Robbie Rogers reveals in book he was a twin: ‘… Before he died, he gave me his speed’

Robbie Rogers reveals many things in his new autobiography Coming Out to Play including the surprising fact that he was a twin.

It’s something he sensed from a very early age without anyone ever telling him.

‘On day when I was six or seven years old I asked my mother if I had a twin brother,’ he writes.

It’s a fascinating story he let his mother, Theresa Rarick Rogers, write about in the book.

‘I never said a word to my children about Robbie’s twin, so I was shocked when Robbie asked me about his twin brother,’ she writes.

She tells readers that early in her pregnancy, she was locked out of their San Pedro home and climbed through a window, four feet off the ground, to enter the house.

She slipped and fell and later that day, she began spotting and bleeding. She was having a miscarriage and the doctor wanted her to go to the hospital for a D&C (dilation and curettage – a procedure to remove any remaining tissue from the pregnancy).

Mrs. Rogers, an attorney in the middle of a trial, refused, and instead was given a prescription. She battled some post-partum depression but continued with the trial and caring for her two daughters.

Four months later, she still felt pregnant.

It turns out she was – with Robbie – who was a twin.

‘I had no idea I’d been pregnant with twins,’ she writes. ‘In those days they didn’t do routine sonograms which would have shown two heartbeats before the miscarriage and one after.’

By refusing the D&C, she spared Robbie’s life.

‘I would have lost the second baby without even knowing it,’ she writes.

But the peril did not end then. The doctor worried that the medication he had prescribed after the miscarriage, the remaining twin might be born with birth defects.

But the baby was born perfect and it was quickly clear that he was a sports prodigy who went on to compete in the 2008 Olympics, win the NCAA championships while in college and twice be a part of to MLS championship teams including this year with the LA Galaxy.

Rogers shares that on the day he first asked his mom about his twin he also said: ‘I know I had a brother and before he died, he gave me his speed.’