Alexis Bledel and her husband of eight years, Vincent Kartheiser, are calling it quits.
On August 17, People reported that Kartheiser had filed for divorce from Bledel. The pair shares one child, a son, who was born in 2015.
Bledel, 40, and Kartheiser, 43, first met in 2012 on the set of AMC’s hit drama Mad Men. Kartheiser starred as the irascible Pete Campbell, and Bledel played his mistress, Beth Dawes, in season 5 of the Emmy award-winning show.
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The couple tied the knot in a private ceremony in 2014, and have kept quiet about their relationship ever since, rarely speaking about one another in the press. Neither is active on social media. In a 2014 interview with Vulture, Kartheiser explained why he was so tight-lipped about his relationship.
“It’s something I realized about the most important things in my life,” he said. “If I share them with the world and I open that door to their fuming anger that they need to get out or their adoration that they want to flaunt, it lessens it. It cheapens it; it weakens it. And it’s magical, love, and all of that is … profoundly spiritual, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Bledel’s Gilmore Girls co-star, Scott Patterson, told Glamour in 2016 that the actor “really blossomed as a woman and now she’s a proud new mother and married and happy.”
“I remember her as an 18-year-old kid, fresh out of college coming into Hollywood and being a little overwhelmed,” he said. “We’re comparing notes because my son is about a year and a half older than her young son. I’m showing her photos and videos and what to expect.”
