During her long marriage to Carlo, Sophia had two sons, Carlo Ponti Jr. (1968) and Edoardo Ponti (1973). Sophia's husband also had two children with Giuliana prior to their divorce. 

Carlo Ponti Jr. is an orchestra conductor, and he worked as an associate for the Russian National Orchestra for 18 years. 

He also founded the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra. He has been married to Andrea Meszaros since 2004, and the pair. have two children together.

Sophia's younger son, Edoardo, is a film director — and he worked on The Life Ahead with his mom. He has been married to Rizzoli & Isles and NCIS actress Sasha Alexander since 2007. The couple has a daughter named Lucia together, and a son named Leonardo.  

In her 2015 memoir, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life, Sophia said that being a mom was the "greatest role of [her] life."

The Life Ahead — which tells the story of a Holocaust survivor (Sophia Loren) who befriends a boy from Senegal (Ibrahima Gueye) — is available to stream on Netflix now.