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    Tina Fey Is Pregnant at 40!

    By | Parenting – Thu, Apr 7, 2011 6:43 PM EDT

    By Sharon Tanenbaum, Everyday Health's celebrity news editor

    Congratulations are in order for everyone's (or at least my) favorite funny woman, Tina Fey!

    The 40-year-old star of 30 Rock announced she is expecting her second child with husband, composer Jeff Richmond, during a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show on Wednesday, according to People. The couple have a five-year-old daughter, Alice.

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    Fey, who said she's five months along, seems to be right on trend: The Centers for Disease Control announced last week a 6 percent rise in the birth rate of women between 40 and 44, whereas birth rates among every other age group actually fell.

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    With her announcement, Fey, whose book, Bossypants, was released on Tuesday, put to rest that nagging, cocktail-party question of "Are you going to have more kids?" In fact, she recently mused about in a story she penned for The New Yorker:

    "This is rude. Especially to a woman like me, who is in her 'last five minutes.' By that I mean my last five minutes of being famous is timing out to be simultaneous with my last five minutes of being able to have a baby. Science shows that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after forty."

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    While fertility does decline as you get older, Fey shouldn't feel so uneasy. "In fact, a pregnant woman in her mid-to-late 30s (and early 40s) is nearly as likely to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby as her much-younger counterparts," explains Heidi Murkoff, author of What to Expect.

    And, while I can't quite comment on the decline of movie offers, I can point out a few of Hollywood's fabulous over-40 women who don't seem to find any trouble getting job offers: Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Diane Lane, and Marisa Tomei.

    Do you have any advice for Tina Fey? Who are your favorite over-40 Hollywood stars?

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