"Knots Landing" star Donna Mills became a mother for the first time when she was in her 50s. "I was very concentrated on my career, but at a certain point, I realized there was something missing — it was a child," she told People magazine in 2022. "So I went after it.
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.
55-year-old Alina Lozano is expecting a baby with her actor husband, who is 31 years younger than her. Alina and Jim Velászuez, 24, announced the news on social media, but many of their fans thought it must be a prank. The couple hit back at claims they had faked the pregnancy test.
In the United States, between 1997 and 1999, 539 births were reported among mothers over age 50 (four per 100,000 births), with 194 being over 55. The oldest recorded mother to date to conceive was 74 years.
A Brazilian actress got pregnant naturally at age 55 in a 1 in a million situation — and then gave birth to a healthy baby. The Brazilian TV star Cláudia Raia was 56 when she delivered a healthy baby boy, she said. An OB-GYN said the chances of a healthy delivery at that age were below one in a million.
Brazilian television star Claudia Raia says she got the surprise of her life when she discovered she was pregnant at 55. At the time, Raia believed she was in menopause, which happens around age 51, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
While stories about women giving birth in their 50s, 60s, and even 70s make for good headlines, these pregnancies are usually accomplished with donor eggs and in vitro fertilization (IVF). There is no set oldest age when you can get pregnant naturally, but fertility starts to decline as you age.
If you are trying to get pregnant after age 50, you will probably need some fertility help. 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.
What is the oldest a woman has got pregnant naturally?
In a tale that challenges the notion of the ticking biological clock, a British woman has claimed a record for giving birth at the age of 59 after falling pregnant naturally. It is believed that Dawn Brooke, who is now 69, was the oldest woman to give birth without fertility treatment.
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.
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.
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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.
The latest are actor Cameron Diaz who announced this week that she has welcomed her second child with Benji Madden at 51, and quiz show host Victoria Coren Mitchell, also 51, who welcomed her second child with actor David Mitchell, 49 in November 2023.
Who Can Still Get Pregnant? The bottom line is if you haven't reached menopause – defined as 12 straight months without a period – you can still get pregnant. Dr. Bembry acknowledges that some women develop a false sense of security when they go off birth control and go for years without becoming pregnant.
Though women's natural fertility ends with menopause, giving us a defined period of time to study, men continue to produce sperm until the very end of their lives, making pregnancy possible from the sperm of 50-year-olds (and 80-year-olds).
You'll be subjected to more tests if you get pregnant when you're older. Your doctor will talk to you about the risks, which include having a baby with low birth weight, issues with the placenta, high blood pressure, miscarriage, or stillbirth. Half of all pregnancies in women over 45 end in miscarriage.
Generally, people don't experience natural pregnancies after menopause because they won't be able to ovulate. However, assisted reproductive technology (ART) methods can make it possible to have a pregnancy during postmenopause.
Age 40-44 – if you don't use contraception for a year and have regular sex, up to 20% of women will become pregnant. Age 45-50 – the chances are more like 10% Over 50 – the chance of pregnancy is significantly lower. Over the age of 55 – the chance of pregnancy is low enough for all women to stop using contraception.
Then there's Hilary Swank, Janet Jackson, Halle Berry, Laura Linney et al, all who've had babies in their very late forties or early fifties. Tana Ramsay and Victoria Coren Mitchell's pregnancies barely made headlines.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has become a mother for the second time, aged 53. The star, who welcomed her first child two years ago, announced the arrival of her son online on Thursday, telling her followers "it's never too late".
Brigitte Nielsen opens up about giving birth at age 54 in an interview with ABC News' Kayna Whitworth. She added that her doctor said, "'If I were you, I would wait till you're 27 weeks, because at 27 weeks, no matter what happens, you're going to be okay. '"
