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    Christine Taylor Details Reconciling With Ben Stiller After 2017 Split

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    Watch: Christine Taylor Details Reconciliation With Ben Stiller Years After “Challenging” Split

    Along came reconciliation for Ben Stiller and wife Christine Taylor.

    The Craft actress—who shares kids Ella, 24, and Quinlin, 20, with the Along Came Polly star—shared insight into how she and Ben revived their marriage years after their 2017 breakup.

    “If there was a silver lining for us during COVID, that was the little gift,” Christine said on the May 26 episode of The McBride Rewind podcast of how the duo patched up their relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We all kind of bubbled up together with the kids. Our daughter was graduating high school at the time, our son was graduating eighth grade.”

    With “nothing but time,” the 54-year-old shared how “Ben and I spent a lot of time just working on us with a therapist. We’d log into Zoom and we’d do our therapy sessions and really found the way back.”

    Christine and Ben—who met on the 1999 set of Heat Vision and Jack before tying the knot in 2000—announced they were separating in May 2017.

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    Inside Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor’s Road to Reunion

    “We were just not on the same page with a lot of things and working so hard to try to make it fit and make it right,” The Brady Bunch Movie actress explained, “and I think really when we kind of just zoomed out on it, it was like, ‘Let’s just put a pause here.’”

    Though the breakup felt right for the couple in the moment, “it was very difficult to come to that decision.”

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    “It was not without, you know, a heavy heart and feeling really even dejected at the time of like, ‘This is not how I imagined it was going to be and we should have been able to work it out,’” she added. “I mean, it was challenging.”

    But through it all, their kids always came first.

    “We were always in contact,” Christine explained. “We were co-parenting together. We were spending time together as a family.”

    In 2022, Ben, 60, revealed that their co-parenting dynamic had flourished into something more.

    “We were separated and got back together and we’re happy about that,” the Night at the Museum star told Esquire at the time. “It’s been really wonderful for all of us.”

    “Unexpected,” he added, “and one of the things that came out of the pandemic.”

    For a closer look into Ben and Christine’s life together, read on…

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    ReunitedMarried since 2000, Ben Stiller and wife Christine Taylor broke up in 2017. However, they never filed for divorce and, after to quarantining together with their kids Ella and Quinlin during the pandemic, they reconciled for good.

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    Father-Daughter DatesElla has often accompanied her father Ben to events over the years, like when she joined dad at the June 2023 Tribeca Film Festival debut of the short film Let Liv, which her mom Christine stars in. For the outing, the trio coordinated in different black outfits.Previously, Ella served as her dad’s plus-one at the 2022 Emmys, the 2018 premiere of Free Solo, the 2017 premiere of The Meyerowitz Stories and the opening night of the Broadway musical Groundhog Day.In 2019, the duo went to the 2019 Golden Globes together to support Escape to Dannemora, the Showtime miniseries that earned Ben a nomination for Outstanding Directing.

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    Working TogetherBen opened up about his experience working with Ella on the set of Escape to Dannemora, telling E! he was “very proud” of his daughter.”I was very happy it went well,” the Zoolander actor said. “She showed me a lot of respect, which I appreciated because with a teenage daughter you want to be like, ‘Don’t be like how we are at home! Let’s pretend we’re actually nice to each other!’ No, it was really a super positive experience for both of us.”

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    Following In Her Parents’ FootstepsIn addition to her small role in Escape to Dannemora, Ella has also made appearances in Hubie Halloween and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.As Ben told E! in 2019, Ella “seems to have a desire to explore” an acting career.Christine also spoke about Ella’s decision, telling Us Weekly in 2018 that she never “discouraged” her from following in her parents’ footsteps.”She came out of the womb with a mission, and I was never going to get in her way,” The Brady Bunch Movie alum explained. “She is a very strong-minded, strong-willed young lady, and she loves it. Obviously she was born into the world, but I think living in New York City, she has been exposed to so many incredible things and shows and so … she has the bug. There’s nothing you can do about it, but I did not encourage it.”

