In a recent interview with “CBS Mornings,” Tiffany Chen opened up about her life with Robert De Niro, taking a shot at critics who often speak on their massive age gap. “I’m like, mind your own business a bit and if you want to say something don’t always attach what you think in your mind is the story. You don’t know us, you don’t know what happened in somebody’s life,” Chen said. When asked how her relationship with De Niro came to be, Chen, who featured as the actor’s tai chi instructor in 2015’s “The Intern” admitted that she was drawn to him because of his love for his family (via the Daily Mail).
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Furthermore in the interview, Chen touched on her recent journey to motherhood, revealing that while her pregnancy was easy, her health soon took a turn after having the couple’s daughter Gia Virginia Chen De Niro. Shortly after having little Gia, Chen lost all facial function and was subsequently diagnosed with Bell’s palsy. “To talk I’d have to hold my chin and manipulate my lip to make certain sounds. I couldn’t say ‘Bob,'” she detailed. Through it all, however, Chen says De Niro remained sweet and supportive. “He tried to say that he didn’t see any difference … He was like ‘no you look fine, maybe you look a little stern.'”
