Boris Becker: More Kids Definitely in the Plan

After recently becoming engaged in Sardinia, Italy, former tennis player Boris Becker and fiancée Alessandra ‘Sandy’ Meyer-Woelden shared that children will be their next step. However, while kids are "definitely the plan," the couple is not currently expecting.

Boris, 40, has known Sandy, who is 16 years his junior, since she was nine — Sandy’s late father was Boris’ manager. The couple says that there are "no secrets" and that they are "already a close family," as Boris’ three children have known Sandy since birth.

Previously, Boris was married to Barbara Feltus, with whom he has sons Noah Gabriel, 14, and Elias Balthasar, 8. He also has a daughter Anna, 8, with Angela Ermakova.

Source: Sify; Photo by Most Wanted/Flynet.

Comments

Hmm…He has some very understanding women in his life, given that he has two non-twin eight year olds Must have been a good year, lol.

- Gianna on August 20th, 2008

two things: he has known his finacee since she was nine and he was an adult – that weirds me out.

plus – he has 2 eight year-olds.

classy.

- meghan on August 20th, 2008

Gianna, lol, well, he’s with neither of them now…so maybe they weren’t so understanding Good luck with the girl who’s 25!

- SH on August 20th, 2008

Sandy has alot of faith in Boris…There’re some serious monogamy issues that need to be worked out. I look at guys like Phil Collins who had an affair on his second wife (who he broke up with via fax {real classy}) with his third wife (who’s about to get a huge divorce settlement) & I think you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

- Alecia on August 20th, 2008

Yeah, Boris may not be such the catch. She needs to run! LOL I agree with you guys- the fact that he knew her as an adult when she was a child is very strange. (creepy really) I also caught the two 8 year olds- interesting guy.

- Nina on August 20th, 2008

yeah, definitely wouldn’t be happy if that was MY 25 year old daughter…

- SH on August 20th, 2008

IIRC, his infidelity with Angela, and her resulting pregnancy, is what ended his marriage to Barabara.

- Christina on August 20th, 2008

The age thing doesn’ really bother me.My dad’s parents were friends of my mum’s parents’ when he was 19 and my mother was 5.So he’d known her for 13 years before hey go married.

- ma74 on August 20th, 2008

Lighten up all of you! I can’t believe how judgemental some people are. Yes, 9 years ago Boris was unfaithful to his then wife Barbara and his little daughter was the result of that. Still, neither I nor anyone else but those involved know exactly what went on in his marriage so really, whose place is it to judge that guy. Fact is, that he has proven to be a good father who has maintained a strong relationship with ALL of his three children. He is further on good terms with the mothers of his kids. I believe he’s doing quite all right as a father.
As for his current fiancee, she might have been a little girl when she first met Boris Becker but she isn’t a child anymore. She is a woman who, which I am sure, knows exactly what she wants out of life and if that happens to be Boris Becker, so be it.
If it works out for them or not remains to be seen but I for one wish them all the best.

- pink.lioness on August 20th, 2008

Well, I come from a different school of thought where being a ‘good dad’ does not make up for being a two-timing husband.

It’s his DUTY to be a good dad. That’s how it should be. He’s supposed to do this so I’m not going to give him props and pat him on the back for doing what he’s SUPPOSED to do. So he has a relationship with all of his kids. Wow. Give him a gold star.

Fact remains, he had two women pregnant for him around the same time and, ‘good dad’ or not, he was not much of a husband. I doubt there was anything that could have been ‘going on’ in his marriage that would make that ok.I agree with Meghan and Alecia…”classy”.

- Emma on August 20th, 2008

I read an article about Becker last year from this web site and I think the age of the daughter anna may be wrong. I remember it because Becker and the mother of anna were in a legal battle over visitation and Becker had rejected paternity for the first few yrs of anna’s life and is now fighting over numerous pictures of the child going public(mom is a model). If I am wrong about the age of girl then I kinda agree with the other commentators that his story is odd.

- deb on August 20th, 2008

I don’t mean to sound rude or judgemental in any way but if I were this new woman I would run-FAST! This guy has two children the same age with two different women? And when this woman was 9 years old he was 25! I don’t have a problem with large age gaps (my parents are 11 years apart) but this story seems a little weird…

- Heather Lynn on August 20th, 2008

GO Emma!

- SH on August 20th, 2008

Sure he’s a great Dad if you define a great Dad as someone who cheats on your Mom with some other woman and knocks her up. I’m sure this must have contributed to the end of his marriage- so breaking up your family is a great way to be a parent but then again I’m probably being judgmental. hahaha

- Sarah on August 20th, 2008

The age difference wouldn’t bother me if he didn’t know her as a child. Seems like he was close to her family and knew her well so that’s kind of unsavory.

- Devyn on August 20th, 2008

Anna was conceived with a waitress when they had a quickie in the loo’s.

- emmajlh on August 20th, 2008

That relationship is such a joke

- Hanna on August 20th, 2008

Emma, I so agree with you!
Can you believe it? While his first wife was heavily pregnant with Elias (2nd son) and while the whole family was staying in London for the Wimbledon tournament, he cheated with this Russian in what is called “Besenkammer” in German – not the loo, really, a broom closet, of a restaurant because she gave him a certain look… Haha! German newspapers then presumed that Angela sort of robbed his semen in order to get pregnant – a story somehow fueled by BB himself.
Actually, Sandy – his sudden new love and fiancee – had a 5 year relationship to Thommy Haas (another famous German tennis player, who is 30 years old).

