David Foster particulars elevating a baby at 73

Despite the challenges that include elevating a baby at this stage in his life, David Foster is wanting on the child bottle as half full.

“I feel that I can provide one factor to Rennie despite the fact that I received’t be round when he’s 50 or 40 even, or 30 possibly,” the music producer, 73, instructed People of his son, who will flip 2 subsequent month.

“I feel I can provide him knowledge from my [73] years on the planet, and possibly that’s not a nasty trade-off. I hope so.”

Foster — who shares Rennie with spouse Katharine McPhee, 38 — can also be dad to 5 grownup daughters from earlier relationships: Allison, 52, Amy, 49, Sara, 41, Erin, 40, and Jordan, 36.

In addition to knowledge, the Grammy winner feels his age has lent itself to extra “persistence.”

“I used to be not affected person once I was younger,” he admitted. “I used to be conceited and simply on the transfer.”

Foster added that each parenting a toddler and having a boy after elevating solely ladies “is slightly bit totally different.”

“At this level in my life, it’s totally different once more,” he famous. “Not higher or worse, simply totally different. I nonetheless work, I’m nonetheless gone quite a bit, however possibly the time is a bit more valuable to me as a result of I received extra runway behind me than I’ve forward of me now.”

Foster and McPhee, who are greater than three a long time aside, famously met on the set of “American Idol” Season 5 in 2006 — when she was a contestant and he was a mentor.

Though they didn’t start courting till 2017, the singer instructed Page Six in November 2022, “I feel that that day that I used to be within the studio with [him], I used to be like, I actually received the appeal and charisma of David Foster.”

She added, “The age distinction doesn’t change, however you clearly develop up, so it wasn’t the identical factor then. I used to be so charmed by him, nevertheless it wasn’t like what it’s now.”

The musically gifted twosome made their crimson carpet debut on the 2018 Met Gala. Two months later, Foster proposed, and in June 2019, the duo stated “I do.”

McPhee gave start to Rennie in February 2021.