Congratulations are very much in order for Chloe Sevigny. The actress has announced that she is pregnant with her first child. The father, Chloe's partner, is gallerist Sinisa Mackovic, and in recent days the pair have been spotted out and about in New York, looking blissfully happy.
Chloe, who is 45, rose to fame thanks to her roles in films like Boys Don't Cry, for which she was nominated for an Oscar, The Last Days Of Disco and American Psycho. Her iconic style - think vintage mixed with haute couture - made her one of the most imitated dressers of the Noughties. In short, her child will have one hell of a dressing up box.
Chloe and Sinisa are yet to address the news officially, but one of Chloe's representatives has confirmed the happy announcement to People.
Chloe is not alone in welcoming her child at a later age. Many celebrities have added to their brood - or become first-time mothers - after forty. Madonna, Janet Jackson, Meryl Streep, Natalie Imbruglia and Susan Sarandon have all had babies after 40. They are, therefore, technically 'geriatric mothers' - which applies to any women who have children after 35, including Meghan Markle - but the term is pretty out-dated if you ask us, and should be done away with in favour of something like 'advanced maternal age.'
Halle Berry had her second child, Maceo, when she was 47. 'I was kinda premenopausal', she said in an interview at the time. 'So to have this happen was a huge [shock].' Nicole Kidman had her first biological child, Sunday, when she was 41. 'I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try to get pregnant', she told Who Magazine. 'So, the way it just happened with Sunday was like, "What? The percentages were so low. It is the miracle in my life.' Salma Hayek, meanwhile, swears by being a mother later in life.
'I’m a more fulfilled human being now,' she says. 'And I probably wouldn’t have been 10 years ago. She gets a better mother for being born now.'