It seems that the desire to have children wasn't among actor Kim Basinger's objectives when she was younger; she waited until she was 41 to have her only child, daughter Ireland, with her then-husband Alec Baldwin in 1995. If the couple were hoping that having children together would lead to a long and happy relationship, they were sadly mistaken; they filed for divorce a mere five years later.
It's not known if there were any special circumstances that led to Basinger waiting until later in life to have a child; she'd been married before meeting Baldwin and was rumored to have dated Prince and Richard Gere during the peak of her heydays in the late 1980s and 1990s. It may simply have been a matter of choice, and life not settling down enough to let her focus on it until then.