Diane Keaton welcomed two children in her 50s and raised them as a single mother before her death — but never chose to marry.

“Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist,” she once explained to Ladies Home Journal, per People . “It was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in.”

Of her decision to raise her two now grown children as a single mom, the actress told Ladies Home Journal she was “never going to be prepared to be a mother.”

As far as her relationships go, she told People in 2019 that her decision to forego marriage — despite welcoming daughter Dexter, 29 , and son Duke, 25, via adoption in 1996 and 2001 — was predetermined.

“I think I’m the only one in my generation, and maybe before, who has been a single woman all her life,” she to

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