Trina McGee is ready to meet her fourth child.
The 54-year-old actress, who played Angela Moore on “Boy Meets World,” revealed she's pregnant on Instagram on Monday.
“I am pregnant at a young age of 54,” she said. “Please pray for a safe delivery.”
Maggie accompanied the post with a clip of the Supremes' song “Baby Love,” and wrote in the caption that she was logging off social media “for a while.”
“Thank you in advance for the prayers and blessings,” the actress wrote.
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According to People magazine, Maggie has been married to actor Marcello Thedford for 16 years, after meeting him on the set of “Daylight,” starring Sylvester Stallone. She was in her late 20s when she joined “Boy Meets World” in season five, making her 10 years older than Rider Strong, who played her love interest.
“It's really surreal playing a high school student, a freshman in college, and then really coming home and having three kids,” she said on “Good Morning America” in 2022.
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Maggie also revealed on TikTok in 2022 that she was secretly pregnant at one point during the show's run, giving a close-up look at her baby bump in a 1998 episode.
“I was playing a teenager at the time, but in reality I was six months pregnant,” she wrote.
According to the Mayo Clinic, pregnancies after age 35 are at higher risk of complications that lead to C-section births, and “babies born to older mothers are at higher risk of certain chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down syndrome.” The risk of miscarriage also increases with age.
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According to data released this year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, births to women age 45 and older increased 12% from 2021 to 2022.
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Maggie is the latest star to become pregnant later in life: Last year, Da Brat welcomed his first child with wife Jessica “Judy” Harris Dupart, 49.
“I can't believe he came from me!,” she told People magazine. “It's a dream. He's perfect in every way.”
Also in 2023, Hilary Swank gave birth to twins at age 48. “It wasn't easy,” she said on Instagram, “but our boys (and girls!) were worth it.”
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