“My youngsters have kidded round going, we must always make you a relationship app. I am like, completely not,” she says.
Maria Shriver is laughing off her youngsters’ makes an attempt to make her a relationship profile.
Shriver was a visitor on Jamie Kern Lima’s podcast this week, the place she talked about her relationship life — or lack thereof — following her divorce from former husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After studying a line from Shriver’s e-book, “I Am Maria,” Lima mentioned it might “go loopy” as a part of a relationship profile. The road in query: “Do not let the Mary Medals imagine I am extra virgin than Magdalene. Contemplate your self warned. There is a wildness in me that may’t be contained.”
“So I am simply going to ask this, as a result of I ask all people, are you relationship anyone?” Lima then puzzled.
“I’ve by no means been on a relationship app in my life. I am a annoyed matchmaker myself and I am a giant believer in relationship and love and I’ve simply gotten to the place now the place I am pondering, I do not know, possibly,” she mentioned of placing herself again on the market. “However my life is basically full. I am not wanting, however I am open to no matter God sends my approach.”
Shriver, 69, was married for 25 years with Schwarzenegger. She filed for divorce in 2011, earlier than it was finalized in December 2021. Their break up got here after Schwarzenegger admitted to his affair with the household’s housekeeper, throughout which he fathered a secret baby, Joseph Baena.
“My youngsters have kidded round going, ‘We should always make you a relationship [profile].’ I am like, ‘Completely not,'” Shriver added, earlier than joking, “However now that I’ve a line I might placed on there, possibly.”
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“No, I am good. I am lastly good alone,” she continued, telling Lima how she’s focusing extra on herself as of late and people already in her life. “I’ve an attractive life that I am deeply grateful for and that feels actually good. And actually full and full of affection,” shared Shriver.
“I used to suppose that love got here solely in an intimate, romantic bundle,” she clarified. “And it made me miss out on all of the love that was being provided to me by means of my pals and thru different folks and I’ve now realized that there is so many alternative methods to entry the love that’s there for us.”
“So whomever I find yourself with, if I do find yourself with somebody … they’ll be in a village,” she added.
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Shriver’s feedback come after she spoke extra about her divorce from Schwarzenegger in her e-book, by which she recalled going by means of a breakdown.
In her e-book, Shriver referred to as the top of her marriage a “devastating, life-altering blow.”
“It broke my coronary heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,” she continued, including, “With out my marriage, my dad and mom, a job — the dam of my lifelong capital-D Denial simply blew aside.”
“As I sat on my resort room flooring at midnight, alone with tears streaming down my face, I believed to myself: Maria, this doesn’t should be the top of you,” she wrote.
Her e-book, I Am Maria, is out now. Watch the total podcast interview with Shriver above.
