Rebecca Romijn Isn't Picky About Her Ice-Cream Cravings

Along with many pregnancies come strong cravings, and it’s no different for actress Rebecca Romijn, who is expecting twin girls this winter. According to husband Jerry O‘Connell, his wife is indulging in "a lot of ice-cream, man," but luckily for Jerry, Rebecca is not picky because any flavor — and brand — will do the trick!  Says Jerry,

Not any one particular brand, like hitting up a lot of the different ones at Ben and Jerry‘s, but also other crazy brands.

While Rebecca enjoys her special treats, Jerry has become the doting husband as he gladly takes on his role as "the man [to] go out and get food." The 34-year-old is not looking to put on any sympathy weight (yet!), but does want to "help out as much as possible" during the pregnancy, revealing that the couple "worked really hard" to achieve it.

While Jerry and Rebecca have been very open about wanting to add children to their family, Jerry — who calls this a "very exciting" time –  says that the double blessing "just happened."  According to Jerry, the credit of having twins goes to his father’s family with there being "two sets over twins over there, back in the motherland of Ireland."

The baby girls will be Jerry and Rebecca’s first children. The couple have been married since July 14, 2007.

Source: Access Hollywood; Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.

Thanks to CBB reader Christina.

What was your pregnancy craving?

Comments

Don’t they know that twins have to run on the mothers side? He just gives the sperm and the mother is the one with the eggs. It depends how many eggs.
I am happy for them though! I wonder if she’s due in December.

- Kristy on August 4th, 2008

Twins DO NOT have to run on the mother’s side. I am the mother of twin boys conceived naturally, and nobody on any side of my family has ever had twins. Who’s to say an egg didni’t split for identicals…..

- Ally on August 4th, 2008

My cravings are spicy food. I never like that before and now cant live with out.

- nata on August 4th, 2008

I just had to have my dad’s French toast.

- Debbe Frost on August 4th, 2008

with my daughter, I craved sweets…specifically peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, usually at 3AM with a huge glass of ice cold milk. With my son…it was chicken alfredo with broccoli for some reason!

- tink1217 on August 4th, 2008

Ally, obviously twins sometimes just happen, but if you’re talking about a family history than only the mother’s side matters. Fraternal twins are more likely a genetic thing & identicals are usually just a fluke.

- Jaclyn on August 4th, 2008

As a mother of twins it is almost laughable all the misinformation the general public has as well as celebrities about the heredity and lineage of twins. Jerry O’Connell is sadly mistaken- his father’s side from Ireland are not wear their expected little ones came from. Only fraternal twins are genetic and this can only be from the mother’s side- it is her liklihood to release multiple eggs during ovulation that is the genetic link to twins- although I am very happy for them and wish them the best someone should really educate these celebrities that quite obviously went through fertility to achieve their miracle and should be honest and forth coming with this information rather than having themselves appear somewhat uneducated when they make ridiculous statements such as this one. Does it really matter how someone gets pregnant or even has twins or are the children themselves the point??? But the truth or no comment rather than an impossible genetic connection is more worhty of the general population’s intelligence!!

- bostonslyric on August 4th, 2008

I think its funny when people think twins run on the father’s side. Fatehr contributs the sperm…not how many eggs are released. If the egg splits then it splits, but again, that has nothing to do with dad..:)

I am really happy for them, they have been so vocal about wanting kids.

Congrats to them!

- Courtney on August 4th, 2008

Identical twins are phenomenon but the only genetic twins are fraternal and MUST be on the mother;s side- it is her likelihood to release more than one egg during ovulation that is genetic and since men don’t release eggs there is NO WAY twins have a genetic link in any man’s lineage!!!

- bostonslyric on August 4th, 2008

Have they shared whether the twins are fraternal or identical? All that’s been said is that it’s two girls. I’m really curious because to my understanding, identical twins are completely spontaneous, while fraternal twins MUST be passed on from the mother’s side of the family… which is why it struck me as odd that Jerry said it runs on his side. Regardless of which, those girls are bound to be beautiful— just look at how gorgeous their parents are! I bet it will be a lot of fun naming them. Congrats Rebecca and Jerry on these two long-awaited blessings!

