Malin Akerman is sharing rare comments on her divorce from Roberto Zincone in 2013. In a recent interview, the Hunting Wives actress also opened up about navigating new motherhood.
Talking to Alex Cooper on her Call Her Daddy podcast, Akerman said, “To be going through a divorce, I just started back at work. I was now bringing my son with me to work. Luckily, I was producing on the show that I was starring in, so my office space turned into a nursery. It’s like, the beauty is I got to have him with me every day. It was lovely.”
“But it was really hard to be mourning the end of a relationship, doing a comedy, stepping into motherhood, being up all night feeding him, you know, and then going to work,” she added.
Fortunately for her, Akerman had a close friend who helped her with her son after her split. She shared that her friend moved in and provided support during an emotionally difficult period, calling it “the best experience we’ve ever had.”
How Malin Akerman rebuilt her life after divorce
Living together with her close friend, Akerman worked hard on rebuilding her life after a heartbreaking divorce. They began a tradition of having a Sunday dance party for her son, which they named ‘Sebi Sunday.’
Talking about it, the 27 Dresses star said, “Every Sunday I have a neon sign, and it says Sebi Sunday. My son’s name is Sebastian. And it became Sebi Sundays because every Sunday I’d invite all the parents, all my friends and non-parents come over, hang by the pool, pop the rosé, kids are roaming around; this is great.”
Thanks to the support she received from her friends and close ones, Akerman said she felt like she was “seeing the community” she created rather than “seeing the losses.” She also confided in Cooper that she began therapy and “transcendental meditation” after her first marriage fell apart, which allowed her to rediscover herself.
“I started doing some deep, deep therapy on figuring out who I was, what my intimacy issues were, why I was keeping people at arm’s length, how to kind of navigate that,” she added. “And just shifting and seeing who I am now in my 30s as a mother, a single mother in the world, and what does that mean to me. So it took some time to figure that out.”
After taking time to heal, Akerman ultimately went on to remarry. A year after announcing their engagement in 2017, she got hitched to Jack Donnelly in December 2018. The two currently appear to be going as strong as ever.
