In late 2003, David Bale — the husband of Gloria Steinem and the father of four children, including Christian Bale — died from a brain lymphoma. Steinem had kind words for her deceased husband after his passing. “David went through the world with few possessions and great empathy for all living things,” she said in a statement released in January 2004, according to the Hartford Courant. “He had the greatest heart of anyone I’ve ever known,” the writer added.
A few months after David’s death, Steinem spoke about how caring her late husband could be. “He always stopped for an animal that was hit by the roadside. If it was dead, he said a few words over it in respect, or if it was alive, he rescued it,” she said in March 2004, which was one of her first public appearances following his death, The Ledger noted. The Ms. Magazine co-founder also discussed why getting married later in life was beneficial to the couple. “Both of us had lived long lives,” Steinem said. “I had done what women are not supposed to do, and that couldn’t have happened without the lives we’d lived,” she added.
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Later, Christian would also share glowing words about his late father and how David impacted the actor’s life and career. “His motto was: being boring is a sin,” the “VICE” actor said on an episode of “The Talks.” Christian and Steinem shared another unlikely connection that pre-dated her relationship with his father.
