Twins for Marcia Cross!
I’ve got more twin news! Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross is expecting not one child in April, but two!
Us Weekly is reporting that newlyweds Cross, 44, and Tom Mahoney (they married 4 months ago) knew they wanted children and did not waste any time! The actress had in-vitro fertilization to conceive her double bundle of joy. She has spoken openly to USA Today about the challenges of getting pregnant when you are over 40. “I don’t like the average woman being misled into thinking that fertility is something that goes on forever. When a woman gets older, they get a donor egg, which doesn’t make that baby any less beautiful or perfect. One’s own eggs only last so long, and sometimes at 43 or 44 you can have your own baby, but statistically it’s very difficult and expensive. You don’t want to wait that long.”
Cross had not specifically if she herself used a donor egg or not, but her comments certainly make me wonder if she did.
The actress joins a long list of celebrities who are expecting twins including P. Diddy and girlfriend Kim Porter, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall and Stroke’s Nick Balensi and wife Amanda de Cadenet. There are also rumors that Patrick Dempsey and his wife are expecting twins; however that has yet to be confirmed.
