Jennie Garth: From Seductress to Suburbia
Posted Tue. Mar. 18, 2008 3:05pm by
Libby Keatinge Filed Under
Beverly Hills 90210,
Jennie Garth,
Peter Facinelli
No, this is not an ad for Crocs. It’s
Jennie Garth’s family, who are a little too… matchy? Too flawless? Too perfect for words!
Kelly Taylor has come a long way from stealing Dylan McKay out of girlfriend Brenda Walsh’s grip on
Beverly Hills, 90210. Jennie, in her Ralph Lauren–esque getup and with her perfectly put-together children (10-year-old
Luca, 5-year-old
Lola and
Fiona, 18 months) and husband of seven years,
Peter Facinelli, look more out of Stepford than Beverly Hills.
Somehow we can’t picture this pinstriped princess walking into the Peach Pit and dumping a malted on
Shannen Doherty’s head. How we miss the old exciting Jennie, the troubled rich girl who was always getting caught up in precarious situations, like joining a cult and getting hooked on diet pills.
But what about the rumored
Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off? Jennie's pal
Tori Spelling already said she
wants the role of the MILF, but is there room for two in 90210?
Read what Jennie, 35, and Peter, 34, told
Redbook this month about her post-
90210 life, after the jump.
On keeping their romance alive after 13 years:
PETER: "Sometimes we're in a store together and I'll lose Jennie for a second, and then I'll see her out of the corner of my eye and she's just the most beautiful woman to me. And I say to myself, 'Oh, that's my wife, I'm so lucky.' Those moments just hit me — and they hit me often."
On finding alone time with three children:
JENNIE: "Probably the hardest thing is finding time to be together just as a couple. I can usually carve out an hour a day to exercise and shower, but the time I get just with Peter is at the end of the day when we're both exhausted. In fact, we just decided to leave my mom with the kids for a weekend and spend more quality time together, where we won't be interrupted or distracted."
PETER: "There are times when Jennie and I are driving to the supermarket and it almost seems like a date 'cause it's just the two of us for a change."
On the "perfect" family moments:
PETER: "The other night we were having dinner, and our 5-year-old, Lola, wasn't eating her food. I said, 'Lola, one way or another, you're going to eat that food,' and she looks up at me and says, 'Well, Daddy, I don't like it this way. What's the other way?' And she wasn't being a smart aleck about it! That stuff just melts my heart."
"It's those wild, crazy, seemingly out-of-control moments that make the stories that you laugh about later. When there's complete havoc taking place, Jennie and I look at each other and it's just the two of us for a second."
Jennie Garth and her family in the new issue of 'Redbook'
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