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Marcia Cross: My Daughters Are Big Talkers

Originally posted 03/10/2009 12:00PM

Life in Marcia Cross's household is one constant gabfest thanks to her chatty twin daughters Savannah and Eden.

"They are big talkers," Cross told PEOPLE at Mott's and Feeding America charity event in New York Monday. "They happen to be very verbal girls and I think that comes from me. Their mom is pretty verbal."

Now that her girls, who turned 2 last month, can express themselves, Cross, 46, enjoys every minute engaging them in conversation. "It's wonderful that they can tell me what's going on with them and have conversations. I just love it," said the Desperate Housewives star. "When we go to the park one of my daughters will say, 'The dog scares me mamma.' Or after their birthday party a few weeks ago, one of them said, 'Too many people mamma.' "

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What Is the Hot Celeb Tree This Christmas?

Originally posted 12/20/2008 11:30AM

As the holidays inch closer, celebs have been spotted all over Los Angeles picking out the perfect tree – and many seem to lean toward the venerable Noble Fir when it comes to their selection.

Jennifer Aniston, Marcia Cross, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts have all picked up Noble Firs this holiday season.

In the cases of Aniston and Cross, both bought their Nobles (which run about $190 for a 7- to 8-ft. tree) at the popular Mr. Greentrees in Beverly Hills.

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Good Deeds

Marcia Cross: My Baby Girls Could Be President

Originally posted 01/25/2008 07:30AM

With no work on Wisteria Lane these days (thanks to the Hollywood writers' strike), Desperate Housewives's Marcia Cross put her free time to use this week, lobbying Congress to pass 12-year-old legislation for breast cancer patients.

"And I thought making movies was slow," Cross said of the "ridiculous" inaction on a bill that would end so-called "drive-through" mastectomies and guarantee patients up to 48 hours of recovery time in the hospital. Cross, together with Lifetime television, delivered Congress with 20 million signatures from the online petition at mylifetime.com – as her stockbroker husband, Tom Mahoney, proudly snapped photos.

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Good Deeds

Marcia Cross's Holiday Joy: Her 10-Month-Old Twins

Originally posted 12/17/2007 10:55AM

Christmas came early for Marcia Cross.

"I'm deliriously happy!" the Desperate Housewives star, 45, told PEOPLE at the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue on Saturday. "It's scary to be this happy. Oh my god, I mean life is precarious, so I just value every day and every gift."

Speaking after she read from the book Snowpeople, to benefit St. Jude's Research Hospital (for every copy of the book sold, Saks will donate $2 to the St. Jude 2007 Thanks and Giving Campaign), Cross said the source of her holiday joy were her twin daughters, Eden and Savannah – who were cuddling with dad Tom Mahoney during the reading.

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Caught in the Act!

Originally posted 07/05/2007 06:00AM

• Marcia Cross, perusing the bathing suit section at Bloomingdale's at Los Angeles's Century City mall. Looking natural and carrying a selection of suits to try on, new mom Cross (she gave birth to twin girls in February) "was relaxed and low key," a fellow shopper tells us. The Desperate Housewives star, who told PEOPLE she's been losing weight with exercise DVDs and at the gym, browsed through each rack.

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