Julia Roberts shared a rare PDA-filled photo with her hubby, Danny Moderin honor of his 57th birthday.
“🔥🎉🥰🎂🔥 My favorite day. My favorite man. #131 #WLF,” Roberts, 58, captioned. a photo of her hugging the cinematographer on Saturday, January 31.
Some of the couple’s famous friends sent their own birthday wishes for Moder, including Rita Wilson who wrote in the comments section: “Happy Birthday!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️love to all mods!!!!”
It’s complicated actress Alexandra Wentworth added: “Happy birthday to the great Danny Moder!”
Roberts and Moder will celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary in July. The pair met on the set of Roberts’ 2001 crime comedy the mexicanwhere Moder worked as a cameraman. Roberts and Moder were in other relationships at the time, but later reconnected once they were single.
Roberts and Moder began dating in 2001 and eventually married at their ranch in Taos, New Mexico on July 4, 2002. They have three children: twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 21, and Henry, 18. (Roberts was previously married to a country singer). Lyle Lovett for two years, and had high-profile relationships Kiefer Sutherland i Matthew Perry.)
Last September, Roberts paid sweet tribute to her enduring marriage during an interview with Entertainment tonight beside him After the Hunt to cost Andrew Garfield i Oh Edebiri. Roberts didn’t hesitate when asked to name one “thing that brings you joy” in life.
“Danny Moder,” she replied. “Never change. Never change. Sometimes more. Sometimes medium.”
The Oscar winner has spoken often in the past about how she thought about raising a family to be her greater success in life Chatting with CBS News in 2022, Roberts mentioned that she considered being a wife and mother her “full-time job.”
“It’s not rainbows and kittens every day, but it gives me a lot of joy,” she admitted.
Roberts continued, “Being an actor has never consumed me. It’s my dream come true, but it’s not my only dream come true. The life I’ve built with my husband (and) the life we’ve built with our kids, that’s the best thing. To come home at the end of the day, triumphant, with them.”
The Loves of America The star also shared that one way she and Moder have kept the passion alive in their marriage has been by writing each other handwritten love notes.
“(Writing handwritten notes is) something Danny and I have always done,” she told the CBS host Jane Pauley in 2022. “The first letter he wrote me, which was seven pages long, I still have tucked away. One day I’ll show it to (my daughter) Hazel and say, ‘This is what you’re looking for.’
A year later, Us Weekly reported exclusively that Roberts and Moder were working through the “tough time” that came with their older children leaving the nest. (His twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, enrolled in college in September 2013 while Henry finished high school.)
“Julia is in one of the most bittersweet times of her life right now,” a source said webefore revealing that he enjoyed refocusing on his career.
Julia Roberts loves life and says the key to her happiness is her husband, Danny Moder. “He’s really our anchor and our person,” Roberts, 56, said during an interview with Today on Monday, Dec. 4. “And in the most beautiful way, the captain of our ship, you know, really. For me, understanding (…)
“Julia has had the option to choose whatever role she wants and work with whoever she wants for a long time, so she’s had fun with it,” the source hinted. “She turned down movies so she wouldn’t be away from her family for long periods of time.”
A starring role in 2027 is on the horizon for Roberts Panic with caution opposite Elizabeth Olsen i Eddie Redmayne. Not much is known about the thriller yet, other than where it comes from the writer-director Sam Esmail. (Roberts previously starred in Esmail’s Prime Video political thriller series back home and the apocalyptic drama of 2024 Leave the world behind.)