Rebecca and Jerry are currently in Vienna and have attended five new events in the past few days! I have just updated the photo gallery with these new photos, you can see them all by clicking on the previews below.
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The past couple of days, I have added 1,700+ photos of Rebecca attending various events in 2004 and 2005!
The always gorgeous and down-to-earth Rebecca Romijn has conquered the world of modeling and acting. Next up for the successful 37-year-old Ugly Betty star? Mother of multiples! Rebecca and her husband Jerry O’Connell welcomed their adorable twin daughters – Dolly and Charlie – in December 2008. Celebrity Baby Scoop sat down with the model mom and discussed the challenges of raising two at once, the joys of motherhood and the importance of making time alone with your partner amidst the trenches of twins.
CBS: Is Dolly the one who looks like you?
RR: “Yes, Dolly is the one who looks like me [in blue tee above] and Charlie is the one who looks like Jerry. Jerry’s mother just sent us a photo of Jerry’s grandmother when she was Charlie’s age and they look identical.”
CBS: And you even kept the name in the family (Charlie was named after Jerry’s brother)!
RR: “It just worked out that way. When I was pregnant, I named them before I even met them. I could sense which one was which. It was funny, the second or third day I was in the hospital, I tried swapping their names and nobody could do it. It was set, it was in the stars.”
CBS: Your girls are absolutely gorgeous! Do you think Jerry is prepared for the teen years?
RR: “No, I don’t think any of us are! We just keep reminding ourselves that if we think it’s tough now, wait till they’re 15 and revert back to toddlers. We’ll see. Wish us luck!”
CBS: How are your girls different and how are they the same?
RR: “They are both extremely willful and curious and active.
Dolly is really social. She’s at this really funny age where she wants to play with the older kids at the playground. She’ll run up to groups of older girls and get right in the middle of them and start babbling and then laughing hysterically because that’s what they’re doing. She can’t even talk yet!
And Charlie’s a little more reserved. She’ll sit off to the side and observe. For a while there we thought Dolly was the wild child and Charlie was completely safe. But now we’re noticing that Charlie has got her bravado on these days. She’s climbing to the big girl slide and attempting to go down herself – which of course worries us. It’s been amazing and so cute. We laugh a lot. We try to keep it light.”
CBS: What a whirlwind it’s been for you guys. What’s your best advice for parents of twins?
RR: “Since I was pregnant, people were saying, ‘Just wait till 3 months, it’s going to get so much easier.’ And then at 8 months, they said it would get easier. These girls are 17 months and it hasn’t gotten easier yet! I’m still waiting for it to get easier. Maybe it will be when they turn 2?!
But do I have advice yet? I don’t know, I feel like I’m so in the trenches that it’s hard to dole out advice yet. I guess just to try and keep a sense of humor about everything. It’s really easy to get bogged down. You can’t even think straight half the time. I hope that once they start talking, that’s when I hope to cobwebs will start to clear from my head.”
CBS: Have you had a chance to make the time for yourself? Do you think that’s important?
RR: “Absolutely! Actually the best advice I can give to parents of twins is to make time alone with your partner and make sure that’s a priority. Even if it’s just going out to lunch, Jerry and I make sure that we still have dates together. At least every other day we try to go and work out or do lunch or something.
Both of our parents have been extremely helpful. Jerry’s parents live in New York but since the girls have been born, they come out here all the time. They just want to be nearby. When the weather’s bad in New York, they were out here for 6 months and they made themselves completely available to us which was amazing. We actually got a couple weekends away just the two of us which is nice to be able to reconnect. There’s nothing like leaving your kids with their grandparents. You know they’re going to get top-drawer care! His parents are so in love with these girls and they had such a great time with the girls. We had no problem leaving the girls with them.”
CBS: Can you see why the divorce rates are so high for parents of multiples?
RR: “Yes, I can see how people could cycle into a real black hole with parenthood. I can see how it could happen with just one child. If one parent is the primary caretaker and the other is working, resentment can build up for both. For example, last year when I was working for eight months and Jerry was the primary caretaker, I was jealous that he got to spend as much time as he did. I was coming home and he was heating up my dinner and I was watching them on the monitor at night. It was so depressing!
And now he’s back at work and I’m the primary caretaker and it’s like the reverse. He’s jealous that I get to be with the girls all the time and I’m jealous that he gets to go back to work. It also keeps things in perspective. We’re feeling good about tag-teaming with work right now. It’s working really well for us right now.”
CBS: How has motherhood changed you?
RR: “For me, being a mother of girls has softened me up in such a great way. I feel so honored to be a mother of girls. I grew up with a sister and I’m extremely close with my mom and her sisters. I come from a very female-oriented background. Jerry comes from a boy-rich household. I feel like it’s a very big wake-up call for him with a sea of pink all over our house.
I’ve been working for so many years. When you work so hard for so long, your masculine energy comes out a lot. It’s so nice to be soft and girlie with these precious little girls. It’s been really nice.”
CBS: Do you want your girls to walk in your footsteps and enter modeling or acting?
RR: “Not until they are 18. No work until they’re 18, across the board. We did the milk ad but that was college tuition and they’ll never remember it (laughs).
