Sara Haines is known as the peppy on-air personality from "The View," "Good Morning America," and more.
And it was her work on a dating segment for TV that ultimately led to meeting her husband.
The host had dedicated herself to a lucrative career, but decided she wanted to focus on
finding a partner.
She wrote in a 2017 essay for Glamour,
"If I can go to the gym an hour a day, I can spend an hour a day [on dating] whether I'm
looking online or on a date for one drink."
While Haines was hard at work on "TODAY," a producer approached her about creating an
OkCupid dating profile for a segment on the show.
She agreed, and kept the profile open after the taping.
Haines ultimately matched with lawyer Max Shifrin, and the two had an instant connection
in person.
Shifrin recalled to Yahoo Life in 2018,
"I went to shake hands, the gentleman that I am, and she went to aggressively hug me."
"And then you said, 'Oh, we're gonna hug?'"
Things quickly got serious, and Shifrin proposed one morning nearly two years after they started dating.
He told the outlet,
"I literally got up, crawled out of bed in my pajamas and got on one knee on the floor
next to the bed."
Haines and Shifrin tied the knot in November 2014.
But while Haines was eager to get married and start a family well before she met Shifrin,
she didn't want to rush into anything in order to do it.
She wrote for Glamour,
"For me, it was never an option to settle, because my biggest mission in life is to evolve
as far as I can to be the best I can be."
"I wasn't gonna snatch up just anyone to hit the window for expiration on my eggs."
Shifrin may not be as high-profile as his TV host wife, but he has enjoyed a successful law career.
He's a senior member at BakerHostetler and has worked tirelessly on resolving a myriad
of lawsuits involved in the Bernie Madoff case.
According to the firm,
"Max's efforts have helped the Trustee distribute over $14 billion of recovered assets to Madoff's victims."
Besides their tireless career hustles, Haines and Shifrin also stay busy at home with their
three children: Alec, Sandra, and Caleb.
Haines shared on Instagram in 2020,
"We wanted more [children], and I was older, so we didn't have the luxury of time to catch our breath."
The couple shares a home in Brooklyn, New York, and the host often takes her kids to
nearby parks.
She told Closer Weekly that the whole family sticks to healthy eating, adding,
"All of us follow a paleo diet as much as possible."
The pair are clearly masters at balancing their hectic work schedules with family life.
And Sundays are especially important to the couple as they offer them some rare time off.
In 2019, Haines explained to The New York Times about how she hoped to sleep-in past
6:00 a.m. on Sundays, but it all depended on when her kids woke up.
She said,
"I'm normally up at 5 during the week so I'll take any extra sleep I can get."
But work-home life took a major turn - as it did for the rest of the world - during
the 2020 pandemic.
Although her gig with "Strahan, Sara and Keke" was put on a brief hiatus, Haines returned
to "The View," recording from home.
And her husband often worked behind-the-scenes to keep their three children from making any
surprise appearances.
Still, it appears the couple has made for a solid team from the start.
There were never any grand illusions for Haines when she began searching for a life-long partner.
She waited until her late '30s to get married and start a family, and remembers how friends
would ask her if Shifrin was "the one" while they were dating.
She told Glamour,
"When I married Max, I still [didn't] know if he was The One.
There are thousands of The Ones.
It's The One you decide to commit to.
It wasn't as romantic or fairy-tale-ish as 'I've been looking for you my whole life.'
It wasn't any of that.
We laugh at that.
The pressure people put on you to have this big aha moment and 'I just knew' moment."
In fact, the couple takes a fairly pragmatic approach to attraction.
Although they enjoy a happy marriage, Haines and Shifrin have no problem acknowledging
other attractive people.
Haines told the outlet,
"We were just at a party with models last night and [I'm] like, 'Max, four o'clock,
this girl is totally your type!'
And we laugh."
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