Julia Roberts: This is the secret of her happy marriage

Julia Roberts + Danny Moder
This is the secret of their happy marriage

It sounds wonderfully promising: “We’re just getting started,” announced Julia Roberts, 54, recently on her Instagram account. She also posted a photo of herself and husband Danny snuggled up close together. While some Hollywood women of a similar age get a toy boy, i.e. a much younger man who is financially dependent on them, or – if they have also been married for a long time – are happy if their husband is often away, the actress lives with Danny Moder , 53, still a honeymoon idyll. Only: how do the two manage to keep the desire for each other?

Julia Roberts: She gets a new zest for life

In a good relationship, the soul plays a crucial role, Julia Roberts once explained in an interview with GALA. And added: Her own lay spread out before her more and more clearly and beautifully over the years.

“I think something happens to many women when they’ve turned 40. In any case, I’ve discovered a whole new strength and zest for life in myself, a new self, so to speak.”

And this I keeps calling out to her every day: Don’t dream of making your life wild and exciting. Just do it.

Your marriage must remain exciting

Wild and exciting works best with cameraman Danny. Depending on the weather and the shape of the day, his hobbies are surfing, skateboarding, rafting, bungee jumping and climbing. Often with him now: his wife, who tends to be cautious by nature. In the meantime, she’s doing at least as well as her children at surfing, and she even dares to climb the half-pipe on her property in Malibu, which was specially installed for skater Danny and the offspring. Her husband finds that courageous. Admirable. And very, very sexy.

However, Danny also has a lot to offer. In her circle of acquaintances, according to a friend from the couple’s circle to GALA, everyone knows Julia’s crushes on her husband. As she likes to refer to his “absolutely amazing” muscular hard body – his just incredible physique. Danny’s attraction goes even further. He is her favorite person, Julia Roberts likes to explain often. And of course she pays more attention to it than anyone else.

Speaking on a podcast by her friend Gwyneth Paltrow, 49, the actress said she’s genuinely interested in anything that moves him. A small but subtle difference to the confessions that one hears so often from superstars: Usually the children are mentioned first. Then the dog. And eventually the husband follows.

Difficult start for the relationship

Incidentally, the start of the couple’s (love) life together was not easy: when the two met on the set of the road movie “The Mexican”, Julia Roberts was still in a relationship with actor Benjamin Bratt, 58, and Danny Moder with make-up artist Vera Steimberg, 49, married. The divorce proceedings dragged on for almost two years until Vera signed in June 2002. Probably also because the impatient Julia wore a T-shirt with the words “A low Vera” (“Poor Vera”) when she went to a restaurant in Hollywood. The photo went around the world. Not particularly nice – but apparently the last resort that the otherwise friendly beaming woman Julia saw in this matter.

Is that your relationship secret?

A month later, she married Danny in a romantic midnight ceremony in Taos, New Mexico. The couple has built up a lot since then: a family, two careers and a large circle of friends. The surprising thing is that although Julia is friends with superstars like George Clooney or Reese Witherspoon, it’s mainly Danny’s buddies who come to the barbecue evenings in Malibu with their wives and children. Pro surfer Kelly Slater is one of them, as well as people from the skateboarding and surfing scene. The signal is clear: Danny’s friends are as important as Julia’s illustrious Hollywood network.

Both are good at understanding each other and making sure that the wishes of the other person are not neglected. Danny is also interested in her hobbies, such as beekeeping and growing vegetables. Sounds like many more happy years together.

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