Which Actress is Raising a Toddler at 59?

Brigitte Nielsen is opening up about aging and her life raising a 4-year-old at age 59 in a new essay for the Sunday Times.

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The Red Sonja star was 54 when she gave birth to daughter Frida, youngest of five children and, Nielsen says, "love of my life."

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The Danish actress pushes back against assumptions — and her own initial fears — that she'd be "exhausted" having a baby at a mature age.

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If anything, she says, having Frida has put a spring in her step.

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"Men say to me, 'You’re nearly 60 and you’ve got a 4-year-old. Why aren’t you exhausted?'"

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Nielsen, who shares Frida with fifth husband Mattia Dessi, 43, writes. "I say to them, 'I’m a woman.

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We mothers are strong. Before I gave birth to her I did think, 'How am I going to do this?'

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This is going to be exhausting,' but I just turned 59 and she gives me so much energy.'

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"I like to keep in shape, but I don’t spend 10 hours a day in the gym," the Beverly Hills Cop II star says.

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