Pregnant Hilary Swank, 52, Reacts to Criticism Over Having Kids Later in Life

P.S. Hilary Swank has something to say.

The 52-year-old—who shares 3-year-old twins, son Ohm and daughter Aya, with husband Philip Schneider—discussed the criticism she’s received starting her family in her 40s after announcing that she’s pregnant with her third child.

In a preview for an upcoming appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Swank noted “the backlash women get for having children older, but not men,” before detailing an interaction she had with one of her naysayers.

“There’s one story that I found really interesting,” she said in a clip shared on Instagram ahead of the Oct. 20 episode, “and I think I was attracted to this particular story because this one women said, ‘How dare you? You’re too old, and you won’t be old enough when your kids are older, and my dad was my favorite person and he died when I was in my early 20s, and it’s just devastation.”

The Oscar winner shared that the woman’s comment made her think of her own father Stephen Michael Swank, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 73.