If you have only one placenta, theyre definitely identical. If there are two placentas, could be fraternal or identical.

SH- Like how?

There are several ways (especially if you have money) to tell if your twins will be identical or fraternal before they are born.

CelebBabyLover, I also don’t think that ALL celeb twins are the result of fertility treatments, but I do believe that the MAJORITY of them are. Statistically the chance of having twins is less than 3% for the average person. People seem to think that the chance increases over the age of 35, but the difference is marginal. Fertility drugs, such as Clomid, and certainly ivf increase the chance enormously. Unfortunately there still is a stigma to using fertility drugs so most celebs won’t admit it. RR admitted to using Clomid a couple of times, so she was definitely pursuing fertility treatments at some point and there are other meds that don’t have the same side effects as Clomid. In any case, the Clomid stays in your system for awhile, so it still could have caused the twins. I’ve used fertility treatments several times and so I guess I don’t have a negative view of them…I’m always very open and honest about it and don’t feel they should be viewed negatively.

Oh, and I really hope that Rebecca and Jerry’s girls turn out to be identical (despite what Jerry’s said about them being fraternal, there’s actually no way to tell that before birth as far as I know), so people will get off their backs with the fertility treatment claims.

Identicals are pure luck. They don’t run in familes, and only one fertility treatment increases the chances of them (that’s ICSI, which involves injecting a sperm directly into an egg, and thus tampering with the egg “shell”, making it more likely that the egg will split in two).

paula- I never said that ALL the twins in Hollywood have been coniceved naturally. Obviously that’s not the case (and FYI, the reason I believe Rebecca is because of what she said about not liking the way clomid “messed with” her horomones. I doubt she was exactly eager to try other fertility treatments that would do the same thing!)

Anyway, what I hate is that people seem to assume that ALL the twins in Hollywood have been concieved with fertility treatments. Everytime a post is made about a celeb having twins, people say things like “She obviously had fertility treatments!”

Obviously it’s also not the case that ALL the twins in Hollywood were concieved with fertility drugs.

Some are, but some aren’t, and I wish we could at least give some of these celebs (especially the younger ones such as Rebecca and Angelina Jolie. Obviously with celebs who are either over or close to 40, there’s a pretty good chance that fertility treatments were used) the benefit of the doubt!

I must ask, why is that everyone assumes that ALL celebs who have had twins use fertility treatments?

I really relate to Rebecca’s comment taht she dreamed of decorating her baby’s nursery while the other girls were dreaming of their wedding day.

I really didn’t mean that they’d make it smaller – just photoshop in general – like make the belly a more desireable perfect shape…they’d probably do the same with her “puppies” as she calls them, and also her back side. It’s the cover of a magazine – realistically I’d say there’s a 99% chance they’d tweek it a little – she still looks great though in all the real pics we see of her too…

WOW she looks sooooo gorgeous!! And that dress! I would walk around in it all day if I looked like that!

People should remember that she is almost six feet tall so, what might look like a huge belly on a much smaller person, might not look so huge on her. And they do indeed shoot editorials like this at least a month in advance. I doubt that they photoshopped her belly to look smaller.

FYI regarding clomid – it stays in your system for at least the cycle after you’ve taken it. It could have affected her cycle without her realizing it.