While it’s not easy being parents to seven-year-old twin girls, Jerry O’Connell tells Life & Style it’s the reason he and his wife of eight years, Rebecca Romijn, are still married!

“Parenthood has strengthened our relationship in the sense that my wife and I would love to split up, but we are too afraid that one of us will get stuck with the children,” Jerry jokes.

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“We have to stay unified as a team in order to keep the edge over them,” he adds.

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