Couple with 35-year age hole welcome their first little one on husband’s seventieth birthday
A married couple with a 35-year age gap have welcomed their young son via IVF on the husband’s 70th birthday.
Glenda, 35, and her husband Roy celebrated the birth of young Roy Briley III, now seven months old, on June 6, 2025 – the same exact date as Roy’s 70th birthday.
The pair, based in Alaska, first met after Glenda, then 29, sought out advice on how to set up her own insurance business from Roy, a semi-retired business owner, in November 2020.
But after their ‘conversation flowed’ instantly, Roy invited Glenda to dinner that same evening. Just two months later, the pair moved in together and Roy eventually popped the question during a romantic Valentines Day meal in 2022.
They wed in an intimate ceremony of just 20 guests on July 27, 2022.
Keen to have a child of their own, in September of that year they embarked on their IVF journey – with Roy undergoing an operation to extract sperm following a battle with prostate cancer.
Glenda had her first embryo implanted via IVF in December 2022 and after two devastating miscarriages, she successfully fell pregnant with their son two years later.
While their large age gap is certainly unconventional and the couple have received a fair amount of criticism online, they are insistent that their relationship ‘happens to work for us’.
Glenda, 35, and her husband Roy, 70, (both pictured) celebrated the birth of young Roy Briley III, now seven months old, on June 6, 2025 – the same exact date as Roy’s 70th birthday
While their large age gap is certainly unconventional and the couple have received a fair amount of criticism online, they are insistent that their relationship ‘happens to work for us’
Roy, who was already a father to eight children from his previous marriage, said: ‘I always feel from my perspective from people online thinking it’s not a good idea, I agree’
Roy, who was already a father to eight children from his previous marriage, said: ‘I always feel from my perspective from people online thinking it’s not a good idea, I agree.
‘It just happens to work for us. I’m not the type of person to say things online, but for whatever reason it’s worked out.’
He joyfully added that his young son ‘has my wife’s face’ and that he ‘couldn’t dream for anything better’.
The pair’s families have also taken a degree of time to ‘warm up’ to the couple, with Glenda’s mother, Rose, 56, said to have asked her daughter if she was ‘sure’ she wanted to embark on a relationship with Roy.
Praising her ‘driven, hardworking’ and ‘very successful’ husband, Glenda said: ‘I always tell people Roy and I have more similarities than differences.
‘We just had attraction, it was just there.
‘The fact he had the courage to ask me to dinner was attractive – a lot of guys see a pretty girl and go shy’.
Meanwhile, Roy added that despite everyone in his family dealing with their relationship ‘differently’ – now five years into their relationship – people are taking them ‘pretty seriously’.
The couple wed in an intimate ceremony of just 20 guests on July 27, 2022. Keen to have a child of their own, in September of that year they embarked on their IVF journey – with Roy undergoing an operation to extract sperm following a battle with prostate cancer
Glenda said: ‘We’ve had some negative comments where people say really mean stuff like, ‘Oh my god, she’s there for the money.” I really just ignore those type of comments.’ Pictured: the couple during their romantic Valentines Day proposal in 2022
Roy stressed that he feels a ‘responsibility’ towards both his wife and newborn son ‘to live the healthiest and best life I can’. He joyfully added that his young son ‘has my wife’s face and I couldn’t dream for anything better’
The 70-year-old also stressed that he feels a ‘responsibility’ towards both his wife and newborn son ‘to live the healthiest and best life I can’.
‘I’m certainly not perfect, I have never drank in my lifetime and never done drugs,’ he said.
‘At this point in time I’m healthy enough, I may not look 35 or 45 but I feel healthy and go on the treadmill six times per week.’
The couple, who share details about their relationship on social media, have documented the journey to Roy’s birth and described the reaction from online viewers as ‘mixed’.
Glenda, who revealed that ‘a lot of people are very positive’, added: ‘Sometimes people comment on videos and say, “Oh my god, how long is he [Roy Sr] going to live?”
‘We’ve had some negative comments where people say really mean stuff like, “Oh my god, she’s there for the money.” I really just ignore those type of comments.’
She added that the birth of their young son has brought them closer together and ‘gives us something to do’.
She explained: ‘We plan life around him (Roy III) – it’s a busy life and we definitely enjoy it that’s for sure.’
Glenda even revealed that her and Roy’s age-gap relationship has ‘inspired’ and ‘given hope’ to other couples in similar positions that are trying to conceive.
Now, the couple are looking to the future – with plans to begin their next round of IVF in December in the hopes of welcoming another baby to their family.
