Any country music fan worth their salt has heard of Brad Paisley.
While his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, isn't a country singer, she is just as recognizable
as her husband.
So who is Brad Paisley's wife and why does she look so familiar?
Kimberly may not be a country star, but she is a successful actress.
You may recognize her from her dozens of film and television appearances, but her breakthrough
happened in 1991 when she played Steve Martin's daughter in Father of the Bride.
Other major roles include parts in Nashville, We Are Marshall, Two and a Half Men, and the
Hallmark Channel's Darrow & Darrow mystery series.
Brad Paisley was apparently smitten with his wife from the moment he saw her in Father
of the Bride, which he went to see with a girlfriend who later dumped him.
Speaking to Taste of Country about their relationship, Kimberly said,
"He stalked me.
That's the long and the short of it.
[...] He says it was love at first sight for him, and for me it was more like love at first
month or two."
“It could've ended in jail or marriage.
And I was like, 'All right, I'll marry you.'"
According to the country singer, he pined for his future bride from afar.
A few years after watching Kimberly in Father of the Bride, he saw her again in 1995's Father
of the Bride Part II.
He told Good Housekeeping,
"I thought, she seems like a great girl - smart and funny and all those things that are so
hard to find."
As a result, Paisley cast the actress in the music video for his song "I'm Gonna Miss Her,"
and revealed to Good Housekeeping,
"It felt natural to ask her to be in it [...] Even though I didn't know if she was married, divorced,
or just out of rehab."
From there, romance quickly blossomed.
The pair ended up tying the knot in 2003 and have been happily married ever since.
Brad and Kimberly have two kids together: William Huckleberry and Jasper Warren.
According to the actress, the kids are very interested in what she does for a living.
In 2018, she was working on Darrow & Darrow: Body of Evidence for Hallmark, and told Entertainment
Tonight,
"They love being on set and calling action, and they see the edits, because I'm producing.
[...] I love that they can see what happens.
We go from casting to shooting to editing the music.
They pay so much attention to how it sounds and the score.
They're really interested in it."
She and her husband also have a house full of pets, which she spoke about in an interview
with Southern Living, saying,
"I never thought we would have a donkey, but we do!
His name is Oliver, and he's a sweetheart.
We adopted him; he's a rescue donkey.
We also have two rescue dogs [...] and a bearded dragon."
In addition to acting, Kimberly Williams-Paisley is also a published author.
According to People, the actress co-wrote a children's book called Henry and the Hidden
Veggie Garden, with her father, Gurney Williams III.
Kimberly also wrote the New York Times bestseller, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother
Only to Find Her Again, which is about her mother's battle with primary progressive aphasia
, a form of dementia that gradually caused her mom to lose her ability to talk, write,
or even recognize her own daughter.
Williams-Paisley told Read it Forward that writing the book was therapeutic for her,
and said,
"Each time I was faced with writing a new chapter, it was like okay, here is another
mountain and this feels really uncomfortable and unclear and gray.
Then I would get to the top of the mountain and suddenly there would be a resolution."
While many celebrity relationships are short-lived, Kimberly and her husband have been going strong
for well over a decade.
The couple revealed that the secret to their long-lasting relationship is that they're
particularly good at conflict resolution.
Paisley told Good Housekeeping,
"She's really good about not holding grudges."
To which Kimberly replied,
"And he's really good about apologizing."
"Well I'm so romantic, I think it drives her crazy."
The couple also got counseling before they walked down the aisle, as Kimberly explained
to Good Housekeeping,
"We figured, the odds are against us because we're both in entertainment.
[...] And we know that it's really rare for couples to succeed.
So we wanted to arm ourselves with as many strategies as we could."
It's good to know those strategies all seem to be working out.
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