New Celebrity Baby Trend: Twins

You can add two more names on the list of celebrities that will soon be welcoming twins: Rebecca Romijn (with husband Jerry O'Connell) and Lisa Marie Presley. According to US Weekly magazine, Rebecca and Jerry are expecting twin girls sometime in the winter. They claim that they did not use fertility treatments, but conceived the twins naturally. Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of the famous Elvis Presley recently just announced that she is also expecting twins. According to People magazine, Lisa Marie is expected to give birth in the fall to twins.

The odds of having twins is around 3 in 100 births or around 3% of pregnancies are twins. The reason for the increase of having multiples is actually due to fertility drugs and women having babies later in life. As a woman gets older, the chance of having twins with her pregnancy actually increases. Many women today are choosing to have babies into their 40's and this could contribute the increase of twin births. Also, using fertility drugs and treatments such as in vitro fertilization increases the chances that a woman will have more than one egg fertilized, which causes twins.

So, how come it seems like all of these celebrities are now having twins. The baby boom in Hollywood started several years ago, but now it seems like the "it" thing for celebrities is now to have twins. Like, one child at a time is not enough? Fertility drugs and treatments are not cheap, but celebrities can easily afford them. Marsha Cross, from Desperate Housewives has admitted that she used fertility drugs to conceive her twin daughters over a year ago. While now their is speculation that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt also used fertility treatments to conceive their twins that were just born last month. So, are celebrities using fertility treatments to have multiple kids or just to help them to conceive. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were able to conceive their daughter Shiloh with no fertility treatments, but yet they used it for their second pregnancy. Did they want twins or were they really having trouble conceiving again?

Some other celebrities that have recently had twins are Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony, Patrick Dempsey and his wife Jillian, Julia Roberts and her husband Danny Moder, P. Diddy and Kim Porter, Mia Hamm and her husband Nomar Garciaparra.

So, what is your opinion, are celebrities using fertility treatments to follow the trend of Hollywood or is it just a big coincidence?