Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank announces she's expecting third child at 52

Hilary Swank has announced that she is pregnant with her third child and the new addition will be here in just a couple of months.

The 52-year-old Oscar-winner and her businessman husband Philip Schneider are already parents to three-year-old twins and now they’re expecting baby number three.

Swank made the announcement on social media by sharing an adorable clip of her family with neon sticks stuck to their bodies, as her husband and kids dance, Swank then enters the shot and can be seen with a teeny glow stick baby on her bump.

She also revealed when the baby is due, captioning the post: “A lot of people have been asking what project I’m doing next, this one releases in December.”

Swank and Schneider married in 2018 after two years of dating.

They became parents in April 2023 with the arrival of daughter Aya and son Ohm.

Announcing their birth on her Instagram account, Swank wrote: "It wasn't easy. But boy (and girl!) was it worth it. Happy Easter! Posting from pure Heaven."

The Million Dollar Baby star has previously spoken about her becoming a mum later on in life, saying she was in a ‘really blessed position’ and that she’s able to give more time to her family thanks to her career being ‘established’.

Speaking to PEOPLE earlier this year, she said: “It just worked out that I had babies this much later in life.

“It wasn’t that I didn’t want them earlier. There were a lot of things that kept that from happening, and so I can really take time to be with them.”

She continued: “I knew I wanted kids someday, but I wasn’t planning what that would look like.

“I know it’s so different for everyone, but for me, if I had had a kid in my 20s or my 30s, I think I’d be a much different parent than I am now.

“I feel like I have that more kind of ability to really give them my attention in a way that I wouldn’t have as much at that point because it would’ve been pulled between the two in a very distinct way.

“In my career being so established, I have the ability to kind of step in and step out when I choose, and that is just such a blessing.”

Swank also said that being older means she has ‘more patience and bandwidth’ than she did in her younger years.

Swank began her acting career in the early 1990s with roles in movies including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Next Karate Kid.

In 1999 she starred in biographical drama Boys Don’t Cry, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress.

She won the Best Actress Oscar again a few years later for her role as a female boxer in Clint Eastwood’s 2004 flick Million Dollar Baby.

Swank has also appeared in P.S. I Love You, Amelia, The Hunt and Logan Lucky.

More recently she’s been on the small screen with a guest role in the hit Showtime series Yellowjackets, alongside Melanie Lynskey, Ella Purnell and Christina Ricci.