In the bustling city of Rome, Jenny Mollen takes a moment to reflect. Less than two weeks after the "Angel" actress and Jason Biggs confirmed their separation, she shared that she's coping with the major life transition by embarking on a trip overseas.
"I leave for Italy on Wednesday, which sounds soooo 'Eat, Pray, Love' considering the current state of my life," Mollen—a mother to Sid, 12, and Lazlo, 8, with Jason—wrote in an essay on her The Best Friend Experience Substack on May 25. "But I'm not going to find myself or sleep with some beautiful Italian stranger. I already have two half-Italians at home."
Indeed, Mollen revealed that the transatlantic trip was already in the cards for her, prior to the announcement of her breakup with the "American Pie" actor after 18 years of marriage.
"I'm actually just going because a friend invited me to her birthday party," she continued. "It also happens to be my birthday."
Elsewhere in the essay, the 46-year-old admitted to previously rushing through important moments of her life, including her 6th birthday party when all she could think about was opening a piñata. While she vowed to take her time in life moving forward, Mollen joked that when it came to her trip to Italy, "If I come across a piñata, I absolutely intend on beating the s--t out of it."
Earlier this month, Mollen and Biggs' rep emphasized to E! News that the pair remained on "great terms" and "remained focused" on co-parenting their young kids. Days before their breakup was confirmed, Mollen had alluded to strain in her relationship with Biggs—whom she married in 2008—in a separate post on her Substack.
"I've never been broken up with," the "Cattle Call" star wrote in a May 10 post. "I've never been into someone who wasn't just slightly more into me. But now karma is going to make me pay in spades!!!!"
While the pair was happily together for nearly 20 years, they did not hide their struggles over the years. In 2017, Biggs admitted that his struggles with alcoholism put a strain on their marriage prior to his sobriety journey. Mollen, meanwhile, got candid about her feelings of jealousy in a viral 2017 essay titled, "I Used to Be Jealous of My Husband's Ex, Then I Became a Mom" in 2019. Biggs, for his part, thought the essay was "really sweet."
"We have kids and life goes on and the girl you stalked has kids," Biggs told US Weekly at the time. "We're changing and we're just kind of growing up and for her, she felt like she needed to sort of say something about that and how she is not that person anymore."
