US EditionWhy Claire Danes Felt “Shame” Over Having Baby at Age 44
Claire Danes described feeling internalized stigma and conflicting emotions about pregnancy at 44, despite calling it a blessing during her third child's birth in 2023.
- On November 17, Claire Danes told the SmartLess podcast she had mixed emotions after an unexpected pregnancy at 44, saying `I was so old when that happened. I was 44` and expecting her third child, her first daughter.
- Danes said she experienced internalized shame triggered by feeling caught beyond expected motherhood timing, describing it as going outside age-based parameters for pregnancy.
- Their daughter is now 2 and was photographed showing a baby bump in New York City on March 7.
- Danes said she felt a slew of conflicting emotions and that she and Hugh Dancy were not trying for another child, she told Jason Bateman on November 17.
- Danes had earlier said she was glad she waited to have kids and said she did not foresee this pregnancy, underscoring her surprise as referenced in the Elle magazine interview.
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Why Claire Danes Felt “a Funny Kind of Shame” About Being Pregnant at 44
In an interview on the SmartLess podcast this week, Danes admitted of her “oopsy-daisy” third pregnancy that “it was weird, like I had discovered an edge I wasn't quite conscious of, like I was going outside the parameters a little bit.”
The actress and her husband have two sons and a daughter.
Claire Danes Explains Why She Felt 'Shame' Getting Pregnant at Age 44
Claire Danes is opening up about the internalized stigma and shame she felt when she found out she was pregnant later in life. “I was so old when that happened. I was 44,” Danes said on the November 17 episode of the “SmartLess” podcast while speaking to hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett about expecting her third child, admitting that she “didn’t think it was possible” to get pregnant at that age. After Bateman, 56, commented that …
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