Amy Robach and TJ Holmes say blending their families has become “easy” despite a rocky start to their romance.
Former “GMA3” co-anchor It was revealed on Tuesday's episode of the podcast “Amy and TJ” More than a year after the pair's affair first made headlines, their respective children say they are starting to mend their relationship.
“When you start a new relationship, you have a divorce and you have children,” Holmes explained. “You're always trying to find the right balance between the kids and your partner and trying to bring everyone together.”
Robach has daughters Ava, 21, and Annalize, 17, with ex-husband Tim McIntosh. The former couple divorced in 2009 after 13 years of marriage.
Meanwhile, Holmes is father to daughter Brianna and son Jaden with ex-Amy Farson, and has an 11-year-old daughter, Sabine, with ex-wife Marilee Fiebig (who was not yet at the time of his romance with Robach). He is also the father of (she was married to).
Most of the couple's children are a little older, but Ms. Holmes spoke passionately about the special bond she shares with Ms. Robach and her youngest daughter, whose birthday was last week.
“You've been amazing, and it's been one of my great, great, great joys over the past few months and over six months. That's how Sabine really takes it,” he said, adding that his preteen girlfriend was the one who pointed out that she had known Robach since her childhood.
“But knowing you in a different capacity now is so cool to watch,” Holmes, 46, continued. “Sometimes I pick her up from school and I say, 'Well, Robach isn't home,' and she goes, 'Okay, then I don't want to go.' 'Cause I'm disappointed in 'I'm not there.' ”
Robach, 50, agreed that it was “really great” to see their respective families grow closer despite having known each other professionally for years.
“My daughters used to babysit your daughter when she was little. We even communicated on her birthday. It was so nice,” she said.
“In fact, it's really nice to see everything becoming normal and becoming easier and effortless. It used to be an effort, and maybe it's just us trying to fit the situation, but , it was great.”
Given that they have many daughters, the couple agreed that they needed to let their daughters “lead the way” instead of trying to force them to accept the situation.
“You can't tell a girl who to like, who to hang out with, what to think, what to do…that just doesn't work,” Robach joked.
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“At least I grew up with my daughters, so that experience is helping me get through all of this.”
Mr Robach's daughters appear to have accepted the scandalous relationship, but the former broadcaster revealed last month that his daughters were thrown for a loop when they first heard the news.
“Even when my daughters found out about this, they were shocked and punched by the tabloids, which I think a lot of people felt when they found out about us,” she said on the podcast.
“I remember my oldest daughter telling me that she thought it was a quick decision, that she just jumped into something out of the blue,” she continued. “And I said, no, I thought about this. I sat with this. I knew how I felt. I knew how he felt about me. I know how I feel about him.”
The pair claim they were separated from their respective partners when they started dating, but sources have previously said that Ms Fiebig was “blindsided” by the incident and that she and Holmes were “insecure” about their marriage. He told Page Six that he believed he was trying to make an effort.
Making matters even more difficult, Robach's ex-husband Andrew Shue (who she was married to when she started dating her then-co-host) is now dating Fiebig.
Last month, Page Six exclusively revealed that the two bonded over an ex-girlfriend's affair and have been dating for more than six months.
Although Mr. Schue is not the father of Mr. Robach's daughters, the three appear to remain in touch, with Eva and Annalize joining the Melrose Place alumnus and his sons at a concert last April. is.
