Anybody who grew up watching the 'National Lampoon' series of films will be familiar with Beverly D'Angelo, who memorably played Ellen Griswold. She's also known to many as the former wife of the legendary Al Pacino, who she was with from 1997 through to 2003. It was that marriage that brought her to parenthood in her very late forties.
The couple had twins; a boy and a girl; in 2001, which was the same year that D'Angelo turned 50. If you're noticing a pattern with twins, it's not a coincidence. IVF treatment, when successful, significantly boosts the chances of twins or even triplets being born. D'Angelo and Pacino spoke openly about their use of IVF, which D'Angelo concedes made her nervous and led to a somewhat uncomfortable pregnancy; not that she would swap the end result for the world.