{"id":1664,"date":"2026-10-16T14:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:30:02","slug":"pregnant-hilary-swank-52-responds-to-backlash-about-women-having-babies-later-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Hilary Swank, 52, responds to backlash about women having babies later in life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hilary Swank reflected on societal double standards and backlash while addressing her newly announced pregnancy at the age of 52.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of backlash women get for having children older but not men, which is interesting,\u201d\u00a0she told Drew Barrymore in a clip from an upcoming interview, set to air Oct. 20.<\/p>\n

Barrymore \u2014 who is a mother of two \u2014 responded that the double standard is \u201cweird,\u201d noting that \u201cmen have babies in their like 80s, and that\u2019s not a euphemism or a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hilary Swank addressed backlash over having children later in life during an interview with Drew Barrymore, as seen above.The Drew Barrymore Show<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Swank noted that men don\u2019t get the same backlash for being older fathers.The Drew Barrymore Show<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hilary Swank reflected on societal double standards and backlash while addressing her newly announced pregnancy at the age of 52. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of backlash women get for having children older but not men, which is interesting,\u201d\u00a0she told Drew Barrymore in a clip from an upcoming interview, set to air Oct. 20. Barrymore \u2014 who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}