Julia Roberts celebrates her twins’ 17th birthday with throwback pic

The intensely private star has released a sweet picture of her rarely seen twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, in honour of their birthday.

Proud mother Julia Roberts posted a sweet throwback photo of her twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, as they celebrated their 17th birthday.

“Seventeen of the sweetest years of life,” the Pretty Woman star captioned a snap of herself with the twins when they were newborns.

Roberts, who is currently in Australia filming romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise with fellow A-lister George Clooney, also added 17 birthday cake emojis into the caption.

The pic shows Roberts, 54, smiling as her then-newborn babies rest their heads against one another.

Roberts and her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, released the same photo back in 2004 when the twins were first born.

“We are releasing these photographs not only to share our happiness, but to ensure the privacy, safety and respect our babies deserve,” the couple announced in a statement at the time.

The birthday celebration comes four months after Hazel made her red carpet debut at Cannes Film Festival in July.

Danny Moder and daughter Hazel in Cannes, France. Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage

She accompanied dad Moder to a screening of Sean Penn’s new thriller, Flag Day, wearing a yellow floor-length shirt dress and Mary Janes.

That same month Roberts and Moder celebrated 19 years of marriage together.

The Oscar-winner captioned a selfie with her arm wrapped tightly around her husband: “19 years. Just getting started!”

Roberts and Moder also have a third child together, Henry Daniel, who is 14.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission