Jamie Lee Curtis has been in love with her husband, Christoper Guest, since before they’d even met. As she explained in a brief essay for O, The Oprah Magazine, Curtis came across a photo of Guest in a 1984 issue of Rolling Stone. “I’d never seen him before, but I pointed at him. ‘I’m going to marry that man,’ I said to my friend,” she wrote, adding that she called Guest’s agent and volunteered her number, asking that he give her a call. “Chris never called,” she admitted.
Sometime later, Curtis and Guest happened to dine in the same L.A. restaurant; they shared a few awkward glances, but that was it — until he phoned her the following day and invited her on a date. Guest proposed two months later, and they were married that December at director Rob Reiner’s house. In the following decades, the couple raised two daughters while enjoying successful — and quite separate — Hollywood careers.
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“My husband and I are opposites. We have been for 33 years, and we always will be,” Curtis told Good Housekeeping in 2018, explaining why, on paper, their long marriage makes absolutely no sense. “He’s an intellectual, and I was from the movie star/alcoholic/drug addict side, where education was not the most important thing. We don’t listen to the same radio station, we don’t read the same paper, we don’t go to bed at the same time.”
