For the fans of Project Runway, last week’s episode featuring a “maternity” challenge was exciting. Since it was filmed many months ago, we got to see a very pregnant Rebecca Romijn as the judge – and she was good! I enjoyed seeing Heidi Klum and Rebecca interact with another – they seemed very close. But the show was just a reminder that Rebecca gave birth back in January – and that the current season of Project Runway is nearly one year old. But never mind about that – beggars can’t be choosers, and I need my Project Runway fix.
Jerry O’Connell is opening up about Rebecca’s pregnancy, the birth of their twin girls Dolly and Charlie, and how Rebecca’s losing the weight. I’ve always been kind of “meh” about Jerry, but he comes across as really sweet and a little clueless in this interview, to Fox News Pop Tarts. Jerry describes his lack of any desire to watch the birth of his twin girls, which is something I can completely understand. Granted, I’ve never been pregnant or anything, but if and when it happens, I think I’ll tell my husband/partner that it’s okay not to look. Jerry also talks about how oblivious he is as to whether Rebecca is dieting:
Jerry O’Connell is the proud father of twin girls Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip, but the “Stand By Me” star couldn’t actually stand by his wife with his eyes open during their birth last December.
“I was there for the birth but I did not look though. A friend of mine said ‘listen, I’ve looked so I’m giving you a piece of advice – I don’t think you should look’ so I didn’t actually see anything,” O’Connell told Tarts at the Much Love Animal Rescue Dinner in Hollywood on the weekend.
But when we asked if his swimsuit supermodel wife Rebecca Romijn was back to her perfect pre-pregnancy body, he did hesitate a little.
“Yes… yes I guess she is. She looks great, back into the pilates,” O’Connell said. “She’s stopped breast-feeding so it slows down a little, I don’t know the particulars. But we had a very large lunch today and we had dessert so I don’t think she’s dieting per se.”
Romijn has infact bounced back to work and is busy filming ABC’s new supernatural series “Eastwick”, prompting O’Connell to enroll in law school.
“I got the short straw for not working so I’m going to grad school part-time. I can do my homework and watch the kids at the same time,” he added. “But Rebecca misses the girls a lot when she’s at work so I bring them around and let them bother her on set.”
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He’s cute, right? I thought this was really sweet. I know there are a lot of women who are like “he must experience every aspect of childbirth, including how dilated my vadge is” but that just seems like the kind of thing that scars most men. In another recent interview he told E! News that he and Rebecca aren’t interesting in having any more babies: “This is it. Factory closed. It’s over. Now we’re just adopting dogs.”
He also described taking his daughters to Rebecca’s Eastwick set, and said: “The hardest thing is being in a public place like a store or a restaurant—or on your wife’s TV show set!—and smelling number two, and knowing it’s one of your children. Those situations are always embarrassing. I went to my wife’s work yesterday, and she was in the middle of a very dramatic scene. And I had the kids there, and one of them was like, ‘Bwaaahhh.’ It was very verbal and busted the scene up. I thought it was funny, but I don’t think the director did, so I got the heck out of there. I had a long talk with the girls about show business, but I don’t think they had any idea what the heck I was talking about.”
Okay, they’re now one of my new favorite couples. Jerry is so cute about his girls. I think at this point, he’s just happy to be a stay-at-home dad… which is really cool. Jerry is going to law school part-time now, LA’s Southwestern Law School. When he announced it a few weeks ago, he said “I had always planned on continuing my education at some point and because my wife is working on Eastwick, which is on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. this fall, and I’m home all day with the girls, I figured I would take a couple of classes at night. It was either that or play video games until 2 a.m.”
Jerry O’Connell is shown with his twins on 8/12/09. Credit: Fame Pictures
