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Claire Danes Says She Felt ‘Funny Shame’ After Unplanned Pregnancy at 44

Her SmartLess comments frame the late-in-life surprise as a candid look at stigma around older motherhood.

Overview

  • Danes told the SmartLess hosts she “didn’t think it was possible” at 44 and joked she felt “naughty” for “fornicating past the point” she was meant to.
  • She and husband Hugh Dancy have two sons and a daughter born in July 2023, whose name they have not shared.
  • Danes described the third pregnancy as unintentional and said parenting now spans “a teenager and a toddler at once.”
  • She said her OB-GYN predicted another boy, but the baby was a girl, which she called a happy surprise, adding the toddler “loves a tutu.”
  • The remarks coincided with promotion for Netflix’s The Beast in Me and have fueled discussion about stigma and misinformation around later-age pregnancies.