Why Marcia Cross is so happy to be a member of the mummy club

Desperate Housewife star Marcia Cross has been talking about the birth of her twin daughters and the lengths she went to get pregnant.

The 45-year-old actress is interviewed in the current issue of People magazine and says that even before she married husband Tom last June she was planning their family. '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 told the magazine. 'Even before I was 30 I started thinking about [it]. [It was the] longest wait in history. The years started going by and I was anxious about the clock ticking. Now it seems like it was all meant to be. I'm probably done [having kids], but I certainly can see why people keep going.'

Such was the actress's desire to get pregnant that she decided to put off their honeymoon and have IVF instead. 'We did in vitro a week after we got married. We were supposed to go to Greece and Paris and have this fancy honeymoon, and I said, 'Let's stay put and see if we can't give this baby a chance.' And it worked - times two.'

Of her twin daughters Savannah and Eden Marcia coos; 'I love when you get them out of the crib and you open the blanket and they're like little flowers - they're warm and they smell so good. People say, 'Oh wait, it gets better and better!' But I'm in no rush. I'm in heaven right now.'

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