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Parenting “doesn’t get easier” with age — even when you have plenty of help. That’s according to Robert De Niro, who revealed earlier this year that he’d quietly welcomed his seventh child with girlfriend Tiffany Chen. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Robert, 80, was asked “how things are going” with the new baby and whether he still agrees with a past comment he made about how raising kids is “always good and mysterious.”

“It’s going OK,” he replied. As for the mystery? “You never know what’s going to happen. They surprise you,” said the two-time Oscar winner. “It doesn’t get easier. It is what it is,” he continued. “It’s OK. I mean, I don’t do the heavy lifting. I’m there, I support my girlfriend. But she does the work. And we have help, which is so important.”

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