India, June 23 -- Following Hollywood actor Anne Hathaway's announcement that she is expecting her third child with husband Adam Shulman at age 43, a US doctor has stepped forward to dismantle the fear-driven narratives surrounding late-stage pregnancies. Also read | Anne Hathaway is 43 and pregnant with her third child: Doctor says late pregnancy is no longer unusual, can be safe

Dr Kunal Sood, a Maryland-based physician specialising in anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine, shared an Instagram video on June 22 aimed at rebalancing the conversation on maternal age. While acknowledging biological realities, Dr Sood highlighted that a person's health profile is far more telling than the numbers on a birth certificate.

The video...