We're not so much of the opinion that actor Marcia Cross was so much of a 'desperate housewife' as a determined one. Marriage didn't arrive until comparatively late in life for Cross; she wed stockbroker Tom Mahoney in 2006, and no sooner had it happened then she started fertility treatment, so they could have children together. In fact, it's generally believed that they started fertility treatment so fast that they didn't even go on honeymoon!
Whether that's true or not, it worked. Shortly before her 45th birthday in 2007, Cross gave birth to twin daughters, Eden and Savannah. She went from being single to being married with children in a little longer than a year. That's quite the dramatic change in circumstances. We'll take that as evidence that it's never too late in life to have a whirlwind romance!