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40 and pregnant: Celebrities we love
So many celebrities are getting pregnant in their 40s these days. In honour of the birth of 42-year-old Uma Thurman's third child earlier this week, here's a gallery of them. Enjoy!
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Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman, 42, welcomed her third child earlier this week (mazel tov!). This is Uma's first child with boyfriend Arpad Busson. She also has two kids with ex-hubby Ethan Hawke — Maya, 13, and Levon, 10.
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry, 45, became pregnant for the first time at 41 years old — with her daughter Nahla, 4. "I've waited a long time for this moment in my life," the Oscar-winning actress told Access Hollywood.
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Salma Hayek
Stunning Salma Hayek, 45, gave birth to her first child, Valentina Paloma Pinault, when she was 41 years old. Here's what she told Oprah about waiting until her 40s:
It’s a little nerve-racking to wait that long, but it’s the best time...because you’ve done so many other things in your life. You just get it out of your system, and you can really relax into being a mother.... If you’re 23, you don’t know this because you think you have to do so many more things. But if you already did them, then you can really focus and enjoy every minute of it.
I thought I was going to have to work really hard at getting pregnant because of my age, but then I just got pregnant.
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Nia Long, 41
At 40 years old, Nia Long's second pregnancy came as a total surprise to the actress. "I almost fainted," she said. "It was the best moment and the sweetest surprise ever." Her baby boy, Kez Sunday Udoka, arrived last November.
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Mira Sorvino, 44
Mira Sorvino, 44, had two kids over the age of 40. She gave birth (after a difficult pregnancy) to Holden, at age 41, and to her new daughter, Lucia, at age 44, back in May 2012.
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Celine Dion
After a miscarriage and several failed attempts at IVF, Celine Dion happily announced that, at age 42, she and her hubby, Rene Angelil, were expecting twins! Babies Nelson and Eddy arrived in November 2010. Guess who came to their first birthday.... The twins also have an older brother, Rene-Charles, who was born in 2001.
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Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore, 51, who (like Halle Berry, Salma Hayek and Nia Long) never ages, was 41 when she gave birth to her second child, Liv, in 2002.
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Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston, 49, announced that she was expecting her third child with John Travolta, at age 47! The news came just over a year after the tragic loss of their 16-year-old son, Jett, in 2009. Kelly never commented on IVF or donor-egg speculations, and gave birth to a healthy baby boy in November, 2011.
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Nicole Kidman
Oscar award-winning actress, Nicole Kidman, 45, gave birth for the first time to Sunday Rose at age 40, in July 2008. After what she described on Australia's 60 Minutes as a "rollercoaster ride with fertility," Nicole and her hubby, singer Keith Urban, opted to have their second child, Faith Margaret, via surrogate, in 2010. "She was the most wonderful woman to do this for us," she said.
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Lisa Loeb
Singer Lisa Loeb, 44, has had both of her children in her 40s. Her new baby boy, Emet Kuli, was born just last month. And she has a 2.5-year-old daughter, Lyla Rose.
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey, 42, became pregnant for the first time with twins, Monroe and Moroccan, at age 40. "My body went through so much," she said. "Holding those twins in — you have to keep them in as long as possible. It's a sacrifice you make for them. Literally I was like, 47-weeks pregnant. And anybody pregnant right now, there's push gifts here. Tell your baby-father."
Indeed, baby-father, Nick Cannon, 31, delivered: He gave her a $12,000 pink diamond and sapphire necklace, engraved with the twins' names. Wowza! -
Marcia Cross
Desperate Housewives star, Marcia Cross, 50, gave birth for the first time to twins, Eden and Savannah, at age 44, in February 2007. The pregnancy was not without complications, and Marcia had to have an emergency C-section. "It's a miracle I have these two daughters," she recently told Easy Living Magazine. "Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant."
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Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly, 41, welcomed her third child (her second with hubby, Paul Bettany) last May. Baby "Agnes Lark Bettany" was born via scheduled home water birth in a birthing pool.
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Jane Krakowski
30 Rock's Jane Krakowski, 43, gave birth to her first child, Bennett Robert Godley, just last April. Because of her age, no one suspected that the Tony-award-winning actress was pregnant until she suddenly showed up newly engaged to Robert Godley, and very evidently pregnant in a bathing suit on vacation in the Caribbean.
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Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep, 63, keeps her private life private. But we do know that she was pregnant with the youngest of her four children when she was 41, back in 1991.
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Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon, 65, was told she'd never have kids due to her endometriosis. But she proved the docs wrong and went on to have two kids with ex-love Tim Robbins. She gave birth to Jack Henry at age 42, in 1989, and to Miles Guthrie at 45 years old, in May 1992.
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Marcia Gay Harden
Oscar award-winner Marcia Gay Harden, 52, gave birth to twins, Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Scheel Harden, when she was 44 years old. She also has a 13-year-old daughter, Eulala.
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Annette Bening
Annette Bening, 54, became pregnant with her fourth child, Ella, with hubby Warren Beatty, at age 41.
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Molly Ringwald
'80s icon, Molly Ringwald, 44, gave birth to twins, Adele and Roman, two years ago.
After her first child, Mathilda, was born (September 2003), Molly experienced some secondary infertility. "I had some things fixed," she told People Magazine, referring to her fibroid removal. "That made it easier to get pregnant again." -
Geena Davis
Geena Davis, 56, had her first child at age 46. And she went on to have twins two years later!
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Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields, 47, gave birth to her second daughter, Grier, at age 41.
Interestingly, Grier was conceived naturally, but Brooke's first child, Rowan, was conceived after six rounds of vitro fertilization when Brooke was 37. -
Madonna
Madonna, 53, gave birth to her son Rocco (with then-hubby, Guy Ritchie) at age 41.
At 48, Madonna went on to adopt David Banda and, a year later, her daughter Mercy James — both from Malawi. And, of course, she also has a daughter, Lourdes, 15, with Carlos Leon. -
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Guest_348169 says ....
Thanks - I love to read pregnancy & birth stories over 40!
So many think that it is not possible, or that it can only be the result of donor eggs.
But I have found that:
"In 2009, there were 105,827 live births in the United States to women ages 40 through 44 -- 7,320 live births to women 45 to 49 --and-- 569 live births to women 50-64.
In 2009, there were only 806 live births to women over 43, using donor eggs."
Source: http://www.pregnancyover44.com/p/over-40-birth-statistics.html
francesca granzini (not verified) says ....
it's easier for them than for us for sure! private health care makes a difference