Goldie Hawn became a grandmother for the eighth time after the birth of her son Wyatt Russell’s second child, Boone. Wyatt and his wife, Meredith Hagner, welcomed their adorable baby last month, which they announced via Meredith’s Instagram with the caption, “Boone Joseph Russell. Born Feb 13, a week before his due date.”
Recently, Meredith showed off baby Boone during a family vacation with a photo featuring herself cradling him on her chest near a waterfall. “Newborn waterfall naps,” she wrote. Fans were joyous to finally have a better view of Boone, whose face Meredith covered with an emoji.
Goldie Hawn’s grandson seen for the first time
Goldie and her longtime partner, Kurt Russell, are also grandparents to Ryder, Bingham, and Rani from their daughter, Kate, as well as Bohdi, Wilder, and Rio from their son, Oliver. It has been an amazing journey for Goldie, who has passed down important lessons for them to grow up with. “As a parent, you basically raise your children to raise their children appropriately as well. So that’s that domino. And as parents, we have a tremendous responsibility,” she told PEOPLE last year.
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A lover of children herself, Hawn established an organization, MindUP, in 2003 to focus on the mental health and “brain fitness” of kids via curated curriculums. “My children are really great with their children. They’ve taken MindUP principles and offered them to their kids, and they’re doing great,” she told the outlet.
Although she starred in 2020’s The Christmas Chronicles 2, Goldie has been mostly away from the movie industry since her retirement in the early 2000s. She redirected her focus to giving back and establishing foundations such as MindUP to benefit society. The nonprofit classroom program has expanded to 50 countries and is “changing children,” in Goldie’s words.
Interestingly, the reason behind the seventy-eight-year-old’s career hiatus was the unfortunate 9/11 incident of 2001. “I’d been making a lot of movies for a long time. And when 9/11 happened, the world turned upside down and I wasn’t feeling very happy. But what I realized is that children were actually going to be suffering a silent distress on account of 9/11,” she said, explaining how MindUP came to be. “It shook me to the core, and I said, ‘Am I going to make movies, or am I going to do something?’”