utside a low-key New
York restaurant, an
all-female group is
O jittery with excitement
waiting for the
floppy-haired star of Twilight,
23-year-old Robert Pattinson to
emerge. So far, so normal. Except the
hormone-riddled group baying for the
celebrity boy aren’t teenagers
bunking off school, but grown
THREE SELF-PROCLAIMED TWILIGHT MOMS
WAIT FOR ACTOR ROBERT PATTINSON TO
APPEAR AT A CONVENTION IN SAN DIEGO
MARRIED, 30…
AND OBSESSED WITH
TEENAGE VAMPIRES
women. With jobs. And mortgages.
And more often than not, teenagers of
their own. Enter the Twilight Moms.
“I’m not an obsessive person, but
Twilight is different. I hadn’t read a
book in 10 years but from the second
page I was hooked. I literally locked
myself in my bedroom and read all
four books in six days,” says 38-yearold-writer,
wife and mother of two,
Kimberley Sherman from California.
She admits she fed her children cereal
for a week so she didn’t waste time
cooking, and could spend more hours
with her obsession: Twilight.
The Twilight phenomenon hit in
full force last autumn when the movie
was released – fever that has been
mounting since the book came out in
2005. We’re talking Harry Potter
appeal – and then some. If you’ve
been living on the moon for the past
TWILIGHT MOMS
With the second Twilight film, New Moon, hitting our cinemas this week,
the mania for Stephanie Meyer’s blood-crazed romance shows no sign of abating.
But it isn’t teenage girls who are its most frenzied fans…
12 months, here’s the lowdown: the
films are based on author Stephanie
Meyer’s bestselling four-part Twilight
saga, for teenagers, featuring high
school misfit Bella Swan (Kristen
Stewart) and her heart-achingly
perfect vampire boyfriend Edward
Cullen (Robert Pattinson). A fiction
formula that’s racked up some
seriously impressive stats. The
series of novels have sold over
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