Brigitte Nielsen, Rachel Weisz & More Celebs Who Welcomed (& Are Expecting!) Children After 45

The 54-year-old actress announced her fifth pregnancy on Instagram and Twitter in May 2018, showing her baby bump in a curve-hugging gray dress. “Family getting larger #me #family #brigittenielsen #babybump,” Nielsen, who wed 39-year-old husband Mattia Dessi in 2006, captioned her photo.

The actress welcomed her fifth child — a daughter she named Frida — in June 2018. 

The celebrity chef is pregnant and expecting twins with husband Allan Stewart in November, she announced May 28 during a segment on the Today show.

According to the mom-to-be, the couple struggled to conceive another baby and were inspired by new mom Hoda Kotb — who welcomed her daughter Haley Joy through adoption in February 2017 — to begin considering other options to expand their family. After one final round of IVF, however, the chef became pregnant.

The Sex and the City star, 53, adopted her second child, a baby boy, journalist Marc Malkin exclusively announced on Facebook in May 2018. (A rep for Davis did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.)

“Now she’s blessed times two!” he wrote. “Congrats!”

Davis became a mother through domestic adoption in 2011 when she welcomed daughter Gemma Rose, now 7.

Weisz announced that she and husband of seven years, Daniel Craig, were expecting their first child together in an interview with the New York Times. “We’re going to have a little human,” she said. “We can’t wait to meet him or her. It’s all such a mystery.” The Oscar winner, 48, is already mom to Henry, 11, from a previous relationship with director Darren Aronofsky. Craig  has a 25-year-old daughter, Ella, with his ex-wife, Fiona Loudon.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 47, revealed on the season 10 reunion part 1 that she’s pregnant with her first child — a surprise revelation that happened at the top of the show when host Andy Cohen inquired if a baby was on the way.

“We will definitely be welcoming a boy or girl in late this year,” Moore, who conceived through in vitro fertilization, said, shocking herself. “Oh my God, I said that! I don’t want to talk about the details because I’m still very nervous about everything so I want to get past a safe place.”

“We have been really upfront about wanting to expand our family, and we have definitely been taking the proper steps to try to make that happen,” she added on the RHOA After Show in early 2018.

The then-50-year-old singer welcomed son Eissa in January 2017 with her now estranged husband Wissam Al Mana. Jackson first sparked baby rumors in April 2016 when she canceled her Unbroken tour to focus on her family. “My husband and I are planning our family. So I’m going to have to delay the tour,” she told fans in a video message. The mom-to-be’s brother Jermaine Jackson confirmed the news when he opened up about the pregnancy in May. “My sister Janet is my baby. She is fine but she’s having a baby. A baby having a baby. We look at her like our little baby and now she’s grown and having a baby,” he told reporters. “I’m proud to be an uncle and I can’t wait to see how this baby is going to look.” Jackson went on to say that his sister “will be a great mother because she is very tough, very strict.” Tito Jackson also gave an update on his expecting little sister on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in June, sharing that “She’s doing very well. She’s taking it easy.” In October, the singer showed off her growing bump, telling PEOPLE “We thank God for our blessing.”

The actress quietly welcomed son Bennet back in January 2014 – at the age of 49. Two years later, she shared the reason for keeping her pregnancy under wraps. “Well, I was an older mother-to-be, and it had taken me a very long time to have a child,” the 54 year old told Kelly Ripa. “I wanted to make sure that my child actually arrived, and was safe and healthy.” However, she says that keeping the secret wasn’t necessarily intentional: “I just didn’t have a sign that said, ‘Hi, I’m pregnant now.’ ” Her son Bennett, she says, is “adorable” and even “takes your breath away.”

The 46 year old is already mom to 15-year-old Zoe, as well as stepmom to 15-year-old Bridger and 12-year-old Sawyer, but McDonald and her husband, Will Swenson, were still thrilled when they discovered that they were expecting a baby together. “Who knew that tap dancing during perimenopause could lead 2 pregnancy?” she tweeted. “@thewillswenson & I are completely surprised but elated 2 b expecting.” They welcomed daughter Sally, now 1, in 2016.

Though now-56-year-old Crow adopted Wyatt, 10, when he was just 2 weeks old, he hasn’t adjusted to her music-making quite yet. “I want to sing to him, but right now he’s like, ‘Mommy, no! All done! All done!’ ” she told PEOPLE. She also adopted her now 7-year-old son Levi in 2010.

The former Spice Girls singer gave birth to her second child, son George, (and first with husband Christian Horner) at 44 in January 2017. The singer teased her pregnancy news on Instagram, posting a sketch of a pregnant woman with the caption “God bless Mother Nature #mamaspice.” The baby-to-be joined big sister Bluebell Madonna, 11. 

After years of fertility struggles, Bassett, 59, turned to a surrogate to carry twins Bronwyn and Slater, 12. And following their arrival, she wasn’t about to leave their sides. “There were so many offers to go to this party and that party,” the actress told PEOPLE. “It was a lot more fun to sit and gaze at my two little stars.”

Though she had difficulty conceiving, Grace welcomed healthy twins John and Lucy, now 10, at 48. “I can’t believe they’re mine and that this is my life,” the CNN anchor told Good Housekeeping. “I just never believed this could happen to me.”

In 1996 at age 50, the actress adopted daughter Dexter, now 23, followed by son Duke, 18, in 2001. “Before kids, if I worried, it was only about myself,” Keaton told More. “But that’s all you do is worry as a parent.”

Stefani welcomed her third son, Apollo, 4, joining boys Kingston and Zuma, at the age of 44. “I feel really blessed to have all three of them,” Stefani told PEOPLE in January. “They’re just incredible.”

Twins Eden and Savannah, 11, brought the star twice the joy when she birthed them at age 44. “I was more scared to have girls – probably from having been one,” she told PEOPLE. “Now I’m just delighted. There’s nothing closer than the female bond.”

Bullock adopted her son Louis, 8, in 2010 at age 45. In 2015, the pair welcomed Bullock’s adopted daughter Laila, 6, to the family. “When I look at Laila, there’s no doubt in my mind that she was supposed to be here,” she told PEOPLE in her Dec. 14 cover story in 2015, which introduced the world to her new addition. “I can tell you absolutely, the exact right children came to me at the exact right time.”