Scott Barbour/Getty ImagesNicole Kidman wants to have more children with husband and country star Keith Urban and detailed her heartbreaking struggle to conceive in a recent interview.
The 47-year-old actress and mother, who is promoting her new thriller film Before I Go to Sleep, made her comments to Australian radio station KIIS 1065 in an chat posted on Friday. She was asked about the possibility of having more kids.
"I mean, I hope every month that I'm pregnant, so there we go. But I never am," she said. "I would be jumping for joy if I was. It won't happen. No! I'm 47, it won't happen."
She then added, "Well, my grandmother had her last baby at 49. So, you never know."
Urban, 46, had said in 2013 that he always has his tours scheduled in a way so that he is "never gone for weeks at a time," which would obviously boost the baby-making chances for the couple.
"Oh, we've brought it down," Kidman said on the radio show. "Seven days now."
Kidman is a mother of four children, one of whom she gave birth to herself. She has an adopted son and daughter with ex-husband Tom Cruise and two daughters with Urban. She delivered their eldest, Sunday Rose, in 2008 at age 41, while their youngest, Margaret Faith, was born to a gestational carrier in 2010.
About 20 percent of women in the United States give birth to their first child after age 35 and about one-third of couples in which the woman is older than 35 have fertility problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Around age 50, women typically experience menopause, a decline in function of the ovaries.
The CDC also states that having more than one miscarriage also increases the risk of infertility. In 2007, Kidman told Marie Claire that she had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy, a life-threatening condition in which a pregnancy occurs outside the woman's uterus and must be terminated, while she was married to Cruise.
Many women have been able to conceive and give birth past their 40, including several actresses. Halle Berry, who is now 48, earlier this year welcomed her second child. Kelly Preston, who is now 51, gave birth at age 47 to her and John Travolta's son Benjamin, their third child, in 2010, a year after the death of their son Jett.
Women having trouble conceiving often use fertility supplements and other medical treatments, namely in vitro fertilization (IVF).
In May, a 46-year-old Florida woman became the oldest mother in the United States to welcome a baby using the method. In 2007, a 60-year-old New Jersey woman became the oldest American woman to give birth to twins via IVF which she also used at age 53 to conceive their older brother. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest mother to give birth was a 66-year-old Spanish woman, who also got pregnant via IVF in the United States and delivered twins via a caesarean section in 2006.