Joyous Julia gives birth to twins
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"Pretty Woman" star Julia Roberts was a pretty pooped mom yesterday after giving birth to a boy and a girl.
The 37-year-old Oscar winner delivered the twins in a Los Angeles hospital about 3 a.m. California time.
Roberts and her cinematographer hubby, Danny Moder, named the twins Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder, People magazine reported.
The twins arrived a month before Roberts' January due date, said her spokeswoman Marcy Engelman.
"Mother and babies are doing great," Engelman said.
Doctors confined the auburn-haired actress to bed last month after she began experiencing a series of early contractions.
Dr. Harvey Karp, assistant professor of pediatrics at UCLA School of Medicine, said Roberts' early delivery was likely expected. "That's very normal for twins," said Karp, author of the book "The Happiest Baby on the Block."
Engelman declined to comment on the size of the newborns, but Roberts said last week they were average weight for soon-to-be-born twins.
"Let me tell you something: My babies weigh 6 pounds each. That's 12 pounds of just baby in me right now and I still have miles to go before I sleep with them," she said. "They're bionic. It's pretty amazing."
The twins are the first children for Roberts.
Roberts and Moder, 35, conceived thanks to an $18,000 in-vitro fertilization procedure, in which embryos were implanted in her womb, according to media reports.
The "Erin Brockovich" star is not the first in her family to bear twins. Roberts' great-grandmother was a twin, as were a pair of cousins.
Roberts, who last week was promoting her upcoming films "Closer" and "Ocean's Twelve" from bed, told Newsweek she will put her career on hold to focus on the role of her life - Mommy.
"It's a whole new life!" Roberts told Newsweek. "I'm not planning anything."
It was unclear when Roberts can take her babies home - or where home will be. Roberts has a ranch in New Mexico, where she wed Moder, and she owns apartments in Gramercy Park and Venice. But the most likely choice is a brand-new secluded mansion she bought over the summer in Malibu, Calif.
Karp said she'll likely be discharged from the hospital by the end of this week, if no complications arise.
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