Sarah Jessica Parker shared rare photos of her twin daughters this week, marking a family milestone with a quiet post that drew the kind of attention a full publicity campaign might chase. Tabitha Hodge Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick turned 17 on Monday, June 22, 2026, and Parker used Instagram to look back at their childhood while keeping the present-day details mostly private.
The “Sex and the City” star shares the twins, along with son James Wilkie Broderick, with her husband, actor Matthew Broderick. For someone whose work has shaped pop culture for decades, Parker has long treated her children’s privacy as something more valuable than a few extra likes. A radical concept, apparently.
What Parker shared for Tabitha and Marion’s birthday
In her birthday post, Parker opened with the date “June 22, 2009,” the day Tabitha and Marion were born. She then reflected on the young women they have become, describing them as “wise,” “good” and “happy,” and calling them her “beloved daughters.”
The tribute included older family photos rather than current close-up images. Reports on the post described childhood snapshots of the sisters by a pool and eating ice cream together, the sort of small, ordinary moments that become emotionally loaded once the children in them are nearly adults.
That is part of why the post landed with fans. Parker was not announcing a project, selling a product or staging a glossy family reveal. She was doing something more familiar: staring at the calendar and realizing, with some understandable alarm, that two babies are now 17.
Why the photos are unusual for Parker’s family
Parker and Broderick have kept their children from becoming fixtures in their public careers. While Parker remains one of television’s most recognizable actors, she rarely posts clear or current images of James, Tabitha or Marion.
When she does share family moments, they are usually framed carefully. Older photos, images from behind, school milestones and short birthday notes have been more typical than the full celebrity-family rollout. That boundary has made even modest updates feel notable to people who have followed Parker from “Sex and the City” through her return as Carrie Bradshaw in “And Just Like That.”
The approach is not especially mysterious. Parker and Broderick built their careers in public, but their children did not audition for that arrangement. Their selective sharing gives fans a glimpse, but not enough to turn the children’s day-to-day lives into entertainment content.
How the Broderick family grew to five
Tabitha Hodge Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick were born on June 22, 2009, via surrogate. At the time, Parker and Broderick were already parents to James Wilkie Broderick, who was born in 2002.
The twins’ arrival made the couple a family of five and drew wide attention, partly because Parker was then among the most closely watched performers in Hollywood and on Broadway. She and Broderick, both stage and screen veterans, had already been married for more than a decade.
The couple married on May 19, 1997, and have remained strongly associated with New York, where both have continued working while raising their children mostly away from the celebrity circuit. It is a quieter version of fame, or at least as quiet as fame gets when both parents are famous enough to be recognized by multiple generations.
When the twins have appeared in public
Tabitha and Marion have made occasional public appearances with their parents, but those moments have been relatively rare.
- In 2018, Parker brought the twins to the New York City Ballet Spring Gala, where they walked the red carpet with their mother.
- In 2022, Parker appeared with Tabitha, Marion and Broderick at the “Hocus Pocus 2” premiere in New York.
- In April 2025, the family attended the Broadway opening night of “Smash” at the Imperial Theatre in New York, with the twins then 15.
Those outings tended to happen around theater, film or family events rather than routine red-carpet exposure. That pattern has helped define the family’s public posture: present when they choose, absent when they prefer, and unwilling to feed the machine on schedule.
Parker’s social media style stays personal but careful
Parker’s birthday note fits a broader pattern in how she uses social media. Her posts about her children are often reflective and brief, acknowledging the passage of time without offering too much detail.
In 2021, for example, she shared rare images tied to her daughters finishing sixth grade. The post thanked their teachers and marked the transition into summer, but it did not turn the moment into a spectacle. That balance has become familiar from Parker: warm, specific enough to feel personal, and still guarded.
The restraint matters because the public appetite around celebrity children has only grown. Parker’s posts show there is a middle ground between total silence and constant exposure. A parent can celebrate a child’s milestone without making the child the content.
The post comes during another big career chapter
The birthday tribute also comes during a busy stretch in Parker’s professional life. She remains closely tied to Carrie Bradshaw, the role that made her a defining television figure through HBO’s “Sex and the City” and the sequel series “And Just Like That.”
Earlier in 2026, Parker received the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award, an honor recognizing significant contributions to television. The award underlined what has been clear for years: her work helped shape modern TV, even if many viewers still feel they have a personal opinion about Carrie’s shoes, choices and rent situation.
Still, the response to Parker’s post was less about awards or nostalgia for her most famous role than about something more universal: a parent recognizing that childhood has moved faster than seemed reasonable.
Tabitha and Marion are now entering their final teenage years, and Parker’s post looked back without giving too much away. That has been the family’s balance for years: mark the milestone, protect the private life, and let the rest remain off-camera.