- Isabel on August 4th, 2008

Have they shared whether the twins are fraternal or identical? All that’s been said is that it’s two girls. I’m really curious because to my understanding, identical twins are completely spontaneous, while fraternal twins MUST be passed on from the mother’s side of the family… which is why it struck me as odd that Jerry said it runs on his side. Regardless of which, those girls are bound to be beautiful— just look at how gorgeous their parents are! I bet it will be a lot of fun naming them. Congrats Rebecca and Jerry on these two long-awaited blessings!

- Isabel on August 4th, 2008

in ANY man’s lineage? If my father (a MAN) has twins on his side of the family, that could certainly be passed down to me. right?
then I could have twins? obviously not from the twins’ father, but still stemming from a MAN.

yes, he’s misinformed. lots of people are. who cares?

- jen on August 4th, 2008

So true, bostonslyric!!! It’s just so laughable how many celebrities have multiplies nowadays, and almost all of them claim they are natural )))))

- nicole on August 4th, 2008

Yup….i came to the comments after reading Jerry’s strange claim! I knew I was not the only one who thought that wasn’t right…(about twins coming from the man’s side)

As for me…I have boy-girl twins – conceived during my first ever fertility treatment- IUI with injectables (and accupuncture)…

I was 28 when I had them, so people don’t automatically assume I’ve had a fertility treatment. They do always ask – do twins run in your family – and I can truthfully answer that they do on my side…one of my mom’s parents were a twin (I leave out that it was my grandfather LOL – thus not passed down to me!)

I don’t know why I don’t like admitting to everybody that I used fertility treatments…maybe because a lot of single births happen without fertility treatments – and those go under the radar – so why should I disclose my private struggle…also – there are those who class ‘assisted’ pregnancies as ‘unnatural’ – wouldn’t care to debate that!!!

Although – if anyone is struggling with conceiving – I totally open up and tell them my whole process – as there is such wonderful options out there!

- Ella on August 4th, 2008

I’m sure Jerry was just laying down some bragging rights. Like, ha ha, the men in my family are real baby-makers. The fact that he’s not well versed in twinning says to me that they didn’t use fertility treatments. Any RE worth his or her degree will explain the process of how the drugs work and how IVF works and the percentages on fraternal twins and possibility of identical twins due to ICSI (though my RE at NYU disputes those claims). I was quite uneducated about twinning myself and have said the same things as Jerry whenever twins showed up in my family. It never once occurred to me that the ability to twin was a maternal genetic trait until I started IVF.

Whether they used fertility treatments or just had lots and lots of sex it’s really not anyone’s business how they conceived their children. They are under no obligations to disclose any information and if in fact they used some form of fertility treatments, big whoop! I think some IVFers and some suffering from IF project all their baggage onto celebrities pregnant with twins. It’s not the celebrity’s fault that someone else can’t conceive and it’s not a celebrity requirement to take up the pro-IVF stance and spill their guts.

My husband and I are going through IVF and have no intentions of telling anyone not even our families. While I don’t care who knows, my husband is very private and for him discussing IVF is just like discussing our sex life. Strictly between husband and wife.

- sheba on August 4th, 2008

How far along do you have to be to be able to know the sexes of the babies? Since they know they are girls, doesn’t she need to be a certain number of weeks/months to find out?

- M on August 4th, 2008

oops – typo:

maybe because a lot of single births happen without (I meant to write WITH) fertility treatments – and those go under the radar

….by the way – I had no idea about the whole twin process (passing down) until I joined a twin pregnancy group…

And I had no idea that injectables had a higher chance of twins than Clomid – found that out later too!

- Ella on August 4th, 2008

A friend of mine just had twins, fraternal twins, and there are no twins on either side of her family….and she didn’t do any fertility treatments. She’s over 35, so apparently the chances of you releasing more than one egg at a time increase once you pass 35. The doctors have all said her twins were a complete fluke, so it DOES happen.

- k on August 4th, 2008

Hi M,

I know there is this over-the-counter kit can test blood and determine sex beginning at 6 weeks though it has caused some controversy for various reasons.

My RE at NYU says they can gender test as early as 5 weeks gestation. Wow!!!! But they still do the “big sonogram” and 99 percent of the time both gender results match.

I don’t know about blood testing gender for twins. Oh, well, another question for my RE. LOL!

- sheba on August 4th, 2008

I agree with Sheba a bit about how people can project onto celebs. However, out of all my co-workers (200+ people), all my family (well over 100 people) and many many friends, I have only known about 3 people from all these groups to have twins without any medical intervention. So it does strike me as odd that so many celebs have them.

