Hilary Swank, 52, pregnant with her third baby

Hilary Swank is pregnant!

The 52-year-old actress announced Wednesday that she is expecting her third baby. Swank shared the news in a creative Instagram video of herself, husband Philip Schneider and their three-year-old twins dancing in the dark with glow sticks affixed to their bodies. The youngest addition made a special appearance, depicted as a glow stick baby on Swank’s belly.

“A lot of people ask me what project I’m doing next, this one is coming out in December,” Swank captioned the video, which features the song “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” from Bachman Turner Overdrive.

The Oscar winner and Schneider, an entrepreneur, welcomed twins Aya and Ohm in April 2023.

“It wasn’t easy. But boy (and girl!) it was worth it,” Swank captioned an Instagram photo of her holding the newborns while watching a sunset. “Happy Easter! Posting Pure Heaven.”

Ten months later, on Valentine’s Day, she finally announced the names of her “two little loves” with a photo of the twins at the beach, their names written in the sand.

“He’s the best in the whole world,” Swank exclaimed later in the evening. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Yes, it’s more joy, more pleasure and more exhausting. It’s more than I thought. It’s more glorious, it’s the most extraordinary thing in the world.”

Swank announced her first pregnancy on Hello America in October 2022, while promoting his ABC detective series, Alaska Daily. “This is something I’ve wanted for a long time,” she said, “and the next thing I’m going to do is I’m going to be a mom. And not just one, but two. I can’t believe it. It’s so nice to be able to talk about it and share it.”

Being pregnant for the first time at age 47 came with the usual morning sickness and unusual cravings (“lots of fruit”), as well as a lot of clarity.

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“I feel like I have a lot more patience and I’ve done a lot of the personal work to be the type of mom I want to be, whereas it would have been different in my 20s and 30s,” Swank said. Weekly Entertainmentsister publication, PEOPLE, in 2024. “I can give differently (now). »

She could also receive differently. “You hear people say that, that you see life through these new eyes again, but it’s true,” Swank explained. “Things become so mundane and we’re like, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve seen that, I’ve done that,’ and we just walk around myopically with these blinders on because nothing is that impressive anymore.”

Swank continued: “And you see your kids rewatching everything and you’re like, ‘Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful.’ Your curiosity is piqued again, just watching them grow and evolve, and it truly is something new every day. It’s so much fun and they’re so funny.