Hilary Swank announces she is pregnant with third child at 52
The 52-year-old actress shared an Instagram video on 14 October hinting at a December due date. She is expecting her third child with husband Philip Schneider, three years after the birth of their twins.
Video post points to a December due date
Hilary Swank, the 52-year-old American actress and two-time Academy Award winner, has announced that she is expecting a third child with her husband, businessman Philip Schneider. The news came in an Instagram video posted on Wednesday, 14 October, in which the couple and their two children dance in the dark with glowing sticks attached to their clothing. At the end of the clip Swank shows her pregnant stomach, where the outline of a baby is traced in light.
In the caption Swank wrote that many people had asked about her next project and that this one would be released in December. Several outlets read the wording as a playful hint at a December due date. Swank has not revealed the sex of the baby, and her representatives had not yet confirmed the pregnancy in the reports available.
- Swank marries Philip Schneider
- Announces first pregnancy on Good Morning America, expecting twins
- Twins Aya and Ohm born when Swank is 48
- Announces third pregnancy in Instagram video
- Baby expected in December, per caption hint
Twins and the path to motherhood
Swank and Schneider married in August 2018, after a relationship of about two years, in a forest near Carmel, California. Their first children, twins a boy and a girl named Aya and Ohm, were born in April 2023, when Swank was 48. Reports say she had her eggs frozen before she became a mother. She had already announced her first pregnancy in October 2022, during an appearance on the US programme Good Morning America, when she said she was expecting twins.
Before her marriage to Schneider, Swank was married to the actor Chad Lowe from 1997 to 2007. She was also engaged to the former Colombian tennis player Rubén Torres in April 2016, but the couple split about three months later. The current pregnancy is her third announced milestone in a relatively short public timeline, and it follows the pattern of her earlier posts on social media.
Late motherhood in her own words
Swank has spoken openly about becoming a mother at an older age. In a 2025 interview with the British magazine Women's Health, she said she had grown more patient and more understanding, and that having already built a career meant she felt less divided. She said she could give herself fully to her children. In an earlier interview with People, she said she would have been a very different mother at 20 or 30 and that she had put a lot of work into the timing.
Since becoming a mother, Swank has also taken up public policy causes. According to El PAIS, she has backed California's AB1901, a law that would require diaper makers to list every ingredient on their packaging.
Reaction online
According to El PAIS, hundreds of people had congratulated Swank under the post within hours, and many women said she was an inspiration for those who became mothers after 40. Portuguese outlet Noticias ao Minuto reported that commenters praised the playful way the news was shared and her motherhood after 50. Swank's management had not yet confirmed the pregnancy when the reports were published, and the timing of the birth rests only on the December reference in her caption.