Surprise! Claire Danes is expecting another child.
The 39-year-old actress — who is already mom to 5-year-old son Cyrus Michael Christopher with husband Hugh Dancy — announced on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday that she’s “seriously preggo.”
“I’m deep into my second trimester,” she confessed, admitting that this was her official announcement.
The topic came up while discussing Danes doing a nude scene in Homeland, and Stern said he would be self-conscious about his body in that position.
“Was this planned or are we having a surprise?” Stern asked.
“Yeah, this was planned,” she replied. “We’ve been wanting another kid for a while, and it happened.”
Danes said she was going to keep the sex of the baby a secret, joking that she could name the baby after Stern — “Howardina” if it’s a girl.
Danes opened up about the challenges of being a parent in the October 2014 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK.
“Being a mum is incredibly challenging, but we still feel a pressure to talk about it in very romantic terms. And it’s not just that,” she said, according to E! News. “We all have that resentment at times and anxiety about being trapped by the role, that responsibility.”
“And then chemically it can run riot … And there’s no ‘off’ button. [For me] that was the hardest adjustment,” she added. “You always feel beholden to somebody … And for so long they’re like koala bears, you just feel a physical responsibility to be there for them to cling to. It’s pretty primal.”
