Before Cameron Diaz’s Baby Announcement, These Hollywood Celebrities Embraced Motherhood After 40

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Cameron Diaz Baby: Hollywood actress Cameroon Diaz recently welcomed a baby boy with her musician husband Benji Madden. The couple are already parents to Raddix, their daughter who was reportedly born in 2019. The couple married in January 2015, and at the age of 51 years, Cameron embraced motherhood and is enjoying her precious moments with husband Benji and her family. Apart from Diaz, many Hollywood celebs have broken the stereotype of becoming a mother before 30, and proven that career and parenthood go hand-in-hand. Here are some of the celeb mommys who have given birth after 40.

Halle Berry

The “Catwoman” actress gave birth to her first child, Nahla, when she was 41, and her younger son, Maceo, when she was 47. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Berry revealed that her second pregnancy in her late forties was completely unexpected. Halle Berry and her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry also have a five-year-old daughter, Nahla.

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep, an Oscar winner, gave birth to her daughter Louisa at the age of 41. Meryl and her husband Don Gummer have four children: one son and three daughters, the youngest being Louisa, who was born in 1991. 

Salma Hayek

At the age of 41, the “Grown Ups” actress gave birth to her daughter Valentina. Velntina is Salma Hayek's first child with her husband François Henri Pinault, who divorced his first wife in 2004. Talking about her experience, Hayek said, “Motherhood is not for everyone. It is for me, but there’s no reason women should feel rushed to have a child. I’m a more fulfilled human being now, and I probably wouldn’t have been 10 years ago. She gets a better mother for being born now.”

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani, 44, welcomed her youngest son, Apollo Bowie Flynn, to her growing family of boys with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. She was already a mother to Kingston and Zuma, both born when she was in her thirties.

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes became a first-time mother at the age of 40, when she and Ryan Gosling welcomed their daughter Esmeralda. Two years later, Mendes became pregnant with their second daughter, Amada. Revealing her late pregnancy, Mendes saod that she wanted to wait a bit until she was older. She added, “I just didn’t feel, really it wasn’t until I met Ryan and fell in love. But also as a woman, I just wasn’t ready. It’s such a personal choice for a woman, obviously. Then you run the risk of... you’re always running a risk. When I was pregnant there was always something to worry about. But thankfully I had really healthy pregnancies and I was happy I waited.”

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