31 celebrity parents who have twins
- Some celebrities are twins themselves, like Scarlett Johansson or Rami Malek.
- But there are many celebrity couples who have twins themselves, like Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
- Hilary Swank and husband Philip Schneider welcomed twins in 2023.
Caroline Praderio contributed to a prior version of this story.
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.Hilary Swank and her husband, Philip Schneider, welcomed twins in April 2023.
Swank became a first-time mother in April 2023 at age 48.
In April 2023, Swank posted an Instagram photo showing her twins, revealing she'd given birth to a son and a daughter.
"It wasn't easy. But boy (and girl!) was it worth it," she wrote, adding that she was posting "from pure Heaven."
Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg welcomed twins via surrogate in October 2021.
Greenberg and Chung, who wed in 2015 according to People, announced the birth of their twin sons on Instagram in October 2021.
Chung told Today Parents in June 2022 that they used a surrogate because she was "terrified" to get pregnant.
"I was terrified of putting my life on hold for two-plus years. In my industry, it feels like you're easily forgotten if you don't work within the next month of your last job," she said, calling surrogacy "a compromise that we made together as a couple."
Lance Bass and husband Michael Turchin also welcomed twins via surrogate the same month.
The twins, Alexander and Violet, made their red-carpet debut at an event in February 2023.
"It's just nice to be able to get out. We've never really been out too much with them, especially in a public forum like this. They've never done a red carpet before," Bass told E! News at the event.
"Being dads is the best thing ever. Everyone always told us but it is so true that this life is so much better with these kiddos," he continued.
Mariah Carey gave birth to Monroe and Moroccan in April 2011. They're now 12 years old.
Things didn't work out with the twins' father, Nick Cannon; Cannon filed for divorce in December 2014, TMZ reported in January 2015. The split was finalized in 2016, E! News confirmed.
Cannon welcomed his second set of twins in 2016 with Abby De La Rosa, named Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, De La Rosa confirmed on Instagram.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt announced the birth of twins Vivienne and Knox in May 2008.
The 15-year-old twins are just two of the six kids at the center of Brangelina's highly publicized divorce proceedings, which Insider has delved into with a timeline of their entire relationship.
Jennifer Lopez and former husband Marc Anthony welcomed twins Max and Emme in 2008.
In 2017, Lopez told Entertainment Tonight that her kids make her feel young (it's seriously hard to believe that the singer is 54 years old).
"They keep you very young and running around, and I still get to dance and perform," she said of the now-15-year-old twins. "That keeps you very in shape and youthful as well."
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky have 9-year-old twin boys named Tristan and Sasha.
Hemsworth and Pataky are very protective and rarely show their twins' faces on their social-media profiles. They also share a daughter, 11-year-old India.
But they have shared some really adorable shots, all the same. Check them out on Pataky's Instagram, or this old snap Hemsworth shared in 2021 of the three kids as babies.
In 2022, India made her on-screen debut, playing Love in "Thor: Love and Thunder." The twins also appear in the film, with one of his sons playing a young Thor, and the other playing an Asgardian child.
"It felt like a fun, one-off family experience," Hemsworth told reporter Kevin McCarthy in 2022. "I don't want them to now go and be child stars and actors. It was just a special experience we all had and I loved it. They had a great time."
Julia Roberts is the mom of 18-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, though they're not often photographed together.
According to People, Roberts and her husband, Daniel Moder, welcomed the twins in November 2004. They also have another son, Henry, born in June 2007, People also reported.
Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick have 13-year-old twin girls named Marion and Tabitha.
They also have a son, James Wilkie, who was born in 2002 and graduated from high school in 2021, Parker shared on Instagram.
Ashley Graham and her husband, Justin Ervin, welcomed twins in January 2022.
In May 2022, Graham shared that giving birth to the twins nearly killed her. Graham wrote in an essay for Glamour that she hemorrhaged the night she gave birth to Malachi and Roman in a home birthing tub in her apartment. It took weeks to recover.
In addition to Roman and Malachi, who turned 1 on January 14, Graham gave birth to her first son, Isaac in January 2020, People reported.
Graham took to Instagram to celebrate the twins' first birthday. "Happy birthday to my beautiful boys, Roman & Malachi!" wrote Graham. "You two are constantly curious, utterly hilarious, and always changing. You keep me on my toes and make it totally worth it that I had to write this from the kitchen floor, covered in God knows what. I love you."
Singer Ricky Martin and former partner Jwan Yosef have twins Matteo and Valentino, who were born via surrogate in 2008.
In March 2020, Martin told People that his twin 14-year-old sons are "great nannies" to his two younger kids, 4-year-old Lucía and 3-year-old son Renn.
In July 2023, People confirmed that Martin and Yosef are divorcing after six years of marriage.
Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell's twin daughters, Charlie and Dolly, are now 14 years old.
"It's hard with twins because it prevents you from being too much of a helicopter mom," Romijn told People in 2017. "You've got two at the same time to take care of, and the one who needs you the most is the one who gets you. And so the other one's gotta cry it out until you can get to her."
Holly Robinson Peete and former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete welcomed twins Rodney Jr. and Ryan in 1997.
