Eva Longoria is opening up about her decision to become a mother later in life.
“You have so much more wisdom and patience when you become a mother in your forties,” Longoria, 50, told The Sunday Times in an interview published on Saturday, November 22. “It was all about me for so long. Forty years of me was enough time, so I was really blessed to have my child later in life because I had traveled, I’d done everything I needed to do for my career. Now everything I do is just icing on the cake and I get to do that with my son.”
Earlier in the interview, Longoria discussed how important her family is to her amid her successful Hollywood career.
“My family is my priority, so if I’m saying yes to something and it’s taking time away from the, it’s got to be something I’m really going to enjoy and people I really want to work with,” she explained.
A family milestone! Eva Longoria shared sweet sentiments for her husband, José “Pepe” Bastón, on his 55th birthday. “Happy birthday to the best dad, family man and husband anyone could ask for! 💗,” the Desperate Housewives alum, 48, wrote via Instagram on Friday, April 18, alongside a photo of the couple with their son, Santiago, […]
The former Desperate Housewives star welcomed her only child, son Santiago Enrique Bastón, with her husband, José Antonio “Pepe” Bastón, on June 19, 2018. (Longoria is also a stepmom to Bastón’s three other children from a previous relationship.)
“From the moment he was placed in my arms, I knew no love like this before,” Longoria shared via Instagram four months after her son was born, calling him her “little bundle of love” and a “miracle.”
Eva Longoria and her son Santiago Getty Images
In a 2019 interview with Extra, the actress opened up about how having a child and becoming a mother changed her as an actress, especially when it came to working with younger women and girls on the set of Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
“It changed all my instincts,” she said at the time. “My moral compass was totally bonkers. I just had new eyes on the world. There was a scene where Michael [Peńa, who plays Dora’s dad] and I were standing there and Dora runs back into the crumbling temple, and Michael and I were like, ‘No, no, no! We would never let our child run into a crumbling temple — that’s dangerous!’”
While the actress has weathered countless questions about aging in front of the cameras since her 2004 Desperate Housewives debut, she didn’t shy away from the question in the Saturday interview.
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Before welcoming her son, Vanja, Chloë Sevigny was concerned her age would prevent her from getting pregnant. “I had tried other avenues and not had luck with them,” Sevigny, now 49, told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Wednesday, January 31. “So to naturally conceive at that age is kind of a miracle.” Us […]
“I want to have my 20-year-old body with my 50-year-old mind,” she told the outlet. “Wouldn’t that be great? We’re all aging. It’s happening, so you have no choice but to embrace it. I just want to age well. I want to be able to move, hike, get up and down stairs. I’m still carrying my son and he’s 7.”
Longoria is just the latest Hollywood A-lister to open up about her decision to have a child well into her 40s. Clare Danes — who welcomed her third child with husband Hugh Dancy at 44 – said she felt “shame” about becoming a mother again later in life.
“Well, it was actually really interesting because I did not foresee this at all. And it was weird. Suddenly I felt like a funny shame,” she said on a November 2025 episode of the “SmartLess” podcast. “I was naughty. I had been caught fornicating past the point I was meant to. No, it was weird, and it was like I found an edge that I hadn’t been quite conscious of.”