- Elli on August 20th, 2008

Sixteen years age difference really isn’t that much, but the situation becomes a whole different ball game when one was there throughout the other’s childhood! There’s something off about that. Even without that angle, I’d be hesitant to commit to a guy who conceived a child with a total stranger while his wife was heavily pregnant.

- Erica on August 20th, 2008

i should clarify – the age difference makes no difference to me. (my husband is 11 years older than i am – he is SOOOO old!) it is the fact that he knew this girl from her childhood and is now engaged to her. i find that awkward…

- meghan on August 20th, 2008

I agree with these posters. Her dad, who knew Boris through his career and probably KNEW of his shenanigans?? Now he’s marrying his 25 year old DAUGHTER?? He’s probably turning in his grave right about now!

- SH on August 20th, 2008

Gosh, judgmental much? He may not be the best husband, but when it comes to his children, he is a good a father.
Everybody with children is supposed to take care of them, to love them, to guide them, that’s absolutely true, yet how many times do we read in the news about child abuse, neglecting parents, people who care more about their well being than about their children.
Look at how Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen fight about every stupid thing that comes their way. Here is a father who managed to keep a good relationship with the mothers involved, who clearly and dearly loves his children and is concerned about their well being, so kudos to him for that.
And about his younger fiance, you guys knew his manager/ her father to be in a position to state what he might be thinking if he was still alive. Yeah, i doubt so.
I never thought there will come the day that I’m defending Boris Becker, but some of the posters here lately have a holier than thou attitude i just cannot stand.

- lilith on August 21st, 2008

I totally understand what posters were saying about lauding a ‘great dad’.

It’s not that it’s not a good thing, but why act as if doing your fatherly duties is something special? Why have we allowed deadbeat fathers to become such a normal part of our existence that someone doing what they’re supposed to do is suddenly something to be excited about?

“Do you know he takes care of all his kids? Can you believe he has a relationship with all of them? Wow!” The fact that something like this would be ‘great’ or even need to be mentioned is sad.

Seriously? I think the ‘well at least he’s not abusing them’ train of thought is a sad indication of where this society is headed.

Saying to a father (or mother) “You’re doing your job! You’re not a slacker! Congrats!” makes people feel like being a good parent is something ‘special’ that they didn’t really have to do in the first place if they didn’t feel like troubling themselves. Like being a good parent is ‘going the extra mile’.

So I agree with the others posters who think that it’s a shame that someone being a good father is something to be happy about in these times. If this makes us ‘judgmental’ and ‘holier than thou’, then society is even worse off than I thought.

And please, I’m not saying parenthood is easy or ‘no big thing’. I personally think it’s an honor, a wonderful duty, and the best possible gift (for those of us who choose it).

- NC on August 21st, 2008

“…it’s a shame that someone being a good father is something to be happy about in these times.”

???
Sorry, i still don’t understand it. Why not compliment a good father/ mother? Why not be happy about it? Imagine if I wrote this sentence in a Jennifer Garner thread, who gets praised all the time for being a hands on mother. People would be all over me, and rightfully so.
He clearly wasn’t a good husband, but attacking a person because she states that he is a good father which judging by the pictures /stories he apparently is (and pictures and stories is all we have to make our mind about every celebrity who gets posted here ), well, i don’t know what else to say what i haven’t said in my first post.
And please, don’t put your words in my mouth. Deadbeat fathers are clearly not a “normal part” in our society neither are abusing parents. But i still can appreciate and acknowledge a person who seems to get it right without implying that the opposite is society’s standard.

- lilith on August 21st, 2008

Boris Becker is one of the nicer celebs in life.He is so funny and openminded.While its not nice that he divorced Barabara…..divorces happen all the time.
Then you want to read how the woman Angela went about the business of insermination.Its pretty disgusting stuff .Two are to blame for adultry.Anyway moving onto age.Barbara was older than Boris and this one is younger.She is still over 21 and has had previous relationships.She looks older than 24 so when she was 9-he was involved with his wife.Just because you knew someone years ago as a child doesn’t mean that you had anything to do with them.Stop being so nasty.
And look at that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger.Thats old and look how many kids they have fathered with girls younger than their daughters.
Boris is a thinking caring individual who has made mistakes in his personal life but he is one celeb that is loved in Britain.

- poppy on August 21st, 2008

Although I agree that BB has tried to be the best possible father to his children, I think it’s very sad that in this day and age society feels it’s such a rare thing that we feel we have to publicly laud men who do!

Also – @Poppy – I heard about the whole “Samenraub’ thing, too, but that doesn’t mean I believe it. It’s not to say that some women won’t go to all lengths to ‘trap’ a rich man. But with his popularity (heck, he was with Angela in the infamous broom closet while his wife was in hospital in false labor!) and divorce settlement at stake, BB had all the reason in the world to try to put the blame on anyone else but himself in that situation.

- OneLove on August 25th, 2008