- Julia Roberts's husband Daniel Moder shared a photograph of himself and the Pretty Woman star alongside all three of their children.
- In his Mother's Day Instagram tribute, Moder appears with a smiling Roberts and the kids: Hazel, 14, Phinnaeus, 14, and Henry, 11.
- Roberts and Moder have been married since 2002.
As a Hollywood A-lister, Julia Roberts is understandably private about her home life with husband Daniel Moder and their children. But thanks to Moder, fans just got to see a rare family photograph.
In a sweet Mother's Day tribute posted to Instagram on Monday, Moder shared a picture of himself, Robert, and their three children, Hazel, 14, Phinnaeus, 14, and Henry, 11. "That pretty mama in the middle," Moder wrote in his caption. "We love you so much."
Roberts and Moder met in 2000 on the set of the movie The Mexican, in which Roberts starred and Moder worked as a cameraman. After Moder's divorce from his wife at the time, he and Roberts were married in a July 4th ceremony in 2002 at her ranch in New Mexico. In a 2003 interview with O the year after her marriage, Roberts told Oprah that meeting Moder had transformed her perspective on life.
"I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life," she said. "A huge part of it is my marriage. My husband, Danny, has really shined the light for me. Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life—not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding."
When Oprah asked how the pair originally got to talking on set, given Roberts's fame, she explained, "On the set, I get pretty relaxed. These guys see me at 5 in the morning, when I come stumbling onto the set like "What the hell is goin' on?" In those circumstances, you can see what a person's really made of. Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst."
It's clear from quotes like this just why Roberts and Moder have been able to maintain a strong, long-lasting marriage in Hollywood.
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Emma Dibdin is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles who writes about culture, mental health, and true crime. She loves owls, hates cilantro, and can find the queer subtext in literally anything.
