Hilary Swank is hitting back at people who have said she’s ‘too old’ to have a baby.Swank, 52, and her husband Philip Schneider, 52, announced they were expecting their third child earlier this week. It comes three years after the Hollywood icon gave birth to twins, Aya and Ohm, at age 48.During her announcement in 2023, the Boys Don’t Cry star said she had gotten negative responses from other women, due to her age.\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of backlash women get for having children older but not men, which is interesting,\u201d Swank told Drew Barrymore on a clip for an upcoming October 20 interview.Barrymore also noted that some men ‘have children in their 80s’ and no one bats an eyelid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swank then recalled a woman saying, \u201cHow dare you? You\u2019re too old, and you won\u2019t be old enough when your kids are older. My dad was my favorite person and he died when I was in my 20s, my early 20s and it\u2019s just devastation.”Further explaining the encounter, the woman who made the comment to the star later told her that she had been left devastated when her father passed away in her 20s, hence the comment.\u201cI related to it because my dad [has] also passed, but he was one of my favorite people on earth,\u201d Swank told Barrymore.Stephen Michael Swank died in 2021, seven years after his daughter paused her acting career to serve as his caretaker.\u201cI thought to myself, \u2018well, I would rather be born and have that person that was my favorite person and experience that than not at all,’\u201d she added.Swank announced her pregnancy earlier this week with a video of her family dancing with the lights off with glow sticks taped to their bodies, before revealing her bump.A lot of people have been asking what project I\u2019m doing next, this one releases in December,” she wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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