Cheryl Hines<\/strong> revealed that her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, once suggested that they stage a separation to shield her from public criticism.<\/p>\n The Curb Your Enthusiasm alum, 60, opened up about their marriage and her adjustment to life in Washington in a new interview with CBS News<\/a>, published on October 7.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever get used to being a political spouse. A Cabinet spouse,\u201d Hines told Natalie Morales<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Hines \u2014 who moved to Washington earlier this year after Kennedy, 71, was appointed secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in President Trump\u2019s<\/strong> Cabinet \u2014 recalled the moment her husband proposed the idea of a staged separation to protect her from scrutiny.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t understand what, how that was gonna help,\u201d the Unscripted author said. \u201cBut I understood what he was talking about. I appreciated it.\u201d<\/p>\n ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n Hines and Kennedy<\/a>, who married in 2014 after being introduced by Larry David<\/strong>, have navigated challenges together, including public disagreements with some of Kennedy\u2019s siblings. The couple\u2019s blended family includes Hines\u2019 daughter, Cat<\/strong>, and Kennedy\u2019s six children from previous marriages.<\/p>\n During the interview, Hines also admitted that some friends in Hollywood pulled back from their relationship after Kennedy entered politics.<\/p>\n \u201cIt became too difficult emotionally for them to stay close,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n This story Cheryl Hines \u2018Appreciated\u2019 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Suggesting They Stage a Separation Amid Criticism<\/a> first appeared on National Enquirer<\/i><\/a>. Add National Enquirer<\/i> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/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 www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cheryl Hines revealed that her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once suggested that they stage a separation to shield her from public criticism. The Curb Your Enthusiasm alum, 60, opened up about their marriage and her adjustment to life in Washington in a new interview with CBS News, published on October 7. \u201cI don\u2019t think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082391,"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":[25173],"tags":[344167,338497,345373,391636,133047],"class_list":["post-2082390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-cheryl-hines","tag-curb-your-enthusiasm","tag-natalie-morales","tag-public-criticism","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cheryl-Hines-\u2018Appreciated-Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-Suggesting-They-Stage.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082390","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=2082390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082392,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082390\/revisions\/2082392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/div>\n