{"id":170801,"date":"2025-12-02T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:41:09","slug":"beverly-dangelo-thinks-she-would-have-had-a-bigger-career-if-she-wasnt-focused-on-her-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170801\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly D\u2019Angelo Thinks She Would Have Had a \u2018Bigger Career\u2019 If She Wasn\u2019t \u2018Focused\u2019 on Her Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beverly D\u2019Angelo<\/a> has always been a hands-on mom when it comes to parenting her 24-year-old twins, Anton and Olivia Pacino<\/a>, even when parenting came with sacrifices.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo, 74, revealed that she first became aware of the popularity of her 1989 holiday film, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, when her kids were 10 years old. The actress told People<\/a> on Monday, November 24, that Anton and Olivia said everybody was \u201ctalking about\u201d the movie at school at the time. However,D\u2019Angelo admitted she shielded them a bit from the Hollywood spotlight when they were younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not raise my kids in that culture,\u201d D\u2019Angelo told the outlet of her children, whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Al Pacino. \u201cIf I would have been more focused, maybe I would have had a bigger career, but I was focused on my kids, to tell you the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo said she never expected Christmas Vacation to become a cult classic across all generations, including with her kids\u2019 classmates.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHonestly, I never imagined it, and I don’t care what anybody says, nobody imagined that 40 years down the line or however long it’s been, that the Griswolds would be part of our culture,\u201d the Entourage alum shared of the film, which also stars Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo gave birth to Anton and Olivia when she was 49 in 2001 after undergoing IVF. \u201cI had them so late, and it was like, \u2018Well, been there, done that, let’s do this,\u2019\u201d she told the outlet of managing her career and motherhood.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo candidly opened up about becoming a mom later in life on a handful of occasions over the years. In particular, she noted that Pacino, 85, has never been married, but he knew that starting a family with D\u2019Angelo was what he wanted from the start of their relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a fantasy that when you have kids, you do it in a family setting,\u201d D\u2019Angelo told Closer Weekly<\/a> in July 2017. \u201cAfter we\u2019d known each other for three months, [Al] looked me in the eyes and said, \u2018I want you to be the mother of my children.\u2019 That\u2019s all I had to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beverly D\u2019Angelo Momodu Mansaray\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

She explained, \u201cI got pregnant at 48, delivered six weeks after I was 49, and by 51, I was looking at a landscape as a single parent.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo and Pacino dated from 1997 to 2003, settling a bitter custody battle in 2004. Despite their past disagreements, they were able to move on as friends<\/a> for the sake of their kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing is creating a new history, and moving on from whatever dissolved that relationship to the new one of coparenting,\u201d D\u2019Angelo told the outlet.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo said \u201cthe most important thing\u201d she learned from their split was \u201chow vital acceptance is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have a desire to change things that we don\u2019t like, but you can\u2019t change another person,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to accept differences and all the things that led to a breakup in a way that allows you to move forward. And out of my support system and people I know and love, I\u2019ve created the ideal partner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beverly D\u2019Angelo has always been a hands-on mom when it comes to parenting her 24-year-old twins, Anton and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14909,94420,94421,94422,93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-170801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-al-pacino","9":"tag-anton-and-olivia-pacino","10":"tag-beverly-dangelo","11":"tag-christmas-vacation","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}