Melissa George is a mom again! The actress, 47, has welcomed her third baby, another son, she announced on Instagram Tuesday. Posting a black-and-white photo of her baby boy's feet, the newly minted mom of three took a moment to reflect on the happy news in her caption.
The A-list actress welcomed her first child Nahla at age 41, then gave birth to her younger son Maceo when she was 47. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Berry revealed that her second pregnancy in her late 40s (which she explained to be a "geriatric pregnancy"), was a total surprise.
The Oscar-winning actress, then 48, shared the news during an appearance on Good Morning America. "This is something that I've been wanting for a long time and my next thing is I'm gonna be a mom," Swank said. "And not just of one, but of two.
Holly Hunter also gave birth to twins at the age of 47. Geena Davis had her twins at 48, Jane Seymour had twins at 45, Marcia Gay Harden and Desperate Housewives' Marcia Cross both had twins at 45 and Cheryl Tiegs had twins at 52.
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What actress had a baby at 50?
Celebrities who had children over 50
Janet Jackson (50): The pop icon surprised fans in 2017 when she welcomed her first child, son Eissa Al Mana, at the age of 50. Brigitte Nielsen (54): The Danish model and actress had her fifth child, daughter Frida, in 2018.
This is the story of Cecilia, who became a mother to her little Angélica by getting pregnant at the age of 48, even though she had a low ovarian reserve.
This is Frida, the child Nielsen and her husband, Mattia Dessi, had last year, after more than a decade of failed in-vitro fertilisation attempts. The couple, who this year celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary, had been told they had only a 2.5% chance of success, but Nielsen gave birth at the age of 54.
While it's not impossible to become pregnant naturally at 50, it is very rare. Women are born with all of the eggs they will ever have. As you get older, you have fewer eggs, and they are more likely to have abnormalities. Most women who get pregnant after 50 use donor eggs.
Hilary Swank says raising twins Aya and Ohm has been “the greatest joy of my life.” The 49-year-old actor announced the birth of her “two miracles” last April.
Though Swank has largely kept her babies out of the public eye, she has opened up about her pregnancy and the struggles and joys of having twins at 48 years old. From hiding her pregnancy from her costars to revealing her babies' names, here's everything to know about Hilary Swank's twins, Aya and Ohm.
I Had No Idea That Would Be The Easiest Part. The baby's father "promised he'd be there for me no matter what I decided to do, but he also begged me not to have our baby." The author and her newborn son.
Halle Berry - When Halle Berry announced she was pregnant with her second child at age 46, she gave hope to women everywhere that having a baby isn't just for twenty- and thirty-somethings.
“Half the world was saying that when I got pregnant at 55 — including my four older sons,” says Nielsen, who gave birth to her daughter Frida, 5, when she was 55. (She's also mom to four older sons, who range in age from 28-39.)
Celebrity Dads Who Welcomed Babies in Their 70s: Robert De Niro, Richard Gere, More. Richard Gere, David Foster and more A-listers became fathers again in their 70s.
A Brazilian actor says she's become one of the oldest women to ever conceive naturally and give birth to a healthy baby. Cláudia Raia was 56 when her son, Luca, was born earlier this month, she said.
Actor Cameron Diaz and her musician husband, Benji Madden, say they are "blessed and grateful" to have welcomed a baby boy — Cardinal Madden — to their family. The couple announced the arrival of their son in an Instagram post they each shared on Friday.
Doctors said a 66-year-old Romanian woman gave birth Sunday to a baby girl and had become the world's oldest recorded woman to give birth. The child's twin sister was stillborn, they said.
Pregnancy after age 45 years is infrequent and the mother and baby should be considered as a high risk. There is a greater incidence of spontaneous abortion, gestational trophoblastic disease and chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus.
By age 40, a woman's chance drops to less than 5 percent per cycle, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. After the age of 45, getting pregnant naturally (or without the help of fertility treatments) is unlikely for most women.
At this age, you have some challenges that make it harder to become and stay pregnant. 45 and beyond: Your likelihood of becoming pregnant at this age is no more than 3 or 4%. While it's not impossible to conceive, assisted reproductive technologies are almost always required to enhance your success rate.
Giving birth at that age is rare but not unheard of. Hayer gave birth less than two years after Frieda Birnbaum, 60, of Saddle River, N.J., had twins boys after undergoing in-vitro fertilization. Still, Hayer's obstetrician, Colin Birch, told CBC that he was initially disbelieving.
