{"id":802,"date":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/06\/katey-sagal-reflects-on-having-a-baby-at-52-recalls-telling-husband-kurt-sutter-she-had-about-5-minutes-left-to-have-kids\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","slug":"katey-sagal-reflects-on-having-a-baby-at-52-recalls-telling-husband-kurt-sutter-she-had-about-5-minutes-left-to-have-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/06\/katey-sagal-reflects-on-having-a-baby-at-52-recalls-telling-husband-kurt-sutter-she-had-about-5-minutes-left-to-have-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Katey Sagal Reflects on Having a Baby at 52, Recalls Telling Husband Kurt Sutter She Had \u2018About 5 Minutes Left\u2019 to Have Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actress went on to have her daughter Esm\u00e9 at 52<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/OXQh9DALCbhvq_W1tpMIeEcL1i0=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Katey-Sagal-Kids-50s-Husband-Kurt-Sutter-080626-DN--bad66c3c106846be85f017612f890d20.jpg\" alt=\"Katey SagalCredit: JB Lacroix\/WireImage\" title=\"Katey Sagal\" \/><figcaption><i>Katey Sagal<br \/>Credit: JB Lacroix\/WireImage<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Katey Sagal welcomed her daughter Esm\u00e9 at age 52 through surrogacy with husband Kurt Sutter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sagal\u2019s older kids have questioned why she continues acting, but she says working is what she enjoys most<\/li>\n<li>The actress shares that her kids are proud of her career and are the first she calls with good news<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tell-me-lies-jackson-white-reveals-how-his-mom-katey-sagal-helped-him-get-sober-11908778\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Katey Sagal<\/a> is opening up about welcoming her youngest child in her 50s.<\/p>\n<p>The actress, 72, appeared on Ted Danson\u2019s podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/where-everybody-knows-your-name-with-ted-danson-and\/id1745204141\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/em><\/a>, and reflected on her experience welcoming her third baby, daughter Esm\u00e9, later in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband is six years younger than I am,\u201d said Sagal of her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/who-is-kurt-sutter-katey-sagal-husband-11722236\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Kurt Sutter<\/a>. \u201cAnd when we met, he was like, \u2018I don\u2019t wanna have any kids.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Okay, \u2018cause I have about five minutes left if you wanna have kids.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sagal went on to say that a few years after their conversation, Sutter changed his mind.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/WsrHq37aANabA41NmIkixztpsME=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/Katey-Sagal-Kids-50s-Husband-Kurt-Sutter-080626-DN1--9963d208fb8d41e89b9a6722c916998a.jpg\" alt=\"Katey Sagal and her daughter Esm\u00e9.Credit: Kurt Sutter Instagram\" title=\"Katey Sagal and Esme Louise Sutter\" \/><figcaption><i>Katey Sagal and her daughter Esm\u00e9.<br \/>Credit: Kurt Sutter Instagram<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout five years in, we started really talking about it, and we did the whole surrogate process,\u201d she remembered. \u201cThis is Esm\u00e9, my sweet Esm\u00e9, who\u2019s 19. She\u2019s my favorite right now. Kids, I love you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Esm\u00e9, Sagal is mom to daughter Sarah Grace, 31, and son Jackson, 30, whom she shares with ex-husband Jack Cameron White.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the podcast, Sagal said that her kids have been asking her why she is continuing to take acting jobs in this era of her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir only thing to me is, \u2018Mom, you\u2019ve been working for so many years, why don\u2019t you just chill for a while?\u2019 \u201d said Sagal. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018You guys, I like to work. That is chill for me. I don\u2019t like all the downtime. And I don\u2019t really know what else I would do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/IiXnwJr2RleoSZDeHiXng3kWLyI=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/katey-sagal-kids-jackson-4-b7a6a73c6cc3442591f11415c686fc0d.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson White and Katey Sagal attend the premiere of HBO\u2019s \u201cMrs. Fletcher\u201d on October 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Michael Tran\/FilmMagic\" title=\"Jackson White and Katey Sagal attend the premiere of HBO's \" \/><figcaption><i>Jackson White and Katey Sagal attend the premiere of HBO\u2019s \u201cMrs. Fletcher\u201d on October 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.<br \/>Credit: Michael Tran\/FilmMagic<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, she went on to say that she likes to keep her kids in the loop when it comes to her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re really proud,\u201d said Sagal. \u201cThey\u2019re the first ones I call when I get a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2025, Sagal appeared on Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.messythepodcast.com\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>MeSsy<\/em><\/a> podcast and noted that her actor son Jackson is <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/katey-sagal-says-son-jackson-white-29-hates-being-called-a-nepo-baby-11690347\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">not a fan of people calling him a \u201cnepo baby,\u201d<\/a> and he even went to lengths to distinguish himself from his mom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Jackson] hates that whole \u2018nepo baby\u2019 thing. He didn\u2019t lean into any of that,\u201d Sagal said of her son, who stars in <em>Tell Me Lies<\/em>. \u201cYou know, he has a different last name than me, and a lot of people don\u2019t know that he\u2019s my kid, and he takes a lot of pride in that. As does Sarah, my daughter does as well.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actress went on to have her daughter Esm\u00e9 at 52 Katey SagalCredit: JB Lacroix\/WireImage NEED TO KNOW Katey Sagal welcomed her daughter Esm\u00e9 at age 52 through surrogacy with husband Kurt Sutter Sagal\u2019s older kids have questioned why she continues acting, but she says working is what she enjoys most The actress shares that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}