Joan Collins has celebrated Mother’s Day by sharing a touching throwback photo of herself with her rarely-seen children from the 1960s and praised other mothers

 

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Joan Collins has celebrated Mother’s Day(Image: PA)

Joan Collins has shared a touching picture of her rarely seen children to celebrate Mother’s Day as she reflected on her life as a mother. The Hollywood star uploaded a black and white photo of herself alongside her daughter, Tara, and son, Alexander from the 1960’s.

Joan, 91 – who is a mum of three – captioned the post writing: “Sending love…and STRENGTH…to all mothers today…particularly those with #twoundertwo. I should know.” Joan’s youngest daughter, Katyana, was not present for the picture as it was taken before she was born.

Wearing a tailored coat and low-heeled court shoes Joan added a stylish baker boy hat to her look as she posed with the children who were sat on a luggage trolley joining their mother for a journey. Joan welcomed Tara and Alexander with Doctor Dolittle star Anthony Newley.

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Joan shared the gorgeous throwback snap on Instagram(Image: Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Tara, 61, was born on October 12, 1963, with Alexander following on September 8 1965. Talking about the children Joan told The Sunday Times in 2020: “I was already pregnant when I married Tony Newley. I was 29, I’d been an actress for ten years, and I was getting a bit bored and broody.

“I wanted a little girl, and I got my Tara Cynara — she was the centre of my world. Sacha came along when Tara was 13 months old, so I had two under two. I was a full-on, hands-on mother until they went to nursery.”

She added: “By then, we were living in Beverly Hills, and I started to get a lot of roles in television. That’s when I realised that I loved acting and I loved the business. I just wanted to get back to work.”

Joan and Tony eventually got divorced in 1971 but before long she found love again and by 1972 she was ready to walk down the aisle again, this time getting hitched to recording executive Ron Kass.

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Joan has previously admitted she had no plans to ever marry again but when she met Ron things changed and she found herself deeply in love and agreeing to be his wife within weeks of them meeting.

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Joan and Ron with their expanded families(Image: Getty Images)

She previously wrote in a MailOnline column: “I was 35 and determined never to get hitched again. But then I met a tall, handsome American called Ronald S. Kass through a mutual friend.

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“Within weeks, he’d asked me to marry him. This was jumping the gun, to say the least, as he was still married himself, with three kids under six.

“We married, our darling Katyana – known as Katy – was born soon afterwards, and the next three years were among the happiest in my life.” However Joan and Ron eventually got divorced in 1985 after 13 years of marriage.

The iconic star went on to get married for a third time in 2002 when she tied the knot with movie producer and fellow actor, Percy Gibson. The pair live in London and often spend quality time with all three of Joan’s children and share photos of their time together on social media.

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