“I would have loved to have had a bigger family. They adopted a baby girl named Jacqueline Danforth, who Barbara wishes had siblings. “I regret not having more children,” Barbara told ABC News. The pair chose adoption after Walters suffered a series of miscarriages. I have interviews I’m extremely proud of and some of them may even be one of a kind, but the lasting impact is the women who have, I hope, followed in my footsteps.” Walters wishes that she’d spent more time with family rather than prioritized her careerīarbara and her first husband, Lee Guber, set out to start a family shortly after marrying in 1963. I’ve said it before and I mean it: They are my legacy. “I want to be remembered as having inspired other young women to go into business and to succeed. However, her legacy lives on in the shows she created and the careers she nurtured. Therefore, it is unlikely that we will see the beloved Walter on screen again. To protect her mental health, her loved ones shield her from current news.

Sources say that she has dementia and a declining mental state. Unfortunately, Barbara’s health started failing several years into her retirement. “I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women – and OK, some men too – who will be taking my place.” However, she was confident that she wouldn’t take up another challenge. “I don’t want to appear on another program or climb another mountain,” she told The Los Angeles Times. She’d lived a scheduled life for decades and would now have entire days with nothing to do. “I don’t know what my life is going to be when it is unscheduled!” Barbara said. Barbara Walters was a bit unsure of how she would cope with retirement.

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