‘We are overjoyed’: Brigitte Nielsen gives birth to fifth child at 54

Actress Brigitte Nielsen has given birth to her fifth child at the age of 54, revealing she’s “overjoyed” to be a mum again.

Sylvester Stallone’s ex-wife first revealed she was expecting a few months ago, after sharing a photo of her baby bump on social media.

Now, speaking to People magazine, she has confirmed her and husband Mattia Dessi have welcomed their first daughter – and they’re already “in love” with her.

“We are overjoyed to welcome our beautiful daughter into our lives,” she told the publication. “It’s been a long road, and so worth it. We’ve never been more in love.” 

The Danish star married her fifth husband in 2006. She was previously married to Sylvester Stallone, Raoul Meyer, Sebastian Copeland and Kasper Winding. She already has four sons, Raoul Meyer Jr, 23, Douglas Meyer, 25, Killian Gastineau, 28, and Julian Winding, 34.

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Revealing her pregnancy news in May, she wrote on Instagram: “Family getting larger.”

Nielsen joins a long list of women having babies later in life. Nicole Kidman gave birth to her daughter Sunday Rose Urban, in 2008 when she was 41-years-old, Canadian performer Celine Dion had her twin boys Nelson and Eddy Angelil, in 2010 when she was 42-years-old and in 2017, Janet Jackson welcomed her first child, a boy named Eissa Al Mana, at the age of 51.

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The increasing trend of having babies later in life is a big change to previous generations. In the 1920s, the most common ages to have babies were between 20 and 29, and that remained the same in until the ’80s.

But since then, the age of new mums has been rising, and now the median age for Australian women to give birth is 30.6 years, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In addition, the number of mothers aged 40-44 has tripled over the past 30 years.

Did you welcome a baby later in life? Or have any of your loved ones begun parenthood again, years after first starting a family?