Pregnant at 54! Brigitte Nielsen announces surprise baby news

Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen is ready to give motherhood another go. Nielsen, 54, recently revealed on social media that she is expecting her fifth child.

Sylvester Stallone’s ex-wife shared the news to Instagram on Wednesday morning, with a photograph of herself holding her burgeoning baby bump. The Red Sonja actress wrote in her caption: “Family getting larger.”

Many fans jumped to wish the actress messages of congratulations and express their surprise at the news. “Congrats love! Gives me hope I turn 40 this year,” wrote one.

Another added, “54 and having a baby?!! You are amazingly brave! You go gurl,” while a third wrote, “How AMAZING are you?!”

 

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Soon after the Danish beauty icon posted a second photo, this time with the caption: “Happy time. Positive vibes”.

Nielsen, who has been married five times, is already mum to four sons: Raoul Meyer Jr., 23, Douglas Meyer, 25, Killian Gastineau, 28, and Julian Winding, 34.

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The actress has been married to Italian TV producer Mattia Dessì, 39, since 2006 and was previously married to Raoul Meyer, Sebastian Copeland, Sylvester Stallone and Kasper Winding.

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.

Could you imaging having a newborn in your 50s? How old were you when your first child was born?