Prayers for her friends and family. I didn’t realized that she had her last two kids when she was 48 and 50.
From wikipedia:
Elizabeth Anania, the daughter of Elizabeth and Vincent Anania (1920–2008), grew up in a military family, moving many times and never having a hometown, as her father, a United States Navy pilot, was transfered from military base to military base during her childhood and adolescence. For part of her childhood she lived in Japan, where her father was stationed. She relates in Resilience that one of the hardest of the many relocations that she went through was having to move during her senior year of high school.[citation needed] She graduated from the Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, then attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she received her bachelor’s degree. After three years of postgraduate studies in English at UNC, she entered UNC’s School of Law and earned a J.D.. She met John Edwards when they were both law students at UNC. They married on July 30, 1977.[3][4]
Elizabeth was the mother of four children with her husband John: Wade, Catharine, Emma Claire, and Jack. Wade was killed in April 1996 when he lost control of his Jeep while driving from his Raleigh, home to the family’s beach house in the private gated community of Figure Eight Island, near Wilmington.[5] Three weeks before his death, Wade Edwards was honored by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House as one of the 10 finalists in an essay contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Voice of America. Wade, accompanied by his parents and sister, met North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. After Wade died, Helms entered his essay and his obituary into the Congressional Record.[6]
Following Wade’s death, the Edwardses decided to have more children: Emma Claire was born in 1998 when Elizabeth was 48, and Jack was born in 2000 when she was 50. She was pregnant with Emma Claire during her husband’s 1998 Senate race. Emma Claire and Jack were born in Chapel Hill, where the family now resides. After John’s January 21, 2010, public admission that he fathered a child with his mistress, Elizabeth legally separated from him, intending to file for divorce after North Carolina’s mandatory one-year separation.