Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, made a rare public appearance together at Wimbledon on Sunday, July 14. The couple, who have been married for 22 years, were spotted in the Royal Box taking in the men’s singles final between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz.
Roberts looked radiant in a white polo minidress with orange embroidery, accessorized with a neon tangerine purse and black sunglasses. Moder, a cinematographer, looked dapper in a navy blue suit and striped tie.
The actress took to Instagram to share a photo of the pair at the event, captioning it, “An incredible day at Wimbledon!” The outing marked the first time in two years that the notoriously private couple has been spotted together at a star-studded public event.
Roberts and Moder met in 2000 on the set of the film “The Mexican,” where Moder was working as a cameraman. At the time, Roberts was dating Benjamin Bratt, and Moder was married to makeup artist Vera Steimberg. After their respective relationships ended, Roberts and Moder tied the knot in 2002.
The couple has three children together: twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 19, and son Henry, 15. In an interview with Today, Roberts gushed about Moder, calling him the “anchor” of their family.
“He’s just my favorite human,” she said. “I think we all experience that thing of falling in love and going, ‘Oh, my God, I’m so in love, and this is what it’s going to be.’ And then you hit something and you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, I didn’t see that coming.’ And you still hang in, but you hang in with a sense of, ‘I thought it was going to be different.’ And then, if you’re lucky, like we are, you just keep hanging in.”
In a 2018 interview with Gwyneth Paltrow on her “Goop” podcast, Roberts called her marriage to Moder the “best decision” she’s ever made. “It just gets deeper, it just gets more complex,” she said about their relationship. “You’re young and you fall in love and go, ‘Yeah, we’re going to get married and we’re going to build a house and will have kids,’ and all these things that we all kind of dream of, but you don’t know if you’re going to like the same couch and you don’t know if he is going to want to get patterned towels.”
She continued, “Then, of course, the bigger ones are, will you parent in a way that has balance to it, that holds hands in philosophy. You just don’t know these things until you are right there doing it, and we are so fortunate that there is some kind of explicable harmony to the way we do things.”
