Funny Girl Renee's Twin Miracle
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|26 June 2017

Double happy! The star’s joy is beyond words.

Funny Girl Renee's Twin Miracle

Actress Renee Lyons became a global internet sensation after a skit she did for Jono and Ben went viral.

Spoofing the infamous BBC interview that was gatecrashed by a political correspondent’s two children, the clip featured the 800 Words and Filthy Rich star as a multitasking mother who was feeding a baby, cooking a chicken, cleaning a toilet and defusing a bomb, all while discussing foreign policy on live TV.

And as if that wasn’t enough, unknown to viewers, Wellingtonborn Renee was pregnant with twins – a boy and a girl – when she filmed it!

“I was 18 weeks along and in the throes of some gnarly morning sickness,” confesses the 41-year-old actress, who is now 31 weeks into her pregnancy. “Maybe if we do a sequel, I’ll give birth in the next one!”

However, what is perhaps more extraordinary is that just a year earlier, after visiting a fertility clinic, Renee had given up on the idea of ever having children.

“I’d been worried about my fertility since I was 33,” the Funny Girls star admits to Woman’s Day. “Two years ago, I was single and went to a clinic to ask about my options. They put the wind up me.

“They said that at the age of 38, you had only a 12% chance of getting pregnant if you go through IVF. They were bleak statistics and I got a bit freaked out, but by the time I was 40, I’d made peace with it.”

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