Some celebrities go to great lengths to keep their pregnancies and births private. Kristen Wiig, Priyanka Chopra, Amber Heard, and Grimes quietly welcomed babies via surrogate. Amy Schumer accidentally revealed that her costar Michael Cera had become a dad.
Hilton said the birth was kept a secret by drastic measures including wearing a wig during the birth, checking in under a fake name and sending staff away for several days after the birth - claiming that they were repainting.
Hollywood actor Bruce Willis is the father of five daughters, 3 of which, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah, are with actress Demi Moore, and 2 daughters, Mabel and Evelyn, with actress and model Emma Heming.
Meanwhile, famous single parents of two include Nick Cannon, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Depp, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Liam Neeson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Britney Spears and Usher.
In 1997, the McCaughey septuplets, born in Des Moines, Iowa, became the first septuplets known to survive infancy. Multiple births of as many as eight babies have been born alive, the first surviving set on record goes to the Suleman octuplets, born in 2009 in Bellflower, California.
The most fertile woman in history is alleged to be an 18th-century Russian peasant called Valentina Vassilyev. Between 1725 and 1765, she is recorded as giving birth to a total of 69 children – 67 of whom survived infancy. This included 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
Kris Jenner is the matriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, with six kids and 11 grandchildren. She has six kids from two marriages — Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and Rob from her first marriage to Robert Kardashian, and then two daughters, Kendall and Kylie, from her marriage to Caitlyn Jenner.
A rep for De Niro confirmed to TODAY.com on May 9 that the actor welcomed his seventh child. De Niro shares children Drena, 51, and Raphael, 46, with first wife Diahnne Abbott.
Robert De Niro is a family man through and through. The Academy Award winner has seven children. De Niro and his first wife, Diahnne Abbott, are parents to daughter Drena, 51, and son Raphael, 46. In 1995, he welcomed twin sons Julian and Aaron, 27, with his former girlfriend, model and actress Toukie Smith.
Nineteenth Century
Scientists did not know enough about pregnancy to develop a reliable test. However, for sexually active women, the best method for diagnosing pregnancy remained careful observation of their own physical signs and symptoms (such as morning sickness).
The Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters prohibited anything sexually suggestive on the air, and that included even the discussion of pregnancy, since it implied that a couple, even a married one, had engaged in baby making.
In the first known pregnancy tests, ancient Egyptian women urinated on barley or wheat seeds: quickly sprouting seeds indicated pregnancy. While this may sound like pseudoscience, several modern studies have shown that it works pretty well, correctly identifying 70-85% of pregnancies.
67 of the 69 children were said to have survived infancy. Allegedly Vassilyev also had six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with a second wife, for another 18 children in eight births; he fathered a total of 87 children. The claim is disputed as records at this time were not well kept.
According to a local monastery's report to the government in Moscow, between 1725 and 1765 Mrs Vassilyev popped out 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets, over 27 separate labours. The grand total: 69 children.
Surprisingly, Mel Gibson has 9 children, Mia Farrow had a whopping 14. DMX has had addiction issues, but has managed to have 15 kids along the way. And of course, Bob Marley spread his love all over the world, mainly in Jamaica, as he had 11 kids.
Salvador fathered 102 children and reputedly had 48 women. Apart from Lou Salvador Jr., he also fathered the actors Alona Alegre, Leroy Salvador (director, producer and politician), the eldest of the Salvador siblings, Mina Aragon, Phillip Salvador, Ross Rival, Emil Salvador, and Jumbo Salvador.
But none of them come close to the number one spot, held by Ramjit Raghav, who became a celebrity when he fathered his second son at the age of 96 in 2012, becoming the oldest father in the world.
The Guinness World Record for most children born to one mother goes to Valentina Vassilyev, the wife of a Russian peasant Feodor Vassilyev. She birthed 69 babies total in her lifetime.
Nick Cannon is expecting his second child with Alyssa Scott. Cannon has 12 children with six women, including Mariah Carey and Bre Tiesi.
Eddie Murphy has 10 children with five different women, with a 29-year age difference between the oldest and the youngest. He welcomed his oldest child, son Eric, in 1989 with Paulette McNeely. The following year, he had son Christian with then-girlfriend Tamara Hood Johnson.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
With the highest number of marriages on this list, we have Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was married nine times. Her husbands were Turkish politician Burhan Asaf Belge, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton Sr., actor George Sanders, banker Herbert Hutner, oil executive Joshua S.
Women can reproduce for about half of their lifetime and can only give birth about once every year or so. So it makes sense that women can only have a fraction as many children as men. One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime.
The largest pregnancy ever recorded was of a woman in Los Angeles, California in 1945, who gave birth to 10 twins, making a total of 12 babies. She went on to give birth to 16 children in total, with the 10 twins being the largest number of babies born at once.
Genghis Khan is known as one of the greatest warriors in the history of the world, but that is not the only thing he is known for. He is also known for being the man who had the most kids in the world. It seems that he holds the record for the most children born to one man.