They’ll have our support, but not until they’re 18. I feel strongly about that. I started modeling after my first year of college. I was 18 when I started and right around my 19th birthday, I moved away. Jerry, of course, was a child actor. He comes from a pretty level-headed family. They maintained his level-headedness throughout it.
I feel – especially because we live in Los Angeles and we’re surrounded by it – the girls are going to be growing up around a certain amount of the celebrity world and paparazzi. I want to try to keep them as normal as possible and let them have a normal childhood.”
CBS: Do you think the girls are noticing the paparazzi yet?
RR: “For Jerry and I, it rattles us every single time. When someone comes out form behind a car with something aimed at you, it makes you jump. If someone is wearing black with a giant lense pointed at you coming out from behind a bush, it makes you jump.
For the first time just the other day we were on our way into a restaurant and the girls were absolutely beaming! They had giant smiles on their faces and Jerry and I were like, ‘OK, I guess they’re alright.’ We also don’t want to make it scary for them.
It’s a little bit scary. Of course the babies don’t pick the lifestyle. Then again, they don’t know any different. Babies only know what they know. So it’s up to the parents to make it as safe and normal as possible.
I don’t know the best way to deal with it. We’re in the throws of it ourselves. We make an effort to stay away from the places we know the paparazzi hang out. Sometimes they catch up with us. But there are a lot of people that go to the parks and restaurants where they know the paparazzi are. We never do that. We try to avoid it just because we like our privacy as a family.”
I have just added 79 HQ and MQ photos of Rebecca from the “What’s Your Denim Style” fashion show that was held in New York City last week!
The worst wedding DJ ever is back and he is behaving worse than ever. Still playing the air drums on Phil Collins ‘In the Air Tonight’, it just feels like he’s doing it on purpose now.
For all intents and purposes, Rebecca Romijn seems to live a charmed life: the stunning model has gone from cover girl to a woman who not only acts, but also seems to balance her personal and professional lives with ease and class. With actor husband Jerry O’Connell, she has sixteen-month old twin daughters, Charlie and Dolly. And while the girls are still so young, she’s more than ready for them to start growing up. “I’m so excited to get to the next spot,” she shared with us last week at Huggies’ denim-look diaper event. “I know a lot of mothers are like, ‘Oh they were so little, I wish they were still little,’ but I’m the opposite. I can’t wait for them to start playing hide and seek.”
And while her two daughters may seem like angels to the public eye, she insists it’s not that easy. When posed the question of how she manages a public tantrum with not one but two little screamers, she responded, “If we go out to a restaurant and they start acting out – which happens fairly often – we scoop them up and take them right outside.” Even so, Romijn suspects her daughters are smart enough to know that tantrum removal. “It just ends up being one-on-one time with Mommy or Daddy, and that’s usually what they want!”
As for her biggest lifestyle change?”We’ve ended up changing the type of restaurant that we attend,” she laughed. “You go to family-friendly places; you seek out the places that hand you Cheerios and bananas, crayons and a piece of paper as soon as we sit down.” Sounds good to us.
From Babble
At only 16 months old, Rebecca Romijn‘s twin daughters’ “completely different” personalities are already shining through.
“Dolly is a little bit of a wild child and Charlie is very safe,” Romijn told PEOPLE Moms & Babies at a Huggies Jeans Diapers event in New York City Thursday.
“They’re so active right now. They just literally run off in opposite directions,” the actress, 37, explains.
“When you’re the only one who’s taking care of them, it’s scary sometimes. I’ve been trying to organize it by teaching them how to play tag [but] they’re not quite grasping the concept. We’re still working on that!”
Romijn’s other half, actor husband Jerry O’Connell, “is the best dad,” she says. “He’s great with them. Plus, he’s a big diaper changer. He’s more eager to change diapers than I am. I’m like, ‘Okay great, that job’s for you.’”
One of Romijn’s jobs? Dressing her daughters. “I try not to match them completely,” laughs the actress. “But I do like to coordinate them, especially because I know that they’re going to have a lot of opinions really soon. So I’m just trying to do whatever I can to dress them how I want right now.”
After taking time to work on the now-canceled Eastwick, Romijn is taking time to stay home with Dolly and Charlie as O’Connell heads back to TV.
“Jerry’s show [The Defenders] just got picked up,” Romijn explains. “We’ve decided to tag-team with work right now. It’s really important to us that one of us be home with the kids primarily. He was taking care of them a lot when I was working last year and now I’m taking some time to be with the girls.”
Romijn and O’Connell have previously said that Dolly and Charlie completed their family. Have minds changed since?
“We’re really happy with two,” notes Romijn. “Two is perfect!”
From Celebrity Babies
Actress Rebecca Romijn says it’s sometimes ‘scary’ to look after her twin daughters on her own.
The 37-year-old star has 16-month-old twin girls Dolly and Charlie with husband Jerry O’Connell.
She admitted that the little toddlers can sometimes run off in different directions and it can be frightening when she looks after them on their own.
Romijn told PEOPLE Moms & Babies: ‘Dolly is a little bit of a wild child and Charlie is very safe. They’re so active right now. They just literally run off in opposite directions.
‘When you’re the only one who’s taking care of them, it’s scary sometimes. I’ve been trying to organise it by teaching them how to play tag [but] they’re not quite grasping the concept. We’re still working on that!’
From Monsters and Critics