Julia Roberts and Danny Moder, 22 Years of Love Away from the Spotlight (Against All Odds)

Huddled together in the Wimbledon stands for the final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, Julia Roberts and the husband Daniel Moder they did not go unnoticed. And not only because of the obvious complicity, but above all because seeing them together in public is something decidedly rare.

Julia Roberts and Danny Moder at Wimbledon on July 14th.

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The actress and her husband they have been married for 22 years, but over time there have been few red carpet moments holding hands, as well as mutual declarations of affection, even when social media arrived and the distance between celebs and their fans shortened.

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One of the rare public dedications came last July 4, on the occasion of their wedding anniversary: ​​”22 years,” wrote the actress, sharing a photo of a kiss, without adding anything else.

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Perhaps the secret of Hollywood couples that last is precisely this, remaining “normal” despite fame, money, temptations. Julia Roberts and Danny Moder, as everyone calls him, succeeded in their intent, even if when they got together few would have bet on them. In fact, at the time she was already an established actress: the year before the wedding she had won the Oscar for Erin Brockovich and she was very popular, without a doubt the most sought-after actress of the time. No one had heard of Moder before he started dating her. At the beginning of the 2000s he was a completely unknown assistant cameraman. The only relevant curiosity was the fact that he was in his own way the son of an artist: his grandfather Dick Moder was a director and his father Mike a producer and studio executive.

The meeting, on the set of The Mexican, in 2000. At the time he was married to the Argentine make-up artist Vera Steinberg, while Julia Roberts was dating her colleague Benjamin Bratt. It seems that it was love at first sight between them, so much so that both ended their previous unions. There was no shortage of malicious people who insinuated that Moder’s interest had ulterior motives, after all he was still a nobody. Time, however, has proven that love born on the set right. “You don’t marry jobs, you marry people. It may sound like a cliché and I’ve said it a thousand times, but I think I’m basically the same simple person I’ve always been.. I just do something ostentatious and absurd that makes people think I’m super glamorous,” Roberts told Oprah Winfrey the day after her wedding.

Away from the set, a very normal life. In 2004 the family expanded with the birth of the twins Hazel and Phinneus. The first social images of the boys, now almost twenty years old, have recently started circulating on social media. Roberts herself said in an interview that as children they had no idea that their mother was a celebrity, in their world of children Hollywood has never had an impact, not even the slightest.

Hazel Moder and Daniel Moder on the red carpet of “Flag Day” in Cannes in 2021 in Cannes

Hazel Moder and Daniel Moder on the red carpet of “Flag Day”, in Cannes in 2021 in Cannes,

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Of course, at Hazel’s first red carpet with her father, all eyes were on the girl. An isolated episode, for now. In 2022, she and her brother enrolled at the University of Berkley, California: Hazel studies Art, while Finn chose Computer Science.

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The future will probably be far from Hollywood. And mom and dad certainly approve.

Julia Roberts at Wimbledon with Danny Moder.

Julia Roberts at Wimbledon with Danny Moder.

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The couple recently celebrated 22 years of marriage.

The couple recently celebrated 22 years of marriage.

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A moment of the day.

A moment of the day.

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When they got married, few would have bet on their relationship because she was famous and he was not.

When they got married, few would have bet on their relationship because she was famous and he wasn’t.

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From their union two children were born, twins Phinneus and Hazel.

From their union two children were born, the twins Phinneus and Hazel.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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