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Meryl Streep. The Oscar-winning actress has four children, the youngest of which she gave birth to in 1991, just before she turned 42. Streep has seemingly never gone on the record discussing her pregnancies publicly, so it's unknown whether or not she struggled conceiving in her 40s, or before then.
According to doctors, pretty much the only way to become pregnant in your mid to late forties is by using donor eggs. Understandably, celebrities rarely announce the way they became pregnant unless a surrogate was involved (like with Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker).
Many women, including celebrities, do it, though. Naomi Cambell welcomed her daughter at age 50 and her son at age 53.
Cameron Diaz became a mother at the age of 47, as did Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon. Singer Janet Jackson gave birth to a boy in January 2017, when she was 50 years old. And, in the summer of 2019, actress Brigitte Nielsen became a mother at the age of 55.
During the study period, there were a total of 104,659 deliveries. The study population comprised 209 women (0.2%) who had conceived spontaneously and had their most recent delivery after the age of 45 years.