Love After Cheating: Secrets of a Happy Family Life from Hollywood Stars Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are considered one of the strongest married couples in Hollywood. They have been married for almost 23 years, went through many trials together and were able to keep their family, despite betrayal. At the same time, there was a time when Sarah Jessica Parker argued that she would never call her marriage happy, but would give him, rather, a "C". Nevertheless, the spouses still go hand in hand through life and know how to enjoy every moment spent in each other's company.

The path to happiness

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick met in 1991, and each of them had a very sad experience of romantic relationships with the opposite sex.

The actress went through a painful seven-year romance with actor Robert Downey Jr. Sarah tried to help her lover to solve his problems with drug addiction, at the same time endured his numerous infidelities and often played the role of a caring mother. She woke him up every day and made him go to work by all means available to her, listened to his complaints about life and believed that she really saved him from death.

She really loved him, for otherwise she would not have been with him for so long. Fortunately, after her departure, the world did not collapse, and Robert Downey Jr. learned to cope with all his problems on his own.

After Sarah experienced another romance, happy, but short-lived. John F. Kennedy Jr. was handsome and charming, she was happy and in love. Six months later, they parted, but retained the warmest memories of each other.

Matthew Broderick was quite happy with actress Jennifer Gray, but the end of their relationship was put by an accident in which the lovers got together during a vacation in 1987 in Northern Ireland. The BMW car that Matthew was driving collided with an oncoming Volvo car. As a result, two women, the driver and the passenger of the Volvo were killed, and Broderick's companion received injuries to the face and neck. Soon, Jennifer announced the breakup to Matthew. Against the background of what happened, the actor fell into a deep depression and for several years turned into a hero of a criminal chronicle.

In 1991, during one of the noisy New York parties, Sarah and Matthew were introduced to each other by the girl's brother Toby. Later, the actress more than once, with laughter, compared their acquaintance with a talk show: Matthew looked at her, almost without blinking, and she herself spoke incessantly, smiled, laughed.

It was a swift and dizzying romance of two people yearning for real feelings. Sarah and Matthew were constantly laughing and, it seems, never in their life had they had so much fun as in each other's company.

Ups and downs

Six years after they met, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick decided to finally officially register their relationship. Just inviting friends to the wedding seemed too commonplace for them, so they invited everyone to the event, the purpose and format of which were not announced.

On May 19, 1997, more than a hundred guests arrived at the Lower East Side Synagogue, and were indescribably surprised to see the bride and groom. However, the bride also looked very unconventional for a wedding. For some reason, she was panicky afraid of everything that was associated with a classic wedding: excessive solemnity, a flying veil, a white cloud of the bride's wedding dress. So Sarah went down the aisle in a stunning black dress. The ceremony was presided over by Sister Matthew Janet, an Episcopal priest.

In 2002, the couple had their first child, James. The actress would like to have a large family, however, the first pregnancy was given to her with great difficulty. For several years after the birth of her son, Sarah Jessica Parker tried to get pregnant again and again, but all her attempts ended in failure. Then the actress made a radical decision and began to draw up documents for surrogacy. In 2009, Sarah and Matthew, with the help of a surrogate mother, had two twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha.

But even when the actress was just preparing all the necessary papers, the newspapers erupted with sensational news about Matthew Broderick's betrayal. The ubiquitous paparazzi were able to take some very unambiguous photos of the actor in the company of a 25-year-old waitress. Of course, Sarah could have taken her son, slammed the door and started the divorce proceedings, but she did not.

For several months she kept an icy silence, and then gave an interview in which she confessed: despite the fact that she never called her marriage absolutely happy, she is fine with her husband. The couple needed to seek the help of a psychotherapist who helped them overcome the crisis and learn to trust each other again.

When Marion and Tabitha were born, the happy parents left all the grievances in the past and started their lives from scratch.

The secret to a happy marriage

Sarah Jessica Parker's career has developed much more successful than her husband's, but Matthew Broderick does not even think to be upset about this. On the contrary, he easily sneers at this state of affairs and in his interviews often speaks of Sarah as the only star in their family. He does not consider himself underestimated and offended by fate, and is always ready to help his wife if she needs his professional advice.

Sarah Jessica Parker does not hide that the secret of her strong marriage lies in the presence of common interests with her husband and in the ability to separate the profession from her personal life. She tries not to talk at home about work, but she always discusses interesting proposals that she receives from directors and producers. And Sarah also postpones all business and invariably appears with her husband at all his premieres, considering this to be their marriage contract.

In May 2020, they will celebrate the 23rd anniversary of their marriage, although in fact they have been together for almost 30 years. They managed to go through serious tests of their family for strength and, most importantly, not only preserved their marriage, but also strengthened it.

A common enough stereotype is that the stars are windy and frivolous, and star marriages are concluded for a very short time. But in reality, this is not always the case. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick became one of those celebrity couples who managed to carry love and fidelity through the years.