Julia Roberts's family is growing up! On June 18, the 56-year-old Oscar winner expressed her awe over seeing her youngest, Henry, turn 17 in a sweet . "Incredible that this baby is now a towering 17 year old wonder!" she wrote in the caption of the post, which featured a throwback photo of her holding Henry as an infant. "Happy Birthday beautiful Henry.
" Throughout her public-facing career, Roberts has remained largely private about her family of five, which she began growing nearly two decades ago in 2004. Since welcoming her firstborns, twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, with her husband, cinematographer , Roberts has given her fans glimpses of their growing life as they enter adulthood. During a , the "Mother's Day" actor expressed her appreciation for the bond she's been able to maintain with her children even as they carve out lives outside of her wing.
"I have an immense amount of appreciation for both of my older kids because they still allow me to be the same mom to them, and it’s not eye-rolling, and there’s a huge amount of understanding.” Read on for more of the sweet sentiments the actor has shared about her three kids. Roberts .
In a 2009 Roberts explained that she and her husband had settled on Phinnaeus in order to formalize his nickname. “My husband wanted to name him Finn, which I quite liked, but it seemed like a nickname,” she explained at the time “So I said we had to have a proper name, and then we can call him Finn.” Roberts has previously celebrat.
