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Eddie Murphy Poses With All 10 Of His Kids In Rare Family Photo

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Eddie Murphy just gave the internet its first-ever look at all ten of his kids in one frame.

The 57-year-old comedian, who has spent much of the last several years out of the spotlight, gathered his entire family for a Christmas portrait that his eldest daughter, Bria Murphy, posted to Instagram on December 25. The photo shows Murphy standing on a staircase surrounded by children ranging from three weeks to 29 years old, fathered across five different relationships, plus his fiancée, his mother, and even his future mother-in-law crammed into the frame.

• Bria Murphy, 29, shared the family’s first-ever joint photo with all ten of Eddie Murphy’s children on Instagram on Christmas Day.
• The portrait includes newborn son Max Charles Murphy, born November 30, 2018, and named after Murphy’s late brother Charlie Murphy, who died of leukemia in 2017.
• Murphy’s fiancée, 39-year-old Australian model Paige Butcher, held Max in the photo while Murphy carried their two-year-old daughter, Izzy Oona.

Ten Kids, Five Relationships, One Staircase

Murphy’s five oldest children with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell anchored the group: Bria (29), Miles (26), Shayne Audra (24), Zola Ivy (19), and Bella Zahra (16). Standing alongside them were his two eldest sons, Eric, 29, whom he had with Paulette McNeely, and Christian, 28, his son with Tamara Hood. Rounding out the lineup was 11-year-old Angel Iris Murphy Brown, Murphy’s daughter with former Spice Girl and “America’s Got Talent” judge Melanie “Mel B” Brown.

What made the picture feel unusually complete wasn’t just the number of kids — it was the generations behind them. Murphy’s mother, Lillian, appears in the shot alongside Butcher’s mother, giving the portrait the feel of an actual family reunion rather than a staged publicity photo. For a man who has spent decades guarding his private life, having every branch of his family tree pose together on one staircase is the rare moment that’s easy to see why it went viral within hours of Bria posting it.

The New Addition Carries a Name With Weight

Max Charles Murphy, born just weeks before the photo was taken, is the visual centerpiece of the picture, cradled by Butcher near his father’s side. The name isn’t incidental — Murphy chose “Charles” in honor of his older brother Charlie Murphy, the comedian and “Chappelle’s Show” fixture who died of leukemia in 2017. For a family photo built around joy, the name quietly folds in the one relative who couldn’t be there.

Murphy has said he feels fortunate that, whatever else has happened in his career, all of his kids turned out to be good people.

A Career on Pause, a Family Coming Into Focus

The photo lands during one of the quietest stretches of Murphy’s on-screen career, a period he’s addressed directly rather than danced around. Raising ten children across five relationships — a family history not unlike the winding relationship timelines chronicled in other Hollywood relationship retrospectives — has clearly taken priority over chasing scripts. Murphy’s fiancée Butcher, meanwhile, joins a growing list of celebrity partners navigating blended families and long engagements, the kind of dynamic explored in pieces like The Truth About Sandra Bullock’s Relationship With Bryan Randall.

Murphy built his name on “48 Hrs.,” the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise, “Trading Places,” “The Nutty Professor,” “Coming to America,” and voice work in “Shrek” and “Mulan” — a resume that made him one of the most bankable comedic actors of his generation. None of that history was on display in this photo. What was on display was a staircase full of people who share his last name, his mother standing among them, and a three-week-old boy carrying his late brother’s name into the next generation.

Bria’s caption simply read “Merry Christmas from our family to yours,” and that was the whole point — no movie to promote, no punchline, just ten kids and the man who raised them all showing up in one frame for the first time.