{"id":27451,"date":"2025-06-30T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27451\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:34:10","slug":"white-lotus-star-explains-why-shes-happily-unmarried-to-partner-of-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27451\/","title":{"rendered":"‘White Lotus’ Star Explains Why She’s Happily Unmarried To Partner Of 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leslie Bibb<\/a> has been in a relationship with fellow actor Sam Rockwell for 18 years \u2015 but there\u2019s no way they\u2019re tying the knot. <\/p>\n

Bibb spoke about her relationship status during an appearance on \u201cToday With Jenna & Friends\u201d last week, while Bibb and host Jenna Hager were talking about a recent article that said women were \u201cditching the idea of marriage.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cListen, you\u2019re speaking to the choir. I love Sam Rockwell,\u201d Bibb said. \u201cI would put him in my pocket and carry him with me all the time. I love him. I do not want to get married. I feel like we are married!\u201d<\/p>\n

Bibb said in the beginning of their relationship, Rockwell asked her if she really didn\u2019t want to get married. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt annoyed the crap out of me,\u201d the \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d<\/a> star said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Stop saying it. I already said I don\u2019t want to marry you. Stop asking me like I\u2019m gonna pull a sneak on you.\u2019 But he didn\u2019t want it either.\u201d <\/p>\n

While Bibb doesn\u2019t exactly know where their feelings around marriage come from, she guessed that it\u2019s \u201cprobably something about the way we grew up.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I feel like if it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it,\u201d Bibb said, before adding that she also hasn\u2019t ever want kids. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe two actors have been together for nearly 20 years. <\/p>\n

Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t have that chip in me,\u201d the actor shared. <\/p>\n

Rockwell feels similarly, and said the two are \u201cbasically married\u201d during an interview with the U.K.\u2019s Standard<\/a> back in 2022. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s in my will. I feel like we are married. We live like a married couple. I\u2019m really proud of her,\u201d he said at the time, adding that the two are \u201cvery happy, we have a good life.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe just like it the way it is. We don\u2019t want kids. It\u2019s interesting when you tell people this,\u201d the actor explained. \u201cThey get very upset with you. I know more and more couples who don\u2019t have kids. Listen, if I knew they\u2019d turn out great, then maybe \u2014 but there\u2019s just no guarantee. Also, I don\u2019t want to be selfish and be a bad parent.\u201d <\/p>\n

More and more stars \u2015 like Miley Cyrus<\/a> \u2015 have also recently spoken about their decisions to be happily child-free.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just never been something that I\u2019ve been overly passionate about,\u201d she said during an appearance on The New York Times\u2019 \u201cThe Interview\u201d<\/a> podcast earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of responsibility and devotion and energy, and if you\u2019re not passionate about that, I don\u2019t know how you do sleepless nights and 18 years of what my mom dealt with.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leslie Bibb has been in a relationship with fellow actor Sam Rockwell for 18 years \u2015 but there\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,23895,17678,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-27451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-leslie-bibb","11":"tag-sam-rockwell","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114773050950938405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}