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San Francisco Chronicle
3 days ago
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‘Absolutely not': Maria Shriver says no to dating apps after Schwarzenegger divorce
Maria Shriver isn't swiping right anytime soon. In an interview on The Jamie Kern Lima Show this week, the journalist and former first lady of California revealed that her four adult children have encouraged her to try online dating. 'My kids have kidded around going, 'We should make you a dating app,'' said Shriver, 69, referring to Katherine, 35, Christina, 33, Patrick, 31, and Christopher, 27. 'I mean, what do you call it, a dating profile? I'm like 'Absolutely not!'' Shriver, who finalized her divorce from actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2021, made it clear she's content with where she is. 'No, I'm good. I'm finally good on my own, and that's taken a tremendous amount,' she said. ' I have a beautiful life that I'm deeply grateful for.' Since the end of her 25-year marriage, Shriver said she's spent time rethinking her understanding of love and connection. 'I used to think that love came only in an intimate, romantic package, and it made me miss out on all the love that was being offered to me through my friends and through other people,' she said. 'And I've now realized that there's so many different ways to access the love that is there for us, the love that exists for us, because we're so focused on 'dating,' right? Or your marriage, partner, and that nobody can give you everything you're looking for.' She added: 'So I'm really focused on expanding my notion of love, expanding the amount of people that are in my open field so to speak, that bring me love. And so whomever I end up with, if I do end up with someone that way, they're going to be in a village.' Shriver is currently promoting her new book, 'I Am Maria,' a candid exploration of identity, los and renewal. While she remains open to the future, she said she's at peace with the present. 'I've just kind of gotten to the place now where I'm thinking, I don't know, maybe, but my life is really full,' she said. 'I'm not looking, but I'm open to whatever God sends my way.'
San Francisco Chronicle
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Arnold Schwarzenegger makes snide remark about ex-wife Maria Shriver while promoting new film
Arnold Schwarzenegger made a rare comment about his ex-wife Maria Shriver when discussing his upcoming holiday film, 'The Man With the Bag.' The former California Governor spoke about the upcoming film, due out later this year on Prime Video, at Amazon's Upfront 2025 Presentation in New York City. During the engagement, he took the time to reminisce about an older holiday film of his. "'Jingle All the Way' was the greatest Christmas movie of all time,' he said at the event on Monday, May 12, referring to the 1996 Christmas comedy film in which he goes to great lengths to secure the hottest new toy for his son and stars opposite Rita Wilson. 'They play it the whole month of December.' "I know because my ex-wife calls me about the residual," Schwarzenegger joked. Shriver, a former journalist, was married to Schwarzenegger for 25 years. The couple's marriage ended in 2011, following the revelation that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with their longtime housekeeper. Shriver opened up about their split, which was finalized in 2021, in her new poetry collection, 'I Am Maria.' 'It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,' she wrote in the book, which was released last month. 'I was consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety. I was unsure now of who I was, where I belonged. Honestly, it was brutal, and I was terrified.' Despite being separated, Schwarzenegger and Shriver have co-parented their four children: Katherine, Christina, Christopher and Patrick, of 'White Lotus' fame. 'My chapter with Maria will continue on forever,' Schwarzenegger told People Magazine in 2023. 'Even though it's a different relationship, there's no reason for me to feel anything other than love for her.'
