Sarah Jessica Parker talks surrogacy, struggling to conceive and twins

Having grown up with seven brothers and sisters, the actress didn’t want her 7-year-old son James Wilkie to be an only child. “I didn’t want him to have to shoulder the burden of us later in life, by himself,” Sarah admitted. So her and husband Matthew Broderick chose a surrogate, Michelle Ross, 26, who went on to give birth to twin girls in June 2009.

However, even though SJP was getting what she’d dreamed of for years, the secrecy of the situation drove her mad! “We couldn’t talk about the fact that we were having children to anybody for sooo long!” she shared. “All the stuff that matters is secretive and worrisome. You can’t talk about how you feel about the woman who’s carrying your children; you can only talk to your husband.”

The role of the big brother, however, seems to suit the couple’s son James Wilkie. James was caught, when getting ready to meet his new baby sisters, preparing himself for his big brother debut. “I came back into the room and saw him combing his hair down and standing in front of the mirror,” SJP recalled. “He doesn’t know I saw him, but I heard him say, ‘I have to be handsome when I meet my sisters.’”

Sarah Jessica Parker is now proud mum to twin daughters Tabbitha Hodge and Marion Loretta, who she fondly nicknames Babe and Kitty! “Aren’t those great? Babe and Kitty Broderick! It’s like it’s 1940."

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