Leslie Bibb and longtime partner Sam Rockwell have no interest in marriage, thank you very much.
Bibb spoke about the decision to forgo such traditional institutions while co-hosting an episode of Today with Jenna & Friends earlier this week, after fellow host Jenna Bush Hager read aloud a headline about a study that found that more women were ditching marriage.
“About 50 percent of women felt marriage was not important to having a fulfilling life,” Bush Hager noted.
“Listen, you’re speaking to the choir,” Bibb, who has been in a relationship with Rockwell since 2007, said. “I mean, listen. I love Sam Rockwell. I would put him in my pocket and carry him with me all the time. I love him. I do not want to get married.”
Bibb further quipped, “I feel like we are married!”
The White Lotus star recalled Rockwell not being completely convinced that that was her stance early in their relationship, which “annoyed the crap out of me,” she said. “Because he’s like, ‘Really, you don’t want to get married?’ I was like, ‘Stop saying it. I already said I don’t want to marry you. Stop asking me like I’m gonna pull like a sneak on you.’ But he didn’t want it either.”
As for the reason for that general disinterest, “Maybe it’s probably something about the way we grew up, but I feel like if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Bibb said.
Bibb also spoke about the mutual decision to not have children, telling Bush Hager, “I just don’t have that chip in me.” Though she has a deep respect for mothers, calling motherhood one of the “hardest jobs,” she said that “it’s just not in me.”
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Rockwell later joined his girlfriend and Bush Hager on the show, where he chatted about cameoing in Bibb’s season 3 of The White Lotus and first impressions of his partner when they first met in 2007. “We had that kind of thunderbolt, like ‘Dream Weaver’ moment in Wayne’s World when we saw each other,” Rockwell said. “I found out that she studied in the same acting school that I did, so that was really handy.”
“If I weren’t a good actor, would you go out with me?” Bibb asked.
Rockwell quipped, “No.”
Bibb previously spoke to Entertainment Weekly about having no role in Rockwell’s casting on The White Lotus, sharing that it was the producers who informed her that they would be offering him the part of Frank. “We were there for six months, Sam was there for eight days,” Bibb shared. “Sam did not the same experience in eight days. He got The White Lotus light. But it’s nice to be able to have a context to share, and I think he’s a great actor, and we’re lucky to have him, and I think he chewed up that character.”
