Sarah Jessica Parker’s twins: first picture

Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick have released the first picture of their new twin girls.

The couple and their six-year-old son James Wilkie posed with babies Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge. Parker, 44, cradled Marion while Broderick, 47, held Tabitha, with both girls swaddled in pink blankets. The family portrait was taken at their New York home.

The twins were born to a surrogate mother in Ohio on June 22 and the couple said they were “over the moon” about the new additions to their family. Elwell and Hodge are family names on Parker’s side.

Parker, the Sex and the City actress, announced in April that the couple were expecting twins “with the generous help of a surrogate”. She and Broderick, star of the films Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Cable Guy, have been married for 12 years.

The actress is expected to begin shooting a Sex and the City movie sequel later this year, for release in May 2010, reprising her role as Carrie Bradshaw. The first film exceeded all expectations by taking £281 million at the box office globally.

Her co-stars Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon will also return for the sequel. Reacting to news of the twins’ arrival, Cattrall said: “I’m thrilled for Sarah, Matthew and James Wilkie. More fabulous girls are joining our Sex and the City family!”

from: telegraph.co.uk