Claire Danes Recalls Learning She Was Pregnant at 43, Says She Had a 'Meltdown'
Claire Danes is looking back at her last pregnancy.
The 46-year-old Emmy-winning actress and The Beast In Me star was revealed to be pregnant with her third child three years ago, and gave birth in July 2023.
While appearing on the latest episode of Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast, Claire recalled finding out she was pregnant and how she reacted.
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“I called my OBGYN in convulsive tears. It was a pure like … meltdown,” she recalled, noting her children are all nearly five years apart. “None of this was by design. I didn’t know it was physically possible. I was [43]. And actually, Rowan was very hard-earned. I had to do two rounds of IVF. It just was so unlikely.”
In another recent interview, Claire remembered feeling some shame that she was pregnant at that age.
“I did not foresee this at all. And it was weird. Suddenly, I felt like a funny shame,” she shared on the Smartless podcast, which is co-hosted by Amy‘s ex-husband Will Arnett. “I was naughty. I had been caught fornicating past the point I was meant to. No, it was weird, and it was like I found an edge that I hadn’t been quite conscious of — like I was going outside of the parameters a little bit.”
In addition to her little girl, Shay, who turns three this summer, Claire and husband Hugh Dancy are also parents to sons Cyrus, 12, and Rowan, 7.