I really dislike Redbook’s redesign. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the way they did their covers up until this year. Redbook used to have a standard cover layout – an attractive woman, centered on the cover, with text and headlines on either side. But, beyond this awful cover, the rest of the photoshoot with Rebecca Romijn is pretty. I especially like that the magazine didn’t airbrush her eye crinkles – it’s so refreshing to see a beautiful 40-year-old woman who looks 40 years old, and who looks like she’s aging naturally.

Anyway, Rebecca is likely promoting that awful-looking new show with Jon Tenney, King & Maxwell, which comes on TNT. I like Tenney, and I like Romijn, but even the commercials for the show annoy me. Thankfully, she doesn’t talk about the show in her Redbook interview, she just talks about her family and how they don’t have a full-time nanny.

Two kids were always in the cards for Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell. Despite battling infertility, the couple planned for a future as a family of four — and were doubly blessed when they discovered that not only was Romijn pregnant, but they were expecting twins!

And while tackling twins is tough, the couple are taking on the task alone — without the help of a full-time nanny.

“We’re each other’s assistants. We pick up each other’s slack. Whoever is less busy helps the busier one: ‘Can you go pick up this for me?’ or ‘Can you book my flight?’” Romijn, 40, says in Redbook‘s August issue.

“That’s what real life is. Once you start paying somebody else to do the grunt work, who are you?”

Adding to the difficult job of managing multiples is Romijn’s work commitments. With the King & Maxwell star shooting on location in Canada, O’Connell is on full-time daddy duty, bringing daughters Charlie Tamara Tulip and Dolly Rebecca Rose back and forth from their Los Angeles home to Vancouver to visit their working mama.

But, due to the couple’s “very different” approaches to raising their 4½-year-old girls, watching O’Connell step up to the parenting plate hasn’t always been easy. Fortunately, Romijn has realized handing over the reins isn’t always a recipe for disaster.

“It’s hard for me to not make suggestions when I’m not on duty. For example, 10 days ago when he was bringing the girls up to Vancouver, I was like, ‘Oh, God, he cannot forget their jackets. I have to remember to tell him to bring rain boots,’” she says.

“Then I told myself: ‘He knows what the weather is like in Vancouver.’ Meanwhile, he showed up with one pair of shoes each, two pairs of pants, two T-shirts, a sweatshirt and no jacket! This was my worst fear and we were … fine.”

Still, the actress admits jugging both her personal life with her professional career is a constant challenge. “Sometimes I do get a little teary. Jerry and I will see the girls running ahead of us and say, ‘Look at them, they’ll never be this little again — not even 10 minutes from now,’” she says.

It has been almost six years since Romijn and O’Connell tied the knot — later welcoming their daughters and settling into their family routine — but a big part of the former model’s previous marriage is still a popular topic for the public.

“Oh my God, it happened to me last night!” she says in reference to still being called Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. “You know, getting through all that was a lot, and when I was finally Rebecca Romijn again, I thought, ‘I’ll just stick with this for a little while.’”

But not so fast, says Romijn — her surname is still subject to change sooner rather than later.

“At a certain age I think it’ll be my girls who ask, ‘Why is your last name different than ours?’ Once it matters to them, it’s going to start mattering to me. And also for Jerry,” she says.

“My girls have this funny thing that they always do when it’s the four of us — they go, ‘See, here we are, all together, a family,’ over and over again. I think ‘O’Connell’ will play a big part in that.”

[From People]

The nice thing about “Rebecca Romijn-Stamos” was that it had a good flow and it’s still fun to say. “Romijn-O’Connell” won’t be as fun to say. Not that it matters, because I do think Jerry and Rebecca are in it for the long haul. As for the nanny stuff… I like that she specifies “no FULL-TIME nanny”. Meaning that they do have help to do some of the “grunt work” but that their helper/nanny probably doesn’t live with them, I’m assuming. Also, I didn’t know they battled infertility. Has she discussed that before or is that news?

Photos courtesy of Redbook.