United Kingdom, July 17 -- Mandy Moore hates the "outdated" attitudes that follow women who choose to have children later in life.

The 41-year-old actress gave birth to her daughter Lou seven months ago, and Mandy has now hit out at people who criticise women for having babies in their 40s.

During an appearance on the Not Gonna Lie podcast, Mandy explained: "I feel like having my third child at 40, this term 'geriatric pregnancy' that's thrown around. I think at least in my experience, so many of my friends are having kids later in life, whether it's by choice or it's by circumstance or biology.

"I think the thing that I had the most trouble with is just like this system in general kind of treating us as this anomaly that we're like to...