Whether or not Marcia Cross used donor eggs, is her own business. She is not obligated to discuss her private medical issues with the public.

E! Hollywood just said that she is NOT pregnant with twins.

It’s so refreshing that a celebrity is this candid about fertility post 40 and the unlikelihood of achieving a live birth with your own eggs at this point. When famous women in their 40′s lead the public to believe that they easily achieved natural pregnancy or used their own eggs in IVF, many women in the general public are misled to believe this is simple or likely. But it’s no wonder Hollywood women are cagey about using donor eggs; can’t you just imagine the National Enquirer or the like trying to track down the donor down the line? Ugh. Or worse, referring the children as “donor egg children” much as many of the magazines offensively still say “so and so’s “adopted child…?” Everyone has a right to privacy but on the same hand, women need to know the truth about the finality of fertility. Famous women have the same biology issues as the rest of us!

Kudos to Marcia Cross! Thanks for the tip – you guys showed up on my little handy dandy news alert. I was able to post about this because of your blog. Thank you!

No they wont. A donor egg is an egg from a different woman that was inseminated with her husbands sperm and then (I don’t know the correct terms in english) put into Marcias body, so she is now pregnant, but not with her biological children. Though in my own personal opinion, being pregnant with and giving birth to those babies DOES make her the biological mother somehow, though the kids won’t have her genes.

A donor egg is someone else’s egg being used. So Marcia’s eggs may not have been used, instead she might have been implanted with another woman’s egg. So her babies will not be her’s genically but she will raise them (If this is the case – She may have concived naturally)

Chances are that they are donor eggs.
Like a previous poster said, Most IVF clinics will not even attempt IVF after 41
or so because the chance of getting 1 or more embryos and a pregnancy is less than 5%.

Then you have the increased risk of miscarriage as well as chromosonal errors @ that age.
It does appear that most celebs that infact have twins are older moms.

I myself am a new mom of twin’s and did IVF.
It’s a LONG,hard,expensive route but well worth it. Congrats to all the fellow twin parents to be.

Whats a donor egg -will the babies have marcia’s DNA?

Kudos to Marcia for being so candid about using ART to achieve pg.

Chances are she indeed used donor egg given her age, which is a wonderful option to grow one’s family.

Best to her and her expanding family!