The 11-year marriage between actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick is reportedly on the rocks - but Matthew is resisting marriage counseling because he’s not comfortable discussing his emotions, according to Star Magazine. The couple has managed to endure and dismiss rumors of Matthew’s infidelities (also reported by Star), presenting a unified front to the press recently- unusual for the normally private pair. So the question is: are they really on the rocks, or is Star making stuff up again?

Sarah Jessica Parker is so determined to save her 11-year marriage to Matthew Broderick that she’s pushing him to see a marriage counselor. Just one problem: He keeps canceling his appointments because “he doesn’t want to talk about his feelings that way,” a pal tells Star. “But I am afraid the marriage will be over if he doesn’t.”

As Star reported exclusively, Matthew, 46, was cheating on the Sex and the City actress with a 25-year-old youth counselor. Since the news broke in August, SJP has stood by her man. Now Sarah Jessica, 43, wants a “clean slate,” says the friend, and is getting frustrated that Matthew won’t seek help.”

[From Star Magazine print version, Oct. 13, 2008]

I always approach Star with a heavy dose of skepticism. However, if this “pal” is for real, I’m not surprised that Matthew would be resistant to counseling - especially if he is the only one being pushed to go. Maybe he’d be more open to it if they were both getting help- after all, it does take two, even if he was the one who had an affair. I’ve always liked this couple and their low-key lifestyle. I hope they make it and this story is false.

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are shown at the Sex and The City premiere on 05/27/08. Credit: Fame

Sarah Jessica Parker has managed to keep a pretty low profile since rumors came out that her husband Matthew Broderick had cheated on her. The family has been vacationing in Ireland for the last few weeks, but that hasn’t kept little bits about her feelings on love from leaking out. According to NOW Magazine, Sarah said that shoes are better than sex and men. Which makes you wonder a bit about the current state of her marriage.

Sarah Jessica Parker says she’d choose shoes over a guy – because they’re more dependable than men.

Talking about her Sex And The City character Carrie, the 43-year-old actress says: ‘She could probably count on a Manolo more than a man. So is it better than sex? Yes!’ she says.

And she says she has no problem walking in towering stilettos.

‘I could run a marathon in heels and wake up the next day and run another one,’ she tells Fabulous.

[From NOW Magazine]

Fox News also reports that SJP did indeed have her famous mole removed, even though her reps have denied it. They claim she did it not for cosmetic or health reasons, but to distract the tabloids from her marital woes, and give them something else to talk about.

“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker has been accused of mole removal to take the heat off her marriage problems. “She needed drastic action and the media focused on that in the end,” a source tells me.

[From Fox News]

The mole removal story came out around July 16th, and the rumors of Matthew Broderick’s affair came out July 23rd, exactly a week later. It’s possible SJP had the mole removed as a preventative distraction upon learning of the affair. Or maybe she thought mole removal would save her marriage? Some women try to lose weight, some get a boob job, maybe SJP thought this could be her thing.

Say what you will about the woman, she strikes me as pretty intelligent. I seriously doubt she sliced off her mole thinking it would keep the tabloids from caring that her husband was (possibly) cheating on her.

Here’s Sarah Jessica Parker doing laundry while on vacation in Ireland yesterday. Images thanks to Fame.

After their marriage was recently rocked by rumors of infidelity, Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick took a getaway with their son James Wilkie. According to Fame, the family is vacationing in Ireland where they have a cottage. Supposedly the two don’t really have a “conventional” marriage, and some rumors make it sound more like they’re now friends that are raising their son together.

She’s had a hit summer movie (Sex and the City) and a brush with scandal, and Sarah Jessica Parker is leaving it all behind with a trip to Ireland.

The Carrie Bradshaw actress was spotted along with her 5-year-old son James Wilkie and husband Matthew Broderick on holiday at Muckros, County Donegal, Ireland where they own a cottage.

Parker looked to be having a marvelous time, sporting a blue scoopneck top and brown trousers as she frolicked in the beautiful Irish countryside, far away from the tabloid rumors of her husband’s affair.

Recently, Broderick’s rep refused to address the unfounded claims that he’d had an affair with a woman 21 years his junior, telling press, “There will be no comment.”

[From the Gossip Girls]

They’ve definitely stuck to that “no comment” rule. Which is driving me absolutely bonkers. But to their credit it seems to be working – when I googled the pair almost nothing new comes up since the affair rumor at the beginning of the month. It probably helps that they’ve gone overseas and away from the New York paparazzi, who were already following Parker with stalker-like zeal before the affair rumors. Here’s Sarah Jessica, James Wilkie and Matthew Broderick today in Ireland. Images thanks to Fame.

