Family Plans
Jenny McCarthy & Donnie Wahlberg Give Family Update: Will They Have Kids Together?
Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy are going strong after more than 10 years of marriage — but are kids in their future?
The New Kids on the Block singer has two kids from a previous relationship, while The Masked Singer judge is a mom to one son, and they revealed in a new interview whether they plan to expand their family by having a child of their own.
“We’re both on the same wavelength,” McCarthy, 52, told Us Weekly. “No more babies.” Wahlberg added, “We wish we could have. It seemed like we waited our whole lives for each other. But now we’re a happy, blended family. We’ll live through the grandkids.”
McCarthy shares her son, Evan, born in 2002, with ex-husband John Mallory Asher, while Wahlberg’s two sons are shared with his ex-wife, Kimberly Fey. McCarthy and Wahlberg started dating in 2013 and tied the knot in August 2014.
Ten years later, the Blue Bloods star said it’s “not hard” to keep things spicy in the marriage. “I wake up and I’m like, ‘Pinch me. This is crazy,”” he admitted, and his wife agreed. “Me too,” she said. “Now that we’ve acquired five little Shih Tzu puppies in our bedroom, we have to get creative. We’ve dedicated little spots in the house that are more romantic. But also nothing is sexier than respecting each other. When Donnie supports me, that’s the best foreplay ever.”
They also said that “there’s nothing” that they bicker about. However, there are some pet peeves. McCarthy called out her husband for his snoring and how loud he plays the music in the car, while he revealed that she’s often “laughter-scrolling” on her phone in the middle of the night.
But divorce is “not something that is even remotely possible,” Wahlberg said, with McCarthy adding, “It is ’til death do us part. We know that.” They’re able to make it work by “prioritizing the marriage” and “doing the work” necessary. “If we put things before the relationship, we have a weak foundation,” Wahlberg explained. “We went in [saying], ‘Let’s give it everything we’ve got and make it the center of our lives.'”