Daily Mail
04-05-2025
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- Daily Mail
Gwyneth Paltrow's fashion faux pas as she supports Maria Shriver at Santa Barbara book signing
Gwyneth Paltrow made a rare fashion misstep while attending Maria Shriver 's book event at Godmothers in Summerland, CA on Saturday. The 52-year-old Oscar winner - who owns a $14.5M Montecito mansion nearby - neglected to remove three large sticker labels from the soles of her black sandals. Gwyneth wore a dark-denim belted maxi-jacket with a matching handbag as she arrived alongside Rob Lowe 's wife Sheryl Berkoff. Also attending the I Am Maria event on Saturday was the 69-year-old former First Lady of California 's daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger and her husband Chris Pratt. Maria published her 352-page collection of poems on April 1, and it quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. Shriver was joined at Godmothers by her longtime friend and neighbor Oprah Winfrey, who moderated the Q&A for her 'astonishing work.' Earlier that same day, Paltrow - who boasts 14.7M social media followers -posted a #boyfriendbreakfast cooking video while wearing her $125 Goop Beauty 'Lift + Depuff' eye masks. The Goop CEO-founder captioned her Instagram: 'Trying something new in the kitchen for #boyfriendbreakfast this morning: aloo anday—a comforting South Asian dish of spiced potatoes and scrambled eggs. Simple and so flavorful.' On May 14, Gwyneth will celebrate the 21st birthday of her daughter Apple Martin - who's studying law, history, and society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. 'The reason why I was originally like, "Maybe I'll be a lawyer," was because I loved acting,' the nepo baby told Interview last month. 'But I was insecure and nervous, so I was like, "Oh my god, if I'm a lawyer, I can perform on the stage in a trial setting." It's insane that I thought that. Also I cannot lie, I was like, "I'll just be Elle Woods." [Laughs] It's a lot harder than it looks.' On April 14, Paltrow's son Moses Martin showcased his impressive singing pipes alongside his Dancer Dancer Dancer Dancer bandmate on piano. The 19-year-old Brown University freshman is clearly following in the footsteps of his father - Coldplay frontman Chris Martin - whom the empty nester 'consciously uncoupled' with in 2013 after a decade of marriage. Last year, Gwyneth wrapped her role as Timothée Chalamet's much older love interest in Josh Safdie's solo feature directorial debut Marty Supreme, which hits US theaters December 25. A24's $70M-budget ping pong drama also stars Tyler the Creator, Fran Drescher, Penn Jillette, Abel Ferrera, and Sandra Bernhard. Paltrow will also have a cameo in Rachel Israel's indie comedy Miracle on 74th Street alongside Drew Barrymore, Jill Kargman, Justin Bartha, David Krumholtz, Christine Taylor, and Jason Biggs. Earlier that same day, Paltrow posted a #boyfriendbreakfast cooking video while wearing her $125 Goop Beauty 'Lift + Depuff' eye masks: 'Trying something new in the kitchen!'
USA Today
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Joy Behar booed over Arnold Schwarzenegger joke on 'The View'
Joy Behar booed over Arnold Schwarzenegger joke on 'The View' Show Caption Hide Caption Whoopi Goldberg defends Janet Jackson amid Kamala Harris debacle Whoopi Goldberg has defended her friend Janet Jackson after she faced backlash over remarks questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity. unbranded - Entertainment Joy Behar landed in hot water when a joke about a decades-old scandal fell flat. "The View" host took a comedic jab at former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during the April 29 episode, saying if you date a man with his physique, "he's going to leave you for the housekeeper anyway." The quip was met with almost immediate boos from the audience, to which Behar's "View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin responded: "Too soon! It's only been 30 years!" Behar's comments came in response to a segment that saw the co-hosts discussing their ideal physique for a male partner. Shrugging off the idea of a chiseled, six-pack clad mate, Behar said: "You have to be perfect if they're perfect. I prefer a man who's not perfect. I'm not perfect." "I like them to be legally blind even. That helps," she joked, adding, "I mean, if you get a guy like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he's going to leave you for the housekeeper anyway." Schwarzenegger famously had an affair in the mid-1990s with his then-housekeeper, Mildred Baena, which resulted in a child and the end of his marriage to Maria Shriver. Joseph Baena, Schwarzenegger and Baena's son, went on to compete on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2005. In her recent book, "I Am Maria," Shriver chronicled the emotional end to her marriage and how she moved toward healing. "As I sat on the hotel room floor in the dark, terrified and alone with tears streaming down my face, I thought to myself: Maria, this doesn't have to be the end of the you. It can't be the end of you. Make it a new beginning of you," she wrote. In an hourlong conversation on "The Oprah Podcast," following the book's release, Shriver also told Oprah Winfrey that recounting it was still "an emotional thing for me." "I wanted to know how that had happened to me. I wanted to know who I could be moving forward," she told Winfrey, "I think Arnold and I have a great relationship now, and I think there will always be a love there."
NBC News
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Maria Shriver says it was ‘scary' to release her poetry book. Here's why she did it.
