Hollywood's Midlife Baby Boom

These stars all gave birth for the first time after 40.

By the MORE Women Editors

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Halle Berry

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

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Helen Hunt

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.

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Jennifer Beals

"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.

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Holly Hunter

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

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Marcia Cross

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

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Geena Davis

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.

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Mariska Hargitay

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!"

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Nicole Kidman

Kidman, already the adoptive mother of Bella and Connor, gave birth at 41 to her child with husband Keith Urban, daughter Sunday Rose-who’s bound to be a little bit country, a little bit Oscar bait.

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Beverly D’Angelo

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

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Salma Hayek

"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). NEXT: VIEW A SLIDESHOW OF CELEBRITY COUPLES WE LOVE HERE