First Marcia Cross pregnancy picture

Marcia Cross, who recently announced she is expecting her first child, headed out for a walk with a friend in Brentwood on Thursday. Dad is Marcia’s husband, Tom Mahoney, who she married in June. They are expecting in April next year. A day after Marcia confirmed the pregnancy, co-star from Desperate Housewives, Eva Longoria said that they "were all suspecting it because she was acting funny and she had been sick a couple of times, so we were all like, ‘She is pregnant’."

Marcia has been quite open in the recent past about the realities of conceiving later in life. She told USA Today, "I don’t like the average woman being misled into thinking that fertility is something that goes on forever. When a woman gets older, they get a donor egg, which doesn’t make the baby any less beautiful or perfect. One’s own eggs only last so long, and sometimes at 43 or 44 you can have your own baby, but statistically it’s very difficult and expensive. You don’t want to wait that long." It is unclear if she herself went the donor egg route, since with the timing of the pregnancy, it could very well be a honeymoon baby as well!

Source: PEOPLE and All Headline News.

Comments

Oh, so the baby will be so cute. Especially if she/he gets her mommy’s red hair!!! Congratulations for Marcia and Tom.

- Ana on September 11th, 2006

I am so happy for Marcia and her hubby. Her clock was tickin’!

- Ariana on September 11th, 2006

I can not wait to see what their baby will look like. Marcia has such an exquisite look, no doubt they’ll have a beautiful child.

- Natalie S. on September 11th, 2006

I’m hispanic and I’ve known many hispanic women who have no problem conceiving at that age..
But I see this problem mostly with white women. (I don’t about other races) I would be very interested to know the cause of this. Maybe they should do studies on this.

- gianna on September 11th, 2006

gianna, that is interesting, but I doubt it has anything to do with race. Infertility affects women at any age, not just older women. It is a proven fact that fertility declines with age. My aunt had her last baby at 45 and I have friends who are Hispanic who had to go through IVF at 25 so it just depends on the woman and her body.

Congrats to Marcia and her hubby! I LOVED her as Kimberly on Melrose Place! She plays evil so well!

- tink1217 on September 11th, 2006

Gianna,

Unlike Marcia Cross, who I applaud for being so open about fertility struggles, a lot of women (and their partners) don’t tell people when they have difficulty conceiving. So, it may just be that the women you know who conceive in their 40′s are keeping the details of those conceptions private.

I’m infertile and I know an equal number of anglos and latinos who are infertile (my husband’s latino, so we have a very diverse circle of friends and family). But it’s something that a lot of latina friends are very, very private about and have only shared with me because of my openness about my own infertility.

- Bippy on September 11th, 2006

I’m so glad to see her discussing infertility and donor eggs publicly. I think many women end up with a very deluded sense of normal fertility as they age and celebrities who have babies well into their forties and never discuss fertility treatment have a lot to do with that. Obviously it is no ones business how their baby was made but it is refreshing to see it addressed without embarassment.

And since they were seen leaving a fertility clinic before they were married (and she is likely further along than she is letting on) I have a feeling this was an assisted pregnancy and not a honeymoon baby. I guess anything is possible but at 44 getting pregnant naturally with your own eggs, on your first month trying would be pretty remarkable. There is a reason people tell stories about their grandmother or aunt who had a surprise pregnancy in their late forties or even fifties…because it is rare enough to be worth mentioning and telling stories about!

- auburn on September 12th, 2006

http://www.tonguewag.com/journals/catherine6067/

I applaud the link above for posting thousands of women over 40 conceiving and giving birth, healthy…read it and SMILE!

- Tash on September 20th, 2006

Race like being hispanic doesn’t have anything to do with it. I knew a hispanic woman who had unprotected sex since she was 17 or so and did not get pregnant once.

- Tash on September 20th, 2006