BACHELOR Andrew Firestone has announced his split from his wife Ivana after 17 years of marriage.
In a new Instagram post, the former Bachelor star, 50, revealed he and his model and actress wife, 47, are "moving forward separately as co-parents" to their three children.
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"Those who know us well know that family has always been at the foundation of our lives and at the center of everything we do," Andrew began his post.
"After much reflection and many hours of counseling, we have decided that we can best serve our children and honor that commitment to family by moving forward separately as co-parents.
"While this was not an easy decision, we remain united in raising our children with love, stability, and the values we share.
"Though no longer a couple, we will always be a family, cheering from the actual and proverbial sidelines for our children's - and each other's - happiness and success.
"Seventeen years of marriage is an achievement we deeply honor, as it brought us three extraordinary children and forged lifelong, generational bonds and friendships that will always endure."
REALLY BEGINNINGS
Andrew starred on The Bachelor's Season 3 in 2003, and proposed to Jen Schefft on the finale.
But they split just a few months later.
"I was probably a little too young," he later reflected on the breakup.
"The relationship felt right at the time. When you get into a relationship, you have to jump in with reckless abandon.
"So I made myself totally vulnerable and I ended up getting bitten."
In 2007, he got engaged to Ivana at her 30th birthday party.
Andrew and Ivana, who starred in Wedding Crashers and National Lampoon's Van Wilder, tied the knot on July 5, 2008 in Santa Barbara, California.
They became parents to sons Adam Brooks, 16, and Shane, 11 and daughter Anja, 14.
Andrew is an heir to the famous Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and currently owns StonePark Capital, a business management consultant.
Past Bachelor leads
The hit ABC reality dating series began in the early 2000s.
- Alex Michel (2002)
- Aaron Buerge (2002)
- Andrew Firestone (2003)
- Bob Guiney (2003)
- Jesse Palmer (2004) (Current Bachelor franchise host)
- Byron Velvick (2004)
- Charlie O'Connell (2005)
- Travis Lane Stork (2006)
- Lorenzo Borghese (2006)
- Andy Baldwin (2007)
- Brad Womack (2007 and 2011)
- Matt Grant (2008)
- Jason Mesnick (2009)
- Jake Pavelka (2010)
- Ben Flajnik (2012)
- Sean Lowe (2013)
- Juan Pablo Galavis (2014)
- Chris Soules (2015)
- Ben Higgins (2016)
- Nick Viall (2017)
- Arie Luyendyk Jr. (2018)
- Colton Underwood (2019)
- Peter Weber (2020)
- Matt James (2021)
- Clayton Echard (2022)
- Zach Shallcross (2023)
- Joey Graziadei (2024)
- Grant Ellis (2025)
SO IN LOVE
Andrew said it was love at first sight with Ivana when they met in 2005.
"I was with friends at the Four Seasons Hotel in L.A. and had three hours before a flight, and they said, 'There's a girl you have to meet,'" he told Us Weekly in 2008.
"She walks up, stunningly beautiful, and she's wearing a sweat suit with this big wet mark and she's laughing and she says, 'I sat in a puddle.' How disarming is it to see this beautiful girl laughing at herself?"
Ivana had never watched The Bachelor before meeting Andrew, and was "turned off" by his reality TV past.
"I was kind of turned off by the fact that he was The Bachelor, not the type of guy I wanted to date," she said.
"But that went away within the first few minutes. Just talking, you could tell how genuine he was."
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