Chris Henchy is a producer, writer and director, but he and Brooke Shields weren’t working on the same project when they met. In his book “Down Came the Rain,” Shields recounts how his dog, Darla, decided to go exploring when he took the dog with him to the Warner Bros. lot. “Chris brought her back. I was writing for one. show shot in the lot and I loved the dogs, “he recalled. “She chatted and made me laugh.”
When Henchy and Shields crossed paths again weeks later, a friendship developed that eventually blossomed into a true romance. After getting married in 2001, the couple decided to start a family as soon as possible. “Knowing we wanted children helped us decide we wanted to get married,” Shields told People. The couple had to resort to IVF to achieve this, undergoing seven IVF cycles and suffering from a miscarriage before their first daughter, Rowan, was born in 2003.
In the same year, the short-lived sitcom “I’m With Her” premiered on ABC. It was created by Henchy and inspired by her relationship with Shields. But on the show, a teacher meets an actor after his dog bit him. Describing how art imitated life, Henchy told the Deseret News: “It’s the world to go to a restaurant with her and get the best table and then show up three days later with your friends and wait an hour and sit in. kitchen. “.
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