The couple who met on the set of “Mad Men” are calling it quits after 8 years of marriage.
Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser are getting divorced. Kartheiser filed the divorce from Bledel on Wednesday at New York’s Putnam County Court. The petition was officially filed on August 10.
Bledel, 40, and Kartheiser, 43, met on the Mad Men set in 2012. Kartheiser played Pete Campbell, and Bledel appeared in season 5 as Campbell’s mistress Beth Dawes.
Not too long after Bledel’s appearance on the show in 2012, the couple were spotted kissing. The couple, then privately tied the knot two years later in 2014.
Bledel and Kartheiser have kept their relationship private, rarely making public appearances together or speaking about each other in the press. The pair also avoids use of social media, so personal posts of their relationship can’t be found.
Kartheiser expanded on this mindset in a conversation with Vulture. “It’s something I realized about the most important things in my life,” Kartheiser said in 2014. “If I share them with the world and I open that door to their fuming anger that they need to get out or their adoration that they want to flaunt, it lessens it. It cheapens it; it weakens it. And it’s magical, love, and all of that is profoundly spiritual, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Bledel and Kartheiser welcomed their first child in fall 2015, but kept the pregnancy and birth a secret, too.
While the celebrity parents still haven’t introduced their child to the world, Bledel’s former Gilmore Girls costar Scott Patterson had some insight into her life as a mother.
“She’s really blossomed as a woman and now she’s a proud new mother and married and happy,” Patterson told Glamour. “We’re comparing notes because my son (born July 2014) is about a year and a half older than her young son. I’m showing her photos and videos and what to expect. We’re just really enjoying each other’s company.”
