Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen are separating after 18 years of marriage, and the actor says the split is on good terms. The pair are prioritizing their two sons as they move forward.
Biggs, 48, and Mollen were still presenting a united front just over a year ago, when she marked their 17th wedding anniversary with a joint post that read, “17 years of this. Happy Anniversary @biggsjason,” On May 12, Mollen also attended his birthday celebration at an intimate family gathering, a sign that the breakup had not yet become public.
A source told People that the former couple remains closely tied. “They are very much connected. I have no doubt that they will remain on excellent terms,” the source said. That matches Biggs’ own description of the separation as friendly, even as the marriage that began in 2008 comes to an end.
Biggs and Mollen met while working on My Best Friend’s Girl, which was released in 2008, and got engaged in January that year before eloping four months later. They later tied the knot in Napa in a small ceremony with 40 guests, and over the years built a public life that often mixed comedy, family and candid personal updates. They share two sons, Sid, 12, and Lazio, 8.
The separation lands against a longer backdrop of candor from both of them. In 2019, Mollen wrote an op-ed titled I Used to Be Jealous of My Husband’s Ex, Then I Became a Mom, which Biggs later called “a really sweet article.” He said, “You know Jenny is so unique, so funny, so likable and so fun and that whole experience sort of encapsulated all of that,” and added, “We’re changing and we’re just kind of growing up and for her, she felt like she needed to sort of say something about that and how she is not that person anymore.”
Biggs has also spoken publicly about his past addiction and sobriety, including on the Well with Arielle Lorre podcast last year. During that conversation, he described a period when he hid his drug use from Mollen and said, “I knew when I needed to call the coke dealer because I was gonna drink too much, and how much Ambien to take or benzos to take based on how much coke I’d had, so I’d come down but hopefully not die,” He also recalled, “money in the bank, coke in my pocket and nobody saying no to me.”
The marriage now ends where many celebrity breakups do not: without open conflict and with both sides still speaking carefully about the family they raised together. What comes next is not a public fight but a private reordering for two parents who say their children come first.
