Michael J. Fox Celebrates 36th Wedding Anniversary With Tracy Pollan
Lea Thompson Flashes “Back to the Future”
Michael J. Fox is celebrating his past, present and future with wife Tracy Pollan.
“Here’s to a lifetime of love with the love of a lifetime,” the Back to the Future star wrote in a July 16 Instagram post in honor of their 36th wedding anniversary. “Happy anniversary, T. Forever.”
Naturally, Tracy shared her love right back with a few heart emojis in the comments. And even Michael’s Back to the Future costar Christopher Lloyd couldn’t help but drop one, too.
Though they met in 1985 while playing an onscreen couple in Family Ties, Michael and Tracy took some time to warm up to each other. After all, Tracy was dating Footloose star Kevin Bacon, while Michael was coupled up with The Facts of Life’s Nancy McKeon. However, the duo reunited for Bright Lights, Big City in 1988—and this time, he was excited to hear Tracy was now single. (For his part, he split from Nancy in late 1985.)
“It sounds really horrible, but it was one of those things,” Fox told People in 1989. “Someone goes, ‘Did you hear that so-and-so aren’t together anymore?’ and you go, ‘Hmm, that’s too bad. Where’s the phone?’”
Soon after, the duo started dating and tied the knot after just seven months on July 16, 1988. They are now parents to Sam, 35, Aquinnah, 32, Schuyler, 29, and Esmé, 22.
In their 34 years together, Tracy and Michael have faced their fair share of ups and downs, including his Parkinson’s diagnosis—which he revealed to the public in 1998. But, as it turns out, the illness only further showed him that his marriage is built to last.
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“Tracy was the right person for me, and it has been amazing,” Michael told O magazine in 2002. “Through it all, we’ve loved each other.”
And they’re certainly not the only pair who have stuck together through thick and thin. For more inspiring couples, read on…
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