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Amelia Dimoldenberg

Madeleine West Gives Birth at 45 and Fans Are Loving Her Unexpected Journey

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Madeleine West has just welcomed baby number seven, and her fans couldn’t be more thrilled. The former Neighbours star, 45, first revealed her surprise pregnancy earlier this year in a refreshingly honest Instagram post, where she thought she was entering perimenopause—turns out it was something quite different.

“WHOOPS! Thought it was perimenopause. I thought WRONG!” she joked online back in January, adding that it wasn’t due to too much Christmas pudding either. “And I couldn’t be happier,” she wrote, even if she’s not totally sold on the “Geriatric mum” label, reported Metro.co.uk.

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