I just think it is really weird how celebs so quickly tell everyone that it’s not clomid or IVF that helped them conceive twins (recently Brad and Angelina reportedly also said this, or a “source” close to them did). Why say anything at all? I know Jennifer Lopez was asked by an interviewer specifically, so she answered the question. But for everyone else, it is a lame thing to do. If they are conceived naturally, then why make a specific statement? If they were conceived with some help, I still feel there is no need to make a statement unless that couple/person feel like sharing their story, maybe to provide inspriration to someone else.

That’s my two cents.

- esme on August 4th, 2008

Ella you make a good point. People scream IVF as soon as they hear the word twins, but the majority of IVF and IUI pregnancies are singletons. I believe 78 percent are singletons. RE doctors are not thrilled with twins, triplets or high-order multiples. They know the high health risks those pregnancies pose and most REs, the reputable ones that is, are not happy about multiples among their “success stats”.

Some women breeze through a twin pregnancies, like Angelina and my close friend (she went up to 40 weeks and 1 day, natural childbirth, very light bed rest). Most women and the babies have a rough go of it. Which is why multiple gestation is considered high-risk.

- sheba on August 4th, 2008

I think I read an article once that said: multiple eggis are released during ovulation more often than most people realize. Thus causing the conception of 2 babies to be more common and just happen:Although its more common when a woman is older though.

- Mia on August 4th, 2008

Well, I was just coming to talk about cravings lol. I’ve had a thing for ice cream too. It’s been one of the only things to calm my stomach, oddly enough. But, I switched to frozen yogurt because it’s a bit healthier and I don’t taste the difference. Sadly, I haven’t had any super weird cravings. Usually I just crave something RIGHT THEN and then once I have it, it’s over.

As far as the gender testing, I’ve had a lot of blood work done because I’m high risk. At my last visit the nurse told me an ultrasound can pick up gender at 16 weeks, but the only blood test that can tell the gender before then is amniocentisis. If Rebecca is over 35, it’s quite possible she had the test already. Otherwise, she could be due at the end of Dec. or very, very beginning Jan. and know from the ultrasound. That is if what my nurse told me is accurate, of course.

- MB on August 4th, 2008

Esme you can’t count a “source” as the same as the couple saying it. Ever think it’s just a tabloid lie with no connection to the celeb?

bostonslyric-I don’t see anything obvious that says Rebecca & Jerry used drugs. Unless you ere in the room with hem, stop acting like you know. Jerry’s misinformed statement has nothing to do with wether they had fertility treatments. If they used then of course their doctor would educate them on it.

- SeanJay on August 4th, 2008

I am very happy for them.

I also find it hilarious and somewhat stupid to argue over what side the twins come from.

Lets just say, twins are a blessing. Who cares if it was the mom or dad, or fertility treatments that led them to be concieved. Come on guys!!

- Nicole on August 4th, 2008

All I can think about when hearing of this pregnancy is John Stamos. Wasn’t the supposed reason for their divorce because of her alleged unwillingness to have children? If that’s indeed what it was, I do feel for him … but I am happy for Rebecca and Jerry. They’ll surely be beautiful babies!

- Dawn on August 5th, 2008

I have heard Jerry & Rebecca talking about having kids and would love to have one of each a boy and a girl. Well as we all know they are having twin girls and are just beyond happy about it. I have to wonder though if they will try one last time after the girls are born to have a son. I guess time will tell.
I am truly happy for this couple & wish them all the best.

Love Greatly, Laugh Loud, Live Well & Be Compassionate. : )

- Barbara on August 5th, 2008

I craved bullet pops (frozen treat) instant oatmeal with cinnamon & apples and a lot of sleep.

Love Greatly, Laugh Loud, Live Well & Be Compassionate. : )

- Barbara on August 5th, 2008

SeanJay-

I am not saying that I know how their twins were conceived what I am saying as someone who had “natural fraternal” twins (my aunt and uncle are twins via my maternal grandmother along with 5 other sets through female first and second female cousins on the same side) and who has seen numerous friends and associates struggle with infertility- some have twins & triplets- is that it seems to me that celebrities who have access to the BEST medical treatment, are surrounded and protected by lawyers/agents/managers ect- that at least they could be accurate and somewhat medically responsible with their comments or just choose not to make a comment at all. We have all seen the impact and power celebrities have over the general public and I just think that the general public’s intelligence as a whole deserves more especially with the exuberant number of those struggling with infertility- again they should make NO comment rather than a medically inaccurate one- that’s all.

