Jenny Mollen Reflects on Loneliness After 18-Year Marriage Split

2 articles · Updated · Us Weekly · May 26

Jenny Mollen, 46, used a new Substack essay to break her silence on her split from Jason Biggs, writing that she has long struggled to feel present and appreciate life as it happens.
A sixth-birthday memory anchors the piece: she recalls tearing through gifts only to feel lonely afterward, a pattern she says shaped her habit of chasing the next milestone instead of living in the moment.
Mollen extends that reflection to adulthood and motherhood, saying even difficult years raising sons Sid, 12, and Lazlo, 8, became memories she now feels she missed while trying to get through them.
The essay comes about two weeks after the couple's separation was confirmed on May 14; they were married for 18 years and are said to be on great terms while coparenting.
Mollen said she leaves for Italy on May 27 for a friend's birthday—not to "find herself" after the breakup—while Biggs, 48, has not commented publicly.

After 18 years, was it loneliness or a recent 'wedge' that truly caused Jenny Mollen and Jason Biggs' split?

What role did Jason Biggs' sobriety and transformation play in the eventual breakdown of his 18-year marriage?

With Mollen's personal struggles now public, can she and Biggs truly maintain 'great terms' for their children's sake?