When it comes to Hollywood marriages, Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn have their own unique approach. After 18 years of marriage, the longtime couple made a surprising revelation about how they handle their finances.
“We keep our money completely separate,” Romijn, 52, confessed during an interview with Andy Cohen on Sirius XM. “There’s a community pot for family expenses,” she said, adding that they contribute to the account “quarterly.”
O’Connell added, “We actually throttle how much money we put into that account.” Romijn explained, “Depending on who’s working more… The one who’s not working gets a little bit of a break, and the one who is working puts in a little more. And we really tag-team with work.”
After the birth of their twin daughters, Charlie and Dolly, in 2008, the couple decided that one of them would always stay home with their children. “No one else is ever going to raise them besides us,” Romijn emphasized.
The conversation about their financial arrangement began when Cohen joked about O’Connell’s finances after his hosting gig on CBS’ “The Talk” ended last year. O’Connell and Romijn tied the knot in 2007, two years after her divorce from “Full House” star John Stamos.
The Hollywood couple’s comments came after Stamos had described Romijn in a negative manner while discussing their divorce in his memoir “If You Would Have Told Me.” Stamos had referred to Romijn as the “Devil” and “evil” during their divorce but later acknowledged his own faults in the marriage.
“My wife’s ex-husband recently wrote a biography and it referred to my wife in a negative manner… a lot of people have asked me about that in the press,” O’Connell said in 2023. “And it would be easy for me to say like, ‘Screw you, how dare you ask me that,’ but really it would be bringing attention to a situation that I don’t want to feed into.” He also expressed concern for their teenage children who may read about the situation online.
