Bridget Moynahan praises husband Andrew Frankel on their eighth wedding anniversary.
The John Wick actress normally plays it safe and avoids the public eye as much as possible, but a recent love letter her husband sent her was too adorable to keep from the world.
‘Oh…. and marry the man who sends you greetings like this on your anniversary. And it encourages you to invite new friends to celebrate your anniversary,” the Blue Bloods star wrote on Instagram the day before, along with the hashtags: “#harvestmooncelebration #anniversari #C+J”
Moynahan, 52, also posted a photo of her husband’s anniversary card, which read: “To the wife who’s so glad I got married,” alongside a cartoon of the happy couple.
The actress (born Katherine Bridget Moynahan) took the plunge and married Frankel in a private ceremony in the Hamptons in 2015.
A rare look: Bridget Moinahan, 52, talks about her and husband Andrew Frankel’s eighth wedding anniversary; Hollywood’s leading lady is pictured in September 2023
While Moynahan kept details about her marriage to a minimum when it came to going public, she showed off her cheeky sense of humor, writing, “Oh by the way, guess what I just did,” Moynahan posted on Instagram. at the time, along with glimpses of her wedding photos.
The Binghamton, New York native knows a thing or two about living at least part of her life in a fishbowl after dating arguably the greatest NFL player ever, Tom Brady.
After meeting in 2004, their romance lasted almost three years, but they eventually decided to go their separate ways, which they announced publicly in December 2006.
In a shock to both of them, Moynahan would find out she was pregnant with Brady’s child about two months after their split.
The former couple will welcome their son, Jack Brady, into the world at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica on August 22, 2007.
“I had a public breakup and then I was pregnant and then I had a baby,” she recalled during an interview at Build 2019. “And those moments were kind of stolen from me by the paparazzi, the tabloids, whatever.”
It turns out that by the time Moynahan found out she was pregnant with Brady’s child, the star quarterback had already started dating Gisele Bundchen, after mutual friends set them up on a blind date.
After seeing her personal life become public during her pregnancy, Moynahan made the decision to become “wildly private” to protect herself.
Love letter: Moynahan posted a photo of the romantic card she received from her husband on their eighth wedding anniversary
“It’s unnerving to be followed and stalked like that, especially at such an emotionally vulnerable time,” the Sex and the City actress wrote in her memoir, Our Shoes, Our Self (2019).
Moynahan continued to keep her personal life out of the public eye, including living with Frankel and their blended family.
Jack, now 16, would eventually be Moynahan’s only child, but by marrying Frankel, she is now stepmother to his three children from a previous marriage.
As for Brady, he and Bundchen were married for over 13 years by the time they finalized their divorce in October 2022.
In retrospect, Moynahan concluded that the key to her successful relationship with Frankel was expanding her dating circle beyond just celebrities, he reported Us Weekly.
The Destiny: I Robot star revealed that she was able to find a man like Frankel after branching out into dating to get past high-profile people; the leading lady is pictured with Frankel in January 2016, just months after they tied the knot in a private ceremony in the Hamptons
Moynahan dated NFL star Tom Brady for nearly three years, beginning in 2004; the former couple were spotted in New York in April 2006, just months before their split and news that she was pregnant with his child
“I dated people in the industry,” she said of the years before she began her romance with Frankel, in a 2021 Glamor interview. He is a really good person and a good partner. I don’t think as a younger person I understood what that meant when it came to real life situations.’
Moynahan described her husband as “the nicest guy ever”, who is “genuine, kind and sensitive”, while promoting her cookbook on The Rachael Ray Show in 2015.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, Frankel began his career at Steinhardt Partners, which led him to join his family firm, Stuart Frankel & Co., in 1993. People.
For the last two decades, he held the position of co-president of the company.