As he and Sheryl Berkoff, his wife of 31 years, celebrated their anniversary on Friday, Rob Lowe couldn’t help but gush about her.
The 58-year-old Parks and Recreation actor shared a lovely picture of his wife with the following caption on Instagram:
Cheers to 31 years, baby. My world is what you’ve created it. You remain just as charming, intelligent, interesting, kind, and funny as you did so many blissful years ago. Lifelong partners in love!
While collaborating on the 1990 romantic thriller Bad Influence, the couple first got to know one another. The following year, they were married and had two boys, Matthew, 29, and John, 27. The actor from 9-1-1:
Lone Star spoke candidly to PEOPLE in January of this year about his impressions of his 61-year-old wife upon meeting her. She was a well-known cosmetics artist at the time, and now she creates excellent jewelry.
When Lowe opened up about feeling ‘seen’ for the first time in his life, he added, ‘I had the idea that if I was ever going to be able to make it work with anybody, it was Sheryl.’ ‘I didn’t get along very well with intimacy until very late in my life.
A alcohol would only make that nearly impossible, ‘He admitted it. Lowe, who was struggling with addiction, knew he wanted to make a difference after meeting his partner. He eventually entered rehab and embraced recovery.
‘He even said that his marriage to Berkoff was one of life’s greatest ‘miracles’ because she saw qualities in me that no one else had ever noticed before.’
In addition to being a fantastic mother, he continued, ‘I still believe she’s the prettiest, hottest, most gorgeous, craziest, complicated, interesting person that I know.’
In May, the actor commemorated 32 years of sobriety. When he thanked his loved ones, especially his family, for standing by him during it all last year.
‘I want to express my gratitude to everyone who is traveling this route with me and extend a warm welcome to anyone who might be considering doing the same. I also want to give a big hug to my family for putting up with me’ On Instagram, he posted.
He added, when discussing his journey to recovery, ‘Being honest with yourself minute by minute is the best way to stay in recovery. No double life, no secrets. You also need to be honest, Lowe said Variety.
‘Being authentic and honest is the essence of acting,’ someone once said. Nothing other than your own will to do so can make you get sober, he continued.
Whatever the threat, it won’t be sufficient to make someone act, including the threat of losing their spouse, their job, or their freedom.
You must possess it. People aren’t prepared to apply the tools when they enter programs, which is why they don’t always succeed in being sober. He went on, ‘Your sobriety goals are similar to your 401(k) goals.
At the time, he stated, ‘You have different ambitions when you’re young, and you manage it differently as you get older.
‘Only yesterday, I was on set speaking with another actor who has been sober for a number of years.
We were almost conducting a mini-meeting while chatting casually about maintaining our sobriety and making efforts to improve ourselves. They enter your life if you are receptive to them.