Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony became proud parents of twins -- a boy and a girl early on Friday morning.

 An AP report citing People magazine said the babies were born at 12:45 am on Long Island.

The twins are Jennifer's first children and Marc's third and fourth. The 39-year old singer/actress' married Marc in 2004.

'Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon,' the magazine quoted Lopez' publicist, Simon Fields, as saying.

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