Jason Biggs, of “American Pie” fame, and writer and actress Jenny Mollen are ending their 18-year marriage, The Times has confirmed.
“They get along very well and remain focused on raising their two children,” a representative for the couple said in an email Thursday.
Biggs, 48, and Mollen, 46, married in a small private ceremony in April 2008 after meeting in 2007 while filming Kate Hudson and Dane Cook's Razzie-nominated romantic comedy, “My Best Friend's Girl.”
A decade after marriage, he seemed to be going strong. “Ten years ago today I made the best decision of my life. A decade later, about 5 or 6 to go. Love you, @jennyandteets2,” Biggs wrote on Instagram in 2018, posting a selfie with Mollen from Paris.
Now, as co-parents, “they are very connected,” a rep told People, which first reported the news. “I have no doubt that they will remain on excellent terms.”
Co-parenting their sons, Sid, 12, and Lazlo, 8, will no doubt offer more surprises in the years to come, like in 2024, when Mollen was told, in the middle of a five-hour plane flight, that she had lice. (Turns out the boys had them, too, although Mollen pointed to an unnamed female as the OG bug spreader. Biggs escaped the incident with “like two eggs,” Mollen said.)
Or, say, on Wednesday, when he posted Sid's homework online and wrote that he was laughing when his description of the class he was writing for descended into teen profanity.
“Not long ago (read: last week), I couldn't even go to the bathroom without my kids following me,” Mollen wrote Monday about her kids on her Substack, “The Best Friend Experience.” “They still need me to fall asleep, go to school, interpret the world, cut it into small, digestible bites and spoon-feed it to them before seven-fifteen every morning. We have a short hand, a long hand, and a second language that Jason, fortunately, doesn't yet understand. But these childhood regrets, these emotional vampires, the most emotionally high-maintenance men I've ever dated, they're growing up. And eventually, I'll lose them.”
She said she finally understands why her mother-in-law “broke down” when Biggs told her they were getting married.
“We spend years being the center of their emotional world,” he wrote, “only to watch them slowly build one without us. If we do our job right, they leave.”
