Actress Hilary Swank has revealed she’s expecting twins with husband Philip Schneider.
She made the announcement on Good Morning America on Wednesday…
Describing the news as “a total miracle.”
Now, Hilary Swank married her husband Philip Schneider back in 2018 at a private ceremony in California.
Amazingly, the pair managed to keep their engagement a secret for a whopping 2 years before they tied the knot.
Swank opened up to Vogue about the first time they met, revealing it was a blind date.
“It was a blind date set up by actor Misha Collins’s wife Vicki and another close friend Jean. We met at 10 am and parted ways at 11 pm,” Swank revealed. “We clearly enjoyed our time!”
They got engaged just over a year later.
Discussing her wedding venue, Swank said: “We found exactly what we were looking for at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel, California.” Adding: “It’s a stunning private community surrounded by 20,000 acres of conservancy and an intimate redwood grove populated with trees that are over 800 years old.”
And now, just 4 years after they said ‘I do,’ they’re expecting twins!
And the news has left everyone ecstatic.
Fans are thrilled to hear she’s expecting…
One Facebook user wrote: “God Bless! I watched her announcement on Kelly and Ryan this morning. Congratulations!”
However, some were concerned for her unborn children, with one writing: “48, she will be almost 66 by the time they are 18yo. She’ll be 54 or 55 when the kids start school. Grandma.”
But another chimed in showing support for her, writing: “I’m sure she and the babies will be fine. As long as she’s in good health and sees her OB at the proper times, takes her prenatal. There’s no reason why those babies would have any problems.”
The forty-eight-year-old star was promoting her new drama, Alaska Daily when she opened up about the exciting news.
Host Robin Roberts said: “We hear that you have something that you’d like to share with us.”
“Yeah, I do. And I’m so happy to share it with you and with America right now,” Swank replied.
“This is something that I’ve been wanting for a long time.”
“My next thing is I’m gonna be a mom!” Swank shared.
“I’m gonna be a mom, and not just of one, but of two!”
“I can’t believe it!” she added. “It’s so nice to be able to talk about it and share it.”
This will be Swank’s first child with entrepreneur Philip Schneider.
She further opened up on Live with Kelly and Ryan after GMA, sharing that she’s “feeling great right now”.
Describing how she feels about having twins, she said that they run in both her and her husband’s families and described her pregnancy as “such a blessing.”
“It’s a total miracle. It’s unbelievable,” she said.
The news comes after Swank’s interview with You Magazine in 2020 in which she revealed that she feels “maternal.”
“I feel that I’m very maternal in the people that I care for and all the sentient beings I have around me — my dogs, my horses or just the human beings.
“And I feel like so much of the time women who either choose not to or can’t have children are somehow seen as not maternal or not mothering and it is a conversation that needs to be had, because… I’ve heard a lot of women say that they’ve been told: ‘Oh, you’re kind of a failure.’ Or, you know: ‘Didn’t you come here to procreate?’ There are so many different ways to procreate!” she said.
