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Zoe Saldana presumably thought long and hard about what to name her twin sons, but it turns out she could have cut that effort down by half.
"There's no Bowie," the mother of twins Bowie and Cy explained to E! News. "They call each other Cy! We're like, 'You're Cy, and that's Bowie,' and they're like, 'Cy?'"
The boys, who are now 20-months-old, have a strong connection.
"They have a great deal of empathy for each other," the actress, who wed Marco Perego in 2013, gushed.
"That's something my husband and I are seeing and it makes us so happy, because that thoughtfulness of if they hear the other cry...or if the other one leaves the vicinity that one is in, immediately it's like they perk up, and they're like, 'Cy?' and they walk and they have to find each other. Then once they find each other, you think they're gonna hug, they're gonna kiss—no. They find each other and they just cross [and keep walking], and sit on opposite sides of the room, but check each other out."
For Zoe Saldana and her husband, having twins has been fascinating.
Admitting they "do a lot of physical things [identically] that kind of freak us out," she says, "It's like we wake up to go to a children's museum, and the kids are the subjects. That's all we do, is just observe them."
I didn't even have twins -- but I totally get it. I have an untold number of video clips silently taken by me in the early evenings as my boys and I waited for my husband to come home. One of the clips, which I've watched a ridiculous amount of times, shows my older son being the "monkey-see" and the younger one being the "monkey-do."
They're running circles from the kitchen to the living room and back again, galloping, skipping (as best they can), and out-right being nutty. I friggin love it.
To be fair when comparing to Zoe's twins, I must note my boys are 21-months apart in age, so I can't exactly empathize on watching twins, but boy howdy -- even siblings can be fascinating at a young age. Now that my boys are 11 and 10-years-old I sometimes briefly miss the simplicity of those moments. They're so pure, and so lovely.
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Did you know Cy and Bowie have hyphenated last names, with their father's surname first? A look at famous men who've bucked the tradition of their wife taking their last name:
Many thought Jack and Meg White of The White Stripes were siblings, but they actually married in 1996. Jack opted to take his bride's last name as his own, swapping Gillis for White.
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Meg and Jack White officially divorced in 2000. In 2005, the musician married Karen Elson, with whom he has daughter Scarlett and son Henry. Meg served as the maid of honor.
Jack and Karen announced their separation in 2011 by throwing "a positive swing bang humdinger."
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Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego secretly married in June 2013 in London. In her July 2015 cover interview with InStyle, Saldana revealed that, in a reversal of tradition, the Italian artist adopted her surname upon marriage. Thereafter, the actress became Zoe Saldana-Perego or Zoe Perego and Marco became Marco Perego-Saldana or Marco Saldana.
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The pair welcomed twin boys named Cy and Bowie in November 2014. The boys' last name is Perego-Saldana.
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When Carlos Peña wed Alex Vega in 2014, they opted to go halfsies on their new last name.
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Rather than hyphenate the stars added their names together, each adopting PeñaVega going forward. The actor and the Spy Kids actress have yet to share if they plan to start a family.
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Jay Mohr got incredibly creative for his second anniversary gift to wife Nikki Cox. As a present, he added her last name to his, becoming Jon (his birth name) Ferguson Cox Mohr.
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After marrying in 2006, the couple welcomed son Meredith Daniel Mohr in 2011. The comedian also has a son named Jackson, who was born during Jay's previous marriage.
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Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (pictured here with his daughter) also gets points in the creativity department -- choosing to mash up his last name with his wife's. Upon wedding Corina Raigosa in 1987, she and Antonio Villar "meshed" their names into "Villaraigosa."
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The couple filed for divorce in 2007, but both have continued to use their combined name. He is the father of four, the two youngest of which were born during his marriage to Corina.
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John Lennon added Yoko Ono's last name to his when they married in 1969. He said of the change, "Yoko changed her name for me, I've changed mine for her. One for both, both for each other. She has a ring, I have a ring. It gives us nine 'O's between us, which is good luck. Ten would not be good luck."
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His legal name when he died in 1980 was John Winston Ono Lennon, and hers is Yoko Ono Lennon. After suffering three miscarriages she gave birth their son Sean in 1975. John's firstborn child, son Julian, arrived in 1963 during his marriage to Cynthia Lennon.
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For his fifth marriage, Lorenzo Lamas decided to hyphenate. Upon marrying Shawna Craig in 2011 he changed his name to Lorenzo Lamas-Craig.
Wikipedia notes: This decision was motivated by the fact that his previous wife, Shauna, kept the surname Lamas, and is legally named Shauna Lamas, and Lamas' fifth wife, Shawna, whose given name is a homonym and almost identical to that of Shauna, did not wish to have a virtually identical full name.
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Shawna Craig gave birth to Lorenzo's grandson in 2015!
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The unique pregnancy came about after Shayne Lamas, who is Lorenzo's daughter (Shawna's step-daughter) suffered a near-fatal pregnancy loss in 2014. Shawna volunteered to be a surrogate for Shayne and her husband Nik...
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who legally changed his name from Hooman Abedi Karamian to Nik Lamas-Richie upon marrying. The couple are now parents to daughter Press and son Lyon.
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Jay-Z, whose birth name is Shawn Carter, bucked tradition by hyphenating his last name with Beyonce's when they married in 2008. Legally, he is now Shawn Knowles-Carter. A source told the Daily Star the couple wanted to keep "Knowles" because Beyonce's parents don't have any sons.
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The singer's legal name is now Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. Interestingly, their daughter's name is Blue Ivy Carter. She was born on January 7, 2012.
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