As Jerry recounted toPeople, “Day one, we clicked.”
And so, Romijn and Jerry didn’t act on their feelings right away.
Of course, they didn’t wait too long act on those aforementioned feelings.
A few months later, they officially started dating, and in 2005, they were engaged.
Two years later, they got hitched.
And the following year, they became parents to Charlie Tamara Tulip and Dolly Rebecca Rose O’Connell.
And clearly, she wasn’t the only excited new parent.
In a 2009 feature forPeople, Jerry gushed about fatherhood.
“There’s something fun about it.
It’s like having a new car except it’s two lives,” he joked.
“I’m proud.”
Whether they’re posing in a Got Milk?
Charlie was named after Jerry’s younger brother, Charlie O’Connell.
While Dolly was not named after a family member, she was named after someone very special to Romijn.
Parton was beyond ecstatic.
(It also happens to be Romijn’s first name.)
“I got a letter from her in my mailbox on butterfly stationery!
that said, ‘I forgot to tell you while you were here, my middle name is Rebecca.
You should name her Dolly Rebecca after the two of us together,'” she recalled.
Rebecca Romijn’s daughters were in a Got Milk?
In 2010, for example, Dolly and Charlie appeared alongside their mother in a “Got Milk?”
For Romijn, this came 12 years after she last posed for the company.
While Charlie gave photographers an easy time, Dolly was the opposite.
“I thought that Dolly was going to be all over it,” she told the publication.
“I think this is one of maybe three frames where Dolly wasn’t screaming her head off … “Jerry was probably doing cartwheels behind the photographer trying to get them to calm down.”
Once the twins got a little older, they started traveling with their parents on a regular basis.
As a result, both Dolly and Charlie developed a rather peculiar travel-related interest.
In a separate chat withPeople, Jerry remarked on his kids’ appreciation for public restrooms.
However, she was not ready to open that door.
“That’s not happening for as long as I can possibly go,” she said.
“I’ve been told that grades suffer when kids get phones.
So they’ll be 20 before I get them a phone!
My kids are nagging me about it because a lot of their friends already have them.
… [Those parents] are ruining it for the rest of us.”
“I saw a physical altercation,” he said.
“I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Evidently, it all had to do with one of the daughters deciding she wanted to start wearing dresses.
“Like, all of a sudden, they’re more important than they used to be.
They feel like they’re all high and mighty.
They’re acting like teenagers already.”
As for how his own kids feel about his antics?
Well, that’s another story.
As they entered their preteen stage, however, that all changed.
In a 2018, for example, Jerry toldE!
News, that his attempt at the “In My Feelings” challenge fell flat for his kids.
“It’s crazy.
Despite this, the doting father doesn’t seem to mind being the embarrassing parent for a little while.
At one point, Dolly exclaims, “Dad, turn this down!
We’re next to the high school!”
Luckily, Dolly and Charlie seem to have a knack for jewelry designs.
So much so that Romijn suggested she was planning on using some of their ideas in the near future.
“They have been helpful and supportive.
They’re a couple of sparkly little diamonds themselves,” she stated.
However, Rebecca Romijn is in no hurry to send them down that path.
“I think it’s so important to let kids be kids.”
“For some reason, I thought my kids were like the Olsen twins.
I was like, ‘You gotta get out there.
You have to audition.’
And my kid just didn’t want to do it.”
“I have twin daughters.
I would love to get me some of that Olsen twin money,” he quipped.
“I love my daughters, they’re the best.
I’m just not sure they themselves express that much interest.”
She then went on to be one of the stars of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”
“My girls are 13, so they were like, ‘Did you say Paul Wesley?
Oh, we’re on board.
We are 100% board.'”
“It’s been an education for them, for sure,” she said.
Looks like the curriculum was just missing Stefan Salvatore.
The two wed in 1998, and by 2005, their marriage was officially over.
“It’s funny,” he began.
“When that’s all happening a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I know about it.
What are your thoughts?’
‘Why did he call you that?'”
“I won’t ask any questions.”
“I don’t know if I can ever find that balance,” she toldParadein 2012.
As a result, Romijn eventually became selective when it came to deciding which gigs she would take on.
