The always gorgeous and down-to-earth Rebecca Romijn has conquered the world of modeling and acting. Next up for the successful 37-year-old Ugly Betty star? Mother of multiples! Rebecca and her husband Jerry O'Connell welcomed their adorable twin daughters - Dolly and Charlie - in December 2008. Celebrity Baby Scoop sat down with the model mom and discussed the challenges of raising two at once, the joys of motherhood and the importance of making time alone with your partner amidst the trenches of twins.

CBS: Is Dolly the one who looks like you?

RR: "Yes, Dolly is the one who looks like me [in blue tee above] and Charlie is the one who looks like Jerry. Jerry's mother just sent us a photo of Jerry's grandmother when she was Charlie's age and they look identical."

CBS: And you even kept the name in the family (Charlie was named after Jerry's brother)!

RR: "It just worked out that way. When I was pregnant, I named them before I even met them. I could sense which one was which. It was funny, the second or third day I was in the hospital, I tried swapping their names and nobody could do it. It was set, it was in the stars."

CBS: Your girls are absolutely gorgeous! Do you think Jerry is prepared for the teen years?

RR: "No, I don't think any of us are! We just keep reminding ourselves that if we think it's tough now, wait till they're 15 and revert back to toddlers. We'll see. Wish us luck!"

CBS: How are your girls different and how are they the same?

RR: "They are both extremely willful and curious and active.

Dolly is really social. She's at this really funny age where she wants to play with the older kids at the playground. She'll run up to groups of older girls and get right in the middle of them and start babbling and then laughing hysterically because that's what they're doing. She can't even talk yet!

And Charlie's a little more reserved. She'll sit off to the side and observe. For a while there we thought Dolly was the wild child and Charlie was completely safe. But now we're noticing that Charlie has got her bravado on these days. She's climbing to the big girl slide and attempting to go down herself - which of course worries us. It's been amazing and so cute. We laugh a lot. We try to keep it light."

CBS: What a whirlwind it's been for you guys. What's your best advice for parents of twins?

RR: "Since I was pregnant, people were saying, 'Just wait till 3 months, it's going to get so much easier.' And then at 8 months, they said it would get easier. These girls are 17 months and it hasn't gotten easier yet! I'm still waiting for it to get easier. Maybe it will be when they turn 2?!

But do I have advice yet? I don't know, I feel like I'm so in the trenches that it's hard to dole out advice yet. I guess just to try and keep a sense of humor about everything. It's really easy to get bogged down. You can't even think straight half the time. I hope that once they start talking, that's when I hope to cobwebs will start to clear from my head."

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