I was trying to prove to David that I was cool. I thought if I didn’t hire her, it would make me look like some old insecure troll. I thought she was just a lost, damaged kid. Other parents warned me about Simone, but as a feminist who works with at-risk girls, I didn’t want to pass on a new babysitter just because she was overly sexual. I was always too stressed out by working and parenting to do it for him.īut I should have followed my instincts. But you don’t get a lot of ego strokes when you’re home with your kid all day. Men think that they want to have all of that pressure off of them, but once it’s lifted, it can be emasculating to be less successful than your wife.ĭavid, a former actor, was used to being told he’s amazing and handsome. Feeling like a man, being a money earner, being the one who takes control - I thought they were cliches. It comes down to the fact that this whole manhood thing is tough. It’s every woman’s nightmare, and it can happen to anyone - just look at Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. Instead, I called Simone and left a voicemail: “You’re not babysitting today.
I’d always pictured catching a husband in an affair as a dramatic scene complete with the slashing of car tires. When I found the video, I couldn’t even scream, as Leo was in the room.
Gwen Stefani ended her 13-year marriage to Gavin Rossdale after he allegedly romanced their longtime nanny, Mindy Mann (left) Picture: Splash News And three months later, I knew the real reason why. Our marriage was over, less than two years after it began. I think we should,” David interrupted before I could even finish my thought. Listen, David, if you’re not happy, if you don’t want to be married, then let’s split. “You keep telling me that you’re ‘happier than you’ve ever been in your life’ being a stay-at-home dad, but you seem so unhappy. After months of tense, one-sentence conversations, I snapped. He’d go on long bike rides and disappear for hours. I thought I had the perfect little family. When a friend of mine told me that she had spotted them together in the street, I assumed that they were discussing her career.ĭavid and I eventually made our union official and got married in 2012, when Leo was 1½. She would show up in low-cut tops and miniskirts, but I thought that was just because girls are so overly sexualised in southern California. When Leo was 1, David recommended we hire Simone, an 18-year-old aspiring actress whom he mentored. As the primary breadwinner, I continued to take on new acting roles - mostly theatre gigs, but also occasional small parts on popular shows including True Blood, New Girl and Masters of Sex. David offered to stay at home with the baby he loved being involved, and he was an amazing father. I was 40, and knew that this was probably my only shot at becoming a mother. Instead, all I got was an “Aww.”īut after six years of dating, I pushed David to have a baby.
I was hoping for a moment straight out of a romantic comedy, where he would call me the love of his life, too. “You know, it just hit me: If we end up staying together, you will go down in history as the great love of my life,” I told him one night after four years of dating. It was of our babysitter, Simone, sans clothes - and it was dated 2011, a year before David and I had even gotten married. But the oldest video on David’s computer wasn’t one of Leo splashing in the bathtub. The computer had once belonged to me, and I wanted to make sure I hadn’t left any important videos - such as Leo’s birth - behind. So when David accidentally left his laptop at my place, I didn’t think anything of turning it on. Though he had moved out of our Los Angeles apartment, David would visit frequently as we tried to keep things as normal as possible for our 4-year-old son, Leo. Three months after my husband, David, and I decided to end our marriage in 2013, I was impressed with how successfully our co-parenting strategy was working. The 47-year-old Weedman - author of Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay (Plume, out now) - told New York Post’s Lindsay Putnam how her marriage fell apart. The actress had been with her husband, David*, for 11 years when she found evidence of his affair with their teenage babysitter.
Gwen Stefani and Jennifer Garner are just the latest crop of famous women whose husbands were allegedly involved with their nannies - and it’s a cliche Lauren Weedman knows all too well.
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