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Diane Krugerdidn’t always picture having kids.
“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,” she shared.
“I remember starting to feel like [it] in my mid-thirties. 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?'”
“I was in a very serious relationship at the time. We tried very hard to have a child, which didn’t work out. And then, I was single, and I thought, ‘Oh, you know what? Maybe it’s just easier to do it on your own anyways.'”
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Kruger recalled reasoning, “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 actress went on to share that she was in the process of exploring the different ways she could become a mom on her own when she began “casually dating” fiancéNorman Reedus, 54, with whom she shares daughterNova Tennessee, 4.
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In an interview with PEOPLE in May, Kruger opened up about how she and Reedusdecided on the name Nova Tennessee.
“I had her late in life at 42, and [Norman] had a child when he was much younger,” she said. “‘Nova’ in Latin means new beginning, and a nova star keeps changing and is reborn. And we love Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains; we do motorcycle trips there.”
source: people.com
