Fiona McCade: Why should SJP grin and bear it if she can't?

WHEN Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick had their first baby, James, in 2002, she didn't ostentatiously parade her bump, they didn't auction the first photos to the highest bidder, nor did they publicly flaunt their new arrival. True to the couple's belief in keeping their home life low-profile and resolutely unstarry, the day SJP took her baby home she simply stood on the steps of the hospital, beaming with pride, and let everyone and anyone take photos.

Then she got on with being a mother – oh, and icon to millions, of course. And that, we thought, was that, until last week's revelation that the Parker-Brodericks are expecting twin girls. The only difference between the twins' birth and James's is t...