‘Mum’ of Robert De Niro’s 7th baby is ‘full contact’ kung fu fighter with 40 gold medals

The rumoured mother of Robert De Niro’s seventh child is a fearless world renowned martial artist who has bagged dozens of title fight victories.

The Goodfellas actor didn’t reveal who the mum of his youngest child was but he has been rumoured to be dating a 45-year-old Tiffany Chen.

De Niro shocked fans by revealing he’s become a father for the seventh time at the age of 79.

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The actor dropped the bombshell news on Tuesday that he’d “just” welcomed another baby but didn’t confirm the name or gender of the new arrival.

Robert and Tiffany are believed to have first met on the set of the 2015 film The Intern, with Tiffany playing the martial arts instructor who attempts to teach Anne Hathaway and Robert’s characters some Tai Chi moves in the comedy.

The couple were first romantically linked in August 2021, when they were spotted holding hands as they celebrated Robert’s 78th birthday on a boat ride in the south of France.

In July 2022 the pair were then seen out together again, this time enjoying the sun on a beach in Spain.

They were last spotted together in March this year, with Tiffany appearing to have a baby bump as the couple were photographed leaving a dinner date at a Santa Monica restaurant alongside fellow A-listers Billy Crystal and Harvey Keitel.

Tiffany is a world-champion full-contact fighter who has a whopping 43 gold medals to her name, nearly half of those coming from international or world titles.

The 45-year-old is the daughter of William C.C. Chen, a famed Grandmaster of Tai Chi Chuan and she enjoyed a variety of sports from a young age.

According to her website, she took up ballet, Hula dance, swimming and gymnastics at age five and then started figure skating at age eight — winning three gold medals in regional figure skating competitions.

She also took up ballroom dancing before deciding to follow in her father’s footsteps with Tai Chi to “improve her form”.

At 16 she entered her first push-hands competition and after many victories joined her dad’s sparring class, where she learnt to fight.

At the age of 26, Tiffany was inducted into the Inside Kung Fu magazine Hall of Fame as Competitor of the Year and in 2011 she was named Woman of the Year by the same publication.

Revealing the key to her success, she once told the magazine: “I surround myself with generous, beautiful people. Quality people are rarely surrounded by individuals who aren’t motivating factors or inspirational to them.

“Surrounding yourself with good people creates a symbiotic relationship that makes everyone’s quality of life go up exponentially.”

Robert confessed he’d secretly welcomed his seventh child while promoting his upcoming comedy About My Father.

When asked by a reporter from ET Canada about what it was like being a dad of six, the actor corrected them, responding: “Seven actually. I just had a baby.”

At the premiere of his newest film, Robert then told Page Six he wasn’t surprised to become a dad again at the age of 79.

He said the pregnancy was “planned”, adding: “How you could not plan that kind of thing?”

Robert became a father for the first time in 1971 when he adopted the daughter of his first wife, Diahnne Abbott.

His eldest daughter, Drena, is now 51 and the couple also welcomed a son, Raphael, together, who is now 46.

The Goodfellas star then had twin boys, Julian and Aaron, now 27, with ex-partner Toukie Smith.

In 1997 Robert married Grace Hightower and during their 20-year marriage the couple welcomed their son, Elliot, 25 as well as daughter Helen, 11.

Robert’s rumoured romance with Tiffany comes after his split from Grace in 2018.

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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk