Claire Danes is opening up about the complicated feelings that arose after unexpectedly getting pregnant with her ‘oopsy daisy third baby’ two years ago.
‘I was so old when that happened. I was 44,’ the 46-year-old former child star recalled on the SmartLess podcast Monday.
‘I didn’t think it was possible! I really didn’t. So, no. I was terrified but all was okay.’
Host Jason Bateman congratulated Danes and her husband Hugh Dancy on the ‘rare’ occurrence, calling it a ‘blessing’ and gushing: ‘Good for you! Good for Hugh!’
‘Well, it was actually really interesting because I did not foresee this at all. And it was weird. Suddenly I felt like a funny shame,’ the three-time Emmy winner admitted.
‘I was naughty. I had been caught fornicating past the point I was meant to. No, it was weird, and it was like I found an edge that I hadn’t been quite conscious of.’
Claire Danes is opening up about the complicated feelings that arose after unexpectedly getting pregnant with her ‘oopsy daisy third baby’ two years ago (pictured Monday)
Danes and the 50-year-old Englishman have chosen not to release the name of their two-year-old daughter, but they’re also parents of son Rowan, 7; and son Cyrus, who turns 13 on December 17.
‘I got really, really lucky. My OB/GYN was like, “You know, you’re having another boy.” But no!’ The Beast in Me producer-star recalled.
Bateman replied: ‘You would have been pi**ed off. You definitely would have been pi**ed off.’
‘I would have been delighted,’ Danes corrected.
‘But I am more delighted that I [have a girl]. She’s pretty cool and she loves a tutu.’
The native New Yorker added: ‘But it’s a trip! I mean, I have a teenager and a toddler.’
The married couple of 16 years looked so in love while posing together at the November 5 premiere of her Netflix show The Beast In Me at The Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Danes and Dancy originally met on the 2006 set of Lajos Koltai’s film Evening, in which they portrayed love interests.
‘I was very recently single, and I had never been single before, so we were just friends for a while,’ the two-time SAG Award winner told Marie Claire in 2017.
‘[Hugh and I] met in Rhode Island when it was at its most audaciously beautiful, in the fall. And there was one day when we were bicycling by the water and it was sparkly and idyllic, and I just had this dumb epiphany, like, “I’m really just happy.”‘
The 46-year-old former child star recalled on the SmartLess podcast Monday: ‘I was so old when that happened. I was 44. I didn’t think it was possible! I really didn’t. So, no. I was terrified but all was okay’ (pictured in 2018)
Host Jason Bateman congratulated Danes and her husband Hugh Dancy (R, pictured November 5) on the ‘rare’ occurrence, calling it a ‘blessing’ and gushing: ‘Good for you! Good for Hugh!’
The three-time Emmy winner admitted: ‘Well, it was actually really interesting because I did not foresee this at all. And it was weird. Suddenly I felt like a funny shame. I was naughty. I had been caught fornicating past the point I was meant to’
Danes and the 50-year-old Englishman have chosen not to release the name of their two-year-old daughter, but they’re also parents of son Rowan, 7; and son Cyrus, who turns 13 on December 17 (pictured in 2015)
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The Beast in Me producer-star said:Â ‘I got really, really lucky. My OB/GYN was like, “You know, you’re having another boy.” But no!…I am more delighted that I [have a girl]. She’s pretty cool and she loves a tutu’
On Monday, Danes reunited with My So-Called Life creator Winnie Holzman (R) while attending the NYC premiere of Wicked for Good, and she’s set to produce and star in HBO’s dysfunctional family drama The Applebaum Curse with Winnie as showrunner
Holzman told Variety in February: ‘Hopefully gonna be at HBO, so we’ll see. I have to cross my fingers! You never know what’s gonna happen, but Claire would love to do this with me, so I’m excited’ (pictured in 1994)
The native New Yorker currently voices President John Adams’ wife Abigail in three episodes of Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt’s 12-hour docuseries The American Revolution, which airs November 16-21 on PBS
On Monday, Danes reunited with My So-Called Life creator Winnie Holzman while attending the NYC premiere of Wicked for Good, and she’s set to produce and star in HBO’s dysfunctional family drama The Applebaum Curse with Winnie as showrunner.
‘I am writing something that I’m hoping to do with Claire. It’s not a reboot in the traditional sense, but I think Claire Danes and I back together would be a kind of version of that,’ Holzman told Variety in February
‘It’s a completely different story. But we’re hopeful that we’re gonna work together again. I’m writing it now, and it’s hopefully gonna be at HBO, so we’ll see. I have to cross my fingers! You never know what’s gonna happen, but Claire would love to do this with me, so I’m excited.’
The Homeland alum currently voices President John Adams’ wife Abigail in three episodes of Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt’s 12-hour docuseries The American Revolution, which airs November 16-21 on PBS.
Meanwhile, Dancy portrays Executive Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price in the 25th season of Dick Wolf’s long-running police procedural Law & Order, which airs Thursdays on NBC.
