United Kingdom, March 10 -- Billy Corgan had "pretty much given up" on having a family until he met his wife.

The 57-year-old rocker had wanted children for a long time but had been through a number of "bad relationships" that had convinced him he wasn't "made" to settle down until he met Chloe Mendel, 32, in 2011.

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman - who has Augustus, nine, and Philomena, six, with his pregnant spouse - told People magazine: "I wanted kids pretty much since my late 20s, but I kept being in one bad relationship after another. And when I met my wife, I'd pretty much given up on the idea.

"Not that I didn't want children, but I just thought, 'I'm not made for this.'"

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