Hilary Swank Admits She ‘Wasn’t Ready’ to Have Kids Before She Turned 47: ‘I Can Give Differently’ Now (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Hilary Swank.Photo:John Sciulli/Variety via Getty; Hilary Swank/Instagram

John Sciulli/Variety via Getty; Hilary Swank/Instagram

Hilary Swankis loving being a mom to her twins — and she’s opening up about welcoming them a little bit later in life.

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“I knew I wanted to be an actor since I was 8 years old, and I have loved my career,” she says. “I’m hopefully always going to be an actor.”

“So I was really career-focused and I wasn’t ready to have children in my 20s, or really even in my 30s, and then I hit my 40s and I didn’t have a partner. That doesn’t mean I had to have a partner,” Swanks says. “A lot of people get donors, and that’s a wonderful option, a lot of people adopt, there’s a lot of different ways, and so I was open to anything.”

But when Swank met Schneider, her journey toward parenthood began.

“I was 47 when I got pregnant, and I feel like I have a lot more patience, and I’ve done a lot of my own personal work to be the type of mother I want to be, whereas it would’ve just been different in my twenties and thirties,” she says.

“I can give differently,” adds Swank.

Now that she has a year and a half of being a mom under her belt, Swank says that the best part of being around her kids is seeing them experience something new every day.

“You hear people say that, that you see life again through those new eyes, but it’s true. Things become so commonplace and we feel like, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve seen that, I’ve done that,’ and we just walk myopically with these blinders on because nothing is as awe-inspiring anymore,” she continues.

source: people.com