Freddie Prinze Jnr and Sarah Michelle Gellar are proof love truly does exist. We know, we know, it’s a saying thrown around far too liberally when it comes to celebrity couples, but after 20+ years of marriage, they’ve certainly earned the claim.
The ‘90s it-couple have defied the odds often cast upon Hollywood couples and even proved a few nay-sayers wrong–ahem, Howard Stern–to remain happily in love for over two decades.
The I Know What You Did Last Summer alum have been quietly raising their two kids away from the spotlight and living in matrimonial bliss. So what’s their secret? It all lies in their low-key love story.
What Movie Did Sarah Michelle Gellar & Freddie Prinze Jr Meet On?
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr may have one of the strongest relationships in the business, but it wasn’t exactly love at first sight for the pair. In fact, the couple originally met on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, and despite originally not getting along, they soon became friends. The best foundation for a love story, no?
“She didn’t have a driver’s license so I was her chauffeur, and I would drive her to the gym every day and then go to the store, go get myself some lunch and then drive her back, and we would just have an hour drive,” Prinze told Good Morning America in 2022.
“We shot [I Know What You Did Last Summer] in this tiny little crazy town called [Southport, North Carolina],” he added. “I would drive her to Wilmington, [North Carolina], every day that we had off, every day during rehearsals, and we would have you know 55 minutes—if I drove the speed limit—to get to know one another. She was from New York City and I am a SoCal kid, so we were night and day, and it was just our philosophies on life just never clicked.
He continued, “Then one day everything clicked, and it was about probably three years later, and we started dating, and she’s been my girlfriend ever since.”
How Long Have Sarah Michelle Gellar & Freddie Prinze Been Together?
Freddie Prinze Jr And Sarah Michelle Gellar have been together for almost 25 years, and recently celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary. In 2000, three years after meeting on set, the couple officially began dating. A true slow burn, Gellar recently revealed to People, the night everything changed between the pair wasn’t meant to be a date at all.
“We were friends for a very long time. We’d had many dinners before. And we were supposed to go with someone else, and the third person didn’t make it out and we decided to still go…We were just two people at dinner catching up…We had a long car ride and a long dinner and things just happened.”
When Did Sarah Michelle Gellar & Freddie Prinze Jr Get Married?
Prinze and Gellar first announced their engagement at the Buffy star’s 24th birthday party. Their relatively young age was quickly scrutinized in an interview with Howard Stern, who 25 years on must be eating his words.
“So you will marry Sarah Michelle Gellar even though you know that it won’t last?” Stern asked Prinze boldly, to which he immediately quipped back: “Oh, absolutely it will last.”
In 2020, Prinze told People Now that neither one of them “were into marriage,” but one day he “just knew” they were going to be wed.
On September 1, 2002, the couple tied the knot in a remote clifftop ceremony at the El Careyes resort in Mexico.
Do Sarah Michelle Gellar And Freddie Prinze Jr Have Kids?
Sarah Michelle Gellar And Freddie Prinze Jr share two kids together, a daughter, Charlotte, and son, Rocky. Following their nuptials the couple spent the next seven years focusing on their careers, including their famed joint appearance in the Scooby Doo films. It wasn’t until 2009 that the couple welcomed their first daughter, Charlotte Grace Prinze, on September 19th.
Months after the happy arrival, the couple spoke to People about their decision to wait to have kids and becoming new parents.
“Becoming a parent is the most selfless act, and you need to be at a point in your life where you can give up anything and everything for a child,” Gellar explained. “I don’t know if you know how to do that when you’re in your 20s.”
Prinze added, “I’m so happy we didn’t have kids in our 20s—I just didn’t know a thing. You have so much more patience in your 30s, and I feel like I appreciate this so much more.”
Three years later, almost to the date, Gellar and Prinze welcomed their second child, a baby boy, Rocky James, on September 20th, 2012.
Gellar recently shared a sweet throwback to celebrate Rocky’s 7th birthday, recalling the day he was born.
“And just when I thought it wasn’t possible to love another human the way I loved my daughter, seven years ago today, my son was born, and I learned that was not the case,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “ Rocky on the day you were born, I swear my heart tripled in size. Your laugh is the only medicine I will ever need, and your excitement for life is my motivation.”
