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In the People magazine article that accompanies their photo spread with their new children, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt deny rumours that their twins were conceived through in vitro fertilization.

“If they had been conceived through IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it,” Jolie said. “But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”

The pair also recall the moment they found out they were expecting not only a fifth child but a sixth, saying they were “in shock and could not stop laughing.”

Pitt pitches into the conversation, saying that the twins are the spitting image of their proud parents. “Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality,” he gused, “And Knox, a bit of me.”

While baby fever continues in Hollywood, twins have become the new trendy addition to celebrity couples. The newest couple accepting two bundles of joy are Rebecca Romijn and husband Jerry O’Connell, reports E! News.

“They haven’t told that many people,” a source tells E! News. “Rebecca wanted to wait until she was done shooting Ugly Betty.”

The couple married last July after meeting at a party three years ago. According to reports, the “Ugly Betty” star and O’Connell have been trying to get pregnant for sometime and, earlier this month, O’Connell said he and his wife have been trying to get pregnant.

“It would be amazing if it happened,” he said at the Much Love Animal Rescue’s ‘Bow Wow WOW!’ event. “I hope it does happen.”

The twins, said to be due this winter, will be the couple’s first children.

Two shutterbugs were taken into police custody after getting into a dispute with guards outside the Jolie-Pitt’s home in southern France.

According to E! News, the paps were so determined to get photos of Brangelina and the new twins Knox and Vivienne, that they snuck onto the property in camouflage suits and, once found by two guards, got into an altercation.

“We caught the two and tried to escort them off the property and the guy’s just gone berserk, thrashing out, kicking and actually biting one of the security people, breaking his finger, drawing blood and screaming that he had hepatitis C,” Tony Webb, head of the Jolie-Pitt guard squad, told press.

Paparazzo Luc Goursolas claims the guards punched and kicked him, requiring three stitches in his head. Goursolas also denies that he claimed he had hepatitis C, insisting instead that HIV was his fictional disease of choice.

“I was pouring blood. I threw myself at them, put blood all over them, and told them that I had HIV so they would stop hitting me.”

Angelina Jolie and her one week old twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline left the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, early Saturday, reports E! News.

“Angelina left at 4 a.m. in a blacked-out ambulance,” a source tells the entertainment website. “And she’s now back at Château Miraval with Brad, the kids, her brother, James Haven, and Bill and Jane Pitt, Brad’s mom and dad.”

The new mom was hoping to leave the hospital via a helicopter from the roof, but the hospital only allows helicopter access on the roof in the event of a medical emergency, reports the source.

“Angelina and her security decided that if she left in the middle of the night, then there would be less risk of them being followed by a huge group of paparazzi on motorbikes,” the source said. “It was for her and the twins’ safety.”

Early Saturday morning, the hospital issued the following statement on their website:

“Mrs. Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Fondation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19,” the message said. “The mother and her babies are doing very well.”

The arrival of the world’s most anticipated twins is finally here.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed a son and a daughter Saturday evening, reports E! News.

Twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline arrived via Cesarian section sometime before 10.p.m, announced Jolie’s obstetrician Dr. Michel Sussmann.

Sussmann told the Associated Press that mother and babies “are doing marvellously well.” Jolie was scheduled to have the C-section this Tuesday but the procedure was pushed up “for medical reasons,” stated Sussmann.

The birth of the twins has increased the Jolie-Pitt brood to six children; however the countdown for baby No. 7 is already beginning for many Brangelina-obsessed fans.

Despite rumours that Angelina Jolie has given birth to her twins with partner Brad Pitt, the actress has not delivered her buns in the oven.

Jolie’s manager, Geyer Kosinski, told E! News the stories surrounding the Jolie-Pitt family regarding the birth of their twin daughters this week are “not true.” Pitt manager Cynthia Pett-Dante labelled the birth reports as premature. “It is a rumour,” she said.

Last weekend, the couple bought a $60 million, 1,000 acre estate in France. Jolie has previously stated her desire to give birth to the twins in France— her late mother’s home country.

Jolie-Pitt already have four children; Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, who turned 2 just this week.

Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins are two of thirteen patients who were given an overdose of the blood thinner Heparin at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The babies, born by a surrogate, were given one thousand times the dosage they should have received.

After being given two doses on Sunday, the babies began to bleed out. They were then given Protamine, which reverses the effects of Heparin, and are currently in stable condition.

According to TMZ, the incident occurred because “a technician stored the Heparin in the wrong place, and when a nurse grabbed the medicine for the babies without looking — it was the wrong dosage.”