Melbourne, December 19 : Actress Eva Longoria is reportedly having trouble convincing her eight-year-younger hubby Tony Parker to start a family.

The `Desperate Housewives' star had previously made it public that she wanted to have children while Parker, on being questioned about the probability of Eva getting pregnant, earlier this year, had said: "She''s not pregnant now if that''s your question. I''m not thinking like that right now."

Eva, who had tied the knot with the pro basketball player in 2007, was said to be upset over the matter that her 26-year-old better half had refused to think about having children owing to his budding career.

"Tony isn''t ready for a baby. He''s much younger than Eva and at the top of his profession, while Eva is in her ''baby prime'' as she calls it. She even threatened to leave him twice before he agreed," the Daily Telegraph quoted a source as telling People magazine.

The couple were reported to barely spend much time with each other, with close sources adding: ""She and Tony rarely get to spend even 24 consecutive hours together. She is always in Los Angeles filming and he is San Antonio for the basketball season." (ANI)