Kristen Wiig isn’t one to broadcast her personal life — so when she casually mentioned her husband on Howard Stern’s radio show, it landed as exactly the kind of low-key reveal fans expect from her. The 47-year-old Bridesmaids star and SNL alum confirmed she’s married actor Avi Rothman, roughly two years after the couple got engaged.

She opened up about how grounding her home life has been, especially through a difficult stretch of the pandemic years. While acknowledging it’s hard to tune out everything happening in the world, she said she feels genuinely lucky to have her husband and their eight-month-old twins as her anchor. For Wiig, becoming a parent has reshaped her entire outlook in a deeply meaningful way.

This marks her second marriage — her first, to Hayes Hargrove, ended in divorce in 2009. Her relationship with Rothman, 48, began with a trip to Hawaii back in May 2016, eventually leading to engagement and, later, the arrival of their twins via surrogate. The couple has kept their relationship largely out of the public eye, letting it develop privately rather than under media scrutiny.

Wiig also got candid about the very real anxieties of early motherhood — including a half-joking fear that stepping away from her kids, even briefly, might make them forget who she is, despite the fact that her short absences barely register for the babies. It’s the kind of honest, unglamorous admission that cuts through any polished celebrity image, showing a working mom genuinely wrestling with balancing career and family.

She also shared a funny story on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert about a trip to Patagonia, where she briefly thought Rothman was setting up a marriage proposal — only for the moment to be interrupted by an unexpected encounter with a wild puma.

Through it all, Wiig’s story is a reminder that the most memorable moments in life rarely happen on camera — they happen in the unscripted, sometimes chaotic, very real spaces in between.