Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick announced through their representatives that they are expecting twin daughters this summer. The twin girls are being carried by a surrogate. Which must likely means that the twin girls will be Sarah Jessica and Matthew’s biological children, that their fertilized egg was implanted into the surrogate’s womb.
Sarah Jessica and Matthew already have one child – 6-year-old son James Wilke, who SJP gave birth to in 2002, after one of the most fashionable pregnancies of the last decade.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are having twins!
The couple’s reps said they are expecting the birth of twin daughters this summer through a surrogate pregnancy, the Associated Press reports.
The Sex and the City star, 44, and her actor husband, 47, are “overjoyed,” their publicists said Tuesday.
The couple — who has been married for 12 years — already has a son, James Wilkie, 6.
From US Weekly
I’m happy for SJP and Matthew. Obviously, they’ve put some time and effort into this endeavor, and despite of some of the negative thoughts I have about the state of their marriage, I believe they’re both probably pretty great parents. Which makes me slightly ashamed to even bring up this one question – is it at all possible they’re hoping this surrogate pregnancy helps ease some of the bad rumors about them? Even though I truly think they will be very happy with two little baby girls, they’re probably also a little bit thrilled that this might get the negative press off their backs for a few months. In any case, congratulations to Sarah Jessica, Matthew and James Wilke!
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are shown on 4/26/09 and 4/27/09. Credit: WENN.com
Not sure why — never really believed the rumors about their marriage — but this story is just odd to me.
band-aid babies are never a good idea :-S
This sounds like a terrible idea to me.
The marriage doesn’t seem stable, and there also have been a lot of rumors suggesting that Sarah Jessica is suffering from “nervous exhaustion,” to use the common euphemism.
Not fair to the two babies.
Congrats to them.
Congrats to Ferris Bueller and Seabiscuit.
Surrogate is that code for we don’t sleep together and our marriage is fake.
They’ve been married 12 years. So what if the tabloids spread some nasty rumors about him cheating? That does not mean it is true, that their marriage is shaky or that these are “band aid” babies.
They are just another married couple that have chosen to expand their family. Good for them.
yeah I don’t know that not sleeping together will help squash any rumors of not sleeping together
@nikki I like the band-aid babies comment. I might use it but will credit you!
He looks like he can barely stand to be in the same room with her. How is he going to tolerate additional baby girls? Don’t you need Devotion for that?
truth is SJP is a bit over the age limit to carry a baby “safely” inside her womb! that has nth to do with the fact that they might not have been sleeping together, they could have just an IVF and that would be it! Deciding to have children together(because this is obviously something carefully planned) it´s a huge act of LOVE between two people, wanting to raise a family together! Regardless of the “fact” they might not be a couple anymore, these babies will certainly have a loving family!!!!! And for that, I personally don´t think it´s needed one parent screwing the other,as long as there is love and respect!!!!!!!!
Go for Gold, Snappyfish! No credit needed- the knowledge that one of my many unsubstantiated judgements will be flowing through the ether is reward enough. 😀
“yeah I don’t know that not sleeping together will help squash any rumors of not sleeping together”
Really? You live in their home? You sleep in the same room with them? I had no idea that you had personal, first hand knowledge of the state of their marriage.
Or, more likely, you read a few tabloid rumors and “decided” they were true based on nothing but your own opinion.
Yes, look how happy Bueller feels. He just oozes… oh, my bad. It’s pretentiousness.
Interesting! I think Sarah is awfully brave to see her husband have children with another woman. Good luck to them and that the surrogate has a safe and healthy pregnancy.
If she were actually having a baby herself and I were to believe the rumours about their marriage, then maybe the idea of band-aid babies (copyright Nikki!) could be considered, but the process of enlisting the aid of a surrogate is a much more drawn out and potententially problematic process and would need the full support of both parties involved. I don’t know, I think I’ll stick to being naive and see this as them working on their marriage, wanting more kids together, and wish them all the best.
If they have been battling with infertility that would have been giving the marriage huge stresses (and all the divorce rumours). This is a brave decision (especially since the press will try to track down the surrogate mum). Good luck to them.
I have no reason to, but I believe in this couple. Now to the snark: will surrogacy supplant the international adoption trend? See Ricky Martin…
Im sure they are wonderful parents, and all the best to them if they are happy, obviously we don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, but his disdain for her is clear in almost every picture taken of them recently. and by recently, i mean the last few years. Even if they are having problems, when you go to work you should act professional, ie. not looking like you would rather be drinking poison than be standing with your wife at the oscars. That’s what im basing the whole, babies as a band aid for a broken marriage thing on. Kids are very aware of cracks in their parents relationship, which is why the whole ‘stay together for the kids’ thing is such a bad idea. Its much better to have your parents happy and apart than together but miserable and providing an unhappy home environment.
