Glenn Close’s daughter Annie Starke recently welcomed her first child with her husband Marc Albu.
Their son Rory Westaway Albu was born last month and is the Academy Award winner’s first grandchild.
Now that a few weeks have gone by, Annie has shared a cute throwback photo of her mother when she was pregnant with her sitting on a couch with her belly exposed.
Glenn’s mother sat next to her on the very retro floral sofa.
The next photo was of herself and her own pregnant belly on a very similar floral sofa with her mother Glenn sitting next to her as Annie called it the ‘recreation of a classic family pic.’
‘This #internationalwomensday hits a bit different this year,’ her caption began.
Glenn Close’s daughter Annie shared a throwback photo of her mother pregnant with her sitting next to her mother
Annie then recreated the photo except this time Glenn was grandma and she was the pregnant woman
She continued: (Swipe for a recreation of a classic family pic… my grandma, @glennclose & me in the womb…
‘now grandma “Gi,” me & Rory in the (enormous) womb. Aggressive couch fabric patterns included.) To allllllll the Mamas…’
Annie and her husband announced the birth of their first child in an Instagram post on Valentine’s Day, revealing that they welcomed him a week earlier.
‘Rory Westaway Albu… born Feb. 7th, 2025… and we’ll never be the same,’ she captioned the post.
‘We love you so much, sweet boy,’ she added.
Annie is the only child of Close and her ex-partner, movie producer John Starke.
She was raised in Bedford, New York, far out of the Hollywood limelight.
‘I had a profoundly normal childhood,’ Starke told People. ‘I’m a little boring. I was a barefoot kid, outdoorsy, never had siblings, but I had cats and dogs, and really surrounded by nature.
‘This #internationalwomensday hits a bit different this year,’ her caption began. Seen here with her husband Marc Albu and Glenn Close in 2023
Annie shared the news of her son’s birth in a post on Valentine’s Day, revealing that she welcomed him a week earlier. Seen here in 2018
Rory is Glenn’s first grandchild. ‘Rory Westaway Albu… born Feb. 7th, 2025… and we’ll never be the same,’ she captioned the post. ‘We love you so much, sweet boy,’ she added
Glenn Close and her daughter Annie arrive for the premiere of Walt Disney Picture’s Flubber in New York November 16, 1997
‘I credit my parents for keeping me grounded and keeping it normal. I still have my oldest friends since high school. It was a wonderful place to grow up.’
She got a degree in Art History from Hamilton College in New York before following in her mother’s footsteps and becoming an actress.
‘I went to college fully hoping I would pursue something else because I know how tough [this industry] is.
‘Not only professionally but also personally — I knew the good and the bad, the crazy and the ugly,’ she told Grumpy Magazine in 2021.
‘But I knew what I wanted to do my whole life. [Being an actress] was always something that I just knew.’
And Annie’s mom is her biggest fan. She told Glamour Magazine in 2022: ‘I’m proud that she’s a fantastic human being. I’m proud that she’s fiercer than I am.
‘She’s the person that I call probably the most to get her opinion about something, because she’ll have a perspective that I know I don’t have, and I need that perspective. So she’s who I’m most, or what I am most, proud of.’
Annie met her husband in college, got engaged in 2016 and married in June 2018 in her mother’s backyard in Bedford Hills.
And Annie’s mom is her biggest fan. She told Glamour Magazine in 2022: ‘I’m proud that she’s a fantastic human being. I’m proud that she’s fiercer than I am.’ Seen here in 2021
‘She’s the person that I call probably the most to get her opinion about something, because she’ll have a perspective that I know I don’t have, and I need that perspective. So she’s who I’m most, or what I am most, proud of.’
‘We knew right away that we’d love to get married at Beanfield,’ she told Brides at the time.
‘Beanfield has been incredibly special to both of us, my parents, and our many family friends throughout the years.
‘It’s a communal home-base for our beloved masses, so to speak, and we couldn’t imagine our wedding taking place anywhere else.
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