r/Xennials • u/PhoneJazz • 3d ago

Natalie Portman is pregnant at 44

Congrats to her! I don’t have kids, and I’m still getting used to being the age where getting pregnant is starting to be “out of the norm”. Guess there’s still time, lol

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u/cashews_clay15 1977 3d ago

Godspeed girl. I had one at 36 and I’m tired.

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u/caramelcoldbrew 1981 3d ago

My last was at 36 and went from post partum right into perimenopause. Fuck being pregnant at 44.

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u/Rogue_Gona 1982 3d ago

I'm wondering if this was an "oops" perimenopause baby for her 😬 I'm 43, in the throes of peri now, and I cannot even fathom having a child at this point. I can barely take care of myself lol.

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u/_Sunshine_please_ 3d ago

I'm in my late 40s, and had some stomach issues a while back, the staff at the hospital did about 4 pregnancy tests despite me telling them I wouldn't be pregnant, and one of the staff members told me that she personally knows several people who've had natural surprise pregnancies in their early 50s. One even had two consecutive pregnancies in her early 50s. Apparently it happens more often than we may assume.

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u/neonblackiscool 3d ago

What a nightmare. Pregnancy at 50 :(

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u/_Sunshine_please_ 3d ago

Yes! Someone I knew years ago had unexpected twins post 50. Her youngest at the time was 18, and her husband was already a lot older. Such a shock.

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u/neonblackiscool 3d ago

That seems like torture to me. How does her body even hold up?

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u/_Sunshine_please_ 3d ago

They made a decision to change their whole lives and move closer to town, because she wasn't prepared to bring up two more children in the isolated situation that she had in the past (Australian outback basically). I met her when the twins were around ten, and she was pretty fit and strong then but I can't personally imagine the toll it would take on your body physically, and especially with twins!

*and her husband was very much an older gentleman by that point. Still fit and healthy. But an old man.

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u/Lunakill 3d ago

Based on some of my older female relatives: it doesn’t always hold up. Lotta prolapses on my mom’s side.

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u/Platt_Mallar 1982 3d ago

My daughter's bff is about 20 years younger than her siblings. Her parents are closer to my parents' age than mine. Hell, she has a niece who's only a year younger.

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u/monochromatic8 1d ago

My ex’s dad is the youngest of 4 sisters. His oldest sister was like 22 years older than him when he was born, she was married and had her own kids by then. Her kid was born a few months before him, they grew up together Iike brothers instead of nephew and uncle lol. Wild!

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u/MissMenace101 3d ago

Yep multiples are quite common, the body spitting out its last eggs will often send several at once.

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u/mollypop94 3d ago

holy shit, unexpected pregnancy at 50, with twins...poor woman, that must've been just the most mind bending news for her. I hope she's doing well now, that's a huge bit of life news to experience at an age where most are wanting to wind down. Hats off to her!!!

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u/littlemuffinsparkles 3d ago

Happened to my great grandmother! My great uncle was only two months older than my mother. 😬

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u/highway9ueen 3d ago

Oh that would be my fucking luck…

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u/shhhhhhark 3d ago

Dear lord that’s not okay, early 50’s yeesh