Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen‘s chance meeting at a 2002 event in Australia led to a lifetime of happiness for the pair.
Looking back at their first encounter at the “very pretentious party” years later, the comedian admitted that he knew immediately that the actress was The One for him.
“I knew instantly. I don’t know if she did. It’s taken her about 20 years to know,” Cohen told The New York Times in October 2020.
Two years after sparking romance rumors, the couple got engaged, but Fisher admitted that she preferred to keep her relationship with Cohen as under the radar as possible.
“I’m not really comfortable talking about my private life and Sacha and I are probably very similar in that we hide our feelings behind humor,” the Confessions of a Shopaholic actress shared with the Daily Mail in August 2008.
As they prepared for their nuptials, Fisher ended up making the decision to convert to Judaism in honor of her then-fiancé.
“I will definitely have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha. I would do anything — move into any religion — to be united in marriage with him,” she explained to the Evening Standard ahead of their 2011 ceremony.
Prior to getting married though, the couple welcomed their first daughter, Olivia, in 2007. After getting married in March 2011, the twosome welcomed their second daughter, Elula, several months later.
As Fisher and Cohen’s marriage blossomed with the addition of their two daughters, Fisher admitted that it took work to stay together year after year. Two years later, Cohen and Fisher welcomed their son, Montgomery, into the family.
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