Christine Taylor stopped by the“We’re Still Here, Babes”podcast and dropped a detail about her marriage that most couples would take to the grave. When she and Ben Stiller first got together, she thought he was a rebound. So did he. She’d just ended a relationship, he was coming out of one, and they both assumed the timing meant nothing serious. They married in May 2000 anyway.
The rest of the timeline isn’t a straight line. Ella, now 24, and Quinlin, now 21, came along. Then in 2017, the couple separated, with Taylor later describing it as growing in different directions. Most stories end right there. This one didn’t. In 2022, they confirmed they had reconciled, and Taylor credits the pandemic for it. With the whole family stuck at home together, two teenagers included, they found their way back to each other without forcing it.
It’s the kind of celebrity story that feels less like Hollywood and more like real life: wrong timing at the start, a rough patch in the middle, and a quiet, unglamorous comeback. Have you ever had a rebound turn into the real thing?
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