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Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon with she and her husband Mike Nilon's newborn twins appeared on the cover of Jet Magazine this week.

Beauvais-Nilon, 41, is the third celebrity in the past couple of months to give birth to twins. Jennifer Lopez and Halle Berry both had sets of twins in the last month. Like Lopez who appeared on the cover of People Magazine with her newborns, Beauvais-Nilon appeared in Jet.

Beauvais-Nilon and husband Michael have been married since 2001. On Oct. 18, Beauvais-Nilon gave birth to the newborns, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas. Garcelle and Mike had suffered through three miscarriages before the newborns were born.

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