After nearly five decades of marriage, Judge Judy Sheindlin knows how to create lasting love with husband Jerry Sheindlin.
The Judy Justice star, 81, shared the secret behind her marriage to Jerry, telling E! News, “Don’t spend 24 hours together because it’s deadly.”
“Jerry just celebrated his 90th birthday and I still love to look at him when he walks into the room – that’s the key,” she added.
Judith “Judge Judy” Sheindlin and husband Judge Jerry Sheindlin. Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic Top celebrity marriage tips
The couple married in 1977 and share five children from both previous marriages. In 1990, they divorced, but remarried the following year. After so many years together, Judy previously told PEOPLE how getting fit keeps the spark alive between the two.
“We’re both very superficial people when it comes to that,” she told PEOPLE in 2021. “You know if you fall in love with someone right away it means there’s a physical attraction. And people age, people change, you can do it gracefully or you can say ‘ I give up’. ”
She continued: “And I said to myself ‘I choose not to give up, I choose to stay in shape.’ So don’t even think about anything but staying, looking the best you can look at this stage of your life.”
“I don’t have to tell him that again and again, he loves himself desperately,” she joked about Jerry.
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In the 2020 book by Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue. What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrity Couples Share Their Secrets to a Happy Life, Judy revealed that Jerry was initially hesitant about the idea of getting married a second time. (Judy was previously married to Ronald Levy, while Jerry was married to Suzanne Rosenthal.)
“I actually had to drag him down the aisle. . . . He wasn’t going to divorce his wife, even though they had been separated for three or four years. After we’d been together a year, I said, ‘I want to see your divorce in the papers or don’t get married anymore. try to call’, she recalled.
I said, ‘I’m not going to do it,'” Jerry added. “So she pulled out a calendar and said, ‘Pick a date. Now.’ ”
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