- bostonslyric on August 5th, 2008

So judgemental about what Jerry said. He has twins on his side. That’s pretty much what he was saying. Also, just because they are having twins doesn’t mean fertility treatment bostonslyric. My sister had twins, fraternal, and we can’t trace back any twins on our side of the family or his. Imagine that, fraternal twins, conceived naturally, no link in our heritage…hmmm…it is possible!

- Marcy on August 5th, 2008

Aw so then I guess the chances of my cousin Wendell and his wife having twins themselves isn’t as strong as I thought. (Wendell has two or three sets of twin first cousins, plus his wife is a twin herself, so I guess they still could.)

Anyway good luck to Jerry & Rebecca on their twin daughters.

- Autumn on August 5th, 2008

the only way jerry could have anything to do with passing twins is if his mother had twins (which means she has the gene for hyperovulation), passed the gene for hyperovulation down to him, then jerry would pass the gene for hyperovulation down to his daughters, then it would be possible for his daughters to have twins.

since jerry’s father has the apparant gene, jerry would have to be a woman to inherit that from him. a man can’t inherit the gene for hyperovulation from his father, but a woman could…

if it’s identical twins then it has nothing to do with genetics. it’s just chance.

i agree with bostonlyric. he shouldn’t say stuff that’s wrong like that for the world to read. it’s like, HELLO, you’re pregnant with twins…maybe get your knowledge straight? maybe read up on the subject?

- SH on August 5th, 2008

Some people are so touchy!! Sheesh. So he doesn’t know all the facts of twinning yet, who cares? Who cares if someone conceives twins “naturally” or with help?
I have identical twin girls. I’m asked the stupidest and rudest comments all the time. When people ask if they’re “natural” I always answer with a smile, “No, they’re made with red dye #40 and aritificial sweeteners.” If people ask if I “had help” getting preggers, I say, “well, my hubby was there.” Lighten up people!
I gave up long ago, arguing with my mother in law over who “caused” the twins. She swears it came from HER family. Whatever, lol.

P.S. They may not know until birth if the girls are identical or fraternal. Though mine were in seperate sacks, they turned out to be identical.

- TwinMamma on August 5th, 2008

Esme@ brad and angelina never commented on the iv,clomid rumors until they were specifically asked about it by people in the new issue with the twins due to Us Weeklys cover which failed to mention that Angelina’s Mother has a set of twin brothers and she has a female cousin also on that sad that has twins. i just wish that if people were going to make comments like they had to have used fertility treatment that you actually not use tabloids as your fact base. i do agree with bostonlyric to agree about putting out the right info. Congrats to them just the same.

- katie on August 5th, 2008

I was going to remark on the twinning misinformation but I see that’s been covered! lol. I think they’re going to be adorable parents, I’ve always liked both of them and they seem really happy together.

I have identical twin boys, and my husband’s friends were ribbing him that he always has to one-up everyone. They had one baby… he had two! Men are just like that, you have to laugh at them

- Megan on August 5th, 2008

eh, i had identical triplets and for the first part of my pregnancy, i didn’t know about the genetics of multiples. and while we didn’t use fertility treatments, there are plenty of cases where identicals result after IVF, so it wouldn’t be unheard of.

- pam on August 5th, 2008

twinmamma-
actually, most identical twins ARE in different sacs – diamniotic, and share the same placenta – monochorionic.
only about 1-2% of identical twins are in the same sac – monoamniotic; called mono/mono twins. about 50% of these don’t survive to term due to cord entanglement and TTTS. my mom is the product of mono/mono twins, born in 1954. the day that the egg splits after fertilization in identical twins determines how many sacs there are. the later it splits, the higher chance you have for them to be in 1 sac. it’s unusual for the egg to split late which is why it’s unusual for the twins to be in 1 sac (or even more unusual is siamese twins, when the egg splits REALLY late).

you say for people to lighten up. not to be rude, but the sarcastic answers you give to people to their questions make it sound like you might be the one that needs to lighten up…

you can tell people that obviously your twins are “natural” if they’re identical. also, your MIL should know that identical twins happen by chance and don’t run in families. these questions/issues are just due to the fact that people don’t know. – perfect example, the comment made by jerry with this post.

also, i’m used to the twins questions too…i know what you’re going through. of my 4 pregnancies, 2 of them i’ve been pregnant with “natural” identical twins, but i ended up losing 1 of them both times, but having 1 healthy baby both times. i have identical and fraternal twins on both sides of my immediate family. i’ve studied about twins a lot. i find it very interesting.

