Celebrity Kids Who Are So Tall They Have Our Heads Turning
Children becoming taller than their parents is a pretty common phenomenon, but it can still be pretty shocking, even for the biggest actors, politicians, and reality stars in the world.
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00:00Children becoming taller than their parents is a pretty common phenomenon,
00:04but it can still be pretty shocking, even for the biggest actors,
00:07politicians, and reality stars in the world.
00:10When Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got together in 2004, she'd already adopted one child on her own,
00:16and then they went on to adopt two more kids together and have three biologically.
00:20Their daughter Shiloh was born on May 27, 2006. In October 2021, Angelina spoke with
00:26People magazine about her experiences as a parent in a large family. As she explained,
00:31"'I have six very individual human beings in my home. I am so excited about all the
00:36different stages and feelings and curiosities that they go through. Why wouldn't you be?
00:40We're supposed to help them figure out who they are, and you can't figure out who they are if
00:44you don't enthusiastically develop with them.'" As Angelina continues to help her kids figure out
00:49their true selves, they sure seem to keep reaching new heights, sometimes literally.
00:53In January 2021, the then-14-year-old Shiloh was spotted shopping with her mom,
00:58and she appeared to be as tall, if not taller, than her. A few years later, Angelina was spotted
01:04out in New York City with some of her kids, including Shiloh, who looked to be the tallest
01:08of the bunch. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck got married in June 2005 and welcomed their first
01:13child, a daughter named Violet, in December of that year. They had two more kids together before
01:18divorcing in 2015. The resemblance between Garner and her oldest is pretty uncanny, except for the
01:24fact that she towers a few inches over her, although she still hasn't quite reached her
01:28dad's reported height of 6 feet 4 inches. As Violet continues to grow up, her proud mom continues to
01:34cherish the bittersweet milestones, including the college application process. As Garner told
01:39People magazine in March 2024,
01:41"'It is exciting. I can see the stress, even though the excitement and stress go hand in hand.
01:46But she's handling it like a champ, and she's totally in charge. I'm not having to say,
01:50are you doing this, are you doing this? She's a self-starter, and I'm just proud of her no
01:54matter what."
01:55A couple months later, Garner shared a tearful Instagram post celebrating Violet's high school
02:00graduation, along with the caption,
02:02"'Tell me you have a graduate without telling me you have a graduate.'"
02:05"'How are we gonna make it? What are we gonna do?''
02:08Donald Trump has a large family that includes five children with three different mothers.
02:12His eldest, Donald Jr., was born in December 1977, while his youngest, Barron, was born in
02:18March 2006. By the time he was 12 years old, Barron was already towering over both his dad
02:24and his mom, Melania. He's gotten even taller since then, by reaching an estimated 6 feet 8 inches.
02:30During an October 2020 campaign rally in North Carolina, former President Trump marveled at his
02:35youngest height, as well as his ability to recover from COVID-19. As he put it,
02:39"'My Barron. My tall Barron. He's very tall. My beautiful Barron. And handsome. He is handsome.
02:45But my beautiful Barron had it. And he recovered. Like, so fast. I said,
02:50wait a minute, how long did that take? They have the strongest immune systems.'"
02:54When Pierce Brosnan married his first wife, Cassandra Harris, in 1980, he adopted her two
02:58children from a previous marriage. They then had one kid together before she died from cancer in
03:031991. He went on to have two more children with his second wife, Keeley Shaye Smith,
03:08including their son Dylan, who was born in January 1997. Dylan has followed his dad into
03:13showbiz by acting, modeling, and singing in the band Raspberry Blonde. During a June 2021 Instagram
03:19Live streamed by People, Pierce revealed that a very young Dylan spent some time on the set of
03:24the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, but apparently he wasn't very interested in watching
03:29his father work. As he recalled,
03:31"'I always remember standing there thinking,
03:33there's my boy, there's Dylan. I said, how was it? And you said,
03:37are the cars okay, daddy? Were the cars all right? Can we go see the cars? And it was my
03:41best performance, one of my greatest James Bond heroic moments. I said, yes son, let's go see
03:47the cars.'" In January 2020, Pierce and his sons appeared together at the Golden Globes.
03:52Dylan reportedly stood about four inches taller than his famous father, at 6 feet 5 inches.
03:57How you guys feeling, man?
03:58We're great. We're doing great. We're so happy and excited and honored to, like, be here."
04:03Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes welcomed their daughter Suri into the world in April 2006,
04:07and then married in November of that year. However, the Mission Impossible star's devotion
04:12to the Church of Scientology and Holmes' wish to protect her daughter from the organization
04:16proved to be incompatible. So in 2012, the two of them divorced.
04:20Suri has basically been a public figure ever since she was a baby, but nowadays,
04:25she's hardly a kid anymore, as she's about as tall as her mom. It seems safe to assume she
04:30didn't get her height from her 5-foot-7-inch father, and that she instead takes after the
04:335-foot-9-inch Holmes. Tom and Suri reportedly remain estranged to this day, but she clearly
04:39has a strong relationship with her mom. As Holmes told Glamour in April 2023,
04:44"'What has been really important for me, with my daughter, because she was so visible at a
04:47young age, is I really like to protect her. I'm very grateful to be a parent, to be her parent.
04:53She's an incredible person."
04:55After Jessica Alba met producer Cash Warren on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004, the two of them
05:00really hit it off. They eventually got married while she was pregnant with their daughter Honor,
05:04who was born in June 2008. They've since gone on to have two more kids together.
05:09In September 2020, when Honor was 12 years old, Alba shared a picture on Instagram of the two
05:14of them standing back-to-back, along with the caption,
05:17"'The moment you realize your number one baby is taller than you.'"
