Brooke Shieldsis looking back on why she once broke up with now-husbandChris Henchy.
But it didn’t quite turn out as she had envisioned, with Shields admitting “there was not one oat that would be sowed.” TheBeginning is Nowfounder says, “I literally got, like, rejected.… People were like, ‘No, we’re not going to do that.’ I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’ "
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Shields, 57, says she eventually started dating Henchy, 58, again after realizing she was talking with him every single day anyway.
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“I was calling him all the time, and he said, ‘You broke up with me, this is the way it works. You don’t get to call me every day, becauseyoubroke up withme. So don’t call me every day.’ " Shields smiles as she recalls replying to the film director, “But I want to talk to you.”
Henchy then told her it “doesn’t work like that,” and Shields remembers thinking at the time, “I don’t want to lose this person, so I better behave.”
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Laughter has been key to the success of their relationship, with Shields saying he is “good at leveling me.” She jokes, “Every time I finish with my therapist, Chris is like, ‘Are you fixed? You’re good? We’re good?’ "
Two years after the couple married in April 2001, Shields and Henchy welcomed their first daughterRowan, now 19, then in 2006, Shields gave birth to their second daughterGrier, now 16.
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source: people.com
