Wanda Sykes and Wife Get Tag-Teamed By Twins
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During a humorous Wednesday appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Wanda Sykes dished on life with twins Olivia Lou and Lucas Claude, 4 ½ weeks. Joking that “all hell broke loose” after the family of four — including Wanda’s wife Alex — returned home, the 45-year-old comedian describes a scenario that is probably familiar to all parents of multiples. “It was like they were tag teaming us,” she recalls. “You put one down, and the other starts crying.” From the sound of things, life was definitely more smooth in the hospital. Says Wanda,
“Everybody was great. I loved it. We had a whole staff of nurses around the clock. I was like, ‘Oh, this baby is stinky. Take it!’”
The twins were in no hurry to make their debut, Wanda shared. “They say that [with twins], they should be [born] at maybe 35 weeks, but nothing. Just sitting around and waiting,” she explains. “I was like, ‘Babies, y’all need to hurry up and get here. I have this big White House Correspondents Dinner gig coming up. I’ve got to get out to the clubs and work my magic.”
Alex was finally induced at 39 weeks, and the babies were born “big and healthy” without incident — depending on who you ask! Noting that “there’s no such thing as a smooth delivery,” Wanda adds, “It’s a lot of mop-up…a lot of cleaning up going on after that.”
“They did the c-section, and you know when the doctors tell you don’t look this way? Don’t look that way. It was not pretty. I thought I was on an episode of CSI. I was like, ‘What the hell?’”
Click below for Wanda’s thoughts on Jon & Kate Plus 8 and to see a screencap of the twins!
Wanda and Alex – who is breastfeeding – are splitting parenting duties equally. “Alex is taking care of everything that goes in and I handle everything that comes out,” Wanda quips. As for preparing for motherhood, Wanda jokes that she didn’t do much. “I didn’t read books…I have no time for your silly books,” she says, adding that she had instead always planned to “wing it.”
Not entirely, though. Wanda owned up to watching Jon & Kate Plus 8 during Alex’s pregnancy, hoping to “pick up some tips” along the way. “Then once we had the babies, I thought, ‘Look at these jackasses with their eight kids,” she joked. As for rumors of a cheating Jon Gosselin, Wanda says that Alex need not worry about their own relationship suffering a similar fate. “With two babies, I tell my wife, ‘Look, if you ever catch me in a bed with another woman you know I’m just trying to catch a nap. I’m just trying to get some shut-eye.’”
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Source: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
– Missy
- Posted on May 29, 09 at 1:00PM
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May 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
She is hilarious! And those babies are so cute!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
she is seriously funny. gorgeous babies and i am still loving their names.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Look at the hair! So pretty!!
She is a hoot. Love her outlook on parenting.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I agree with N. Those babies are adorable!
Wanda Sykes cracks me up too. I remember when she did one of the character voices for Crank Yankers on Comedy Central.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
She is hilarious!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Those babies are SO sweet.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Very happy for Wanda and her wife. The babies are beautiful! I wonder which one is Lucas and which one is Olivia? Loving the names too!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
She is hilarious! As for breastfeeding, is she or Alex nursing? It sounded like Alex from the quote.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Alex is nursing Megan.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Oh my gosh I watched this the other night and she absolutely cracked me up! I could not stop laughing. I love her! I am so happy for her and her wife. Absolutely adorable babies, and lovely names.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I love her! and her babies are so cute! I’m surprised we saw a picture of them so soon.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Although I have no idea which is which, I feel like the one on the left is the girl. Thats my guess!
May 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
wait a minute, commenter Carmen… Alex is nursing megan??? I think I need to hear more about this interesting situation.
Wanda is hilarious, and it seems like she and her partner are and will be great parents to those cuties!
May 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
i said “partner,” i meant wanda and her wife.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
LOVE her, she is soooo funny! And those babies are gorgeous! Congrats again to Wanda and Alex
May 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I saw this on the Tonight Show and was totally cracking up. She’ll be such a fun mom.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Wanda is hilarious! Hahah.
Those babies are absolutely beautiful and their names are just as gorgeous as they are. Precious!
May 30th, 2009 at 1:01 am
I’m confused! Wanda said Alex was induced…but then she mentioned that they “did the C-section”. Why bother inducing if you’re going to have a C-section?
May 30th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Nona- ROFLOL!
Oh, and I love Wanda’s honesty about how birth, while certainly beautiful in the sense that it’s bringing new life into the world, isn’t pretty! I’ve never given birth myself, but I HAVE heard plenty about, plus I’ve seen video clips of it (for some reason, I’m fascinated by pretty much everything having to do with the human body, so I’ve checked out plenty of videos about the body from the library…including videos about pregnancy and birth. I know, I’m weird!).
At least Wanda didn’t stick her foot in her mouth like my poor dad did when I was born! Just like Alex, my mom had to have a C-section to deliver me. My dad watched at least part of the process of making the incisions and everything….and his comment was, “It doesn’t look so bad. It just looks like they’re cutting into chicken!”. Needless to say, I don’t think my mom was too pleased with him right then (and I’m sure my dad wanted to kick himself for saying that!)! LOL!
May 30th, 2009 at 2:02 am
wanda is so funny – she is great on “curb your enthusiasm”. if you’ve never seen the show, i highly recommend it!
May 30th, 2009 at 4:57 am
I want to say the one who seems to have stolen the hair is Olivia, and the one with the cute little old bald man look is Lucas!
They’re such cute little babies.
And Mom Wanda, as always, is a riot. I loved how she talked of wanting them to hurry up since she had events coming up. Too much!
May 30th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Baby Lover, I assume she probably tried to have them vaginally and wasn’t successful, so ended up with a csection.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The babies are TO CUTE! Congratulations to Wanda and Alex!
May 30th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
She is probably the funniest woman on TV. And I had no idea she was a lesbian. I am totally out of the loop these days. =) Congratulations to her and to Alex.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:41 am
Wanda is hilarious as always! What a cute babies!!!
June 1st, 2009 at 7:13 am
This has to be one of the funniest interviews I’ve ever read! Wanda is so funny and SO REAL! Haha!
August 19th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
CelebrityBabyLover: Lots of inductions wind up being C-Sections because one’s body isn’t ready for labor to start. 2 of my friends labored for almost 36 hours after being induced and had to wind up with C-Sections because of the length of time their water had been broken.
I love Wanda. She absolutely cracks me up (loved her in Monster-In-Law), and the babies are ADORABLE!