Molly Ringwald posts rare snap of her with twins Adele and Roman

Molly Ringwald recently enjoyed a fun night out with her 14-year-old twins, Adele and Roman.

The actor, who rarely posts photos of her children on social media, shared an adorable snap on Instagram April 6 of her, Adele and Roman in what appeared to be a party bus.

All three were dressed to the nines as they headed to a special event. Roman wore a black suit while Adele matched him in a black dress. Ringwald donned a white and gold gown for the occasion.

In the picture, the proud mom sweetly grabbed her son's chin as the two of them laughed.

Ringwald and her twins were on their way to the 41st Miami Film Festival where she was honored with the Variety Creative Vanguard Award. The trio later posed for photos on the red carpet together.

Variety announced last month that Ringwald would be the recipient of the award, which honored her decadeslong career.

Adele and Roman were in attendance to support their mom as she accepted the honor.

Although Ringwald doesn't make public appearances with her children very often, she frequently speaks about her life as a mom of three in interviews. She shares Adele, Roman and her 20-year-old daughter Mathilda with her husband, writer and editor Panio Gianopoulos.

In an interview with The Times published on April 3, the "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans" star, 56, opened up to the British newspaper about getting pregnant with her first child in an "iconic" New York City location.

“I believe that Mathilda was conceived in the dressing room at Studio 54 right at the end of my run playing Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret' in 2003,” said Ringwald.

“It’s so Mathilda to be conceived in such an iconic place," she added of her actor daughter, who appears in the rom-com “The Idea of You,” alongside stars Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.

The former 1980s teen movie idol recalled she and Gianopoulos were “enchanted” with Mathilda when she was a baby.

“She was five weeks early, so she was on the smaller side, but she had these big, beautiful eyes,” said Ringwald. “Even before she could talk, she had an amazing sense of humor and the best belly laugh. I have recordings of her laughing, which I listen to when I want a little pick-me-up.”

The 'Riverdale" star told The Times she always wanted to be a mom and her desire for children only increased as she got older.

“I always knew I wanted to have children but it took me a while — I was 36 when she was born. At that age the biological clock is a real thing and it had kind of become deafening. All I could think about was: must have kids.”

Ringwald also opened up about the difficulties of juggling motherhood with being a working actor, and credited Gianopoulos, whom she married in 2007, with keeping life at home “stable” for their kids.

“The hardest thing about motherhood was realizing that my time was not my own. As an actress, I’ve traveled a lot and learnt to live with instability, but that’s not great for kids,” she said. “That’s something I am always looking to improve on and luckily I have a husband who is a planner and is very stable.”

The “Breakfast Club” star added that she was proud that all three of her kids are good communicators. "They’re able to come to us when they need to, which I’m really grateful for. We at least did something right,” she said.

Read on to learn more about Molly Ringwald's three kids.

Mathilda Ereni Gianopoulos, 20

Ringwald’s remarks about motherhood to The Times come a little more than three months after she and Mathilda turned heads when they appeared together at the premiere of FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” Jan. 23 in New York City.

The mother and daughter, who were joined by Gianopoulos, both wowed the crowd wearing black gowns inspired by the show’s swan theme.

Like her famous mom, Mathilda fell in love with acting at a young age — even if her mom didn't exactly encourage her at first to pursue her dreams.

During an August 2012 visit to TODAY, Ringwald revealed to hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford that Mathilda, then 9, asked her "every day" if she could start acting.

"I say no," said the former teen star, laughing. "After college, after she graduates from Stanford or Harvard, then I will support her in whatever she wants to do. I just want her to get a good education first because I think it will make her a better actress and a more interesting person."

"It's a really hard business. There's a lot of rejection and I just want to protect my kid," she added.

Three years later, the "Sixteen Candles" star had gone back on her word when she allowed Mathilda to be a guest star in her 2015 movie "Jem and the Holograms."

“She loves acting,” Ringwald said of Mathilda during an October 2015 visit to TODAY. “We don’t want her to do it professionally, but we really loved (director) Jon (Chu) ... and so we did it. I filmed it, I actually directed her in it.”

“It’s very daunting to direct your almost-teenage daughter,” Ringwald added. “I think it’s the only time that she’s ever listened to me!”

Ringwald was back visiting TODAY again in November 2016 when she opened up to Hoda and Kathie Lee about being afraid to let Mathilda watch "Sixteen Candles."

“It was really significant for me to show it to her,” said Ringwald. “It was the one I kept holding back. ... Because it was really important to me and I was so afraid she wasn’t going to like it.”

Fortunately, Mathilda loved the movie. “She really connected to it,” said Ringwald. “She connected to it in a way that I didn’t quite expect.”

The now 20-year-old Mathilda has indeed followed her mom's acting footsteps. She currently appears in the rom-com “The Idea of You,” alongside stars Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.

Adele Georgiana Gianopoulos, 14

Ringwald and her husband expanded their family when they welcomed their twins, Adele and Roman, in 2009 when Ringwald was 41.

"To have the opportunity to have another girl — it is a dream come true ... And a boy! We were all overjoyed about that too," Ringwald told People just weeks after the twins' arrival.

Although the "Fresh Horses" star previously showed her 1980s teen movies to older daughter Mathilda, she revealed in 2016 that she worried what Adele would think of portions of the movie that might be "troubling" to more "woke" contemporary teens.

"My 12-year-old daughter, Adele, is the most woke individual that you’ve ever met, and I just don’t know how I’m going to go through that, you know, watching it with her and (her) saying, ‘How could you do that? How could you be part of something that....’" Ringwald told Andy Cohen during an interview on SiriusXM’s "Radio Andy."

In October 2021, the "Pretty In Pink" star and her younger daughter made headlines when they wore matching pink dresses to the American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Gala in New York City.

Roman Stylianos Gianopoulos, 14

Ringwald was grateful to to get pregnant with twins Adele and Roman after having fibroids surgically removed.

"There were some other issues, too. But I was so, so lucky to be 41 and to be so healthy during this pregnancy," the actor told People in 2009 shortly after the twins arrived.

After 11 hours of contractions, Adele was born and three minutes later, Roman entered the world as a breech birth, the actor shared with the publication.

“It was such an extraordinary birth. The doctor grabbed him by the foot and pulled him out,” she said. “Adele had hogged a lot of the oxygen in the blood so right away Roman needed a little more attention. But both babies cried almost immediately.”

Ringwald said at the time that she was enjoying being a mom of three at 41. “Having a son as well as another daughter, it was just a really grand surprise,” she said. “Miracles? You could say that.”

More than a year before Adele joined her mom in matching pink dresses when they walked the red carpet at the American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Gala, Roman showed off his love of the color, too.

In July 2020, Ringwald posted a cute pic of long-haired Roman flashing a peace sign while wearing a pink T-shirt on Instagram. "Of course my son’s favorite color is pink!" Ringwald quipped in her caption.

The proud mom celebrated Roman and Adele's 14th birthday in July 2023 when she posted a gallery packed with pics of the teens on Instagram. "14! Happy Birthday Roman & Adele!" she captioned the collection.

This article was originally published on TODAY.com