Hillary Swank, The star actress of Million Dollar Baby, told a month ago that she was pregnant with twins at 48. During an interview with the American television program Good Morning America, the interpreter told the news and said that they will be her first children.

“There is something that I have wanted for a long time and that will be the next thing, and that is that I will become a mother”, Swank explained in October in his chat with the program. “And not just one, but two. I can’t believe it. ”She The two-time Oscar winner – both for Best Actress, for Boys Don’t Cry in 1999 and for Million Dollar Baby in 2004 – also explained that she decided to tell about it when she started. the second trimester of pregnancy.

But, as happens with celebrities, it didn’t take long for critical comments on the actress’s motherhood to appear on social media. They question her decision of her motherhood at nearly 50.

“Wow at this age and what you need to have are grandchildren not children”, “you will be like their grandmother”, “you are already too old for that, you will not see them grow up”, “the worst age to have children”, and ” please don’t have children at this age ”.

Despite criticism, Hilary continues to be happy with her pregnancy and makes it clear that when it comes to being a mother, age doesn’t matter.

“It’s a blessing. It is an absolute miracle. Incredible, “the actress told People magazine. She also explained that both in her family and in that of her husband, businessman Philip Schneider, are several twins. The couple married in August 2018. in California after a two-year relationship, in which it was the second marriage for the performer, who was married to actor Chad Lowe (brother of Rob Lowe) for nearly a decade, between September 1997 and January 2007.

“The clothes have already started to squeeze me or they don’t fit me, so I had to cut my jeans off and put on a jacket the other day,” she said.

Mothers over the age of 45

Hilary Swank joins a long list of famous women who have children over 45. She is also the actress Chloé Sevigny she had her first child at the age of 45, in 2020. “For me, being a mother from the age of 40 made perfect sense,” she explained in an interview with the newspaper El País.

Cameron Diaz She announced just in early 2020 that she was the mother at the age of 47 of a girl named Raddix Madden, although it was never known if she was pregnant. She too gave birth at the age of 47 Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon. Meanwhile, the singer Janet Jackson gave birth to a boy in January 2017, when she was 50, and in 2019 the actress Brigitte Nielsen She became a mother at the age of 55.