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Claire Danes reveals how she reacted to pregnancy at 44
Claire Danes is opening up about the emotional moment she found out she was pregnant with her third child at age 44, revealing that the news initially left her in tears and disbelief.
Speaking on the latest episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast, the actress shared that her reaction was far from calm.
After taking the test, she immediately called her OBGYN while overwhelmed with emotion.
“It was a pure, like, meltdown,” Danes said, describing what she called “convulsive tears.” She admitted the pregnancy wasn’t planned, adding, “None of this was by design. I didn’t know it was physically possible. I was 44.”
The Homeland alum, now 46, welcomed a baby girl in 2023.
She and her husband, actor Hugh Dancy, share three children: sons Cyrus, 13, and Rowan, 7, along with their daughter, now 2.
Danes noted that each child arrived about five years apart, explaining that expanding their family was not always easy.
She shared that Rowan was “very hard-earned,” revealing she went through two rounds of IVF to conceive him.
Danes previously spoke about the surprise pregnancy during a November 2025 appearance on the SmartLess podcast, where she admitted the experience initially scared her.
While she said everything ultimately worked out, she also opened up about feeling an unexpected sense of shame at the time.
“Like I was naughty. I’d been caught fornicating past the point I was meant to,” she said.
She described the feeling as strange and unfamiliar, adding, “It was weird, and it was like I found an edge that I hadn’t been quite conscious of.”
Reflecting further, Danes explained that becoming pregnant at that stage of life made her feel as though she had crossed an unspoken boundary. “I was going outside of the parameters a little bit,” she said. “That was wild.”
Danes and Dancy, 50, have been married since September 2009. Before her marriage, she dated actor Billy Crudup. More than two decades after their widely discussed 2003 scandal involving Crudup and a then-pregnant Mary-Louise Parker, Danes and Crudup remain on friendly terms.
Now, Danes’ candid reflections offer a rare and honest look at the emotional complexity of unexpected motherhood later in life, highlighting fear, vulnerability, and ultimately acceptance.
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After ads, will ChatGPT responses remain trustworthy? OpenAI says yes
As OpenAI is gearing up to rollout ads for both free and $8 ChatGPT Go, the company has assured users that ads will not affect ChatGPT’s responses and will be labelled and separated from the content.
Early signs of this rollout have been spotted on Android devices, suggesting the inclusion of ads in ChatGPT is close.
As noted on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI has designed a full-screen onboarding experience to familiarise users with ads in ChatGPT.
Although the AI giant has assured not to share personal information with advertisers, the current chat may still influence the type of sponsored ads displayed below the answers.
At the current stage, the commendable thing is that users have the option to hide ads, understand why specific ads were shown, and clear their ad data.
Ads will appear as a “Sponsored” block, and tapping the overflow menu draws the dropdown to hide the ad, report it, or even “Ask ChatGPT” about it.
OpenAI stated: “Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of advertising is always in support of that mission and making AI more accessible.”
Furthermore, the company has emphasised that conversations will remain private from advertisers and that user data will never be sold. A new “Ads controls” page has also been added to let users manage their ad history and interests without affecting their chat data.
These ads won’t be displayed to users of ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans.
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David Beckham makes dig at Brooklyn amid family rift: ‘Watch and learn’
As the Beckham family drama deepens, David Beckham had refrained from making a direct comment about any of the tensions.
However, the doting father, who often roasts his children playfully, sent a pointed message to his estranged son, Brooklyn, as he collaborated with his close friend Gordon Ramsay.
The famous British chef, who himself is going through some drama with regards to his son-in-law Adam Peaty, shared an update.
David, who is a legendary former footballer, flaunted one of his many skills, cooking. In a video clip, Gordon and David are seen on a video call in which David makes a scallop risotto.
“Usually when David Beckham calls it’s about football but I was surprised when he was cooking up one of my homechef recipes, Gordon had written on Instagram.
Before marrying Nicola Peltz, Brooklyn had tried to launch himself as a cook as he shared videos of himself cooking simple recipes. However, most of the time he was roasted and trolled for his skills, which were often dubbed as mediocre.
While he pursued cooking for a while, he seemed to have abandoned that idea and modify it by selling his own hot sauce.
The update comes over a week after Brooklyn made a series of shocking Instagram Stories posts about his family. He had broken his silence on the ongoing rumours about a rift in the family and clearly stated that he “[does] not want to reconcile with [his] family.”
He noted, “I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
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