'Happy' Julia recovering
2004-11-30 12:11
Los Angeles - Hollywood's beloved Pretty Woman Julia Roberts was "happy" and resting on Monday after delivering the greatest performance of her life: giving birth to twins following a turbulent pregnancy.
The Oscar-winning superstar brought a boy and a girl into the world on Sunday after spending nearly a month in bed following a dramatic health scare that saw her shuttling between hospital and her Los Angeles home.
"She gave birth very early on Sunday morning, and she had been on bed rest since late October," said Jess Cagle, a senior editor for People magazine, which got the scoop on the Oscar-winning actress's double feature.
"She is rested and happy and hoping to go home in the next few days," he told CBS television's The Early Show.
The 37-year-old superstar and her cameraman husband of two years, Danny Moder, have named their twins - who were born more than a month early - Phinnaeus Walter Moder and Hazel Patricia Moder.
Roberts was taken to hospital on October 23 and placed on a foetal monitor after she began having early contractions more than two months before her January due date.
But Roberts told USA Today in an interview last week that despite the scare, her pregnancy had not come complete with some of the more common miseries expectant mothers face.
"Never got sick," she said. "I've heard horror stories about people who have a sip of water and then throw up for four hours. But I come from hardy stock. I'm Southern," she told the paper.
Roberts's publicist Marcy Engelman refused to comment on the star's latest role as a mother, one which she took on just days before the release of her two latest movies, Ocean's 12 and Closer, that premiere on Friday.
Mike Nichols's drama Closer already has Tinseltown tongues wagging about a possible second Oscar statuette for Roberts, who shot to international stardom with 1990's Pretty Woman.
Adventure flick "Ocean's Twelve," which opens December 10 in North America, is a sequel to the 2001 remake Ocean's Eleven.
Despite being confined to bed by her pregnancy, Roberts has continued promoting both films from her Los Angeles hospital room.