Being a dad in his 70s is a blessing to David Foster.
The music producer, 72, and his wife, Katharine McPhee, welcomed 20-month-old son Rennie last February.
Despite becoming a father at such a late stage in Foster’s life wasn’t a part of his plan, he hasn’t regretted a single day of it.
“I’ve loved every single day,” Foster told the outlet in a joint interview with McPhee, 38, published Thursday. “It’s the standard thing of like, ‘Oh, well, you were so young when you had your children, and you were working day and night, you never saw them.’ And there is some truth to that, sadly, for my older kids. I was just working a lot. Even though I’m working a lot now, I’ll cancel anything just to hang with him. It’s just different.”
Foster, who has been married four times before, also has five daughters: Allison, 52, Amy, 49, Sara, 41, Erin, 40, and Jordan, 36.
However, McPhee is a first time mom to their son Rennie and she said she always hoped to have a baby with Foster, but knew there were no guarantees.
With a 34-year age gap, Foster and McPhee know they’re an unconventional couple, but feel that what they have just works.
Foster recalled, “I remember noticing the huge age gap between Céline Dion and her late husband, René Angélil, when he first began working with the musicians. But after a while, it just looked and felt normal. I think we’re over that hump now with five years of being together. Hopefully people just start looking like we belong together because we feel like we do.”
McPhee added, “Even if they don’t, we don’t care. We just love our history, how we met and where we are now. Sometimes we look at each other like, ‘This is so wild that we’re together.’”
The two crossed paths in 2006 on the set of “American Idol” Season 5, when Foster was a mentor and McPhee was a contestant.
McPhee said they stayed friends through all these years since they first met and romance blossomed in 2017 between the two. They made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala the following year.
In July 2018, Foster proposed, and in June 2019, the two said “I do.”
