Amy Robach can hardly ever imagine that her eldest daughter, Ava, is 21 years previous.
“My sweet, happy, passionate girl is all grown up!!!” Robach, 50, captioned a Friday, December 29, Instagram tribute to her firstborn. “Happy 21 baby, cheers to you and all the joy you bring to the world 🥂.”
Robach stocks Ava and more youthful daughter Annalise, 17, with ex-husband Tim McIntosh. The previous GMA3 broadcaster and McIntosh cut up in 2009.
To rejoice Ava’s big day, Robach took her and Annalise out to dinner with their buddies. The mummy-daughter trio twinned in black as they marked the instance at Suprema Provisions in New York Town. On the finish of the night time, Ava used to be introduced with a layered cake from Milk Bar that were crowned with candles.
“So mean,” Ava captioned an Instagram Tale put up on Friday, sharing a video of her failed try to blow out the lit candles immediately.
Robach has a different bond together with her two daughters, which faltered amid her divorce from Andrew Shue and her next romance with T.J. Holmes. Ava and Annalise had discovered on-line that their mom used to be courting her now-former GMA3 costar Holmes, 46, on-line. (Information broke in November 2022 that Robach and Holmes had been an merchandise once they every secretly separated from their spouses. Holmes used to be prior to now married to legal professional Marilee Fiebig, who has since moved on with Shue.)
“We thought we were protecting our children and our families, and we thought we had time,” Robach stated all the way through the debut episode of the couple’s “Amy & T.J.” podcast previous this month. “And we thought we had a right to privacy. And maybe that was foolish and silly.”
She persisted: “I’m still saying I’m sorry [to my daughters]. It’s one thing for us to deal with the press and to deal with the headlines and, honestly, the paparazzi that have become as much a part of our lives as anything. … And so when I’m with my daughters, they’re there and their pictures are being taken. I just try to put myself in their shoes. It’s their family, and they’re so young, they don’t have the tools or the life experience to even really be able to put it into perspective. And it’s just been a really hard, hard journey that will continue. We’re all in therapy.”
Weeks later, Robach famous on her podcast that Ava and Annalise had shaped friendships with Holmes again when the newshounds had been “just friends.” Because the couple started courting, it used to be tricky for his or her respective children to regulate to the converting truth. (Holmes stocks daughter Sabine with Fiebig and two older kids with ex-wife Amy Ferson.)
“Things are good. They’re peaceful. We want to continue to build on that,” Robach stated at the December 21 episode, noting she and Holmes are looking to be “patient” and “thoughtful” of the youngsters’ emotions.