On Instagram earlier this week, actress Jamie Lee Curtis took a moment to reflect on how a pattern of divorces in her family has affected her outlook on love in ways both negative and positive.
“As the product of 13 divorces in my immediate family I have often struggled with the idea of love, what happens to it?” wrote Curtis alongside a black-and-white photo of her late parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. “There are only a couple reminders to me that I was born from love and not resentment, competition, jealousy and rancor which are the cornerstones of any unpleasant divorce.”
While her parents had both been through a number of marriages each, Curtis has been married to her screenwriter husband, Christopher Guest, for 37 years.
Back in 2020, in celebration of their 36th anniversary, the Knives Out actress made a romantic social media post about their relationship.
“One of the longest relationships I’ve had seeking comfort and contact and connection is with Chris,” she began beneath a photo of the couple with their hands entwined. “My hand in his. Then and now. Connected through our children and family and friends it became the links in our human emotional chain that have seen each of us through triumph and tragedy.”
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