Jennie Garth and Dave Abrams are going strong years after their marriage hit a brief roadblock.
Prior to Garth and Abrams’ 2015 wedding, the Beverly Hills, 90210 star had been married twice before. She and Daniel B. Clark were together from 1994 to 1996. Years later, Garth married Peter Facinelli in 2001. The two welcomed three daughters — Luca Bella (1997), Lola Ray (2002) and Fiona Eve (2006) — before calling it quits in 2012.
Following her second divorce, Garth met Abrams on a blind date. They got engaged shortly thereafter.
Two years after tying the knot, Us Weekly broke the news that Garth and Abrams had taken some time apart. Abrams filed for divorce in April 2018 but withdrew the petition by February of the following year.
“We both had separate learning to do, and then coming back and sharing that growth was kind of the fiber that connected us back together like, ‘I see you differently now,’” Garth told People in August 2019 about their reconciliation.
Keep scrolling for a timeline of Garth and Abrams’ relationship:
2014
The twosome met on a blind date in 2014.
2015
Abramss popped the question while celebrating her 43rd birthday. Garth and Abrams got married at her home in Los Olivos, California, on July 11.
2017
Us exclusively revealed the duo were on the rocks. “They are still trying to make it work, but they haven’t been living together,” a source told Us at the time.
Their divorce docs later revealed their date of separation as August 29, 2017
2018
Abrams filed for divorce in April 2018, citing irreconcilable differences.
“I found out that he filed for divorce from TMZ,” Garth later admitted. “That was a big deal for me. So we used it in the show, because why not use the things that hurt us most and then take the power out of them and make them funny.”
She added at the time that the idea of a third divorce “really devastated” her.
“I was in a really bad mindset for a good five or six months. It was just embarrassing,” the Mystery Girls alum said. “And it made the accepting of it so much harder. But when I finally did accept, like, we’re breaking up, I had to tell myself, Dave is not an option. Because I kept wanting it. And then, just when I felt whole again, we started hanging out.”
2019
Abrams officially withdrew his divorce petition in February 2019.
2020
The duo kept close amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
2021
The “9021OMG” podcast host celebrated the holidays with her spouse on a Montana vacation. “Thank you Glacier National Park you are so beautiful,” she captioned a sweet snap via Instagram.
2022
“It’s been a journey of just real personal growth for each of us,” Garth exclusively told Us in May 2022 of her marriage two months before her seven-year anniversary. “I’m nine years older than my husband, so we’re kind of different places, on a personal level. And it’s about accepting the other person’s journey and loving them even more.”
The Mystery Girls alum added: “That’s something that’s been really coming through really clearly lately — acceptance and appreciation for having somebody that loves you enough to accept you for your flaws and all the great things about you at the same time.”
2023
“Happy Birthday babe. I love you,” Garth wrote via Instagram on June 6, sharing sweet pics of the twosome
2024
Garth revealed that she and Abrams went through a bout of IVF prior to their past separation.
“[We] were trying to have a baby, and it kept failing,” she told SELF in an interview published in September of this year. “And that was really, really hard on both of us individually and on our relationship.”
They decided to “let go” of the possibility of having a child. “It freed us up to love each other in a different way,” she continued, gushing over her “an incredibly supportive” and “loving” husband.
“He’s just always thinking of how he can make me happy and make the day go better,” she said. “I’m so grateful for the generosity of his spirit and his love.”
2026
Garth shared more details about her and Abrams’ brief break during an interview with People while promoting her I Choose Me memoir.
“I really wanted to give Dave a baby because he was young and all of his friends were having kids, and I just thought that’s what he needed,” she explained, noting that it led to the “rough patch” in their marriage.
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