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Mandy Moore is reflecting on the “sadness” she feels knowing she won’t be pregnant again.
The This Is Us star, 41, candidly opened up in a recent post on her Instagram Stories, noting the realization hit her after her visit to the OBGYN that she’s “done having babies.”
“I’m at the OBGYN getting a checkup… I’m endlessly grateful for my beautiful family AND there’s a certain sadness knowing I’m done having babies and won’t be pregnant again,” she wrote in the caption. “Any other moms feel this way?”
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The doting mom shares three children — sons Ozzie, 3, and Gus, 4, and daughter Lou, 16 months — with her husband Taylor Goldsmith. The actress and the Dawes frontman, who married in 2018, became parents in February 2021 when they welcomed their first child, son August “Gus” Harrison. In October 2022, Gus became a big brother when Moore and Goldsmith welcomed their second son, Oscar “Ozzie” Bennett. They became a family of five in September 2024 when Moore and Goldsmith welcomed their third child, daughter Louise “Lou” Everett.
Last July, the actress appeared on Kylie Kelce’s podcast Not Gonna Lie and was asked by the podcaster if she got a lot of opinions about having her baby daughter Lou when she was 40.
“Yes and no. I mean, I feel like having my third child at 40, this term ‘geriatric pregnancy’ that’s thrown around. I think at least in my experience, so many of my friends are having kids later in life, whether it’s by choice or it’s by circumstance or biology,” Moore began.
She added, “I think the thing that I had the most trouble with is just like this system in general kind of treating us as this anomaly that we’re like too old and we’re too complicated or high risk, and really, it’s like, ‘Nope, we’re just human beings.'”
“And I feel like it’s just such an outdated label,” she continued. “So it’s less about how I think the people and the perceptions they may have had, like the people in my life, it was just more about the healthcare system in general. It feels like such an outdated one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to just women in general.”
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In May 2025, the actress celebrated her first Mother’s Day as a mom of three and shared a sweet message about motherhood in an Instagram carousel.
“Being a mom is the single greatest gift of my life and while you’re never off the clock worrying or stressing or planning, the quiet, unmistakable joy triumphs over everything else,” she wrote. “I’m endlessly grateful to the moms in my life who model what it takes, lend an ear, make the best suggestions, and generally make me feel less alone on the journey.”
