{"id":2000256,"date":"2025-09-05T20:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2000256"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:53:30","slug":"maria-shriver-considering-marrying-soulmate-matthew-dowd-they-complement-each-other-exclusive-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maria-shriver-considering-marrying-soulmate-matthew-dowd-they-complement-each-other-exclusive-globe-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Shriver Considering Marrying \u2018Soulmate\u2019 Matthew Dowd: \u2018They Complement Each Other\u2019 (Exclusive) \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maria Shriver<\/strong> may soon be walking down the aisle.\u00a0 A source exclusively tells Globe<\/em> that the journalist, 69, is considering marrying her boyfriend of 12 years, Matthew Dowd.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been waiting in the wings, a best friend and unwavering support in the best and worst of times, and now she\u2019s finally coming around and thinking, \u2018Why not get married?’\u201d reveals the source.<\/p>\n

Though the source notes that Shriver has been \u201chesitant\u201d<\/a> to walk down the aisle. However, Dowd, 64, has \u201ccharmed her,\u201d and she sees him as her \u201csoulmate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shriver was previously married to Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong><\/a>, with whom she shares kids Katherine<\/strong>, 35, Christina<\/strong>, 34, Patrick<\/strong><\/a>, 31, and Christopher<\/strong>, 27.<\/p>\n

She announced her separation from the \u201cTerminator\u201d actor, 78, in 2011 after 25 years following his confession that he fathered a secret love child with their family\u2019s housekeeper, Mildred Baena<\/strong>, over a decade earlier. (His son, Joseph Baena<\/strong>, is now 27 years old.)<\/p>\n

Shriver and Schwarzenegger\u2019s divorce was finalized in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Despite her past heartache<\/a>, the source notes that Shriver and Dowd have a lot \u201cin common\u201d in terms of their careers and they \u201ccomplement\u201d each other. \u201cHe\u2019s a political strategist and she has her work as an advocate for women.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the time is right for them to tie the knot, the couple won\u2019t have a \u201cmega-fancy wedding,\u201d as they are \u201cvery low-key,\u201d says the source. \u201cThey\u2019ll have a ceremony and a celebration with family and close friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHer kids want to see her happy and are all for it,\u201d adds the source.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raoul Gatchalian\/starmaxinc.com\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency; PHIL McCARTEN\/UPI\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency Maria Shriver may soon be walking down the aisle.\u00a0 A source exclusively tells Globe that the journalist, 69, is considering marrying her boyfriend of 12 years, Matthew Dowd.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s been waiting in the wings, a best friend and unwavering support in the best and worst of times, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Maria-Shriver-Considering-Marrying-\u2018Soulmate-Matthew-Dowd-\u2018They-Complement-Each.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}