Many celebrity actresses, singers and personalities are mothers to twins. From well-known superstar celebrities to less-recognized historial and political figures, mothers of multiples are everywhere!
Diana Krall
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Imagine the lullabies this mom of twins would sing! Diana Krall is a Grammy award-winning jazz musician married to singer/songwriter Elvis Costello. The musical couple had twin boys, Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, in December 2006.
Holly Robinson-Peete
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Holly Robinson-Peete is mom to fraternal twins born in 1997. Daughter Ryan and son Rodney Jr. are two of the couple's four children. Holly Robinson Peete is an actress, singer and author. She is married to Rodney Peete, a former NFL quarterback.
Angela Bassett
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Actors Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are the parents of son Slater Josiah and daughter Bronwyn Golden born on January 27, 2006. The twins were carried by a surrogate mother.
Cleopatra
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Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen, in fact the last pharaoh of Egypt before the area was taken into Roman rule. She was born in 69 B.C. She had twins, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, with Marc Antony, a Roman governor. (Not to be confused with Jennifer Lopez's husband, the singer Marc Anthony.)
Margaret Thatcher
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Known as the "iron lady," Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 until 1990. She's also a mom of boy/girl twins, Mark and Carol, born in 1953.
Holly Hunter
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Actress Holly Hunter, known as the voice of supermom Helen Parr in the movie "The Incredibles" gave birth to twins in January 2006. The Oscar-winning actress was forty-seven years old when she became a mom of twins. It has been reported that the twins are boys, but otherwise, very little information has surfaced.
Joan Lunden
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Joan Lunden is an author and television personality, and a mom of twins -- times two. The former host of Good Morning America had already raised three daughters when she and her husband Jeff Konigsberg had twins in 2003 via a surrogate mother. Lunden was well into her 50s and had tried and failed to become pregnant via in vitro. Max and Kate were born in 2003, followed by Kimberly Elise and Jack Andrew in 2005.
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Mia Hamm
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Talk about a "soccer mom"! Married to professional baseball player Nomar Garciaparra, professional soccer player ar Mia Hamm is a mom of twin girls. Grace Isabella and Ava Caroline were born March 28, 2007. Generally considered the world's best female soccer player, Hamm led the U.S. Women's Soccer team to Olympic gold in 1996 and again Athens in 2004 and was part of World Cup Champion teams in 1991 and 1999.
More Celebrities
There are plenty of other notable mothers of multiples, including: actress Ingrid Bergman, singer Debby Boone, singer Anita Bryant, actress Joan Crawford (mother of adopted twins), actress Berverly D'Angelo (with Al Pacino), actress Tracy Pollan (with Michael J. Fox), country singer Loretta Lynn, actress Cathy Moriarty, television journalist Jane Pauley (with Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau), actress Cybill Shepherd, world affairs leader Madeline Albright, author Harriett Beecher Stowe, model Niki Taylor, model Cheryl Tiegs, actress Geena Davis, actress Marcia Gay Harden, singer Melissa Etheridge, actress Amanda Pays, and actress Mia Farrow (with musician Andre Previn).Do you know of another celebrity mother of twins that should be included on this list? Send me a note and let me know!
