Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
There was a period during what I like to call my “lesbian femcel era” (shortly after a breakup with the first woman I ever had real feelings for) when I had to mute any and all happy and in-love sapphic couples on social media in order to protect my own mental health. First up on my list? Beanie Feldstein and her wife Bonnie-Chance Roberts.
Luckily, I’m no longer down quite as bad as I used to be, which means I can enjoy Feldstein-Roberts updates—from their Gucci-clad 2023 wedding to the recent news that they’d welcomed their first child together—without undue jealousy.
Feldstein and Roberts met in 2018, during a Skype call to discuss the 2019 film How to Build a Girl, which Roberts produced and Feldstein ended up starring in. Feldstein came away from the meeting thinking Roberts’s name was Brooke, but at some point that must have been straightened out. “From the moment we first kissed, we both knew we would get married,” Feldstein told Vogue in 2023. Aw!
Three years later, Feldstein has shared with People that welcoming a daughter with Roberts “is the greatest gift. She’s such a good mom, and it’s so special to watch. Motherhood is unbelievably beautiful.”
The couple at the New York premiere of Focker-in-Law on Tuesday.
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I can’t imagine how exhausting it is to do a press tour shortly after giving birth to your first child, but Feldstein was absolutely glowing while promoting Focker-in-Law at the film’s New York premiere this week—and Roberts was right by her side, looking extremely dapper in a bow-festooned white oxford that I absolutely crave.
I may not currently have a girlfriend (or a boyfriend or partner of any gender…this meme comes to mind), but some level of psychological health around other people’s joy has been achieved, because when I see Feldstein and Roberts out in the world together, all I feel is happiness that one of my favorite actors—whose delivery of “It is the titular role” in Lady Bird lives in my head rent-free—is so clearly, visibly in love. Mazel tov, cuties!
