Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen Are Splitting After 18 Years — Here's the Full Timeline

Biggs and Mollen met in October 2007 on the set of "My Best Friend's Girl," a forgotten romantic comedy directed by Howard Deutch. Biggs had just come off the failed 2003 "American Pie" sequel "American Wedding." Mollen was 28 and primarily a TV actress, with a recurring role on "Las Vegas" and a series of guest appearances on "Crossing Jordan." They got engaged in February 2008, four months after meeting, and married April 23 of the same year at the Standard Hotel in Los Angeles.

Mollen has written about the speed of the marriage in essays for Glamour and Cosmopolitan. Her 2014 essay collection "I Like You Just the Way I Am" detailed Biggs's infidelity early in their marriage and her decision to stay. The book sold 240,000 copies in its first year. The transparency made the marriage their shared brand. Whether the transparency was healthy is a question both of them have publicly wrestled with.

Their son Sid was born February 2, 2014. Mollen's second book "Live Fast Die Hot" (2016) was an essay collection about new motherhood and the loss of her professional identity. The book hit the New York Times bestseller list and remained on it for 11 weeks. Biggs was in a difficult professional moment in this window — "Orange Is the New Black," his major TV role, ended its arc with his character in 2014. He turned to voice acting and podcasting.

Mollen's career was the more visible of the two in this period. She launched her podcast "Live Fast Die Hot" in 2017 and became a sought-after personal-essay writer. Her account of Sid swallowing a tooth in 2017 — and her subsequent argument with the company that posted a critical comment about her parenting on Cards Against Humanity's Twitter — generated a week of national coverage. Their marriage was, by most public accounts, in a strong place.

Their second son Lazlo was born October 2, 2017. The 2018 period included a much-discussed Instagram post from Biggs in support of OnlyFans creators, which generated mixed reactions from the celebrity-fan space. Mollen wrote a follow-up essay about her own ambivalence and the conversation it sparked in their marriage. The piece, published in Marie Claire in late 2018, is one of the most-cited celebrity-couple essays on the OnlyFans question.

By 2020, both of them were heavily into podcasting and pandemic content. Mollen's podcast hit its peak popularity in this window. Biggs's voice-acting work on "Big Mouth" expanded. They moved from Brooklyn to Connecticut in fall 2020, which they discussed extensively on their joint podcast "This Is Important" (with the original American Pie cast).

Mollen released "Dinner with Vampires" in 2022 — a cookbook that interleaved recipes with personal essays. The book launch tour reportedly strained the marriage. Mollen has alluded to it in interviews without describing it in detail. The tour was 28 cities in five months. Biggs stayed home with the children for the bulk of it. The arrangement was, sources told E! Online for the May 14 piece, "the beginning of a different chapter for both of them."

By 2023, both were publicly discussing therapy. Mollen's 2024 essay for The Cut described what she called "the slow drift" of a long marriage. Biggs's 2025 appearance on Marc Maron's podcast WTF included a 12-minute discussion of marital communication and his own role in patterns that needed to change. Neither described a specific incident. Both described a pattern. The reporting in the May 14 E! Online piece suggests the pattern is what eventually broke the relationship.

The joint statement to People on May 14 framed the split as amicable, mutual, and family-first. Biggs has moved to a separate Connecticut residence as of late April 2026, per E! Online's sourcing. The children remain primarily with Mollen at the family's main house, with Biggs spending substantial co-parenting time. There is no divorce filing yet. The legal posture is separation, not dissolution.

The German-language coverage in t-online and the Italian coverage in Novella 2000 — both of which broke the story before US outlets — emphasised the 18-year duration as the headline. The US framing has been gentler, focused on the joint statement and the co-parenting commitments. The international coverage has generally been more direct: "another long Hollywood marriage ends." Both framings are accurate.

The Biggs-Mollen marriage was, for sixteen of its eighteen years, one of the most publicly accessible Hollywood marriages in modern American media. They wrote about it. They podcasted about it. They documented its pandemic, its parenting, its arguments, and its reconciliations. That accessibility was the brand. The ending of the marriage is, in some sense, the ending of a particular era of celebrity-couple transparency.

The pattern of long-marriage ends in the past 18 months — including the [Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde public reckoning](/trending/keeley-hazell-jason-sudeikis-retrospective), the Try Guys [Ned Fulmer cheating timeline](/trending/try-guys-ned-fulmer-cheating-timeline), and now Biggs-Mollen — share a structural quality: long durations, public co-parenting, and a deliberate refusal to name a single "cause" for the breakdown. The honest read is that the absence of a single cause is itself the truth. Marriages end through accumulation, not events. The public record on Biggs-Mollen is unusually complete because both of them documented the accumulation in real time.

For adjacent context, see our piece on the [emotional aftermath of long-partnership endings](/trending/ai-girlfriend-after-divorce).