Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are superstars in their own right, and it’s easy to forget they’ve been married for more than three decades.
Kyra was just 12 when she first met Kevin, who was seven years older. She had gone to see a movie starring Bacon with her brother and met him afterward. Their paths crossed again a decade later on the set of Lemon Sky. Kyra admitted Bacon wasn’t initially her type.
“He definitely wasn’t my type. In fact, I vividly remember looking at his butt when he walked away after we first met and thinking, Well, I guess some girls like that,” Kyra told Wide Open Country.
She changed her mind, and they married the following year, in 1988.
The couple tied the knot in a private Connecticut ceremony and held a reception for 300 guests at Manhattan’s Au Bar. Kevin and Kyra, who got engaged on Christmas Eve 1987, invited only friends and family to the reception.
Shortly after the wedding, they welcomed their first child, Travis Sedgwick Bacon. Their second child, Sosie Ruth, was born in 1992.
Sosie followed in her parents’ footsteps, starring as Skye Miller in the Netflix teen drama 13 Reasons Why. Travis works as a solo musician and wrote the music for his parents’ film Story of a Girl. Now, 34 years later, the couple is celebrating their anniversary and couldn’t be happier. The Bacons’ decades‑long marriage is something of a miracle in Hollywood.
“If someone had told me that at 22 I was going to meet the man I was going to marry and at 23 I would marry him and have a child, I would have told them they were out of their mind,” Kyra told Redbook in 2008.
Bacon remains clearly in love with his star wife and always celebrates their wedding anniversary. Both Kevin and Kyra often post declarations of love on their Instagram accounts. But their romance hasn’t always been easy.
“The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening. And I was able to keep supporting myself; that always gave me strength,” Bacon told reporters.
They also endured financial loss when Bernie Madoff carried out what was called the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
Some sources say Bacon and Sedgwick lost $100 million, while Celebrity Net Worth reports they “only” lost $30–$40 million.
They weathered the storm because both continued working; although they lost millions, they didn’t lose everything.
“It was a bad day,” Bacon told The Guardian. “But pretty quickly we were able to see all the things we had as opposed to whatever we lost, and those are the biggest clichés: children, health, love, a nice home. So we got through it together. I don’t think about Madoff, like, at all.”
In an appearance on the U.S. TV show Finding Your Roots, Kyra discovered she and Kevin are ninth cousins, once removed.
A DNA test revealed they were distant cousins, which felt odd — and Kevin wasn’t thrilled. Kyra said she “knew it” but found it “a little unsettling,” though she was fine as long as they weren’t first cousins. PBS’s investigation into Kevin’s ancestry found that King Edward I, who fought William Wallace, was his 22nd great‑grandfather. Kevin joked that his ancestry didn’t get enough attention and quipped about the cousin revelation.
Despite the surprise, Kevin and Kyra moved on, and their love has only grown stronger.
Love in quarantine Recently they’ve had more time together during quarantine at their Los Angeles home.
“I’m doing a little writing, even though I truly don’t have any sense of whether or not I’m any good at it at all,” Kyra told People.
“It really is about just finding something to do. Certainly, I don’t spend time with my husband reading Shakespeare, but we’re watching a lot of stuff and we’re reading. We continue to read stuff. I continue to read. I’m trying to touch into my work on a daily basis, for sure.”
Kyra also says her husband always makes her feel special no matter where they are.
“I don’t know how he does it, but he always makes me feel like I’m the most beautiful woman in the room — the only girl in the room,” she told People.
She also credits their strong spark in the bedroom.
“Sex is really important. That desire is there,” Sedgwick told Redbook in 2012.
Bacon offered this advice on staying married in a 2015 Entertainment Weekly interview: “Whatever you do, don’t listen to celebrities on advice on how to stay married.”
Sedgwick told Good Housekeeping in 2012 what she loves about her husband.
“He is so honorable. He is so ethically true. He has high moral standards, and he doesn’t lie and he doesn’t cheat — and I find that sexy!” she said. “I am constantly in awe of Kevin’s levelheadedness and his lack of ‘crazy.’”
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