Sarah Jessica Parker shows off her adorable twin girls for first time

Cradled securely in their parents’ arms, this is the first picture of Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick’s new twins girls.

Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge are just a week old and were born by a surrogate mother.

It looks as if the pair already have a devoted older brother, as the Sex And the City actress’s son James Wilkie, six, is shown starting adoringly at Marion.

The photograph was taken in the couple’s New York apartment yesterday.

Parker, 44, and her actor husband, 47, decided to explore surrogacy after they were unable to conceive naturally.

In April, they announced that their surrogate Michelle Ross was pregnant.

She gave birth last Monday. Marion was born weighing 5lbs 11oz, while Tabitha weighed 6lbs.

‘Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are delighted to announce the healthy arrival of their two daughters,’ a spokesman for the couple told website Access Hollywood.

‘Both Hodge and Elwell are family names on Parker’s side. The babies are doing beautifully and the entire family is over the moon.’

The babies were born at the East Ohio Regional Hospital in the U.S. and a hospital spokesman said ‘everything’s good’.

It was reported that Parker and Broderick were on hand for the birth of their twins, although the hospital would not comment on this.

The twins were delivered a few weeks ahead of schedule.

Last month, Parker told Access Hollywood that media attention surrounding the pregnancy had led to an invasion of the surrogate mother’s privacy.

The actress, who is most famous for her role as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, said she had been concerned for the woman ‘and the safe delivery of our children’.

source daily mail