Although it is usually assumed that they will become grandparents later in life, a lucky few have the rare opportunity to be young grandparents, including celebrities.
Stars like Whoopi Goldberg, Jim Carrey i Mick Jagger all became grandparents before age 55. In January 2026, ex unmarried Emily Maynard she found out she was officially a grandmother 39 years after her eldest daughterRicky, gave birth to a baby at 20 years old.
Goldberg’s daughter, Alexandra Martin Deanshe was only 16 when she became pregnant. “It wouldn’t have been what I would have chosen for her, but at the same time, I thought, ‘What a great thing that she trusts me enough to tell me,'” Goldberg told Los Angeles Times in 1989.
Goldberg’s granddaughter Amara Skye Dean he was born on November 13, 1989, which was also his grandmother’s birthday. (Alexandrea also shares two children with her now ex-husband, Bernard Dean.)
See more stars who became grandparents young below: