Brigitte Nielsen

Model and actress Brigitte Nielsen has hit out at criticism from some quarters about her decision to have a baby in her fifties, saying that while she understands where they’re coming from, older fathers don’t receive the same scrutiny.

Nielsen’s daughter Frida – her fifth child, but first with 39 year old husband Mattia Dessi – was born in June this year, making her a mother at the age of 54. She revealed in an exclusive photoshoot with People this week that she began IVF treatment 14 years ago in the hope of having another baby.

“Some women think, ‘Oh my God, I’m too old’,” she reflected. “Well, yeah, I can understand people saying, ‘How dare she?’ But how many men have their first kids in their sixties and seventies and they never doubt it?”

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Brigitte Nielsen has just announced that she is pregnant with her fifth child at the impressive age of 54. She already has four grown-up sons, so it would be nice to see her introduce a girl into the mix. Whatever the gender though, it must seem like a true miracle for the actress.

Brigitte Nielsen with her husband Mattia Dessi

Best known for appearing in films the likes of 'Red Sonja', 'Rocky IV' and 'Cobra', Brigitte will be welcoming her first child with her 39-year-old husband Mattia Dessi, whom she married in 2006, over the coming months. 

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Brigitte Nielsen definitely had an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1980s, it's been confirmed. The actress, who for a short time was married to Schwarzenegger's The Expendables 2 co-star and fellow action hero icon Sylvester Stallone in the mid-1980s, had mentioned that the two had had an "outrageous affair" in a memoir published last year. The two supposedly hit it off whilst they were both on the set of the film Red Sonja, with Schwarzenegger going out with his future wife Maria Shriver.

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