Jessica Seinfeld Is a Graduate! Meet Jerry Seinfeld's Wife of Over 20 Years
Jerry Seinfeld's wifeJessica Seinfeld graduated from New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on May 25, 2022. The author is as accomplished as her famous husband!
The comedian is an Emmy winner, the star of one of the biggest sitcoms of all time, and still gets laughs on his series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
"He follows Awesome People Doing Things to see the risks people take/ Probably because he’s always on stage, doing a job you can’t fake," Jessica Seinfeld (nee Sklar) wrote in a 2019 Valentine's poem on Instagram. His heart is clean and pure, but boy, the crankiness I have to endure! He yells at the TV in politics and sport, but is the most patient, loving father to our little cohort," she added. After a marriage of two decades, it's clear that the comedian is still the main man in her life.
Keep reading to find out more about Seinfeld's wife, the controversial way Seinfeld and Sklar first met, and what keeps their marriage going.
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Who is Jerry Seinfeld married to now?
Seinfeld is married to Jessica Seinfeld (nee Sklar). She is the only wife he's ever had so far!
Who is Jerry Seinfeld's first wife?
Sklar grew up in Vermont as the middle child of a software engineer and Victim Services Advocate, but today she is an author five times over. She writes vegan and family cookbooks; her recent offering, Vegan, at Times, is already a New York Times Bestseller like her other books.
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Sklar also founded the Good+ Foundation. The foundation's "unique model of pairing essential goods with innovative services creates an upward trajectory for under-resourced families," according to the website.
These days she's still cooking and sharing on Instagram; she's also a recent graduate from grad school at NYU.
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How old is Jerry Seinfeld's wife?
Sklar is 50 years old, while her famous husband is 68. This isn't the first time Seinfeld was with someone much younger. Remember Shoshanna Lonstein?
How did Jerry Seinfeld meet his wife?
Sklar and Seinfeld met in a pretty New York way: at a Reebok gym in Manhattan. However, there was just one problem: Sklar was already married to her first husband, Eric Nederlander. The marriage was already in trouble by the time she met the comedian, and she rebuffed him at first. "He came around again and said something funny, and I actually had to laugh," she recalled later. She and Seinfeld hit it off anyway, and her husband talked to Page Six about how upset. "I was manipulated, misled, and completely caught off guard by Jessica’s infidelity,” he said at the time. “Jerry and Jessica have no respect for decent values. They deserve each other.”
Still, the relationship continued, and they were engaged just a year after they started dating. They married on Christmas Day 1999 in a private ceremony.
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When did Jerry Seinfeld get married?
Seinfeld had actually never wanted to get married. "I didn’t feel that thing with someone that makes you want to go forward. So when I met her and I thought, ‘You know what, we could have a life together,'" he shared with Oprah Winfrey in 2016. "And so it gave me a life to live.”
But why Sklar? What did it for him? “It’s not the conversation or the attraction that you feel, it’s just like this comfort level when someone is in your house. When someone comes into your house and you still feel comfortable," he explained to Oprah. "I don’t know what that is, but I just know this is someone I want to spend the rest of my life with.”
Does Jerry Seinfeld have children?
Seinfeld and Sklar have three children together. Their eldest, daughter Sascha, came a year after their marriage in 2000, while son Julian followed in 2003. Their youngest son, Shepherd, arrived in 2005.
Fatherhood changed everything for Seinfeld. It affects "almost everything I do … trying to stay healthy, how I use my time and plan my schedule, I think: ‘If this takes me away from them, it better be very important,'” he shared in 2007.
The comedian doesn't need to have big moments with his children. He appreciates the small things. “You just see them in their room reading a comic book and you get to kind of watch that for a minute, or [having] a bowl of Cheerios at 11 o’clock at night when they’re not even supposed to be up,” Jerry told magazine Mr. Porter in 2017. “The garbage, that’s what I love.”
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Does Jerry Seinfeld have a happy marriage?
By all accounts, Seinfeld and Sklar have a happy marriage. She's even convinced him to eat less meat and dairy. Sklar started calling him a cat dad last year, and it's stuck; two weeks ago she posted, "Happy Birthday to my cat daddy," she posted on Instagram.
The cat in question? Javier.
So what's the secret to their marriage? To hear Seinfeld tell it, it's the weather. "I always thought that L.A. was very bad for marriage. I think you need good—four seasons is good marriage weather," he joked with Entertainment Tonight in 2020. "When it's sunny and warm all the time, that's not good for long relationships, you know? 'Cause it makes you want to venture out. It makes you want to venture out. It's nice out. In New York, you just want to stay home in the winter."
“I love it. I love having a family and kids and all the madness. There is no aspect of it I don’t like,” he shared with People in 2010. “Even when it’s horrible, I love it. I didn’t realize how tired of single life I was and how ready I was for married life."
