Sigourney Weaver Opens Up About Being an Older Mom
Sigourney Weaver could more than sympathize with fellow actress Tina Fey‘s role in their recent movie Baby Mama. With Tina portraying a woman who desperately wants a baby while frantically watching her biological clock tick, Sigourney shares that while trying to get pregnant with her now 18-year-old daughter Charlotte, she too faced the same hardships.
A then 40-year-old Sigourney thinks "it’s fair to say I was becoming more and more desperate to have a child." While Sigourney did not go through fertility treatments to conceive, she admits that "if I hadn’t had Charlotte, I would probably have gone down that road." Grateful for the opportunity to become pregnant without extra help, Sigourney — who "loved [Charlotte] into existence" — cautions people that even though doctors assure their patients that having a biological child in your 40’s is doable, "it isn’t as easy as that."
As Sigourney is ready to send her daughter off to college, she is happy that the pair were recently able to share a "wonderful mother-daughter moment." After being invited to a charity event, Sigourney and Charlotte "got to go out and buy her first grown-up gown," with Charlotte finally choosing "a wonderful fitted green dress with this dramatic sort of mermaid tail." At her first major formal event, Charlotte "so pulled it off" according to her proud mama, who was delighted that her daughter was able to "have that Cinderella moment."
Source: Telegraph; Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.
- Posted on Aug 5, 08 at 7:00PM
- Permalink
- 8 Comments
August 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
The event she’s talking about was the Bal des Berceaux by French-American Aid for Children. There are pictures.
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/8226
August 5th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Cool mom!
I remember reading on a website that specializes in star sightings about someone who had sat near Glenn Close and her daughter Annie having dinner with Sigourney and her daughter Charlotte in a Manhattan restaurant. The witness was so impressed with the maturity of the girls and how much the foursome really seemed to enjoy each other’s company. Sometimes that’s not easy for the moms of teen girls to pull off, so good for them!
August 6th, 2008 at 12:34 am
I can’t believe she’s nearly sixty!
August 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am
I don’t know where to post this, so I hope one of you will see it on here. I noticed that you haven’t posted this: Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio, 27, and fiancé Jaime Mazur welcomed a daughter, Anja, on Saturday at a hospital in Florianopolis, Brazil.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:48 am
I don’t know where to post this so i hope you guys see it here. I noticed that you haven’t posted this new info on our sight:Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio, 27, and fiancé Jaime Mazur welcomed a daughter, Anja, on Saturday at a hospital in Florianopolis, Brazil.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:07 am
I have always wanted to see Sigourney’s daughter! I have never seen a picture of her before. Has anyone on here ever posted one?
August 6th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I never knew it took her a long time to conceive her daughter. Nice interview.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:58 am
@Rye: here’s Charlotte with both parents http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/05_16_08/BaldeBerceaux/BaldeBerceaux12.jpg