Robert De Niro's girlfriend Tiffany Chen has advice for relationship critics: 'Mind your own business'

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Tiffany Chen does not have time for haters. Chen, girlfriend of Robert De Niro and mother of his seventh child, has spoken out at length for the first time since De Niro unwittingly dragged her into the spotlight.The mother to newborn baby girl Gia is explaining her feelings on what it felt like to receive so much criticism after the news about the couple went viral.

About those critics, she said, "Some of the things they said, I have a pretty thick skin … some of the things I would see was like ‘Oh, they’re so tired,' or ‘They’re this’ or ‘They’re that’ or ‘They look somber’ or ‘They’re not happy.’" "I mean they said those things, it was a little frustrating to see sometimes," she admitted to Gayle King for "CBS Mornings." "I’m like, 'Mind your own business a bit, and if you want to say something, don’t always attach what you think in your mind is the story, you don’t know us, you don’t know what happened in somebody’s life." She added, "People were saying all sorts of nasty things about, you know, my appearance and me being angry.

And I'm just kind of like, 'This is, like, the happiest time in my life.'" Chen also explained that the reason onlookers may have believed she looked unhappy or somber was because she developed Bell's palsy, a neurological condition that affects the muscles on one side of the face, immediately after giving birth to her daughter.

She revealed that she noticed something was off immediately after undergoing a C-section with baby Gia – she recalled feeling a sharp pain behind her ear.