.
it reminds me of “woman of the year” when katherine hepburn adopts a war orphan and leaves it in her office with a ton of gifts unsupervised and spencer tracy has to return him
I’m sure that as an international human rights lawyer she’s aware of this. Why do people keep acting like she’s Kim Kardashian?!
Agree! And for argument’s sake, even if it is true…why is the hate in that comment focused on her and not them as a couple? People just want to hate her.
So is he going for a Senate position or do you think he’ll just run for President once he gets his 2.5 children?
With a wife who legally represents Gadaffi’s sons and henchmen, as well as Julian Assange and men who an blew up an airplane killing people, not to mention her arms dealer Uncle with his legal issues ,Amal is really not a good political wife for him in the US.
Her client list Won’t be ignored by the political opposition no matter how much George has his peeps call her his stunning human rights lawyer.
She is a barrister. Everyone has a right to be represented. Everyone has the right to a fair trial. Human rights are for all humans.
His “peeps” don’t need to call her a human rights lawyer. That’s what she is.
I didn’t think they’d have babies at all, so this is surprising. Perhaps it says more about my belief that it’s a marriage of convenience… They’re hardly even in the same country so raising a child together (??!)
Perhaps you should not take the story as fact. The story is a joke, a page filler.
I call BS on this.
Story is BS from Woman’s Day
Stop. Just please stop.
How do they have time for children what with Amal’s blood feud with Angelina and George’s impending run for President?
ftw! 🙂
Why don’t they just get a pet or two? Say, maybe, a pair of cockatoos?
Amal bought him 2 Cocker Spaniel puppies right after the wedding, they are in UK home! That’s done already! Haha…
And then Brad was like: “George, I can’t invite you to my pool party because there will be guys in their bathing suits and I think you have a crush on me and you want to be me or something.” Then George came back for high school and his head was shaved and now I guess he wants to adopt a baby from a war torn country.
If it ever happens it’ll be more like George adopts Amal a baby to take care of so he doesn’t have to father one himself. I’m sill convinced all these women are beards, she just scored the most lucrative contract.
I agree…. Contract Beard.
I still don’t buy this head over heels Georgie romance.
I thought she was in her 40’s.
Puhleeze.
Clearly I’ve gotten soft. I watched the ballet documentary First Position last night and it tells the story of Michaela dePrince, adopted from Sierra Leone by a couple in Pennsylvania. They thought no one would adopt her because she has vitiligo and was labeled a “devil’s child.” She only talks briefly about her childhood and the violence she witnessed but it’s heartbreaking. She clung to an old issue of Dance magazine in the orphanage, started ballet in the US, and is an incredible dancer, now professional in Europe. So good for them, if there’s any truth to this story.
Agreed. I’m kind of hoping this story is true. Who knows, maybe not at this point in time, but in a couple of years it might be.
I got money that part of the reason Amal is “the one” is that she doesn’t want children. I’d be genuinely surprised if they had children.
Children in war torn countries can’t be adopted..
Thank God for that, hasty and emotional decisions or response are always bad. Even India didn’t let orphaned kids to be adopted out of the country at the time Tsunami few years ago.
This is exactly the PR crap that would get you the side eye from Angelina. Kids aren’t accessories. That said. This is probably just made up
There is something called an adoption study that precedes an adoption. I am hoping that the worker doing the adoption study factors in several facts: the potential adoptive father has stated publically over many years that he doesn’t want children*; the potential parents have only been married for 6 weeks; the potential father has a public history of excessive alcohol consumption; the potential parents have active careers and do not live on the same continent.
*adoption studies include interviews with friends etc re: the suitability of the prospective parents.
There are lot of Syrian kids (refugees) orphaned by war in Lebanon they are thinking of adopting one or few, I am just guessing here. But country hopping, Tequila loving dad and working 8-10hr a day mom? Of course their kids will always have nannies, big house to live in and loads of money. is that enough? IDK! I just hope they don’t adopt because it’s “in” thing to do now,Hollywood style!
These two…Yawwwwwn.
The only thing that rings true about this story is that intimate relations will not play a part in the blessed event.
This story is not complete until a “source” says that Amal’s parents are pressuring her to start a family.
I read that Amals father already let the bride and groom know he wants grand children at the wedding toast! 😀
My impression of Amal is that of a rather immature/insecure woman, and I simply can’t picture her with a child. I hope it’s just BS,, and not the next step in their carefully orchestrated love show. Yet I could think of her parents pressuring…
I watched “A Boy Named Moses” last night. His adoptive parents gave him away to a lady they contacted over the internet. They were Canadian and the lady American. He was too much trouble so they got rid of him like a car or a sofa on Craig’s List. So disturbing! He was five years old at the time and was adopted from Liberia. Anyway I doubt the above article is true. I think 53 is a bit too old to start a family when you’ve been single all of your life.
And here I thought George had already adopted Amal.
There is something so gauche about this duo that I simply cannot resist staring. Much like any Kardashian. I can hear my sainted mother’s voice: “Don’t stare. It’s rude.” Yet on I stare. Rudely.
And did she have that hook on her nose reduced? It looks as if she may have had it… tweaked. Good for her, if so.
The sheer joy that exudes from them both when the paparazzi are around is palpable and utterly off putting.