John Mulaney, Anna Marie Tendler's Relationship Timeline: Photos
John Mulaney and Ex-Wife Anna Marie Tendler's Relationship Timeline: The Way They Were
John MulaneyAnna Marie Tendler pulled the plug on their marriage after nearly seven years of marriage — and fans didn't see it coming.The duo tied the knot in July 2014 in upstate New York with several of Mulaney's former Saturday Night Live coworkers in attendance. "On a beautiful and perfect day, I married a beautiful and perfect woman," Mulaney gushed via Instagram one day after the nuptials. "I wish I could live it over and over again."Six years later, news broke in December 2020 that Mulaney voluntarily checked into a rehab facility seeking help for drug and alcohol addiction. Prior to relapsing, Mulaney was sober for over a decade.Mulaney left the Pennsylvania treatment center after 60 days, continuing recovery in an outpatient program. His marriage, however, continued to suffer, and in May 2021, Us confirmed that Mulaney and Tendler split two months shy of their seven-year anniversary.As news of his breakup made headlines, Mulaney moved on with Olivia Munn , with whom he now shares two children.Scroll down for a look back at Mulaney's relationship with Tendler:
Credit: Christopher Polk/ShutterstockDecember 2013
After getting down on one knee, Mulaney playfully accused Pete Holmes of meddling in the romantic moment. "You're directly involved with ruining the surprise of my engagement," the Chicago native joked on The Pete Holmes Show at the time, noting that he spent "multiple days" trying to find the perfect ring for Tendler.
Though he'd used Holmes as his cover while planning the proposal, Tendler quickly caught on. "That day you said you were with Pete Holmes, you weren't," Mulaney recalled her saying. "He Instagrammed a photo of himself recording a podcast."
He popped the question on a beach in Malibu. "It was really funny, it was so tense," Mulaney said of the buildup to the moment. "And then when I proposed, it was really worth it, so all of it was great."
Credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/ShutterstockNovember 2015
"I love saying 'my wife,'" Mulaney said during his Netflix special The Comeback Kid. "It sounds so adult. 'That's my wife.' It's great, you sound like a person. I said it even before we were married."
In the same standup set, he admitted he and Tendler weren't sold on having kids, but noted how much his relationship has helped him bloom. "Being married is so nice. I never knew relationships were supposed to make you feel better about yourself," he said. "That's not really a joke, that's just a little sweet thing I like to say."
Credit: Invision/AP/ShutterstockJanuary 2017
Throughout their relationship, Tendler collaborated with Mulaney several times, most notably on his Broadway show, Oh, Hello. It closed in January 2017 after 15 weeks of performances.
During a 2019 interview with Nylon, the artist said the project was "hands down the most rewarding thing that I did in makeup in my entire makeup career."
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Throughout his fourth standup tour, Kid Gorgeous, Mulaney revealed how he asked his then-wife if he could mention her in his jokes. "[She goes], 'Just don't say that I'm a bitch and that you don't like me.'"
The bit continued, "I would never say that — not even as a joke — that my wife is a bitch and I don't like her. That is not true. My wife is a bitch and I like her so much. She is a dynamite, 5-foot, Jewish bitch and she's the best."
Credit: Eric Charbonneau/ShutterstockApril 2020
Mulaney, who had previously expressed on several occasions that he wasn't interested in having children, shut down speculation about Tendler while live-tweeting the Sack Lunch Bunch special.
"Anna wants you to know that someone online asked if she was pregnant after seeing her in 'Pay Attention' and that's why she left social media," he teased. "She has not looked back once."
Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/ShutterstockDecember 2021
Mulaney and Munn welcomed their baby boy in November 2021. When news broke the following month, Tendler appeared to shade her ex when she posted a photo captioned, "Norman F-king Rockwell," referencing a Lana Del Rey song. "Godamn, man child," the 2019 lyrics read. "You f—ked me so good that I almost said, 'I love you' / You're fun and you're wild / But you don't know the half of the s-t that you put me through."
