Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and gay husband Matthew Broderick are having twins! According to the couple’s reps, they are expecting twin daughters this summer via a surrogate mother. They are reportedly “overjoyedâ€. Broderick is probably feeling grateful that he can maintain the appearance of heterosexuality without actually having to sleep with his wife. This time, he’s on his knees thanking God for Petrie dishes. Yay, science!
"Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman."
The couple, who exchanged wedding rings in May 1997, has a 6 year-old son, James Wilkie. His conception continues to baffle Broadway. When the couple attended the Tribeca Film Festival and premiere of Broderick’s new movie Wonderful World, Matthew said about his wife: “Doesn’t she look beautiful?â€, successfully resisting all temptation to use the words ‘fabulous’ or ‘fierce’.
It was Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field who pulled out the ‘F-word’, saying that the couple “could have fierce daughters. Fierce daughters!â€Â Field is also relieved that she will not have to come up with clever costumes to cover another Parker pregnancy, as she did during one season of Parker’s hit show.
Parker, who held Broderick’s hand throughout the film festival, said, “I’m always thrilled to accompany my husband—pretty much at any event.â€Â Broderick told US Weekly that he, too, was ecstatic to have her by his side.
“I’m happy that she came out,†he said to US Weekly before the two laughed.
Yeah, we get the joke, too, kids. “Came out.â€Â At least one of them has.
The couple has, evidently, been trying to expand their family for some time, without success. Perhaps no one told them that to conceive the normal way would require seeing the other naked. But, a source reveals, “At a certain point, they were presented with an alternative…they’ve always wanted more children and felt this was the way to go.â€
Broadway was abuzz with the news on Tuesday night, when fans congratulated the soon-to-be-daddy-again as he left his performance of The Philanthropist. The fans, apparently, knew before the many of the couple’s friends.Â
Philanthropist co-star Steven Weber, after finding out, said, “That’s great news…[I’m] shocked!â€
He ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie.Â
Friends of the couple have said that they “love being parents†and that “they’ve wanted to become parents again for a whileâ€. Now, through the wonders of science and the womb of a mystery woman, they will have their chance.
And there is no doubt that, with the influences of Parker and Broderick, and, of course, “Uncle Nathan” Lane, those girls will be ‘fierce’.