Claire Danes opened up about an intimate episode in her family life: discovering, at 44, that she was pregnant with her third child. She was a guest on the podcast. Goodbye Hosted by Amy Poehler, the American actress confessed to being overwhelmed by emotion, even going so far as to speak of a real nervous breakdown when she called her gynecologist "in convulsive tears".
Already a mother of two boys, Cyrus (born in 2012) and Rowan (born in 2018), the performer of Homeland She explains that this pregnancy had never been considered. She says she felt it was "physically impossible" at that age, even mentioning the low probability of natural conception after 40.
A maternity marked by difficulties conceiving
This surprise was all the more devastating because the actress had faced significant obstacles in conceiving her second child. She recounts having undergone two cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive Rowan, which made the arrival of a third baby seem even more unlikely to her.
Claire Danes had already addressed this topic in another podcast, SmartlessIn November, she admitted to feeling a sense of shame upon announcing her late pregnancy, as if she had "done something stupid." A feeling she attributes to society's view of motherhood after a certain age.
Today, the actress says she is completely happy: in 2023, she gave birth to a little girl named Shay, completing the family she has with her husband, actor Hugh Dancy. It's a personal upheaval she now recounts with detachment and gratitude, stating that she is "delighted" by this unexpected and joyous arrival.
