January 5, 200916 yr :wub2: Welcome Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip Romijn-O'Connell! :wub2: Rebecca gave birth to twins on December 28 according to her publicist, but the news was leaked today.http://www.usmagazine.com/news/rebecca-rom...come-twin-girls
January 5, 200916 yr Rebecca Romijn Welcomes Twin Girls Rebecca Romijn and husband Jerry O'Connell have welcomed healthy twin girls, PEOPLE has confirmed. Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip were born Dec. 28. "Mother, father and both girls are all home and doing well," Romijn's rep Lewis Kay told PEOPLE. They are the first children for the Ugly Betty actress, 36, and actor O'Connell, 34, who married at their Calabasas, Calif., ranch in 2007. The new mom, whose pregnancy cravings included lemonade and soy cream cheese, is planning a long maternity leave. "I'm taking quite a bit of time off," Romijn told PEOPLE in November. "I really want this to be my job for at least the next six months." Romijn spent the last few months of her pregnancy on bed rest at home with the couple's three dogs – Taco, Better and Bim – while O'Connell cleared out his video games to make room for the nursery. As for their parenting style? "Jerry and I want to be very hands-on," Romijn told PEOPLE. "My mom's coming to help us as much as we need. But this is something we're really looking forward to." "I'm really excited to see what happens next and to visit a completely different chapter in my life."
January 8, 200916 yr A Model Childhood Romijn's father Jaap, a furniture maker, and mother Elizabeth, an English teacher, divorce when she is seven years old. Her parents live across the street from one another and raise Rebecca and younger sister Tamara to value hard work and humility. "I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents," she tells In Style in 2006. "They also gave me a certain amount of humility." An American in Paris Romijn enrolls at the University of California at Santa Cruz to study singing. After her freshman year, a friend who models takes Romijn to an agency in San Francisco and the 19-year-old is offered a contract to model in Paris. "In retrospect it was scary," she tells In Style in 2006. "I didn't have any money, I didn't know where I would live." But the gutsy move pays off when she lands the cover of Elle. "I became more confident, and I polished up. Living in Paris was a crash course in chic." Becca the Babe After three years of modeling in Europe, Romijn returns to the U.S. where she is chosen to model for lingerie giant Victoria's Secret. "I don't mind doing sort of sexy, raunchy pictures if there's a sense of humor about it," she admits to Detour. That year, she also poses for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, eventually landing the cover in 1999. Meanwhile, Backstage . . . Romijn, 21, meets Full House star John Stamos, 31, (right) while backstage at a Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York City. "He took my breath away," Romijn tells In Style in 2001. "I just went, 'Oh my God. That's the most beautiful human being I've ever seen!'" The relationship blossoms from a friendly first date at Disneyland to their engagement on Christmas Eve 1997 when Stamos presents Romijn with a 1930s platinum four-carat Boucheron diamond ring. Hello, Beautiful PEOPLE picks Romijn for its annual 50 Most Beautiful issue. Among fellow models, Romijn is known for her wacky sense of humor. "She's so funny," fellow catwalker and pal Tyra Banks (left) tells PEOPLE. "I get a cramp in my side from laughing at her jokes." In 1999, Romijn makes the list again. A Friendly Revelation Romijn plays David Schwimmer's (right) perfect scientist-girlfriend with a freakishly messy apartment on Friends. "You know that old joke about a person hearing music when they have a major revelation," she tells the Orange County Register. "That's what I had on the set of Friends...I realized I wanted to be an actress. I realized I loved performing." In 1999, she returns to TV as David Spade's wife on Just Shoot Me. House of Style Romijn replaces Daisy Fuentes as host of MTV's fashion TV show, House of Style. "She has a root-for-her beauty," MTV president Judy McGrath tells PEOPLE. "Women don't resent her. She's real." The gig lasts until 1998. "I was getting very antsy and restless just modeling," she confesses to the Dallas Morning News in 1998. "I was bored off my ass, basically. It's not a very stimulating job." Going Against Type Determined not to be typecast in roles that focus on her looks, Romijn makes her film debut as a drunken, bearded lady in the 1998's Dirty Work. Though the comedy, which stars Norm MacDonald, is a dud (less than $10 million at the box office), Romijn enjoys the work. "Making people laugh is the greatest experience," she tells the Chicago Tribune. "You really feel like you're doing your job right: communicating. That immediate reaction is so satisfying." Becoming Romijn-Stamos Wearing a low-cut, empire-waist Badley Mischka gown, Romijn marries John Stamos (left) at the Beverly Hills Hotel in front of 400 guests, including Tyra Banks, David Spade and Rob Schneider. An hour before the ceremony, Stamos sends Romijn chocolate-covered strawberries and a box with a note that says, in part, "I'll see you at the altar, and will know it's you because you'll be wearing this pin." She wears the antique heart pin in her hair and becomes Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. Paintstaking role In the first film installment of the comic-book-inspired X-Men trilogy, Romijn-Stamos dons blue body paint to play the evil mutant Mystique (right). Though the film grosses more than $157 million at the box office, it had its drawbacks
January 20, 200916 yr One thing I've always wondered is why Rebecca never did any bikini shots for VS, at least none that I ever saw. Maillots yes, tons of lingerie of course, a few two-piece sportswear-type pics, but never an actual bikini shot. Why is this? You can't say she didn't have the body for it! Did she have an exclusive agreement with somebody else? Must have been.
January 20, 200916 yr One thing I've always wondered is why Rebecca never did any bikini shots for VS, at least none that I ever saw. Maillots yes, tons of lingerie of course, a few two-piece sportswear-type pics, but never an actual bikini shot. Why is this? You can't say she didn't have the body for it! Did she have an exclusive agreement with somebody else? Must have been.I don't think VS had a swimwear catalogue when Rebecca was with them. If I remember correctly, Rebecca quit modeling in 1998 or 1999, and it was a year or two after that that VS began selling swimwear.
January 21, 200916 yr One thing I've always wondered is why Rebecca never did any bikini shots for VS, at least none that I ever saw. Maillots yes, tons of lingerie of course, a few two-piece sportswear-type pics, but never an actual bikini shot. Why is this? You can't say she didn't have the body for it! Did she have an exclusive agreement with somebody else? Must have been. I don't think VS had a swimwear catalogue when Rebecca was with them. If I remember correctly, Rebecca quit modeling in 1998 or 1999, and it was a year or two after that that VS began selling swimwear. No, they were selling bikinis back in the Jill Goodacre era, before Rebecca even started with them. I remember Jill and Frederique's bikini shots very well, as they were quite memorable.
January 21, 200916 yr No, they were selling bikinis back in the Jill Goodacre era, before Rebecca even started with them. I remember Jill and Frederique's bikini shots very well, as they were quite memorable. You are right: they did have swimwear catalogs back then. But I found one on sale at eBay right now from 1998 and it has pictures of Rebecca in swimwear: http://cgi.ebay.com/Victoria%27s-Secret-Lo...0103122001r4400
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