page_title: Jessica Seinfeld
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jessica Seinfeld / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Jessica Seinfeld and Jerry Seinfeld at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
context_page_description: Jessica Seinfeld is an American author and philanthropist. She has released four cookbooks about preparing food for families, and is the founder of the GOOD+ Foundation, a New York City-based charitable organization that provides essential items for families in need throughout New York City. She is married to comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
context_section_description: In June 1998, she married Eric Nederlander, a theatrical producer and the son of theater owner Robert Nederlander. Several months before the wedding, she met Jerry Seinfeld at a Reebok Sports Club. After returning from a honeymoon in Italy with Nederlander, she began dating Seinfeld. Nederlander filed for divorce in October 1998, only four months after marriage. Sklar and Seinfeld became engaged in November 1999, and were married on December 25, 1999. Comedian George Wallace was the best man at the wedding.
  
  After much criticism from Nederlander on Sklar's divorce and subsequent marriage, the Seinfelds gave a personal account of their relationship to Vogue in 2004. Jessica Seinfeld is quoted as having said, 
  I met Jerry at the end of what was the most difficult period of my life. I had just made a painful decision to dissolve a five-year relationship that began when I was 21 and culminated in a brief marriage. Jerry was neither the cause nor the effect of the breakup, but his friendship gave me strength and resilience at a time of desperate need, and it has formed the basis for my happiness in the years that have followed.
  Jerry Seinfeld has said, "If it wasn't for Jess and the kids, I'd really blow my brains out. Jessica saved my life. She gave me something to care about."
  The Seinfelds have three children, all born in New York City. Daughter Sascha was born November 7, 2000; son Julian Kal on March 1, 2003; and Shepherd Kellen was born on August 22, 2005.
caption: Jessica and her husband Jerry Seinfeld in New York, April 2010
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