Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen’s Most Revealing Marriage Confessions Before the Split

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen were that couple who would actually say the quiet parts out loud about marriage, parenting, work, and therapy. Now, after nearly two decades together, they have split but insist they are on great terms. Here is how they got here, with all the gloriously odd details intact.

Quick timeline

• 2007: Meet on the set of 'My Best Friend's Girl'.
• January 2008: Get engaged.
• 2008: Elope in a very not-traditional private ceremony.
• 2014: Son Sid is born.
• 2017: Son Lazlo arrives; Biggs gets sober the same year after a long struggle with alcohol and drugs.
• 2016: Co-star together in the comedy 'Amateur Night'.
• 2020: Pandemic brings them closer, by their own account.
• 2022: Mollen posts a now-classic story about their pajama wedding at a Calabasas FedEx Kinkos, complete with jokes about a maybe-not-licensed officiant and whether Earth Day mushrooms were involved. Extremely on-brand.
• 2024: Co-host the reboot of 'Dinner and a Movie '.
• January 2026: On 'The View', Biggs credits Mollen and impending parenthood for jump-starting his sobriety.
• May 2026: A rep confirms they have separated after 18 years of marriage; they say they remain on great terms and are committed to co-parenting Sid and Lazlo.

The wedding story that sounds like a sketch

They did not do the white-dress-and-aisle routine. According to Mollen, they eloped in 2008 wearing pajamas at a FedEx Kinkos in Calabasas. She has joked that the officiant might have been an actress hustling a few hundred bucks, that the legality was a shrug, and that the whole thing may or may not have been enhanced by Earth Day mushrooms. Real or not, it clearly stuck.

Sobriety: the wake-up call

Biggs has been sober since 2017, following years of addiction issues. On 'The View' in January 2026, he talked about what pushed him to make the change: when Mollen got pregnant, it snapped things into focus. He also made the point that while people say you have to do it for yourself, the first spark can come from anywhere, including family.

Co-parenting vibes before the split

Mollen was loud and clear in 2022 about Biggs being an almost comically hands-on dad. Her analogy was basically: he is the person adjusting your scuba tank, your ski goggles, and your airplane oxygen mask until you beg him to stop. Overbearing, sure, but the point was that he shows up.

Therapy as standard equipment

Back in 2016, they were very pro-couples-therapy, treating it like routine maintenance instead of last-ditch triage. Mollen said having a third party helped translate their thoughts so she did not just sound like she was nagging him like a mom. Biggs went even further:

"You shouldn't be married and not have a therapist. You've got to do it as a preemptive strike."

Working together: helpful and hazardous

They teamed up on the 2016 comedy 'Amateur Night' and, years later, co-hosted TBS's 2024 reboot of 'Dinner and a Movie'. Mollen admitted that working with your spouse makes people blurrier with feedback; he could say things to her he would never try on another co-host, which is great for honesty and terrible for avoiding fights. In a 2024 chat he even tossed out a jokingly R-rated example, and she one-upped him with an even more explicit bit, because of course she did. Bottom line: the comfort level helps the work, but it also sends you right back to that therapist.

Radical honesty, 2019 edition

Mollen wrote a Parents.com essay about once being fixated on Biggs's ex and how motherhood changed her. Biggs called the piece sweet and very her: bold, funny, likable, and self-aware. His takeaway was that they grew up, had kids, and moved on, and even the woman Jenny once obsessively tracked now has kids. The essay was her way of saying she is not that person anymore.

Quarantine and the honeymoon effect

In 2020, while a lot of couples were climbing the walls, these two said lockdown actually boosted their connection. Mollen put it bluntly: more time together equaled more intimacy, including more sex. After 13 years married at that point, their math checked out.

Where things stand

Fast-forward to May 2026: their rep says they have separated after 18 years of marriage. The message from both sides is that things are amicable and the priority is their two kids. For a pair that never pretended marriage was easy, it tracks that they are trying to handle the breakup with the same mix of candor, humor, and yes, therapy.