We all know and love Tobey Maguire as the original Spider-Man, and he too fell in love
with his own Mary Jane, Kirsten Dunst . But the couple we really want to know about is
Tobey’s first and only wife, Jennifer Meyer.
They have been notoriously private about their relationship, but after recently filing for
divorce after four years of separation, we couldn’t help but dig up everything we could
about their marriage.
Stay tuned, Juicers; in this video, we’re going to take a deep dive into Tobey Maguire’s
marriage and how he moved on with Tatiana Dieteman - who, might we add, is 17 years
his junior.
Tobey Maguire met Jennifer Meyer in 2003 while the actor was busy filming Seabiscuit, and
Jennifer was working as a jewellery maker.
Tobey has always been the kind of guy to keep his private life out of the spotlight, so
it was no surprise that he did his best to keep his relationship with Jennifer away from
prying eyes.
After three years of dating, the couple welcomed their first child together, a baby girl named
Ruby Sweetheart Maguire.
About a year or so later, Maguire and Meyer decided to make things official by tying the
knot in an intimate wedding ceremony in Hawaii.
They were surrounded by close friends and family, which of course, included Tobey’s
long-time friend Leonardo DiCaprio.
Jennifer commented on their wedding, saying, ‘Let’s just say this is truly the best
time of my life.
I’m walking on air.
I’m getting married, starting a family, and have an amazing company.’
Maguire also talked about how becoming a father changed him.
“I’ve changed a lot over the last six years.
I love being a dad!
I love my daughter…yeah, it’s definitely amazing!
It’s like everybody says; all the clichés are true.
It’s indescribable, and you just have to be there to understand it.
You know you don’t really get it until you’re there.”
The couple went on to expand their family yet again in 2009 when they welcomed their
son, Otis Tobias Maguire.
Tobey commented at the time on how happy he was with the changes in his life and gushed
about his newfound family life.
Appearing on the popular TV show Letterman, he shared, “It’s a very dramatic change.
My whole life is in transition now with friendships and where I’m gonna live, you know, just
your whole perspective.
It’s great.”
The couple went on to keep their family life pretty quiet, and everyone simply assumed
that all was well with the Maguires.
However, when the couple announced that they would be separating after 9 years of marriage,
fans realized that things couldn’t have been going as well as they thought.
The former couple shared in their 2016 statement, “After much soul searching and consideration,
we have made the decision to separate as a couple.
As devoted parents, our first priority remains raising our children together with enduring
love, respect and friendship.”
A source close to the couple at the time confessed that Maguire and Meyer had decided to part
ways because of their different lifestyles.
“They’ve been living separate lives for a while.
They have completely different interests and haven’t seemed to be connecting.
He’s extremely private and prefers to stay home, and she’s very social and has tons
of girlfriends.
They haven’t been happy together for a long time.”
However, despite their different lifestyles, the former couple was determined to put their
children first and stay friends.
Just because their marriage was coming to an end, that didn’t mean that they were
going to be throwing away all the years that they had loved and cared about each other.
Tobey and Jennifer had formed a bond as a family, and as parents, they loved their children,
and they were going to continue to be supportive of each other throughout their separation.
The source also shared that Meyer and Maguire’s split “was not sudden,” and there was
“no drama.”
“They are committed to remaining friends for their children and wanted to wait to make
sure of that.
They went back and forth on this decision but realized this is where the relationship
is, and they simply grew apart.”
However, a couple of years later and neither Tobey nor Jennifer had filed for divorce yet.
For a brief moment, there were whispers that there was a possibility that they would reunite
as a couple.
But, as it turned out, that wasn’t the case.
It was clear that the former couple had a lot of love between them, and they supported
each other equally, but there weren’t going to be any chances of rekindling their romances.
As an insider shared, “That ship has sailed.”
Meyer opened up in January 2018 about her post-split relationship with Maguire.
“He’s my best friend,” she exclusively told Us.
“He’s the greatest ex-husband a girl could ever have.”
As for co-parenting, she added that they “figure it out together,” which “manages to work
out really well.”
