34 celebrities who became mothers after 40

Gisele Bündchen is pregnant with her third child, but her first with boyfriend Joaquim Valente.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

• More and more women are choosing to become mothers later in life.
• Whether through IVF, adoption, surrogacy, or natural conception, these celebs became moms after 40.

More children are being born to mothers over the age of 40.

The birth rate for women between the ages 40 to 44 increased by 4% between 2021 and 2022, per a 2022 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while the birth rate for women 45 and older increased by 0.9% from 2021, the first time that rate had changed since 2015.

There are plenty of reasons women are waiting longer to have kids, including the high costs of childcare, their careers, advancements in fertility treatments like IVF or alternate methods such as surrogacy, health reasons, holding out for the right partner, or deciding to do it on their own.

These celebrities have joined the increasing number of women who, whether by carrying their own child, adopting, or using a surrogate, became mothers over 40.