It's the kind of blissful family moment Cross, who turned 45 shortly after the twins' birth, has been craving for more than a decade – or, as she jokingly puts it, "the longest wait in history." In the past 10 months, the woman who 2 ½ years ago told Oprah Winfrey she was "desperate to be a housewife" became both a newlywed and a member of Club Mom twice over. "I wanted to be a member of that club so badly, and now I'm in and it's so much better than I even imagined," she says. "Even before I was 30 I started thinking about [motherhood]," says Cross, who grew up as the middle of three daughters of Mark, a retired personnel manager, and Janet, a retired teacher, in Marlborough, Mass. "The years started going by and I was anxious about the clock ticking. Now it seems like it was all meant to be."
Her ginger-haired babies "are absolutely breathtaking," says Cross's Housewives costar Eva Longoria, who visited when the twins were just a couple of weeks old. "It's a surreal feeling, because our lives are so different from when we started the show." Adds the show's creator Marc Cherry: "Three years ago Marcia got this job and was a little, 'What do I know about being a housewife?' Now she's got it all."