05:20Alba later sat down with Sirius XM's The Highway about how quickly Honor has shot right up.
05:25As she put it,
05:26"'We're back-to-back, and I just — I fell apart. I just started crying. She's taller than me.
05:31I mean, literally over COVID, she went from like a size 7 to like a 9 shoe.'"
05:36According to Alba, Honor grew almost three inches over that period to make it up to 5-foot-7.
05:41"'It's crazy.'"
05:43Reese Witherspoon met Ryan Phillippe at her 21st birthday party in 1997,
05:47and then they got married in June 1999 after co-starring in Cruel Intentions.
05:52Just three months after that, they welcomed their daughter Ava.
05:55It wasn't long before Ava caught up to her mom, who stands at just 5 feet 1 inch tall.
06:00In June 2014, when Ava was 14, she and Witherspoon looked to be just about the
06:05same height while they were out hiking in the Pacific Palisades. And it was clear that Ava
06:09had shot up even more when they were spotted out and about shopping in Los Angeles in 2023.
06:14As the daughter of two famous parents, Ava has learned a lot about living in the public eye and
06:18the pressure that comes with it. Fortunately, her mom's been a strong role model for her.
06:23In an April 2024 chat with People magazine, Ava shared an important lesson that she learned from
06:28her Oscar-winning mother, by noting,
06:30"'My mom is Southern.' A big saying in the South, especially amongst women,
06:34is, "'Pretty is as pretty does.' Every time that comes up in my brain,
06:38or I see people being critical of others online for their appearance, I just always think,
06:42you're only as beautiful as you treat other people."
06:45"'I love your little mini-me looks pretty incredible as well.'"
06:47"'I know, doesn't she look beautiful?'
06:48When soccer superstar David Beckham met Spice Girl Victoria Adams in 1997,
06:53it was the start of quite the celebrity power couple. They married in 1999,
06:57and now have four kids together — Brooklyn, who was born in 1999, Romeo, who arrived in 2002,
07:04Cruz, born in 2005, and Harper, born in 2011. And in just the blink of an eye,
07:09the middle two kids have shown up their dad in the height department.
07:12In August 2022, the soccer legend shared a photo of himself with Romeo and Cruz on Instagram,
07:17while also quipping,
07:19"'So close to being as tall as dad. Yep, boys will be boys.'"
07:23Of course, the caption was a joke, as Romeo and Cruz were both clearly taller than their dad.
07:28Raising a family in the limelight can be complicated,
07:30but the Beckhams have always put their kids first. As David told GQ in 2016,
07:35"'We've always protected our children, but we've always been honest with them as well.
07:39There's going to be things said about you, about us, that aren't true. I've got four amazing kids,
07:44and an amazing wife, amazing parents, amazing in-laws, amazing friends who I trust.
07:50It doesn't matter what people say.'"
07:52Michael Douglas' acting career kicked off in the 1960s,
07:55and it wasn't long before he was a bona fide star. In 1978, he became a father for the first time
08:00when he and his first wife, D'Andra Luker, welcomed their son Cameron into the world.
08:0422 years later, he became a father again at the age of 56, when he and his second wife,
08:09Catherine Zeta-Jones, welcomed their son Dylan, who was followed by their daughter,
08:13Karis Zeta, in 2003. In April 2023, Dylan and Michael were photographed together
08:19at the Broadway debut of Goodnight Oscar. Dylan was 22 at the time, and he looked to be a good
08:24few inches taller than his Oscar-winning dad. Michael has admitted that being an older dad
08:28can be awkward at times, like when he visited Dylan's college for Parents' Day and he had
08:32to swat away some incorrect assumptions. As he recalled to The Telegraph,
08:36"'This is not Grandfather's Day. This is Parents' Day.' I say,
08:40I am a parent. That was a rough one."
08:42"...Michael and I both look at Dylan and our daughter Karis,
08:45and you go, wow, 22 years, and it's been amazing."
08:50Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich really hit it off while working together on the 1997 movie
08:55The Myth of Fingerprints, which she starred in and he wrote, directed, and produced.
08:59They got married in 2003 and have two kids together — Caleb, who was born in 1997,
09:05and Liv, who arrived in 2002. Freundlich is a foot taller than his wife, so it's no surprise
09:10then that both of their children now tower over their mom. In fact, Liv was already taller than
09:15her by the time she was 14. While they aren't close in height anymore, that certainly hasn't
09:19hurt their relationship. As Moore gushed to Harper's Bazaar in 2022,
09:23"'She's spectacularly poised. I've been bragging about Liv since the day she was born,
09:28and I'm so impressed by how well she navigates the world and how mature she is."
09:32Liv shared the love by responding,
09:34"'What I admire most about my mom is how driven she is. She always has a clear idea of what she
09:38wants to accomplish, choosing roles she is passionate about, and she never lets go of
09:43that. My mom does what she wants to do and doesn't really care what other people think.'"
09:48Kourtney Kardashian was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Scott Disick for years,
09:52before she married Travis Barker in 2022. The exes share three children,
09:57including their eldest, Mason, who was born in December 2009. Mason isn't in the limelight
10:02as often as his famous family members, but in June 2022, he was spotted out and about with
10:07his 5-foot-1-inch mom. Even though he was only 12 years old at the time, it was clear that he
10:12was already taller than her. While appearing on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast in October 2022,
10:18Kourtney opened up about why Mason keeps such a low profile, as she revealed,
10:22"'I see comments all the time that I'm never with my kids, and I just don't love to post
10:26my kids on social media. They don't love it. Sometimes they do. Mason does not like it.
10:31He doesn't want any part of it. I want my kids to be kids.'"
10:34"'I crave normalcy as much as we can have it.'"