David Bale
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Sep 22, 2026
Rod CabralHOST
Yet she always remained a lodestar for women's rights activists, said the Washington Post.
Rod CabralHOST
Proudly child-free, she rejected the institution of marriage, insisting that she couldn't mate in captivity, although she did eventually marry British environmentalist David Bale to help him get a visa.
Rod CabralHOST
editor of Ms. for decades and the author of a dozen books, she continued lecturing into her 90s.
Rod CabralHOST
I feel proud, she said in 2022, and I feel mad as hell we are still dealing with the same issues.
Heidi St. JohnHOST
What a ridiculous and hurtful and harmful thing to say.
Heidi St. JohnHOST
It's interesting to note that she eventually married a guy named David Bale and later reflected that she had once believed that marriage would mean sacrificing her identity.
Heidi St. JohnHOST
And Penny Nance went on to use her later reflections to argue that feminism often presented women with a false choice between marriage and personhood.
Heidi St. JohnHOST
And Gloria Steinem herself, after she ruined generations of women, for the idea that they could be happy in marriage, eventually came to that conclusion herself.
Brydon CoverdaleGUEST
Yes.
Brydon CoverdaleGUEST
So Christian Bale's father, David Bale, was sort of like an activist and entrepreneur, and he married Gloria Steinem sort of relatively late in his life.
Dan SnowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah.
Brydon CoverdaleGUEST
So, yeah, Christian Bale was already an established actor by this time, and then David Bale sort of died a few years later.
KriegerHOST
While doing all of this activism work, she still somehow managed to have a social life.
KriegerHOST
In the 70s, she was in a long-term relationship with Stanley Pottinger, and in September 2000, she married an entrepreneur named David Bale.
KriegerHOST
If that last name sounds familiar, it should.
KriegerHOST
That was when Gloria Steinem became stepmother to acclaimed actor Christian Bale.
KriegerHOST
Sure, he's got issues, but he is still incredibly talented.
KriegerHOST
However, Gloria and David were only married for three years before he died of lymphoma in December of 2003.
Diane Brandon MoodyHOST
So then everybody was really shocked when in 2000, she actually got married to a guy.
Diane Brandon MoodyHOST
His name was David Bale, and you may know him as Christian Bale's father.
Diane Brandon MoodyHOST
So Gloria Steinem was Christian Bale's stepmother, I guess, although clearly he was a grown man by then.
Diane Brandon MoodyHOST
So when asked about marriage, because she was asked the question several times, she said, I didn't change, marriage changed.
Sean O'CallaghanHOST
Oh, really? Yeah.
Sean O'CallaghanHOST
She was married to a guy called David Bale and who David Bale already had a, um, like a son, um, And he was an animal welfare activist, an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and they were married for, I don't know how long they were married for, but yeah, he had the son, Christian, and then Gloria Steinem was the stepmother
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Sean O'CallaghanHOST
Christian Bale.
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Her own right.
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In September 2000, Steinem married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale.
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They were together for less than four years.
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Bale died of brain lymphoma at age 62.