Not all women have their father in the delivery room, but Aussie acting legend Bryan Brown has been a hands-on grandad right from the start.
"I was sitting behind Matilda and patting her on the head and everything," the 74-year-old says of his second eldest daughter, who gave birth to his first grandchild, Zan, in 2019.
"When I was pushing Zan out at the end, Dad was stroking my head and Mum was cheering me on, crying, saying, 'Come on, Til! He's so close!'" recalls Matilda, 35.
SPECIAL MOMENT
"[It was] pretty special that both my parents got to be with me through such a monumental time in my life," she says of Bryan and her actress mother Rachel Ward, 64.
Matilda, who went on to welcome her second child, daughter Anouk, with husband Scott Gooding in February 2021, often shares snaps of her famous parents doting on her kids at her home at Whale Beach on Sydney's Northern Beaches or on the family farm the whole Brown/Ward clan share near the NSW Mid-North Coast town of Scotts Head.
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