Claire Danes is sharing the “funny shame” she felt after her most up-to-date being pregnant.
The “Homeland” actor, who has three youngsters with husband Hugh Dancy, spoke about her “oopsie-daisy third baby” throughout an look on the “Smartless” podcast on Monday.
“I was so old when that happened. I was 44,” Danes advised hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes.
“I didn’t think it was possible ― I really didn’t,” she stated with fun. “I was terrified, but it all was OK.”
When Arnett requested Danes what it was like discovering out she was pregnant at that stage in life, she answered that it “was actually really interesting.”
“Because I did not foresee this at all. And it was weird. Suddenly I felt like a funny shame,” the actor stated. “I was naughty. Like, I had been caught, like, fornicating past the point I was meant to.”
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The expertise of getting pregnant later in life was each “weird” and “wild” as a result of, to Danes, it was like “going outside of the parameters a bit.”
Danes and Dancy additionally share two different youngsters, who’re each boys: Cyrus, who will flip 13 in December, and Rowan, 7.
“It’s a trip. I mean, I have a teenager and a toddler,” Danes stated, including that she “got really, really lucky” that her final toddler is a woman.
“My OBGYN was like, ‘You know, you’re having another boy.’ But no, turns out,” she stated, regardless of including that she nonetheless “would have been delighted” to have a 3rd boy.
Danes has at all times been very open about being pregnant and motherhood, and has referred to as being a mother “incredibly challenging” earlier than.
“But, we still feel a pressure to talk about it in very romantic terms,” she stated in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK in 2014. “We all have that resentment at times and anxiety about being trapped by the role, that responsibility. And, then chemically it can run riot, and there’s no ‘off’ button.”
She described that a part of parenting as “the hardest adjustment” for her.
“You always feel beholden to somebody. And, for so long they’re like koala bears, you just feel a physical responsibility to be there for them to cling to,” Danes stated, including that it’s all “pretty primal.”