- SH on August 5th, 2008

why does anyone care?
their life, let them be.
i’m happy for them.

- tyler. on August 5th, 2008

actually, SH, not to be picky, but there are two sacs involved, the chorionic sac and the amniotic sac. most identical twins share a chorion but not an amnion. and the survival rates for momo twins nowadays are much higher than 50%, thanks to inpatient monitoring. i did a lot of research on it because there was a long time when we thought that two of my triplets were monoamniotic. thank goodness they turned out not to be.

(but i guess maybe this is a little more scientific than necessary for CBB! )

ps i craved fruit when i was pg. to answer the original question in the post.

- pam on August 5th, 2008

I thought we were supposed to comment on our cravings and not argue about genetics! I craved popsicles and sour candy mostly. At one point during pregnancy I craved sliced tomatoes in Italian dressing.

- Carmen A on August 5th, 2008

SH, thanks for all the extra info, but I know all of that. Pam hit the nail on the head that it is possibly a little more scientific than necessary for CBB.

I do not need to lighten up. My responses show a light-hearted and humorous attitude.

Just because I have twins does not mean I should expect everyone to know the science behind it (my MIL). Point being, it’s no biggie!

P.S. My tell-tale preggo symptom is craving Arbys!!

- TwinMamma on August 5th, 2008

I had monoamniotic twins in 2005. My doctor had only seen it one previous time in 20 years of practice. Momo twins have about a 50% survival rate, however, if you make it to about 26 weeks, and are hospitalized on 24 hours fetal heart rate monitoring, the survival rate goes way up. I was hospitalized for 9 weeks on complete bedrest and had healthy twins at 34 weeks. Their cords were twisted and knotted all the way and they had many heartrate drops in utero, but are now rambuctious 2 year old boys.

By the way, if you look at the whole history of Hollywood, it was very, very rare for a celebrity to have twins (just like real life), and now in the last 5 years or so it is an epidemic that is WAY out of proportion to normal twinning rates in any given population. I believe 85% of celebrities used fertility treatments, and the rest are lying. I don’t care how kids are conceived, but I have more respect for people like Marcia Cross who are honest than peole who think the public are idiots.

- Kat on August 5th, 2008

With both pregnancies, I craved Pistachio Ice Cream. Thank goodness that Swensons was just down the street. I also had a craving of sorts for taco salad. Both times I went into labor, I had made taco salad for dinner that night.

- Ayla on August 5th, 2008

twinmamma-
you said in your post that you get ” the rudest and stupidest comments all the time”…if that bothers you why don’t you EDUCATE people with your answers instead of giving sarcastic remarks? i say your not being humorous and lighthearted, you’re giving answers to people that make them feel stupid, and they may just not KNOW. that’s all i’m saying…

- SH on August 5th, 2008

Wow SH…so I could have had the twin gene passed down to me! My mother’s father was a twin – so he could have passed the hyper-ovulation gene to her – and she to me!

Well…it seems I have a good backstory now

- Ella on August 6th, 2008

Ella,
If your mother’s father was fraternal then that would be true in theory.

- SH on August 6th, 2008

bostonslyric–you are SO on point. on top of all that there’s no WAY for them to have known the gender this early in a twin pregnancy!

- Madinat on August 6th, 2008

madinat – not true. with cvs testing (typically done around 12 weeks) they would know the genders.

- pam on August 7th, 2008

Geez…. who isn’t having IVF?? I had sex and got pregnant….. I didn’t realize it was so prevalent.

You know that some people can’t have children with each other. It depends on your blood type and matching genetics. Maybe people need to stop messing with nature… like maybe that person your with itsn’t the right person to have a baby with….???

- lotus flower on August 8th, 2008

SH, please you don’t have a sense of humor. I think twinmommas comments were funny. I would have laughed out loud if I had heard them…

- lotus flower on August 8th, 2008

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20206200,00.html

When I see an article like this, where a “source” says they didn’t use IVF or clomid…..of course I think, “Oh, so they used another fertility drug and IUI”. That’s just me. Why have a “source” say something for you, then beg the question of what else might have been used.

- esme on August 10th, 2008