“We were both seeing other people, so it was illegal, and we stayed away from each other,” Parker revealed when explaining the circumstances of their meeting.
Sarah Jessica Parker talks about her other half.
During an appearance on SiriusXM The Howard Stern Show58 year old man sex and the city alum opened up about how she met husband Matthew Broderick and why she hasn’t been able to part ways with him since.
“We were both seeing other people, so it was illegal, and we stayed away from each other,” she said, explaining the circumstances under which they met. “We understood that we had to do good for others and officially break up.”
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Parker recalled, “We had our first official date on March 8, 1992, and we’ve been together ever since.”
The actress added that the couple were inseparable and had “never spent a night apart since, except for work on site, or his mother was a little sick so he went to take care of her, but from that first night, we were never separated.
Parker spoke about the qualities that most attracted her to Broderick, 61, as well as his unique quirks like riding a messenger bike with no brakes and hanging onto buses.
“I loved his person a lot. He’s so smart, he’s so funny, I love that choice of friends, the way he lived in New York, what was important to him, the way he traveled around the town,” she said. “Really smart and really talented and he was, I thought, so handsome and handsome and lovely.
“I love being home in New York,” Parker said. “I wanted to build a life here and he was born and raised in the West Village, literally – he never lived north of 11th Street.”
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The couple dated for five years before finally getting married in May 1997. Since then, the couple have welcomed three children, son James Wilkie, 20, and twin daughters, Tabitha Hodge and Marion Loretta Elwell, 13.
In 2018, the And just like that The star told PEOPLE the secret to her longtime marriage to Broderick.
“I feel like it’s changing,” she explained, saying she couldn’t attribute their happiness to just one thing. “Your needs change. You and your partner will change. It sounds so silly, but I think you’re very lucky if you like the person. I still love him very much. I’m sure I annoy him and he annoys me, but I’m literally getting to know him every day. I’m like, ‘What are you doing? What are you reading?
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Parker also revealed that she “never thought” of the exact moment she knew Broderick was the one.
“I never thought of a wedding dress. Never. I never dreamed of it,” she confessed. “At one point, I just remember thinking, ‘My God, I really hope he asks me to marry him.’ I don’t know when or why. It was quite early. »
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