Brooke Shields gushed about her husband Chris Henchy at his 60th birthday celebration.
On Saturday, actress and model58, took to Instagram to share her favorite photos of them over the years.
‘Happy Birthday my love!! I have no idea what we would do without you Chris, I love you so much xx’, he shared in the caption with obvious emotion in his words.
The cover photo is a selfie of Shields giving Henchy a sweet kiss on the cheek.
Like his iconic wife, Henchy has also made a name for himself in Hollywood as a television and film writer and producer.
Brooke Shields gushes about husband Chris Henchy at his 60th birthday celebration
Henchy, who was born in New York City but grew up in Augusta, Georgia, returned to Manhattan after graduating college to work on Wall Street.
But he would later leave his job to pursue a career in comedy.
He is best known for being a creative collaborator of Will Ferrell, including co-creating the popular comedy website Funny or Die and writing several of Ferrell’s films such as Land Of The Lost, The Campaign, and The Other Guys.
Henchy has also worked on many successful television shows such as Spin City, Life With Bonnie, Entourage and I’m With Her, which he created with Marco Pennette and was loosely based on Henchy’s relationship with Shields.
And it turns out that comedy and laughter have been the key to helping keep their romance alive as they approach their 23rd wedding anniversary on April 4.
“He made me laugh and he constantly makes me laugh and he doesn’t take anything too seriously, so I don’t go down those rabbit holes like I used to,” she said. People.
‘He just brings me back and says, ‘We’ll figure it out.’ So he’s good at leveling me out.’
Shields’ American bulldog, Darla, was actually the one who introduced her to her future husband and love of her life.
“To this day I think I fell in love with Chris the day we met in 1999, but I would never tell him that!” she wrote in her memoir, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression (2005).
‘I had just gotten an American bulldog, Darla, and I took her to meet some friends of mine at the Warner Bros. gym. While I was there, the dog walked away and Chris brought her back. He was writing for a show filmed on the lot and loved dogs. We chatted and she made me laugh.”
‘Happy Birthday my love!! I have no idea what we would do without you Chris, I love you so much xx’, he shared in the caption with obvious emotion in his words.
The actress took to Instagram to share her favorite photos of them over the years.
“(Henchy) made me laugh and he constantly makes me laugh and doesn’t take anything too seriously, so I don’t go down those rabbit holes like I used to,” she previously told People.
The longtime couple, who will celebrate their 23rd wedding anniversary in April, share daughters Grier, 17, and Rowan, 20.
In what some would call a sign of fate, the couple met again three weeks later, when Shields was hosting a show in Washington, DC that had Henchy as one of the writers.
“We started spending time together and became friends,” Shields added. “I was surprised by how thoughtful and funny he was.”
They would end up legalizing their union when they married in April 2001 and then welcomed daughter Rowan, now 20, in May 2003 and then daughter Grier, now 17, in April 2006.
Shields began her modeling career when she was just 11 months old in 1966, when she was photographed for an Ivory Soap advertisement.
She would eventually become a highly successful model and would later make her film debut in the horror film Alice, Sweet Alice (1976).
The rising star saw her star rise with a role in French director Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby (1977), in which she played a girl who lived in a brothel, the daughter of a prostitute played by Susan Sarandon. The role included numerous nude scenes for Shields, who was only 12 years old at the time of filming.
The New York City native would go on to star in films such as The Blue Lagoon (1980), Endless Love (1981), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), The Bachelor (1999), as well as the hit NBC comedy Suddenly Susan. (1996-2000), the NBC comedy-drama Lipstick Jungle (2008-2009), and The CW comedy-drama Jane The Virgin (2018-2019).
Most recently, Shields stars in the upcoming comedy film Mother Of The Bride, alongside the likes of Miranda Cosgrove, Benjamin Bratt, Chad Michael Murray and Rachael Harris, premiering on Netflix on May 9.
