Does Ashley Judd Have Any Kids? Inside the Actress’ Choice on Children and Her Thoughts on Motherhood

Ashley Judd, one of late country music singer Naomi Judd’s two daughters, has discussed her thoughts on having children and revealed if having a family was in her life plan during her road to fame. Life & Style rounds up what she has shared about welcoming kids of her own.

Does Ashley Judd Have Any Kids?

The actress and activist does not have any kids. In her 2011 memoir, All That Is Bitter and Sweet, she explained that her decision not to become a mother is “a big part of who” she is.

“I do not need to go making ‘my own’ babies when there are so many orphaned or abandoned children who need love, attention, time and care. I have felt this way since I was at least 18,” Ashley shared. “I figured it was selfish for us to pour our resources into making our ‘own’ babies when those very resources and energy could not only help children already here.”

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She also addressed the topic in an interview years prior and echoed the same sentiments.

“It’s unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries,” the Lazareth actress told the Sunday Mail in 2006.

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Ashley is the proud godmother to ex-husband Dario Franchitti’s daughter Sofia shared with second wife Eleanor Robb, whom he married in 2014.

The A Dog’s Way Home star and former race car driver divorced in 2013 after 11 years of marriage.

Ashley Judd Has Discussed Her Decision to Have an Abortion

Ashley bravely spoke out about the abortion she had after becoming pregnant from a sexual assault.

“What I like to talk about is my personal experience with abortion because as everyone knows — and I’m very open about it — I’m a three-time rape survivor,” she said while addressing an audience during the 2019 Women in the World Summit.

“One of the times I was raped there was conception, and I’m very thankful I was able to access safe and legal abortion because that rapist, who is a Kentuckian, as am I, and resides in Tennessee, has paternity rights in Kentucky,” the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) shared at the time.

Ashley stated that she would have been required to “coparent with a rapist” under Kentucky laws. “So having safe access to abortion was personally important to me, and as I said earlier, you know, democracy starts with the skin,” she explained.

Ashley Judd Has Spoken About the Relationship She Had With Her Late Mom

Ashley is the daughter of late country legend Naomi Judd, who is also mom to superstar Wynonna Judd.

In the new docuseries The Judd Family: Truth Be Told on Lifetime, Ashley opened up about the last conversation she had with Naomi prior to her tragic death by suicide at age 76 in April 2022.

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After rushing over to her mother’s house on that fateful day, she said they had a heart-to-heart about her hardships and personal struggles.

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“And then I spent the next whatever it was — half hour — just holding my mother and talking to her, and the first thing I said to her was, ‘It’s OK, I’ve seen how much you’ve been suffering,’” Ashley said. “We just breathed together and I talked to her and told her how much I loved her, and it’s OK to go.”

While speaking about her mother’s final moments, she shared, “It was like this final consummation of the love in the relationship that we had transformed.”

“What an honor, to be born into this human life, to be chosen by her. I got to hold space, I got to bookend. And I’m just so glad I was there,” Ashley said.