The photo on the cover of Maria Shriver's first poetry collection has a special meaning. The "TODAY" contributor shares why she chose a childhood photo of herself with her beloved pony, Miss Buck, as the cover image for her new book, 'I Am Maria,' in an interview with 'That horse was my best friend, my everything. There's a poem in there about her, and she was my home, and so I wanted to put her on there because she's the first person that didn't ask me my name,' Shriver says. 'She showed me unconditional love.' Themes of longing, loneliness and the power of love — romantic, familial and self-love — are constant throughout Shriver's poetry collection, which begins with an introduction explaining how poetry became a part of her journey of self-exploration, and how her past connects with how she feels about herself now. The former first lady of California wrote that she started writing poetry to help find herself after the loss of her mother and father, and to help heal from her divorce from her ex-husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to whom she was married for over 30 years. Shriver says she would meet up with friends who would ask what she was up to, and she would tell them she was writing poems. When they asked to read one, she would share them. A few of her friends suggested she release them, to which she always replied, 'No way, no way,' she says, until she started hearing more stories like what she had experienced in her life. 'We all have this universal longing to feel at home. We all have this universal desire to be at home in our lives, to be at home with ourselves, to feel seen, to feel loved, to feel accepted, and that's what this book is about,' she says. 'It's about looking at one's life — you have to go back so you can go forward,' she continues. 'It's about addressing those things, not being afraid of them, and incorporating them into your life, so that you can feel seen, feel accepted, first and foremost, by yourself.' Shriver compares the feeling of needing someone to like, see or accept you for who you are as being on a 'hamster wheel forever.' 'If you see yourself, if you love yourself, if you accept yourself, if you forgive yourself, if you are living in your truth, then your life will take a very different turn,' Shriver says. Even though Shriver has released seven other books, she says she was nervous to release all of her poems because of their vulnerability. 'I think they're powerful, but I think they're vulnerable,' she says. 'And so I think when you put your heart and your vulnerability out into the public square, it's scary, right? Because you run the risk of it being trampled on, you run the risk of your heart being made fun of, you run the risk of your heart being rejected ... but the greater risk was being afraid to do that.' Shriver says she has always tried to live her life so that she's not afraid to do the things she has set her mind to. 'I was terrified to anchor for the first time. I was terrified to go on air. I was terrified to do the big interview. I was terrified to get married, to become a mother. I was terrified to get divorced, all of these things,' she says. 'There are milestones in life, when you lose a parent, when you lose a beloved animal, they're all things that we often think we can't get through, we can't survive,' she continues. 'Therefore we stuff them down and don't really deal with it, and that has its own challenges.' Shriver says she tries to lead a life where she looks back and doesn't have any regrets, and that releasing the book was a way to feel her emotions and challenge herself to do something new. 'It was one of those things that, in many ways, I got out of my head to write these, to write the whole book, and it's a good thing for me to get out of my head,' Shriver says. A group of poems she thought about not including in 'I Am Maria' are poems she wrote to each of her four children in honor of their 18th birthdays. 'I went back and forth on (including them),' she says. 'I took it out, I put it back in. I thought, well, they are what has given me sustenance. They are what made me want to move my life forward. They give me life. And so to exclude them from who I am means excluding a big part of my life, because they are the biggest part of my life.' She shares she wrote the poems for her kids Katherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher because she wanted them to see who she saw, and so that they could have her visions of themselves at 18 forever. 'It was something I wished, you know, 'Wow, I wonder what my mother thought of being 18,'' she says. 'What was that like? Who was I to her? So I wanted them to have that. This is a book, really, about looking at my life, the good, the bad, the wonderful, and they are my life.' Shriver says her eldest daughter, Katherine, has read her new book, but she isn't sure about the others. 'I haven't really gotten a verdict from the other ones,' she says with a laugh. 'I'm lucky I'm not really waiting for anybody's verdict. In the past, I've always waited, every other book — I've written seven books — I've waited for my mother's approval, or someone else's.' 'With this one, I feel very at peace with it, and I'm not tracking it, waiting for someone to accept it, because I find myself at a very different place in my life,' she adds. Shriver says she hopes readers will learn there is an artist in every person, whether they think they are creative or not. She describes her career as a journalist and working with facts to her new journey as as poet. 'This is a whole other path, right? I think we're all here to have as many paths as we can get through,' she says.
