Actress Hilary Swank, 50, said that having children later in her life was the best decision she could have made. The two Oscars winner welcomed twins Aya and Ohm in April 2023, and said the experience was completely different if it had happened years earlier. The star had her children with her husband, businessman Philip Schneider, after freezing her eggs at 37 and becoming pregnant at 47.
“I would have had children earlier. I’m not saying that I waited deliberately until the 47th. But it was a magical moment in my life, when everything was fit. It was the right time for a multitude of reasons,” she told British magazine Women’s Health, of which she is a cover in the May edition.
“I am a very different mother than it would have been, even at the beginning of my 40 years. I am much more patient. I am much more understanding. I think I’m more interested, in a different way than it would have been. I am really interested in their brain.
Hilary Swank, who received her first best actress Oscar at 25, for “boys don’t cry” (2000), says she is receiving more work proposals than ever.
“A lot of people might think, ‘Are you not worried about being 50 now and there are few jobs?’ And I answer, ‘No, I have more offers now than I have ever had.’ It’s an exciting moment.”
The actress took stock of the beginning of her career and explained why she accepted papers dominated by male views.
“Fortunately, it’s becoming more inclusive. But when I started, it was more patriarchal than ever. And I ended up playing papers written by men, based on what they thought it was a female perspective, and that was not always real.”
This content was originally published in Hilary Swank says she got it right as she was a mother at 48: “I’m more interested” on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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