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Molly Ringwald celebrated her twins Roman and Adele’s 16th birthday in adorable fashion.
The actress, 57, sweetly shared a throwback photo of her son and daughter via Instagram to mark their milestone on Thursday, July 10.
“Happy 16 Roman and Adele 🎂❤️❤️♥️,” Ringwald captioned the snapshot.
In the photo, Roman and Adele each enjoyed an ice cream cone while visiting a carnival. They looked to be around preschool age in the throwback.
The wholesome post earned love from fans, with one person commenting, “Having twins is like hitting the jackpot!!”
“May your day be filled with joy, laughter, and unforgettable moments as you celebrate this special milestone!” a second person wrote.
“Happy birthday to them both 🎉🎊🎁🎂🎈,” a third person said.
Ringwald shares Roman, Adele and daughter Mathilda, 21, with husband Panio Gianopoulos.
Of course some fans had a sense of nostalgia from the 16th birthday post, as Ringwald famously starred in Sixteen Candles, the coming-of-age tale of Sam Baker (Ringwald), whose family forgets that it’s her 16th birthday. Sam has a major crush on Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) but fails to work up the nerve to approach him once she sees him with girlfriend Caroline Mulford (Haviland Morris).
After a night of partying gone awry for many of the characters, Jake shows up after the wedding of Sam’s sister the following day and invites her back to his home, where he presents her with a birthday cake with 16 candles on it.
Ringwald revealed that she watched one of her other popular movies, 1985’s The Breakfast Club, with her eldest daughter when she was 10 years old.
“I’ll be the first to admit that 10 is far too young for a viewing of The Breakfast Club, a movie about five high-school students who befriend one other during a Saturday detention session, with plenty of cursing, sex talk and a now-famous scene of the students smoking pot,” she wrote in a piece for The New Yorker in April 2018. “But my daughter insisted that her friends had already seen it, and she said she didn’t want to watch it for the first time in front of other people.”
She continued, “A writer-director friend assured me that kids tend to filter out what they don’t understand, and I figured that it would be better if I were there to answer the uncomfortable questions. So I relented, thinking perhaps that it would make for a sweet if unconventional mother-daughter bonding moment.”
However, years later, Ringwald admitted that some of her movies, including Sixteen Candles, had scenes that “bothered her.”
“Although everybody likes to say that I had, you know, John Hughes’ ear and he did listen to me in a lot of ways, I wasn’t the filmmaker,” she told NPR in October 2018 in the wake of the #MeToo Movement. “And you know, sometimes I would tell him, ‘Well, I think that this is kind of tacky’ or ‘I think that this is irrelevant’ or ‘this doesn’t ring true,’ and sometimes he would listen to me but in other cases, he didn’t.”
