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Hilary Swank announces she's pregnant with third child at 52

The Million Dollar Baby star, who already has twins born when she was forty-eight, says the baby is due in December; Fox News also reports Denise Richards' salary claim.

On air: Vera Bullock and Chip Darnell on The Midday Show
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Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN
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Photo: Hilary Swank
Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHilary Swank says she is pregnant with her third child, at fifty-two, and she is due in December.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe Oscar winner from Million Dollar Baby already has twins, who arrived when she was forty-eight, so December is going to be loud in that house.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCBS News broke the news, and I am more delighted than anyone in this building, including you.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI'm delighted at a level you can't see from there, Vera. I bought a stuffed bear on my lunch break.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFor a baby you have never met.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHer baby, my bear. We're basically family now, and I've already picked a name for him.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI bought two bears and a tiny pair of shoes. Not for the bed, Hal, so don't get any ideas.

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