Rebecca Romijn rubs mineral crystals under her arms, and her husband says they do not work. He does not seem to mind.
Jerry O’Connell, 52, raised the subject on a recent episode of the “Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim” podcast. The talk was about deodorant. “No offense to the roll-on deodorant industry,” he said. “I don’t think it works as well as spray.” Then he turned to home: “My wife, Rebecca Romijn, rubs crystals under her arms. And I’m here to tell everyone, it doesn’t work.”
He moved on quickly. “Now I don’t mind the way my wife, it doesn’t offend me. Actually, ah, this is gonna get a little dirty, I kind of like it when I can smell my wife’s body odor.”
His reasoning came a beat later. “She’s alive, we’re alive, we’re living,” he said. “It’s, like, a little kicking and like, it’s a little funky town.”
O’Connell and Romijn, a co-host of “The Talk” and a “Star Trek” actress, married in July 2007. Twin daughters, Charlie Tamara Tulip and Dolly Rebecca Rose, followed in December 2008.
O’Connell has been telling stories about the marriage elsewhere too. He told People that Romijn kept quiet for the first five months of dating about a fact he learned from her younger sister: “Stand By Me,” his breakout film, is her favorite movie. “She had posters of it, all of her room,” the sister said. “She saw it maybe a hundred times in the theater.”
O’Connell said his wife’s reaction was to tell her sister to shut up. Twice.
