Rebecca Romijn never expected that being a mother of two-year-old twins would be more tiring than filming a hit television show—or that the life change would enable her to so easily relate to a new role in a Tyler Perry comedy.

“Rebecca came home with the sonogram and there was not one blob, but two. Twins!” That’s how actor Jerry O’Connell recalls the moment when he first learned he would be the father of two. The 36-year-old native New Yorker, star of the new CBS drama The Defenders, told P&C he always knew he and Rebecca would have “at least a couple of kids — it’s just not something I thought we’d go through all at once. But it’s great having Dolly and Charlie.”

Sweltering is the only word to describe this afternoon in Burbank, one of those sticky, no-breeze days that makes people hate the San Fernando Valley, but you wouldn't know it from looking at Rebecca Romijn, who is standing in the doorway of her trailer on the Warner Bros. lot with a big, broad smile. Hello, hello, nice to meet you, come on in, she says, learning way down to shake my hand. Romijn is nearly six feet tall, a lot of that legs, but now, perched at the top of several steps leading up to her aluminum-sided home away from home, she's about twice that.

Sitting in a nondescript white trailer on the Hollywood lot of her new pilot, Eastwick, Rebecca Romijn is all toothy smile as she adeptly thumbs through photos on her sleek iPhone, doing what every new mom loves to do: share adorable baby pictures. With peachy plump cheeks and expressive little faces, Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip her 5 month old twin daughters with her husband of nearly two years, Jerry O'Connell are scrumptious.