Marcia Cross says motherhood 'cracks your heart wide open'
Desperate Housewives actress Marcia Cross feels as though she's got the best of both worlds. Between her hit television show and her 13-month-old twin daughters Eden and Savannah, things are going really well for the 45-year-old, and she says she can't imagine choosing one over the other.
I wouldn't have been a happy girl if it was just the show and probably I would be a little frustrated if it was just my kids, though I'm such a happy mother.
Happy, indeed. When asked recently whether motherhood has lived up to her expectations Marcia answered in the affirmative, telling the reporter that being a mom is "a million times better" than she'd expected.
Take your greatest love affair and magnify it as much as you can imagine and it's like that. It really cracks your heart wide open.
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Her pregnancy wasn't an easy one, as Marcia was put on bedrest at 30-weeks. Still, she says she hasn't completely ruled out another baby — or two — despite her assurances to Desperate Housewives producer Marc Cherry that she was finished having kids.
I looked at my girls this morning and I was like, ‘Where are your brothers!' Because I think in twos, of course, so there has to be two [boys]. I don't know.
The promise isn't the only thing weighing on her mind as she contemplates expanding her family with husband Tom Mahoney. Marcia admits that age is also a factor.
I'm a little long in the tooth. If I were 36 I would have never promised that [to Marc], but I'm 45… I wish I'd met my husband earlier. It's sad to have [children] so late because you want to be alive as long as possible for them. It's math, you know. [Motherhood] is a lifelong process and you really want to be there for them.'
As for how she lost the baby weight, Marcia credits a simple one-hour exercise class she began taking after the girls were born — 30 minutes on the treadmill, 30-minutes of weightlifting and lunges — that she still attends.
It's really a great class and that seems to do the trick. With diet, it's one decision at a time … ‘Do I want to eat that? Can I eat that? No I can't eat that.' We all do it. It's every single day, every hour of the day because if I could, I would just eat everything. I craved food in general (during pregnancy). I was starving the whole time. I was like an alien creature.
Source: Herald Sun
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