Age is nothing but a number, but it takes two to tango. As we enter a new decade in this New Millennium, how much have our attitudes towards age differences changed? Do we still talk about robbing the cradle? Are we expected to cheer mature women who land young studs while putting down older men who marry younger brides? Let’s look at the life of a piano man who fell in love with an uptown girl three decades younger.
We all know Billy Joel, and we know he has done the marriage thing more than once. To be precise, he has been married four times. When he released the hit album “Innocent Man,” he had already gone through his first divorce. That was in 1982; the next couple of times he married and subsequently dissolved the marriage were widely reported by gossip rags. What many of us did not know is that this popular musician tied the knot again in 2015 to a woman he has known for quite a few years.
Joel is one of those celebrities who has mastered the art of keeping paparazzi and tabloid reporters at bay despite keeping a very busy schedule of live performances. This is a musician who is constantly on the road, and he is known to pack the house; nonetheless, he still managed to keep his relationship with Alexis Roderick somewhat of a secret. Their close friends knew about it, but the public only found out in 2010.
Billy Joel, Alexis Roderick (2015), (Myrna Suarez/WireImage via Getty Images)
According to People, Joel and Roderick tied the knot in 2015 in an event surrounded by their friends, who were quite surprised because they had been invited to a Fourth of July party that ended up being a wedding. To make things even more surprising, the blushing bride was pregnant. That’s right: Joel was preparing to become a new dad at the age of 66. Roderick was giving birth to the child of a man she had been in love with and living with for about a decade.
After the wedding and birth of Della Rose Joel, who happens to look a lot like her gorgeous mother, the happy couple began to make more public appearances. Joel became more willing to share details about his life with his fans, which is why we know that Remmy Anne Joel was born in 2017. If you are keeping count, Joel has three daughters: two from Roderick and one from all-American supermodel Christie Brinkley.
In an interview with Parade, Joel has admitted that he has made mistakes in the past. Perhaps he spent too much time on the road and not enough with his former spouses. With Roderick and two young daughters at home, Joel has made it a point to spend as much time with them as possible. He looks happy and so does his wife. When we look at Joel and Roderick, we seem to forget about their age difference. We see a nice and happy couple, and that is all that really matters. And their little girls? They look great, thank you very much.