They will do anything to quash the rumors that Mr. Broderick is gay. They could be using donated sperm and eggs, which would not surprise me. Also, it would not be “dangerous” for Ms. Parker to have a pregnancy at 44 – “high risk”, perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. She is a physically fit woman with access to the best medical care in the world. If any 44 year old woman could undertake a pregnancy, it would be someone in Ms. Parker’s position.
completely shocked by this story.
thought SJP would be into adoption.
i wish the surrogate lots of luck carrying twins
and i hope she gets a pretty penny for those stretchmarks.
I’m going with Amoosed on this one. My husband and I have fertility issues and I can see how it could cause incredible strain on a marriage, especially if one spouse wants to pursue treatments that the other is uncomfortable with or if one spouse is having a harder time accepting the issues.
Truthfully, we’re not in their bedroom and we’re not in their lives. We see what the tabloids tell us to see. They seem to be devoted parents and I’m happy for them.
Why do these people wait so long to have children…energy levels to raise them don’t go up as you age! But I guess they will have nannies to help and that will make it a whole lost easier.
Remember back when Matthew was attractive?
Barneslr:
Q: is it at all possible they’re hoping this surrogate pregnancy helps ease some of the bad rumors about them? -kaiser
A: yeah I don’t know that not sleeping together will help squash any rumors of not sleeping together – Lem
my comment is the one that bothers you? really?
As yes lisa, I do 😉
Actually, he’s looking way happier in these photos than he has done in a long time. Perhaps the strain of expanding his family was getting to him.
Sarah, a centre parting is not your friend my dear.
Here’s hoping the “surrogacy” isn’t just him knocking up a girlfriend.
For people who dread the tabloids, they have just signed up to at least a decade of enhanced speculation and stalking.
Nor will it save the marriage. SJP will just have her hands even fuller while Broderick pursues his lame acting career* and extra-curricular interests.
Sad. I wish she could be happy.
* Some sadly hilarious extracts from the reviews of Broderick’s current theatrical “performance”:
“Watching “The Philanthropist” is quite literally a matter of being stuck in a stuffy room with a bunch of pompous, malicious or dreary writers and academics. Or at least actors portraying them. For sheer dullness, this putative comedy … starring the talented but increasingly mannered Matthew Broderick, beats just about anything on Broadway this season.”
“The bloodlessness of the writing is not wholly to blame; so too is the bloodless performance of Mr. Broderick in the central role. Offering little more than a British variant on the baby-faced milquetoasts he has portrayed on Broadway in “The Producers” and “The Odd Couple,” Mr. Broderick seems to be in his own play, some sort of sendup of a crummy farce from the British provinces circa 1930. The absurdly plummy accent is in bizarre contrast to the other performers’ natural ones, and Mr. Broderick’s moist eyes and stiff, dainty shuffle, meant to suggest emotional constipation, make him resemble a turtle with mutton chops … it is impossible to see beyond the cartoon figure in a slouchy cardigan to the aching human being inside it”
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/theater/reviews/27phil.html?hpw
Ally-I thought the same darn thing.
This just popped up out of nowhere and they’re already due this summer. Wow.
@ ellen smith:
How do you know he is gay? Oh, that’s right…you don’t! You just “decided” that he is. Nevermind the 12 year marriage, with children #2 & #3 on the way. Nevermind that the affair he was rumored to have had (if it is even true) was with a WOMAN, not a man.
Also, you could not POSSIBLY know how dangerous it may be for her to get pregnant at 44. You are probably correct that she has access to excellent medical care, and surely her DRs know much more than you do about it. Perhaps that is why she opted for a surrogate instead of endangering her own health or that of these two children.
It’s not impossible for a woman of her age to have a healthy child; heck, my own mother in law had a son at 45. But that doesn’t mean it is a smart decision, because risks for the mother and child/ren rise dramatically by the time the potential mother reaches that age.
I love how people seem to magically “know” that he’s gay, “know” that they are only having these kids as a band aid or for show, “know” that she is capable of having them herself…even though they don’t live with or even know them, and have no access to her medical records.
I want to attack Matthew with some good quality hair-dye so bad…
I think since she’s 44, they’re probably using donor eggs and his sperm. Egg quality would be pretty poor at 44 (unfortunate, but true). Twin girls sound like a delight (of course, not to Charlie Sheen, who prefers boys) and I wish them all happiness. How nice, too, for their little boy to finally have siblings. Incredibly sweet.
@ Lauri:
I don’t know that Mr. Broderick is gay. Read what I said – they will do anything to quash the rumors of his being gay. That is not the same as me saying he is gay. I am married to an obstetrician who specializes in high risk pregnancies, so I have pretty good first hand knowledge and input about these pregnancy issues.
I saw this news on E!News last night and apparently they had been trying for years with no luck and so went the surrogate route. Age/and or fertility issues must obviously have come into play for them.
Anyway I say good for them and I wish them the best.