'I will be nearing 70 when my youngest child goes to college': St. Elmo's Fire star Andrew McCarthy, 50, nervous about third child

He was an icon of the '80s with such hits as St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty In Pink and Less Than Zero.
So it's no wonder Andrew McCarthy, 50, feels he's just too old to have another baby.
In the October issue of Town & Country magazine the former Brat Packer opens his heart about the stress he feels over having to hit the playground once again with his third child, due this fall.

The '80s icon and his Mrs.: Andrew McCarthy announced in the October issue of Town & Country magazine that he is expecting his third child with Dolores Rice, who he married in 2011

The former teen idol, who has shared film scenes with such A-listers as Demi Moore, Robert Downey Jr. and Kim Cattrall, confessed that he is excited but scared.
'That my wife is with child is, of course, good news. It's fantastic news. And yet it is news that does not sit easily with me,' he writes in the article titled Baby Boom.
'I already have two children, one by my first wife and another with my current—and currently pregnant—wife. My oldest lives with us half the time and with his mother, a few blocks away, the other half.
'I adore my children, naturally. My son [Sam] is 11; my daughter [Willow] recently turned seven....The thing is, I turned 50 this year. I was fairly old getting into the child business to begin with, but now...'

Third time a charm?: The former Brat Packer with his oldest child, son Sam, at a basketball game in February

The New Jersey native, who will next star in The Haunted Secret with Bai Ling, is worried he will be too old to take proper care of baby number three.
'When I do the math, and I have, repeatedly, I will be nearing 70—s-e-v-e-n-t-y—when my youngest child goes off to college,' he says.
'That is, assuming I live that long and that I can still afford college. From everything I hear, 70 is no longer 70.... And now, with the notion that my sixties will be spent with a teenager at home, I am left gasping as I watch pipe dreams of extended travel, time with my wife, and visions of blessed solitude go up in smoke.
'I used to be grateful I waited so long to start a family, glad I was more emotionally mature when my kids came along,' Andrew writes.
'But I never imagined myself one of those fathers mistaken for Grandpa at morning drop-off.'
Andrew, who says his wife was five months along at the time he wrote the article, points out just how stressed he is
'The greatest, deepest joys in my life have, without doubt, been associated with my children. So why this apprehension about another?' he confesses.
'Or maybe it's worry that my relationship with my wife will get sliced even further, with yet another piece of her going to someone else who cries out for attention.'

Adding fuel to Fire: The 50-year-old with Demi Moore in the 1985 smash hit St. Elmo's Fire, which drove the actor to stardom

While he is panic struck, his wife Dolores Rice, who he married in 2011, is excited.
'My wife has plunged into serious and classic nesting mode,' the actor and travel writer continues.
'She has become urgently obsessed with finding a bigger, better home. Now. I, on the other hand, have recently been employing an equally time-honored response: denial.'
One thing Andrew dreads going back to? Those darn swings and slides!
'I always hated the playground,' he adds.
'A few months ago I was struck suddenly with relief and a strange form of pride when it occurred to me that the hours spent chasing my kids under the jungle gym and pushing them on truck tires hanging from heavy chains were mostly over. The idea of zooming down the slide with my new infant on my lap fills me with exhaustion. Been there, done that.'
The New Yorker ends his article on an optimistic note.
'History promises—and I trust the future will bear this out—that the moment my new child is born, all my misplaced anxieties and selfish doubts will be swept away,' he concludes.
Good luck Andrew!

Firmly in the driver's seat: The soon-to-be father of three (far right) with Robert Downey Jr. and Jami Gertz in the 1987 cult classic Less Than Zero, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel