Ben Foster has filed for divorce from Laura Prepon after six years of marriage, Us Weekly can affirm.
Per docs obtained by Us, Foster, 44, cited “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation for the dissolution of the couple’s marriage. He listed their date of separation as September 9, 2023.
In accordance with the docs, Foster requested the court docket to make an “equitable division” of their property and debt, in accordance with their 2018 prenuptial settlement. He additionally anticipates getting into their “marital dissolution settlement and agreed parenting plan” into the ultimate decree of divorce.
Foster and Prepon, 44, had been first linked in 2016 after they had been noticed packing on the PDA at a restaurant in New York Metropolis. The pair welcomed their first baby, daughter Ella, in 2017.
One 12 months later, the That 70’s Present alum shared by way of Instagram that she and Foster had exchanged vows. “Simply Married!” she captioned their picture. “Thanks for all of the love and assist. Wishing all of us the great things!”
Foster and Prepon introduced the delivery of their second baby, a son, in 2020. “Welcoming house our new bundle of affection,” she captioned an Instagram picture of her kissing the new child’s hand. “Overwhelmed with gratitude.”
Later that 12 months, Prepon opened up about having an abortion within the second trimester after discovering a deadly fetal abnormality that put her life in danger. Throughout an interview with Us, she defined how she dealt with her “anger at my physique.”
“I actually began holding my physique components and telling myself, ‘I really like you,’ saying, ‘I really like you arms. I really like you head. I really like you face. I really like you neck,’ going by way of each single physique half,” she informed Us on the time. “I’d do that discuss every single day, and I meant it. I actually meant it.”
Whereas juggling parenthood and her appearing profession, Prepon received candid about how she manages all of it. “I actually must steadiness work life and mother life,” Prepon informed Us in 2022 . “Mother and father have been coping with it for a really, very very long time, I’m certain, however that sort of steadiness is unquestionably arduous.”
She added: “You work it out and now we have a fantastic household dynamic. Thank goodness. We’ll determine it out, however that’s most likely the hardest factor —being away from them after I’m at work. The guilt is simply overwhelming typically.”
Earlier than tying the knot with Foster, Prepon dated former costar Danny Masterson’s brother, Christopher, and Scott Michael Foster. Foster, for his half, was on and off together with his former fiancée Robin Wright from 2012 to 2015.