Jenny Mollen, preparing to leave for Italy while separating from Jason Biggs after 18 years of marriage, used a May 25 Substack newsletter to describe how she’s relearning to slow down—and not rush her next move.
When Jenny Mollen heads to Italy next week, she says she’s doing it for a friend’s birthday—and her own—without turning the trip into a reset button.
Mollen. who is navigating her separation from her husband of 18 years. Jason Biggs. shared the mindset in a May 25 newsletter on her Substack. “The Best Friend Experience with Jenny Mollen.” She framed her message as “a lesson I’ve continuously had to relearn over and over throughout my life. ” writing that she’s now working on how not to rush through life.
“I leave for Italy on Wednesday, which sounds soooo Eat, Pray, Love considering the current state of my life. But I’m not going to find myself or sleep with some beautiful Italian stranger. I already have two half-Italians at home,” Mollen wrote. She added that she is going because a friend invited her to her birthday party and that it also happens to be her birthday.
In the same newsletter. the “Crazy. Stupid. Love” actress. 46. described how impatience can take over when life feels like it’s passing too quickly. “When you’re young and ambitious. or maybe just middle-aged with ADHD. it feels impossible to appreciate anything while you’re in it. ” she wrote. She said that the highs in her life often didn’t stay long enough to land.
“I’d wait — maybe a moment or two for the sound of something landing. but before it ever did. I was on to the next. ” Mollen wrote. She said she kept hoping the next step would finally provide what she had been chasing—“the one that cured me — the one that made me feel worthy and validated in a way that has always evaded me.”.
Mollen and Biggs, who co-star in the new comedy film “Influenced,” met in 2007 while filming the Dane Cook and Kate Hudson romantic comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl.” They married the following year and welcomed their son, Sid, in February 2014. Their second son, Lazlo, was born in October 2017.
The reason for the separation was not disclosed. But their representatives confirmed the split more than a week before Mollen’s May 25 post. On May 14, their representative said they are “on great terms and remain focused on raising their two boys.”
The sequence in Mollen’s writing is striking: she describes the urge to sprint toward the “next” thing. then lays out a plan that keeps the “next” in bounds. Even with an international trip on the calendar. she portrays restraint as the goal—Italy without the chaos. a birthday that stays grounded in friendship rather than reinvention.
For now, the public details stop at that: no explanation for the breakup was provided, and the focus remains on their family. What Mollen does share is the private takeaway she’s trying to practice—slowing down long enough to feel what’s already happening, instead of rushing past it.
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