Yes. Gloria Steinem married David Bale — a South African-born entrepreneur and environmentalist, and the father of actor Christian Bale — in 2000, which made her Christian Bale’s stepmother. The couple were together until David Bale’s death in 2003 from brain lymphoma.
Steinem had no biological children of her own. After news of her death at 92 on September 2, 2026, searches spiked around that family link, which many people were hearing about for the first time.