Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger met while attending the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament in 1977. After dating for nine years, the couple tied the knot in a ceremony on April 26, 1986, in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, as noted by People. In 1989, Shriver gave birth to their first child, Katherine Schwarzenegger, and then two years later, the pair expanded their family again when Shriver gave birth to another girl, Christina. Their oldest son, Patrick, was born in September 1993, and then four years later, they welcomed the youngest of the brood, another son named Christopher.
Shriver penned a personal essay in 2018 about being a mother and celebrating Mother’s Day that was published by Today. In a section in which she reflected about being a mom, she wrote, “Once you commit to motherhood, you are always in mother-mode. You are always on the line and always on-call. And, that’s fine with me, as I find motherhood endlessly fascinating, endlessly challenging, endlessly fun, and endlessly fulfilling.”
Unfortunately, the mother of four would divorce her husband in 2011.
