Is Selma Blair married? The View guest chats new memoir Mean Baby

American actress Selma Blair joined the hosts of The View today to talk about her new memoir Mean Baby: A Memoir Of Growing Up – the book covers such topics as Blair’s illness, multiple sclerosis. But viewers may be curious about one or two other things: Is Selma Blair married, who is her former husband Ahmet Zappa, and does she have children?

Is Selma Blair married?

No, she’s not. Selma Blair and actor-writer Ahmet Zappa were married for two years, but she filed for divorce in June 2006.

They married in what Entertainment Online called a “traditional Jewish ceremony” on 24 June 2004. Their wedding took place at Carrie Fisher’s Beverly Hills mansion. They had been together for six months.

TODAY reported at the time that Blair, then 34 years old, had filed her petition Wednesday, 21 June 2006 in Superior Court. She cited irreconcilable differences. 

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A spokesperson told People at the time, “Selma and Ahmet have decided to divorce, but love each other very much and will continue to be close friends”.

Zappa was 32 at the time – he’s the son of late musician Frank Zappa. He’s now 48; she’s a year older.

Did they have kids?

No, Selma Blair and former husband Ahmet Zappa didn’t have children. However, Blair does have one child.

After her and Zappa’s divorce, Selma Blair dated her Kath And Kim co-star Mikey Day. They were together for two years. Then, in 2010, she began dating Jason Bleick.

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A year later, People reported that Selma Blair was pregnant with her first child – a son, Arthur. He arrived that July. However, in September 2012, US Weekly reported that she and Bleick were separating after two years together.

The following year, X17 reported that Selma Blair and Jason Bleick had “reunited”. But more recent reports connect her with Ron Carlson, against whom Blair was granted a restraining order earlier this year.

What is Selma Blair’s illness and when was she diagnosed?

In October 2018, Selma Blair revealed that she had received a multiple sclerosis diagnosis the previous August.

She did so via Instagram.

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Variety quotes her as writing: “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy.” 

“And my left side”, she continued, “is asking for directions from a broken GPS. But we are doing it.”

On Monday (16 May 2022), The Guardian published an extract from Selma Blair’s new memoir Mean Baby: A Memoir Of Growing Up, in which the author talks about her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and the illness as she experienced it.

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“It happened so randomly that it’s a miracle it happened at all.” She posted on Instagram about the pain she was experiencing, and her friend, actress Elizabeth Berkley, told her she should see a spinal neurologist.

Tests revealed that she had “a number of midsized MS-related lesions” on her brain. Six were problematic.

“When Dr Berkley said the words, ‘You have MS’,” she writes, “I felt an adrenaline rush of emotion. It felt like giving birth. The release of it.”

Bruno Cooke

Bruno is a novelist, amateur screenwriter and journalist with interests in digital media, storytelling, film and politics. He’s lived in France, China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, but returned to the UK for a degree (and because of the pandemic) in 2020. His articles have appeared in Groundviews, Forge Press and The Friday Poem, and most are readable on Medium or onurbicycle.com.