Surprise! Hilary Swank at 48 is pregnant with twins

On "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, Hilary Swank revealed that she is expecting twins. The Academy Award-winning actress made the statement to the hosts of the morning talk show as well as to the rest of the country as she was promoting her upcoming series, "Alaska Daily." The 48-year-old actress not only disclosed she was expecting, but she also said she will give birth to twins. "This is something I've wanted for a very long time, and my next goal is to become a mother!" said Swank. "I'm going to have two kids, not just one," she said. She added, "It’s so nice to be able to talk about it and share it," and that she "can’t believe it." Swank and her husband Philip Schneider, whom she has been married to since 2018, will each have their first child with the two new members of their family. Later that day, Swank continued to talk about her pregnancy on "Live with Kelly and Ryan," stating that she is presently in her second trimester and that everyone, even her "Alaska Daily" crew, who also found out about her pregnancy when she initially announced it on television, was shocked by it. "I’m feeling great right now. It’s so fun to finally be able to say it … I’ve been on set, my crew doesn’t know that I’m pregnant, until now, too," the actress said. "My clothes started not to fit, so I had to, the other day ... cut [my jeans] open. And then I put a jacket on that wasn't in continuity and [they] came and said, 'That's not in continuity.' I said … ‘I'm going to make it work.' She's like, 'If you're an executive producer, you can do it, but this is weird.'" Ryan Seacrest, Swank's co-host, questioned her about whether she was anxious about going from 0 to 2 newborns during the conversation. Swank explained that having twins didn't take away from the excitement of her pregnancy and that since it runs in both her and her husband's families, she wasn't overly startled. "Twins means two! It’s double excitement," she gushed. "My grandmother was a twin, my husband’s grandmother was a twin, so we have twins in our lineage."