Cheers to Rachel Weisz and Tammy Duckworth's Big Baby News
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This was a Crunch Time double-header of a week: Rachel Weisz, 48, announced she's pregnant with Daniel Craig's baby, in a New York Times profile by Maureen Dowd. And Senator Tammy Duckworth, 50, brought her newborn daughter, Maile, with her to the Senate floor, a day after legislators voted unanimously to allow babies less than a year old to accompany their Congress-member parents to work.
“I’ll be showing soon,” Weisz tells Dowd. “Daniel and I are so happy. We’re going to have a little human. We can’t wait to meet him or her. It’s all such a mystery.”
And that's about all Weisz says, and all she needs to say. We heartily agree with the Glamour article this week, "Let's Stop Gawking at Moms Over 40," which suggests we all just "congratulate Weisz on her happy news, and as a baby gift, desist from asking her things that are simply none of our business: How did she get pregnant? Is it even responsible for women over 40 to get pregnant?" And so on.
As for Senator Duckworth, here she is at the Senate this week, with baby Maile in tow:
We're not only in total awe of Duckworth's ceaseless courage, integrity, and sense of humor; we also suspect her daughter has a future as the Senate's in-house stylist. Little 10-day-old Maile had the good sense to violate the morbidly dull blazers-required dress code:
Duckling onesies are a definite upgrade on the usual Senatorial sartorial choices. We can't wait to see what else baby Maile will be rocking the next time she heads up to the Hill.
Big congrats to Weisz and Duckworth: two epically inspiring women for the ages.
