The actor, who rose from daytime soap opera fame to primetime tearjerker stardom, was previously married to two fellow soap stars—first Lindsay Nicole Korman, then Chrishell Stause—but as of March 2021, the 44-year-old has been blissfully wed to another ex-soap actress, Sofia Pernas. And as he’s revealed in interviews, he’s learned a lot from Pernas and their love. “It doesn’t have to be that hard. You just meet the right person and you just go, ‘Oh, this is amazing. It’s just so wonderful!’ You’re so attracted and so attached to this person. You just love this person so much," he gushed in December 2021 to Haute Living. “Even though we’ve only been married a few months, it’s hard to remember what it was like without her.” He added, “I’m just at peace with myself. I feel loved and I feel appreciated. I know she feels the same way. We just have a really great relationship and a really terrific family. It’s healthy and it’s wonderful.” Get to know Justin Hartley’s wife—including how they met and just how much he adores her!—as well as what we know about his previous unions and why they ended.
Is Justin Hartley married?
Hartley is married to Sofia Pernas, and boy, is he smitten with her! “Everything is easier with her in my life. I also feel like I’m better at stuff. I learn from her. She speaks five languages. She’s brilliant, she’s incredible, she’s fun to look at,” he gushed to Haute Living. “Everything about her is amazing—she’s just hilarious. She inspires me to want to be a better man, like Jack Nicholson said in As Good As It Gets. I want to rise to the occasion because she’s so great. She does make me want to be a better person, and [this kind of love] certainly does complete me.”
Who is Justin Hartley’s wife?
Pernas was born in Morocco to a Moroccan mom and Spanish dad, but relocated with her family to the U.S. when she was 5 years old. She planned on pursuing a career in journalism, but after being spotted by talent scouts, ultimately pivoted to modeling and then acting. Before Pernas, Hartley was married from 2017 to 2019 to another former soap star: Chrishell Stause—who, like Hartley, has since found success in another TV genre as one of the stars of Netflix’s hit reality series, Selling Sunset. Before Stause, he was married to soap opera star Lindsay Nicole Korman from 2004 to 2012.
Why did Justin divorce Chrishell?
While the details of Hartley’s first marriage are scarce, sources told PEOPLE that when Hartley filed for divorce from second wife Stause in November 2019, it was due to a number of reasons, including his newfound fame with This Is Us, as well as different priorities and goals as a couple. “In many ways, they’re somewhat fundamentally incompatible. Chrishell is really ready to just settle down and be a wife and stay-at-home mom and was hoping to start a family relatively soon,” one of the outlet’s insiders said. “Justin wants that but also doesn’t think it has to happen in the near future and is at a point in his career where he wants to really be able to explore all the options that are coming his way. He’s reached a new level of fame thanks to the show and he doesn’t want to close many doors right now, and that’s not the path Chrishell is looking to take. She thought babies would happen soon after they got married, but it just hasn’t worked out.”
When did Chrishell Stause get divorced?
Hartley filed for divorce from Stause in November 2019. Stause has alleged that Hartley told her he wanted a divorce via text—and that she only found out about it about 45 minutes before the rest of the world did. Ouch!
Who is Justin Hartley’s daughter?
Hartley shares daughter Isabella Justice Hartley—who, as of the This Is Us Season 6 premiere in January 2022, is about 16 years old—with ex-wife Korman. In 2018, Hartley penned an essay for Glamour about how This Is Us changed him for the better as a father. “I think about how much I’ve taught her and what a sliver it has been so far. I think of all the things I want to teach her and see her go through,” he wrote. “I want to walk her down the aisle. I want to be there when her kids are born. I want to call her when her boyfriend breaks up with her, or talk her through a breakup. I want to teach her how to drive. All this stuff. I want to take her to college and make sure she knows everything is OK and I’m only a phone call away. I want to pick her up from college and bring her home. I want to be there at the airport… I try to make sure my daughter has a great relationship with her grandparents, her stepmom, her mom, and her friends. I’m trying to give her every single thing that I never had—and I had a good childhood. I just want to make sure she has all those things and keeps her feet on the ground.”
When did Justin Hartley get married?
Hartley married Pernas in March 2021 after dating for a little over a year. The pair first met in 2015 when co-starring on The Young and the Restless, but according to Hartley, they didn’t pursue a relationship until later on. “You meet in different capacities. We didn’t work together that closely, and we didn’t work together that long,” he told Haute Living. “I knew that she was very kind and very nice. I liked being around her. But I was in a different place in my life. I wasn’t available.” What got them together romantically finally? “Timing has a lot to do with that,” he said. “I’m very lucky to not only have found ’the one,’ but I found her when she was available and the timing was right.”
Are Sofia Pernas and Justin still together?
Pernas and Hartley are going strong. In fact, shortly before the end of 2021, the couple expanded their household by adopting an adorable doggo! “Welcome to the family, Alice,” Hartley captioned a pic of the pooch.
How old is Sofia Pernas?
Born July 31, 1989, at the time of this writing, Pernas is 32 years old.
What show was Sofia Pernas on?
Pernas has had an active acting career on television. She appeared in two episodes of NCISin 2011 as Marine First Lieutenant Gabriela Flores and appeared in 49 episodes of The Young and the Restlessas Marisa Sierras. In 2016, she had a guest-starring arc on Jane the Virginas the title character’s cousin, Catalina. From 2017 to 2018, she starred in The Brave as Hannah Rivera, and she starred as Lexi Vaziri in Blood & Treasure. She previously told Paradeof playing Lexi, “When I was growing up, Xena was pretty much the only Wonder Woman on my screen. So, I’d always been obsessed with playing a derivative of Xena, a strong female on television. When this script came my way, I was completely hooked from the beginning, and I was like, ‘Yes, this is like Selina Kyle [Catwoman] meets Lara Croft, meets so many things.’ For me, this is so many dreams merging into one. I went, ‘Absolutely! And I get to play her for potentially seven years, I’m so in.’”
Was Sofia Pernas married before?
Hartley is Pernas’ first husband.
Is Sofia Pernas Greek?
Pernas is American and of Moroccan and Spanish descent. She told Parade, “I was born in Fes, Morocco. I lived there [for] about five years until we moved to California, and then we went back every summer when I was a kid, because we still had a big farm out there in Fes, so my parents would take us. It was the most fun time of our life. You’re taking five children back to a farm and releasing them. Like, ‘Go play.’ So it was amazing. It was a nice mix of not getting too mired in all of the craziness of Orange County, and then my parents would be okay, ‘It’s time for a break.’”