In recent years, the Peetes have opened up about Rodney Jr.'s autism, telling Oprah in 2016 that he has "taught everybody love and respect, and that's what every one of our kids has," Essence reported.
Julie Bowen auditioned for "Modern Family" while pregnant with her twin sons, John and Gustav, now 14 years old.
She told Huffington Post in 2014 that her best advice for parenting twins was to "make friends with exhaustion."
"Desperate Housewives" actress Marcia Cross gave birth to her twin daughters, Eden and Savannah, in 2007.
The "Desperate Housewives" star told People in 2007 that being a mother was "so much better than I even imagined."
She added, "I love when you get them out of the crib and you open the blanket and they're like little flowers — they're warm and they smell so good."
Celine Dion had three children with her husband, René Angélil: 22-year-old René-Charles and twins Eddy and Nelson, 12.
Their father died in 2016, People reported. Then-15-year-old René-Charles gave the eulogy, according to CBC. The twins were just 5 years old.
Actress Jane Seymour gave birth to twin sons Jonathon and Kristopher in 1995.
She split from the boys' father, actor and filmmaker James Keach, in 2013, according to Huffington Post.
"We're a family. We realize the marriage may not be intact, but the family is intact and always will be," she told the publication in 2014.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka's twins, Harper and Gideon, 12, were carried by a surrogate.
Harris announced the birth on X (formerly known as Twitter) in October 2010, writing, "All of us are happy, healthy, tired, and a little pukey."
Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan welcomed their twin daughters, Aquinnah and Schuyler, in 1995. They turned 28 this year.
They have two other children, too: 34-year-old Sam and 21-year-old Esmé, People reported.
Geena Davis is rarely photographed with her children, but she and ex-husband Reza Jarrahy do have 19-year-old twins named Kian and Kaiis.
She was 48 years old when she gave birth to the twins.
"I always felt lucky that I had my kids late, because I just feel like I changed so much. I always knew I wanted kids, but what I was doing waiting that long, I don't know. I never tried before, in other words. But it's been great. And twins are fun," she told The Guardian in 2020.
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are parents to 17-year-old twins Bronwyn and Slater.
The couple shared that they had been through seven years of multiple failed rounds of IVF before learning about surrogacy from a friend.
"She began to tell me about the idea of surrogacy. The more we learned about it, the more we began to think that perhaps this was an answer for us," Bassett told Oprah in 2007.
The twins were born in January 2006, People reported.
In June 2017, George and Amal Clooney welcomed twins Ella and Alexander into the world.
During an October 2022 appearance on Drew Barrymore's talk show, Clooney said he was "terrified" to find out he was having twins, who are now 6 years old.
"It was such a disaster. I was like, 'Are you kidding me?'" he said. "Now it's the greatest thing in the world. I was terrified then."
That same month, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo confirmed he had become the father of twins.
Ronaldo's twins are named Eva and Mateo, and the soccer star's girlfriend Georgina Rodríguez celebrated their 6th birthday in June on Instagram.
Also in June 2017, Beyoncé gave birth to her own set of twins: a boy and girl named Sir and Rumi.
On July 14, 2017, the "Formation" singer shared the first-ever photo of the twins on Instagram.
With the arrival of the twins, Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, became parents of three. Their 11-year-old daughter Blue Ivy was born in 2012, MTV News reported.
Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova welcomed twins named Nicholas and Lucy in December 2017.
They debuted their twins on Instagram in January 2018. They welcomed their third child, Maya, in January 2020, Kournikova once again announced on Instagram.
Gordon Ramsay's twins, Jack and Holly, turned 23 on December 31, 2022.
"Happy birthday to our amazing twins, @hollyramsayy & Jack have a great night and congrats to you both love you Dad," the chef wrote on Instagram in December 2022.
Madonna confirmed in February 2017 that she adopted 4-year-old twin girls from Malawi named Estere and Stella. They're now 10.
Madonna had previously adopted two other children from Malawi, son David and daughter Mercy, in addition to the two children she gave birth to, Lourdes and Rocco. She shared a rare photo of all six kids in November 2018.
Zoe Saldaña and her husband, Marco Perego, welcomed twins Cy and Bowie in 2014.
"They're identical twins and they're really attached at the hip and their connection is really majestic," Saldaña told People in 2018. Now, they're 8 years old.
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer met on the set of "True Blood," and now have 10-year-old twins called Poppy and Charlie.
Paquin and Moyer are extremely private about their children — they waited nine months after they were born to reveal their names to E! News in 2013.
Kristen Wiig revealed she had twins Shiloh and Luna in 2020.
It was first thought that Wiig had become a mom in June 2020 when she hosted the "SNL At Home" episode for Mother's Day, in which she thanked her mom for "preparing me to be a mom myself."
People reported that Wiig and her now-husband Avi Rothman, had welcomed twins via surrogate in January of that year.
Their names were later revealed in the credits of "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar."
BONUS: Pharrell Williams and wife Helen Lasichanh welcomed triplets on January 31, 2017.
The names of the triplets have yet to be released, though we did finally get a glimpse of them at a fashion show in June 2023, which was recorded on Instagram. Williams and Lasichanh already have a son, Rocket, who was born in 2008, according to E! News.
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