Dame Judi Dench regrets not having more kids

Actress Dame Judi Dench has revealed that her greatest regret in life is not having more children.The 76-year-old actress, has a daughter, Finty, but claims that both she and her actor husband Michael Williams longed to give her a sibling.When they tried to adopt a child, they were turned down because officials felt they were too old, Judi said.“I wish we’d had lots more children,” the Telegraph quoted her as telling Yours magazine.“That’s the only regret I have. But I was older and it didn’t happen. We tried to adopt a child and they didn’t like it because we were over 40 and Michael was a Catholic and I was a Quaker. It obviously wasn’t to be.”The Oscar-winning, who gave birth to Finty when she was 37, added that she took motherhood so seriously that she even contemplated ending her acting career to look after her.“I’d had a daughter and having a family, I wanted to be at home. Michael wouldn’t let me stop though.“In the beginning I tried to arrange things so that I was with her in the day and going to the theatre in the evening when she was in bed.“Later on, when she went to school, I could do things like television during the day to be with her in the evening,” she added.Williams died in 2001 after a prolonged battle with cancer and Dame Judi is now dating David Mills, a conservationist.