Jennifer also expressed that the friendship that she and Tobey were able to maintain was
a good example for their children.
“Remember that you love your kids equally more than anything in the world and that you
want the best for them.
And if they see parents that don’t get along or fight, then they’re going to be unhappy,
and nobody wants unhappy children.”
She also didn’t hesitate to praise her ex, confessing that he was her best friend and
she wouldn’t know what to do without him.
Jennifer shared that he was still so sweet to her, and whenever Mother’s Day comes
around, he asks her how she would prefer to spend the day.
They truly seem like the perfect example of how to stay friends and co-parent kids after
a split.
In 2020, four years after they had separated, Meyer finally filed for divorce.
She asked for joint legal and physical custody of their two children.
Considering how messy some divorces can be in Hollywood, Tobey and Jennifer’s divorce
was smooth sailing, and they were able to settle things quietly and amicably.
After her divorce from Maguire, Meyer went on to date sports agent Rich Paul, but the
pair split in 2020 before Paul’s relationship with Adele.
However, Meyer isn’t Maguire’s first relationship in Hollywood.
He also dated his Spider-Man co-star Kirsten Dunst.
The former couple started dating while filming the first Spider-Man movie back in 2001.
As it turned out, James Franco, who played Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man movies, also
had a crush on Kirsten, and this led to a bit of a rivalry between him
and Tobey.
James said in an interview, “Tobey and Kirsten became a couple around that time.
I had a crush on Kirsten, and I think I was upset about that as well … Tobey was mad
at me for a while.
By the second film, we were cool.”
Luckily for James, Maguire and Dunst split in 2002 before production started on Spider-Man
2.
Tobey and Kirsten had done such a good job at keeping their relationship a secret that
when news spread of their breakup, a lot of people were surprised to know that they had
even been together.
Not even the Director of the Spider-Man films, Sam Raimi, knew that the actors had been dating.
However, after Sam found out about their split, he was worried it was going to affect the
production of the second film.
He also confessed that he had concerns that their breakup was going to interfere with
the chemistry their characters were supposed to have in the movie.
As it turned out, dating in real life actually helped Tobey and Kirsten act on screen because
they had gotten to know each other so well that you could see that they really cared
about each other even after they split.
The Director shared, “They really like each other, I think, very much.
And that relationship probably just added to their ability to trust each other.”
In an interview for Spider-Man 3 in 2007, Dunst also confirmed that she and Maguire
didn’t have issues playing love interests after their breakup.
“We can wink at each other and have a camaraderie that’s, you know, stronger over the course
of three movies.”
After her breakup with Maguire, Dunst went on to date Jake Gyllenhaal, who, surprisingly,
almost replaced Maguire as Peter Parker in Spider-Man 2 after a feud between Maguire
and Columbia Pictures over his on-set behavior and his salary.
As for where Dunst is now, in 2016, she started dating her Fargo co-star, Jesse Plemons, who
played her love interest in the show.
The two got engaged in 2017 and welcomed their son a year later.
For his part, Tobey started dating model Tatiana Dieteman after they met at a party hosted
at Leonardo DiCaprio’s home.
Perhaps he was following in his good friend’s footsteps when he decided to date a woman
17 years younger than he is.
Regardless of the significant age gap, a source confirmed in 2020 that Dieteman had met Maguire’s
kids with his ex-wife, and they all get along swimmingly.
“Tobey and Tatiana live together, and they’re really happy.
Tobey’s kids love her.
She’s great with them.”
Unfortunately, after almost four years together, Tobey and Tatiana split around the end of
2021.
The actor is now happily embracing his single life, and was recently spotted partying with
a group of friends in LA.
Tobey will always have a special place in our hearts as the very first Spider-Man.
While it’s a pity that things with his wife didn’t work out, if there’s anything we
can learn from how he’s handled their divorce and how they co-parent their kids, it’s
that he’s a really stand-up guy.
He’s put his kids first, and he is still good friends with his ex-wife, and that kind
of makes us love him a little more.