With Madden, though, she was confident she had found more than just a variation on a theme. He was the one to support her pivot away from acting, guiding her through what she described to Paltrow in an August 2020 episode of In Goop Health: The Sessions as a painful journey of self-discovery. “I broke that mirror about a thousand times when he put it up to me. I was like, ‘I hate you… don’t show me that,’ and he was like, ‘Look, bitch. Look’,” she shared. “Thank God for him.”
So when she told Cohen that “no one compares,” she was certain of it. “Everything else just like washes and slips away,” she continued. “You realize like, ‘Oh right, this is what the real thing is, this is what real love is and this is what commitment and devotion is. This is the person that you build your life with.'”
And suddenly, just like getting married, starting a family made perfect sense. “Cameron is so much more settled, stable and happy,” a source told People last January. “It was natural to want a baby.”