Claire Danes said she felt a “strange shame” after discovering she was expecting a baby at the age of 44.
In a recent conversation on the Without intelligence podcast on Nov. 17, the 46-year-old actress revealed she went through complex emotions after becoming pregnant with her third child, her first daughter in her 40s.
“I was so old when it happened. I was 44,” she told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett on the podcast.
Danes admitted that she “didn’t think it was possible” to expect a child at that age.
THE Country a former student, who is also a mom to two sons, Cyrus, 12, and Rowan, 7, said she felt embarrassed after learning of her pregnancy, firstly because of her age, and secondly, she and her husband, Hugh Dancy, were not trying for another one.
“I hadn’t expected that at all. And it was weird. So, I felt a strange sense of shame,” she explained.
“I was naughty. I had been caught fornicating beyond the point where I was supposed to. No, it was weird, and it was like I had discovered an advantage that I wasn’t really aware of – like I was going a little outside the parameters.”
Danes had his first child, son Cyrus, in 2012, then his second son, Rowan, in 2017, and finally his third child, his first daughter, in 2023, whose name was kept secret.