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    Calling Out DadBen previously revealed that Ella had a conversation with him about “not being there” during her childhood due to his career.”She’s pretty articulate about it, and sometimes it’s stuff that I don’t want to hear. It’s hard to hear,” he explained to Esquire. “Because it’s me not being there in the ways that I saw my parents [actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara] not being there. I had always thought, ‘Well, I won’t do that.'”While Ben noted that it “didn’t feel great” to hear Ella say that, he said it was “important to acknowledge” her feelings: “But then it’s that thing that, like, I was trying to navigate my own desire to fulfill the hopes and dreams I had, too.”The Severance director went on to say that Ella and her brother Quinlin were never keeping notes on his absences due to work, they just wanted to spend quality time with their dad.”What I’ve learned is that your kids are not keeping score on your career,” he explained. “It would be solipsistic to think that my kids actually care about that. They just want a parent who’s emotionally present and supportive of them. That’s probably what they want more than for me to be going off and pushing the bounds of my creativity.”

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    Not-So-Secret SwiftieDuring an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Ben revealed Ella had turned him into a major Taylor Swift fan after she made him listen to the singer while he was teaching her how to drive.”What really helped her was if we just played her favorite artist on the iPhone, and we just played Taylor Swift,” he explained. “I was a fan, but I think now I’m a total Swiftie.”Taylor’s music “would calm her, and it would calm me,” Ben shared before going on to prove just how big of a fan he’s become. “We got into the later stuff—Folklore, Evermore. ‘Cardigan,’ ‘Betty’ and ‘August’ all being about the same love triangle but from different points of view. And the characters are named after Ryan Reynolds‘ and Blake Lively‘s kids. And then the ‘All Too Well’ 10-minute Taylor’s version from the vault.”

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    Taking a BreakAfter filming Tropic Thunder with Ben in 2007, Christine chose to take a break from acting to focus on raising their kids.”It never felt like a big decision for me,” Christine said during an appearance on The Morning Call in 2010. “When I had Ella, my whole world changed. I couldn’t believe how much love I had for this little creature. I wanted to be a part of it all. I didn’t want to miss anything, and with Ben working as much as he does, I felt it was important for one of us to be the stability in the family.”Ben told Parade in 2016 that he felt “very fortunate” that Christine made that decision.

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    Healthy Family HabitsBen and Christine decided to adopt a plant-based lifestyle more than a decade ago and inspire their kids to do the same.”Ben and I make these green drinks in the morning and they look at us like it’s from another planet,” she told People in 2012. “I joke, ‘Just join the party! Don’t complain so much, just join us.'”The Search Party actress went on to detail Ella and Quinlin’s differing tastes, saying, “My daughter loves veggies but doesn’t love fruit. My son loves fruit and doesn’t love veggies.”Still, Christine wasn’t giving up hope. “It’s that thing where your parents aren’t cool for a while and then suddenly they are,” she explained. “We just kind of plant the seeds.” 

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    Out of the SpotlightWhile Ella often attends events with her parents, Quinlin rarely makes public appearances, though he did attend the Project A.L.S. Benefit in 2018 with his family. “This is his first event. I think he’s just having fun with it,” Christine told Us Weekly at the time. “Last year, our daughter came to the event for the first time and she encouraged him to come this year, and being able to make it fun and again the extended family that we’ve built and I think we’ve seen each other for 20 years and we’ve all watched our kids grow up.”

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    Supporting Causes TogetherQuinlin also attended the Project ALS 25th Anniversary Gala in 2023, and Ben and Christine have shared the causes they are passionate about with their kids.”For them to come out on a school night,” Christine, who sits on the board of directors for the organization, added to Us Weekly in 2018, “have a little fun, dress up, take some pictures, but then learn about an incredible organization, that’s huge.”

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