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By: CHRISTOFFER NILSSON
Helen Sjöholm on expecting twins: crazy
Helen Sjöholm is heavily pregnant with twins. And knows what she wants for Christmas.
– That all goes well and that the babies are healthy, she says to Nöjesbladet.
Next Friday’s the theatrical release of “Simon and the Oaks”, the adaptation of Marianne Fredriksson’s novel, which has sold more than 4 million copies.
Musical star Helen Sjöholm, 41, is one of the leads. Seven years have passed since her last movie role – in Kay Pollak’s “As it is in Heaven.”
– This was very surprising to me because the role and the film has no musical basis, which “As it is in Heaven” had, she says.
In “Simon and the Oaks” she plays the title character’s mother Karin – a woman carrying a big lifetime secret.
“Twice as heavy”
Privatly Helen Sjöholm carries something completely different. Twins.
– I don’t have full focus on my person nor my job right now. I have two babies here that will arrive any time now, so I’m pretty focused on that.
Her shape of the day would decide if Helen was up for an interview.
– It varies from day to day. It´s twice as heavy and it happens twice as much in there, says Helen, who already has four year old son Ruben together with her husband David Granditsky, 45.
“It’s a bonus”
This year it doesn´t seem to be a traditional Christmas celebration for the family.
– We will probably celebrate Christmas in maternity hospital. I would guess that’s about when the babies will come, says Helen.
She learned early in her pregnancy that she is expecting twins.
– It’s really crazy. This is a bonus. Before you noticed it at birth. “Oh, there is one more coming”, but now you have time to get used to it. It’s good.
Before Helen met her current husband, she had in a decade-long relationship with another man. She has previously likened her former relationship to a house under repair. But the new love construction seems solid.
– It feels good. That you are not renovating right now. Never again, says Helen Sjöholm.