WTF is in the water in LA????
Celebrifi - 5th Aug 2008
Michael J Fox: I am sure I'm not the only one noticing a bit of a trend in Hollywood lately. First, I think it started becoming very fashionable to be having a baby. I'm kind of thinking about around the time Christina Aguilera was preggers, things had already heated up. Jessica Alba, Halle Berry - it wasn't good enough to be gut wrenchingly hot anymore - a gigantic baby bump was what really made a starlet hot.
In the same way stars have always tended to one up one another, a simple pregnancy doesn't seem like much news anymore! Poor Ashlee Simpson! Her singing career is less than fantastic, and now every day people seem to care less and less about her burgeoning baby bump, though it grows and grows and grows? Why? Having just one baby in Hollywood is like, OMG SOOOOOO last year. It's twins or nothing now!
Lately, all the baby news has centered around one thing: twins, and that really has me wondering, what the f*^# is in the water in LA that is driving all these twin pregnancies. There's been speculation of fertility treatments or invitro fertilization, but personally I think it's the celebs drive to define a new trend. Technically speaking, there's only a 3% chance of having twins, but no odds can beat a star's desire for fabulosity! Lately, we've seen twins from Dennis Quaid,
Angelina Jolie &
Brad Pitt, to J-Lo & Mark
Anthony ...and now Lisa-Marie
Presley has announced her twin pregnancy! It's all the rage. Anyway, it got us thinking at celebrifi - is this something new, or has this always been going on? According to yeahbaby, here's a comprehensive list of all the celebs who have received the double-load from the stork in the last 30 years or so. Truth is, this has been going on for a while!
Twin Boys
Robert De Niro - Julian and Aaron (w/Toukie Smith)
Mel Gibson - Christian and Edward (w/Robyn Moore
Gibson)
Corbin Bernsen - Henry and Angus (w/Amanda Pays)
Jane Seymour - Kristopher Steven and John Stacy (w/James Keach)
James Taylor - Henry David and Rufus Logan (Kim Smedvig)
Ray Romano - Matthew and Gregory (w/Anna)
Lee Majors - Dane Luke and Trey Kulley
Niki Taylor - Hunter and Jake (w/Matt Martinez)
Twin Girls
Michael J. Fox - Aquinnah and Schuyler (w/Tracy Pollan)
Lance Armstrong - Grace and Isabella
Dave Matthews - Stella Busian and Grace Anne (w/Ashley)
George W. Bush - Jenna and Barbara (w/Laura Bush)
Ron Howard - Paige and Jocelyn
Lou Diamond Phillips - Isabella Patricia and Grace Moorea (w/Kelly)
Loretta Lynn - Patsy and Peggy
Malcolm X - Malaak and Malikah
Madeline Albright - Anne and Alice
Muhammad Ali - Rasheeda and Jamillah
One Boy & One Girl
Al Pacino - Anton and Olivia (w/Beverly D'Angelo)
Julia Roberts - Phinnaeus Walter Moder and Hazel Patricia Moder
Denzel Washington - Malcolm and Olivia (w/Pauletta)
Donald Sutherland - Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus and Rachel (w/Shirley Douglas)
Cheryl Tiegs - Theo and Jordan
Cybil Shepherd - Cyrus Zachariah and Molly Ariel
Holly Robinson Peete - Rodney Jackson and Ryan Elizabeth (w/Rodney Peete)
Jane Pauley - Ross and Rachel (w/ Garry Trudeau)
Mia Farrow - Matthew Phineas and Sascha Villiers (w/Andre Previn)
Chuck Norris - Dakota and Danilee (w/Gena)
Stanley Tucci - Nicolo and Isabel
Marcia Gay Harden (actress) - Hudson and Julitta
Holy crap! That seems like way more than 3% to me. So maybe I'll stick by my original hypothesis, that's there's just something in the water in LA. I will say this - the chance of having triplets drops significantly - from 3% for twins to .01%. If triplets becomes a new celebrity trend, something fishy is definitely going on - that or they're extremely motivated to one up one another!
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