Eddie Murphyis used to getting split reactions when fans learn he has 10 kids.
“It’s funny,” he toldEllen DeGenereson Thursday’s episode of her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, while discussion his offspring — whose ages range from 30, being the oldest, tothe youngest who just turned 1.
The actor and comedian went on to explain that he typically sees two types of reactions from people, based on their gender.
“Men kind of look at me like, ‘He’s crazy. How much did that s— cost?'” the comedian teased. “And women, it’s kind of like, something sexy about it I think. ‘Eddie Murphy must be doing thisthing. Eddie Murphy be getting itin.'”
But despite various reactions, Murphy told DeGeneres that he’s happy having 10 kids.
“It seems okay,” he said, adding that he even recently became a grandfather for the first time. “I like it, I’m happy with it.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Willie Toledo
The actor and his fianceé, Paige Butcher,welcomed their second childtogether last December.
Son Max Charles Murphy was born weighing 6 lbs., 11 oz., and measured 19 inches long.
“Both mother and son are doing well,” Murphy’s rep said at the time.
Murphy, 58, and Butcher, 40, are already parents to daughter Izzy Oona, 3. He is also dad to his oldest son, Eric, 30, with Paulette McNeely. His other children, including daughters Bella Zahra, 17, Zola Ivy, 19, Shayne Audra, 24, andBria, 29, plus 26-year-old son Miles Mitchell, are with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy.
Chelsea Lauren/REX/Shutterstock
Francois Duhamel/Netflix
“[He] was this underground comic who bulldogged his way into show business,” Murphy said. “He wanted to be in movies, he wanted to make records, so he did it all himself out of his pocket and sold this stuff out of his trunk and made these these movies. And he got this cult following.”
“I’ve always been a big fan of his and I’m just over-the-moon to be telling this story and get people to know about him because he was extraordinary,” Murphy added. “It’s so funny. It’s an inspirational story.”
“I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out,” he said. “That movie more than any picture that I’ve done, I don’t know what it is in the culture — like, on Halloween, some people get dressed up as characters from the movie — so a lot of people had this exception. People would say to me when they found out I was doing it, ‘Don’t f— that movie up. Don’t mess with it.’ So we’ve gone above and beyond about what anybody would thing. I’m really, really happy with it.”
TheEllen DeGeneresShowairs weekdays in syndication (check local listings).
source: people.com
