Leighton Meester Welcomes Baby No. 2 With Adam Brody
After Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf met The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, it was XOXO.
While Leighton Meester and husband Adam Brody have mostly kept their decade-long romance retired of the nationalist eye, the Ready oregon Not histrion precocious shed airy their early days arsenic a couple.
"I was ne'er frightened of the thought of matrimony oregon kids," Brody said on SiriusXM Radio's The Jess Cagle Show March 8. "It ever seemed similar a way I would spell eventually, and I was excited...when it came together, erstwhile I met the close person."
In fact, erstwhile helium recovered that idiosyncratic successful Meester—whom helium wed successful 2014—he didn't discarded immoderate time, arsenic helium noted, "My woman and I really got joined precise accelerated aft we started dating. That's however benignant of casual a determination it was for maine and us."
Decade aft their union, fans are inactive charmed by the information that the stars from 2 of the biggest teen dramas during the aughts are unneurotic successful existent life. But it's that aforesaid shared TV past that really brought them unneurotic arsenic they were archetypal introduced by The O.C. and Gossip Girl co-creator Josh Schwartz.
"That full formed was eating astatine Canter's and I lived astatine Canter's for similar my full 20s," Brody, 42, said connected the Anna Faris Is Unqualified podcast successful 2021. "And I was leaving, and helium introduced each of us."
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But astatine the time, sparks didn't instantly fly. The histrion said he "bumped into" Meester, 36, a fewer times over the adjacent mates of years earlier they were some formed successful the 2011 movie The Oranges. "I thought she was gorgeous," helium noted. "And adjacent erstwhile we did the movie, determination was chemistry there, but I was seeing someone."
However, a twelvemonth later, they yet became an item. And Brody, who shares daughter Arlo, 7, and a son, 2, with the Single Parents star, has thing but admiration for his wife, saying connected Anna Faris' podcast that "she's virtually similar Joan of Arc."
The histrion continued, "She is the strongest, champion idiosyncratic I know. She is my motivation compass and North Star, and I conscionable can't accidental capable bully things astir her character. It's crazy."
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