Brigitte Nielsen was every inch the doting mother as she enjoyed an afternoon at the park with her husband Mattia Dessi and their daughter Frida, two, in Los Angeles.
As the 57-year-old Red Sonja star arrived to a playground toting her adorable toddler in her arms and a hot pink backpack, Dessi, 42, carried a tiny scooter in his left hand.
The couple, who also brought their two dogs, wore blue surgical masks amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as they soaked in the fresh air and sunshine.
Proud parents: Brigitte Nielsen was every inch the doting mother as she enjoyed an afternoon at the park with her husband Mattia Dessi and their daughter Frida, two, in Los Angeles
Nielsen sported a skintight pink long sleeve, black leggings and sunglasses, while her man rocked a pair of dark-wash jeans and a yellow t-shirt, which read: ‘Brasil.’
Little Frida looked overjoyed during the fun-filled outing as she raced around to play in the grass and appeared to play hide-and-seek with her mother.
The pair’s tot was dressed in a light pink shirt, a matching scrunchie, grey pants and chunky white sneakers.
Playing in the park As the 57-year-old Red Sonja star arrived to a playground toting her adorable toddler in her arms and a hot pink backpack, Dessi, 42, carried a tiny scooter
Frida is Dessi’s only child, while Brigitte Nielsen is also a mom to her four sons Raoul Meyer Jr, 25, Douglas Meyer, 27, Killian Gastineau, 30, and Julian Winding, 36.
After giving birth at 54, the star opened up about feeling judged more harshly than a man would be for having children later in life.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain at the time, Brigitte said men are ‘always safe’ from criticism, and are allowed to remarry and have children when they’re older without judgement, but that ‘everyone was out to get her’ when she did it.
Goofing around: The couple, who also brought their two dogs, both wore blue surgical masks amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as they soaked in the fresh air and sunshine
She also revealed that she felt more prepared to have a child later in life because of the lessons she’d learned raising her four – now grown-up – sons.
Brigitte welcomed Frieda after undergoing IVF using eggs that she’d had frozen when she was 40.
‘If you don’t want to use [donor] eggs, you have to preserve your own eggs at a reasonable age for there to be a possibility,’ she explained to People shortly after welcoming her first girl in 2018.
Adorable: Little Frida looked overjoyed during the fun-filled outing as she raced around to play in the grass and appeared to play hide-and-seek with her mother
She also spoke to The Guardian in February of last year about having a child in middle age.
‘I was always like: I want to do it until there are no more embryos left,’ said Nielsen. ‘Somebody has to win the lottery.’
But she said it certainly wasn’t easy. ‘You’re on a lot of medication. It is very expensive. Hormones will do different things to different women… you always think you’re going to get pregnant, but most of the time, the phone call comes and it’s: I’m sorry.
Miracle baby: The Danish-born star of Red Sonja and Rocky IV gave birth to her fifth child and first daughter in June 2018, at the age of 54, after undergoing years of IVF
Brigitte and her Italian hunk husband have been married since 2006, but their relationship was first documented on Strange Love, her reality show with her former lover Flavor Flav of Public Enemy fame.
The reality series explored their relationship, which blossomed in the third season of The Surreal Life, but the couple descended into shouting matches and fits of jealousy, so Brigitte opted to move in with her boyfriend Mattia.
The reality star, who’s currently on marriage number five, was famously wed to Sylvester Stallone from 1985–1987, and the two appeared together in Rocky IV and as the leads in the 1986 action thriller Cobra.
So happy: Nielsen married Italian Dessi, 41, in 2006. They’re pictured celebrating their daughter’s second birthday