Not content to merely play one on TV, Marcia Cross desperately longed to be a real housewife. In less than one year, she got everything she wanted: Cross married Tom Mahoney in 2006 and gave birth to twin girls, Eden and Savannah, in February 2007 — just before she turned 45. Cross was very realistic about her chances of conceiving. Instead of a honeymoon, the couple began in vitro immediately after the wedding, and clearly it worked.