Hollywood's Midlife Baby Boom

At 41, she gave birth to daughter Nahla Ariela, whose dad is model Gabriel Aubry. “My skin is aglow,” she said while pregnant.

After she struggled to get pregnant, life was as good as it gets for Hunt when she and Matthew Carnahan had their daughter in 2004.

“I don’t think it was an accident that my daughter arrived after I was 40,” The L Word star, who is married to entrepreneur Ken Dixon, told MORE.

The youngest of seven children, she had her own instant brood after giving birth to two boys (dad is actor Gordon MacDonald) at 47.

This Desperate Housewife opted for in vitro instead of a honeymoon; in 2007 she and husband Tom Mahoney welcomed twin girls.

She’s a Mensa member and has played the president on TV; equally impressive, she had three kids (with fourth hubby Reza Jarrahy) after 45.

She had son August at 42 (with husband Peter Hermann), then embraced her after-baby body: “My mom is Jayne Mansfield—I’m allowed to have curves!”

Last year, she and husband Keith Urban welcomed Sunday Rose, who’s bound to be a little bit country, a little bit Oscar bait.

At 49 she had twins with Scarface star Al Pacino. (All together now: “Say hello to my leetle friends!”)

“There’s no reason women should feel rushed to have a child,” said Hayek, who had Valentina at 41 (dad is hubby Francois-Henri Pinault).

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