Hilary Swank Is Excited ’Beyond Her Wildest Dreams’ Over Twin Pregnancy: ‘She Feels Ready to Focus’ on Motherhood

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Her greatest role. Hilary Swank is thrilled to be starting a family with husband Philip Schneider.“She is doing great and feels better than ever,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly about the pregnant actress, 48, who announced in October 2022 that she is expecting twins.According to the insider, Swank has been looking forward to the day when she would get to expand her family.“She cannot wait to have [children] and has wanted to have kids for a while,” the source shares. “Her career got in the way of having kids in the past and now she feels ready to focus on being a mom.”The Academy Award winner has already picked out names for her babies as she prepares for their arrival. “She is excited beyond her wildest dreams, and she feels it is the right time in her life to finally have children,” the insider says, adding that Swank is currently “working on” the nursery ahead of a baby shower.After exchanging vows with Schneider, 49, in 2018, Swank gushed about her plans to become a mother.“I actually do want to talk about [my thoughts on motherhood].

I feel that I’m very maternal in the people that I care for and all the sentient beings I have around me — my dogs, my horses or just the human beings,” the Nebraska native shared with Daily Mail in August 2020. “And I feel like so much of the time women who either choose not to or can’t have children are somehow seen as not maternal or not mothering and it is a conversation that needs to be had.”She continued: “I’ve heard a lot of women say that they’ve been told, ‘Oh, you’re kind of a failure.’ Or, you know, ‘Didn’t you come here to procreate?; There are so many different ways to procreate!”The Alaska Daily star confirmed late last year she is expecting