Kevin Bacon And Wife, Kyra Sedgwick, Are Actually Cousins: “It’s Unsettling”

After being married for well over two decades, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick found out they were related apart from being husband and wife. The couple appeared on PBS’ Finding Your Roots, where their ancestry results proved them to be distant cousins, ninth cousins once removed to be specific. However, Kyra was not surprised.

Kyra revealed their findings at the Television Critics Association’s Summer press tour, saying she “figured I was going to be related to Kevin Bacon” but had to play along. “I mean, most white people are related, ultimately,” she added. “I figured that was part of the reason that they wanted to do both of us. I had to act surprised.”

Kevin was not Kyra’s type

The couple first met as kids in the ’70s and then again in 1987 while working on Lemon Sky. Although Kyra noticed him, she believed he was acting too cocky for her liking. “He definitely wasn’t my type,” she recalled. “In fact, I vividly remember looking at his butt when he walked away after we first met and thinking, ‘Well, I guess some girls like that.'”

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She eventually married Kevin the following year at a private ceremony in Connecticut, and the couple had their first child, Travis, shortly after. Their second child, daughter Sosie, is an actress starring in the popular Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why as Skye Miller. “If someone had told me that at 22 I was going to meet the man I was going to marry and at 23 I would marry him and have a child, I would have told them they were out of their mind,” Kyra once confessed.

Still going strong

Kyra and Kevin are known to profess love to each other on social media openly, and their wedding anniversary remains a big deal to the Mystic River star. “The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening. And I was able to keep supporting myself; that always gave me strength,” he once said with gratitude.

The celebrity love birds have weathered many storms together, including losing their life savings of about $100 million to the 2008 Bernie Madoff scheme. They were able to get through this and more by focusing on “the things we had as opposed to whatever we lost. Those are the biggest cliches: children, health, love, a nice home. So we got through it together,” Kevin added.