Sir Rod Stewart is "eight different fathers" to his children.
The 76-year-old rock legend has eight children to five women and he loves nothing more than getting them all together when it is possible.
Stewart enjoys a close relationship with all his offspring, but admits he has to be a multi-faceted parent because they are all at different stages of their lives.
Discussing what it is like to be the head of such a big brood, he said: "The age group is 10 up to 58, you have to be, like, eight different fathers. You can't be the same dad to your 26-year-old as you can to your 10-year-old."
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Advertise with NZME.Rod's family includes 58-year-old daughter Sarah, from a teenage relationship; Kimberly, 42, and Sean, 41, with first wife Alana Hamilton Stewart; Ruby, 34, with Kelly Emberg; Renee, 29, and Liam, 27, with second wife Rachel Hunter; and Alastair, 15, and Aiden, 10, with his current spouse Lady Penny Lancaster-Stewart.
Stewart was speaking on UK TV show "Loose Women", on which Penny is a regular panellist, and during the show he opened up on how he supported his 50-year-old wife when she was struggling with menopause.
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The "Maggie May" singer wanted to learn as much as he could about the changes Penny was going through so he could be as supportive as possible.
He said: "It was frightening because she wasn't the woman I married.
"Penny explained it to me through the tears, because she loves a cry, and we talked about it. The husband's job is to shut up and get on with it. I Googled and Googled and Googled.
"I found with the two boys when Penny had a mood and it wasn't quite right I would say, 'Mum is going through a hormonal time, be kind to her.' It didn't work!"
