The Truth About Jane Fonda's Kids

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Monday, May 6, 2024

Jane Fonda had her first child, Vanessa Vadim, with French screenwriter and director Roger Vadim, her first husband, according to Closer Weekly. Fonda and Vadim were married from 1965-1973 and they had Vanessa in 1968 in Paris, France. While the birth sounds very lavish and continental, Fonda struggled with postpartum depression, according to Vanity Fair. Fonda didn't know much about the phenomenon and "cried for a month," the magazine noted in their profile of her.

According to the outlet, Fonda wrote of the experience: "I just felt that I had failed — that nothing was turning out the way it was supposed to, not the birth, not the nursing, not my feelings for my child or (it seemed to me) hers for me."

Despite those early struggles, Vanessa has gone on to thrive as a director and has worked on several films, including Jane Fonda in Five Acts, according to her IMDb credits. She was also the director of The Quilts of Gee's Bend and was the production assistant on the documentary, Blue is Beautiful.

Vanessa is married to Paul Van Waggoner and together they have two children, according to a later publication by Closer Weekly. What about Fonda's other two children?

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