Do Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have an ‘unconventional’ marriage? While their union has been dogged by gay rumors, mostly related to Matthew’s Broadway theatre connections, a ‘source’ has spoken to the Daily Mail about their relationship, claiming that they’ve always had an unconventional marriage. Matthew was recently accused of having an affair with a woman while Sarah Jessica was away filming Sex and the City, which the source does not confirm or deny.

A source said that the 43-year-old actress had told a friend she and Broderick, 46, ‘had been out of love for a long time but remain married for their son’.

The source added: ‘Sarah and Matthew have been struggling for years. Now they have decided to make things work - especially for the sake of their son, James.’

Another source defended the couple, saying: ‘They have never had a conventional marriage, but it works for the two of them.

‘Sure they fight like other couples but they love each other and their little boy. They are so private and hate all this silly gossip.’

Daily Mail

“They fight like other couples but they love each other and their little boy.” Am I completely wrong in thinking that is actually the textbook definition of a traditional marriage? Instead of divorcing at the drop of a hat they are going to stay together and work through their issues, and stay as a family.

The Daily Mail also states that the pair tries to avoid being photographed together, but I’ve seen enough photos at premieres of them together to say that isn’t entirely true. I think they just try to not be photographed at all when they are living their private life, which does make the photos of them together out to dinner rare. Particularly the matching outfits make it look staged, although Matthew isn’t wearing his wedding ring. What do the white wristbands they both wear symbolize?

Actor/Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband (those are apparently equally important titles) Matthew Broderick gave a rather bizarre interview to New York magazine recently, in which he talked about his son’s curiosity about cigarettes. Both Broderick and Parker smoke – though Broderick claims that he gave up smoking and still smokes – all within the same sentence.

“Sarah Jessica Parker still smokes? She, the perfect mother who hates her nannies to be mentioned in news articles? The Greenwich Village icon who starred in a show about sex but refused to take her bra off during the act? No way!”

But apparently it’s so — and the habit rubs off on her husband, Matthew Broderick, and even (gasp!) her 5-year-old son, James Wilkie. At the screening of Broderick’s new vice-filled film, Finding Amanda, where he plays a gamble-holic having an off-the-wagon weekend in Vegas, Ferris Bueller told us all about it.

“I used to smoke cigarettes, and I still do, lately. I gave that up a long time ago, but every now and then I will fall off for a week.” And guess who’s fault that might be? Broderick says SJP is “worse than me on that.” And James Wilkie is “already curious. He’ll see a cigarette butt and say, ‘What is that? Why do people smoke?’ I can just see the little budding gene of a smoker in there.”

[From New York Magazine]

Umm…. umm… so many things I want to say. Struggling to choose which ones. I’m not going to go off on smoking, everyone knows the statistics. What I’m really surprised about is that Matthew Broderick would have such a cavalier attitude towards his son’s relationship with cigarettes – and that such a normally private actor would choose to share such a thing. In sharing it, it seems like Broderick doesn’t understand that this isn’t a good or normal thing.

When I was growing up, the smoking parents of my friends would constantly talk about how bad it was and how they wished they’d never started. Most of them seemed to constantly be making a big deal about how bad it was – seemingly in an attempt to prevent their children from picking up the habit. Several of them smoked in a bathroom or some isolated area. But none of them seemed to have an open, “whatever” sort of attitude about it. If you think you “see the little budding gene of a smoker” in your kid, it seems to me that the least you should do is actively discourage it.

Here’s : Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and son James Wilke leaving Claridges Hotel in London in September 2005. Header from the US premiere of Sex and the City in New York on May 27th. Images thanks to WENN.

Sarah Jessica Parker has slammed Hollywood for making movies for dumb teen audiences:

Parker, your last film was totally panned as insipid and predictable, and the one before that wasn’t too much better. It’s not like you’re making thoughtful art films so who are you to complain about the industry that made you rich? Maybe you’re trying to make excuses for starring in terrible films. You’re starting to sound like Gwyneth Paltrow and should zip it.

Here’s Parker with her husband, Matthew Broderick at “The American Theatre Wing’s Annual Spring Gala Honoring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane,” on April 10th and at the Fragrance FIFI awards on April 3rd. Maybe Dr. Ruth can help her mend her lousy relationship with some old fashioned loving.

Sarah Jessica Parker thinks her husband can do better. She recently said that she fears she’s “holding him back.” Isn’t that what people say when they need an excuse to leave?:

So she’s sick of him, she thinks he’s cheating, or she’s cheating and wants an excuse. Either way, there’s something wrong with their marriage.

Parker, 40, and Broderick, 43, have been together since 1992 and have been married for 9 years. They have a three year-old son, James. In a January, 2005 interview Parker revealed that she works hard on her marriage, and that she does practically everything for Broderick:

It sounds like Parker is sick of waiting on Broderick hand and foot for 14 years and wants out.