United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- Claire Danes had a "meltdown" when she got pregnant with her third child.

The Beast In Me actress - who has Cyrus, 13, Rowan, seven, and a two-year-old daughter with husband Hugh Dancy - was stunned when she found out she was expecting her daughter at the age of 44 because she didn't think it was "physically possible" to conceive naturally any more.

Asked if she "burst into tears" at the thought of going through pregnancy again, Claire told Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast: "Totally.

"I called my OBGYN in convulsive tears. It was a pure like ... meltdown.

"None of this was by design. I didn't know it was physically possible. I was 44. And actually, Rowan was very hard-earned. I had to do two rounds of IV...