Brigitte Moina Heaps praise on husband Andrew Frankel on their eighth wedding anniversary.
Normally, the “John Wick” actress plays it safe and avoids public scrutiny as much as possible, but a recent love note her husband wrote her was too cute to hide from the world.
‘oh…. Marry a man who sends you cards like this on your anniversary. And encourage you to invite new people to celebrate your anniversary,” the Blue Bloods star wrote in an Instagram post the day before, along with the hashtags: “#harvestmooncelebration #anniversary #C+J.”
Moynahan, 52, also posted a photo of her husband’s anniversary card, which read: “To the woman I’m so glad I got married” alongside a cartoon of the happy couple.
In 2015, the actress (born Katherine Bridget Moynahan) took the plunge and married Frankel in a private ceremony in the Hamptons.
While Moynahan keeps the details of her marriage to a minimum, she does display a cheeky sense of humor when it comes to going public, writing: “Oh btw guess what I just did,” Moynahan Nahan announced on Instagram at the time, along with her wedding photos.
The native New Yorker knows a thing or two about living in a fishbowl at least part of the time, after dating arguably the greatest NFL player of all time. tom brady.
After meeting in 2004, their romance lasted for nearly three years, but eventually they decided to go their own ways, making it public in December 2006.
To the shock of both of them, about two months after their split, Moynahan found out she was pregnant with Brady’s child.
The former couple welcomed their son, Jack Brady, into the world on August 22, 2007, at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica.
“I had a very public breakup, and then I got pregnant, and then I had the baby,” she recalled in a 2019 interview with Build. “Those moments were stolen by the paparazzi, the tabloids, etc.”
It turns out that by the time Moynahan found out she was pregnant with Brady’s child, the star quarterback had already begun dating Gisele Bundchen, and the two were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend.
After seeing her private life become public during her pregnancy, Moynahan decided to go “extremely private” as a means of protecting herself.
The Sex and the City actress wrote in her memoir Our Shoes, Our Selves (2019), “Being stalked and stalked like this is disturbing, especially during a time of emotional vulnerability. “
Moynahan continues to keep her personal life out of the public eye, including her life with Frankel and their blended family.
Jack, now 16, eventually became Moynahan’s only child, but by marrying Frankel, she is now stepmother to Moynahan’s three children from a previous marriage.
As for Brady, he and Bundchen had been married for more than 13 years when they divorced in October 2022.
With the benefit of hindsight, Moynahan reportedly deduced that the key to the success of her relationship with Frankel was broadening her dating pool beyond just celebrities. US Weekly.
In a 2021 interview with Glamor magazine, she said of the years before she started her romance with Frankel, “I was dating people in the industry.” Other garbage. He’s a very nice guy and a great person to work with. “I think as a young person, I didn’t understand what that meant in real life.”
While promoting her cookbook on The Rachel Ray Show in 2015, Moynahan described her husband as “the nicest guy ever” who was “genuine, kind and sensitive.”
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, Frankel reportedly began his business career at Steinhardt Partners, which led him to join his family’s business, Stuart Frankel & Co., in 1993. people.
He has served as co-president of the company for the past two decades.