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Vivica A. Fox Says Not Having Children Is Her 'Biggest Regret'

Fox tells Oprah not being a mom has been the "biggest regret" of her life.
Vivica A. Fox Says Not Having Children Is Her 'Biggest Regret'
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By Yolanda Sangweni · Updated October 27, 2020
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Vivica A. Fox prides herself on being a great aunt and godmother. But the actress tells Oprah it’s bittersweet because she too would have liked to be a mom.

“That’s the biggest regret of my life that I have is that I didn’t have a child,” she says on the next episode of Oprah’s Where Are They Now, recalling a day where she attended ESSENCE’s Black Women in Hollywood event and seeing Halle Berry soon after she had her daughter Nahla. “I said, ‘Wow she so beautiful.’ She said, ‘Vivica if I knew then what I know now I would’ve had 5 of them.’”

Fox recalls Berry saying the joy she saw in Nahla’s eyes was “like no other high” that she had ever experienced. “I don’t get to see my eyes in a child,” says Fox.

You can catch the entire conversation on Oprah’s Where Are They Now? this Sunday, October 12 at 9/8c on OWN.