Though Molly Ringwald plays mom to two teenage girls on her hit ABC Family show The Secret Life of an American Teenager, in real- life she has a five year old daughter, Mathilda Ereni. But the child star- now 40 years old- has just announced that she is expecting twins (a boy and a girl) with hubby, Panio Gianopoulos, 33. The babies are due in August, and the pregnancy will be written into her show.

Ringwald starred in such teen classics as Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles.

On Secret Life, she plays the sympathetic but overwhelmed Anne Juergens – a woman reeling from her husband’s affair, her mother’s Alzheimer’s and, most poignantly, her 15-year-old daughter’s pregnancy.

Congratulations to the happy family. I can’t wait to see how this gets worked into the already too complicated storyline.

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