Annette Bening says becoming a mom to her four children Stephen, Benjamin, Isabel and Ella was always ‘in her ‘DNA’
'My mother is 95 and I always aspired to be like my mom, I still do,” Bening, 65, recalled while walking down memory lane with Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show on Tuesday, March 5. “I wasn't a perfect mom. I think I did pretty damn good, especially for working and everything, but I always, always wanted to be a mom, from when I was a little kid.”
Over the years, Bening’s dream of having children became a reality when she tied the knot with husband Warren Beatty in 1992. The pair welcomed their first child, son Stephen, later that year. Son Benjamin arrived in 1994, followed by daughter Isabel in 1997. “One time when I was nominated I was extremely pregnant,” she revealed, referencing the 2000 Oscars, where she was up for Best Actress for her role in American Beauty and Beatty, now 86, was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. “I was just about to give birth, and I know how many years ago it was because that's my almost 24-year-old.”