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4 days ago
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Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann Colorfully Coordinated With Their 3 Kids in a Super-Rare Family Outing
Mariska Hargitay, her beloved husband Peter Hermann, and their three kids have done it again: twinning on the red carpet! Earlier this year, the family of five arrived in dark looks for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and now, they're twinning in black and white for the Tribeca Festival premiere of My Mom Jayne. For the premiere, the family of five looked gorgeous together! You can see the photos HERE: More from SheKnows Bryan Cranston Reveals How He Ensures His Daughter Taylor Makes Her 'Own Proper Decisions' at 32 Hargitay channeled Old Hollywood glamour in a black and white gown that has a silver cape across her chest. She paired the look with white gloves, and silver statement earrings. Her husband Hermann also rocked black pants and a white suit top. And their three kids matched with them in the same colorful formal pieces! We're seriously loving these stylish family outings, and we have our fingers crossed for more! For those who don't know, Hargitay and Hermann have three children together named August Miklós Friedrich, born in June 2006, Amaya Josephine, born in April 2011, and Andrew Nicholas, born in Oct 2011. In an interview alongside Selena Gomez with Interview Magazine, Hargitay talked about being a working mom of three. 'For all working moms, it's hard. There's been so many times where I'm torn or frustrated because in our jobs, you can't say, 'Guys, I'm not coming in today. But I've integrated them here. My kids come to work with me. The flip side is that my kids are really proud of me,' she said. 'I am happier and living a fuller life, and they feel that and see that. And when I'm with them, I'm with them.' Before you go, check out these celebrities who have opened up about . Best of SheKnows These Podcasts for Parents of Teens Will Make You Feel Seen These Hot Famous Dads Are Making Fatherhood Look Finer Than Ever 36 Times Prince Louis Proved That the Third Child Is a Wild Card
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4 days ago
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All About Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann's 3 Kids
Despite Hollywood being known for celebrity relationships that come and go, Mariska Hargitay has defied the norm over the years. Not only has the Law & Order: SVU star been happily married to her husband Peter Hermann since 2004, but the two of them have created a beautiful family of five. Hargitay and Hermann are proud parents to three kids. The actress gave birth to her first son, August, on June 28, 2006. At the time, his birth made headlines because Hargitay was 42 at the time. More from SheKnows All About Mariska Hargitay's Biological Dad Nelson Sardelli & How She Learned the Truth About His Identity In 2011, Hargitay and Hermann added more members to their crew by adopting their daughter Amaya in April 2011, and their youngest son Andrew six months later in October. 'Our family is so perfect, or at least perfect for me,' Hargitay told People in 2018. 'Together we're just this whole, happy, joyful, chaotic, crazy unit. I've never known anything that was more right.' Check out everything we know about Hargitay and Hermann's kids below: Over the years, August and his siblings have all happily joined their mom at public events. In June 2025, they even turned heads in matching black and white chic looks at the My Mom Jayne premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. But August has joined his mom for mother-son solo outings too. They've attended the US Open together as a tradition in 2014, 2021, 2022 and 2023. When Hargitay and Hermann adopted August's younger siblings in 2011, the actress gushed to People about how happy then-4-year-old August was at the time. 'He is over the moon,' the actress told the outlet. 'He calls her his baby because he says the whole thing was his idea. He always talks about how he's going to protect her. He's going to be a great big brother.' In 2023, Hargitay and Hermann were announced as the new inductees for the Stuttering Association for the Young's Hall of Fame. Their involvement with the Association started when August's stuttering started and he was looking for a community. 'Our son stutters and it was so beautiful to have this lovely community to introduce him to and learn about it from the experts,' Hargitay told People. 'I think that being in a place where you're surrounded by the people who are dealing with the same thing you are is super special,' August told the outlet. 'In school, there aren't a lot of other people, or on the sports teams you play, at the organizations you go to, at the events I'm at with my parents. There's always a lot of pressure and conversation. So to be in a place where the edge is off and it's encouraged, it's welcomed? It's special.' Since his teen years, August has shown fans that he got his dad's tall genes and has grown taller than his mom. In some red carpet pics, he looks a full head taller than Hargitay (and we're guessing she's wearing heels too!). As the oldest one in his family, August made Hargitay and Hermann empty-nesters for the first time when he went off her college in the fall of 2024. His college and major have yet to be revealed, but we know his parents are so proud. 'My husband Peter and I are in the process of watching our oldest son graduate from high school,' Hargitay said in her speech at the Gotham TV Awards. 'And we've been shuffling around our house for the last few months just muttering, 'Where does the time go? Where's the time go? What happened?'' Amaya joined the Hargitay-Hermann household in 2011, and she was welcomed with open arms. 'I'm deliriously happy,' Hargitay told People at the time. 'From the minute she was born, she was just surprisingly alert and so full of love.' 'We were considering both international and domestic adoption and we're thrilled that this is the way our prayers were answered,' she said. 'We talked a lot about mixed-race adoptions, and we are very excited that we are now a multi-racial family. We're just so happy she's here.' In an interview with Good Housekeeping, Hargitay revealed that she and her husband were right there in the delivery room when Amaya was born. 'I basically pulled Amaya out,' she said, per People. 'Peter and I held her, and then the birth mother and I hugged for a long time. That was profound. That was one of the most meaningful moments I've ever had in my life.' Taylor Swift fans out there know that the singer is a big fan of Hargitay and her SVU character Olivia Benson (after all, she named one of her cats after her!). So, it was so sweet to find out in 2023 that not only is Hargitay a Swiftie, but so is Amaya! The mom and daughter attended the premiere of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie in October 2023 side by side, per Access Hollywood. On the carpet, Amaya and Hargitay made fun poses for the cameras. Amaya also showed off her signature style that night in a black moto jacket over a tutu-inspired tulle dress. One week after Hargitay and Hermann expressed their desire to adopt again after Amaya, they welcomed their youngest son, Andrew, who was born a few months earlier. 'We never in a million years thought it would happen this quickly, but something inside of us knew that this was right, and we said, 'Yes, yes, yes!'' she told People at the time. 'We knew this was our guy. Everything about it felt right. It felt divinely right.' With only a few months between him and his sister Amaya, the two bonded right away. 'They'll lie in the crib together, and she'll hold his hand and put her arm around him,' Hargitay said after his adoption. 'She's already so protective of him.' How adorable is that? In January 2024, Hargitay revealed that Andrew freaked out after he learned that his mom was a voice in Tales From Earthsea, a Japanese anime fantasy film from 2006. 'He found out that I was in this movie. He said, 'What? You're in this movie?' And we sat and watched it,' she told People. 'And I'm sitting on the couch with my 12-year-old son who, first of all, [thinks] the movie's good, but he just thought it was the coolest thing.' 'So for him to see me in this movie that he loves, he said 'Mom, it's such a cool character,'' she said. 'And it was this moment of had I known that, almost 20 years ago, that I would have this moment with my son that was so bonding and sacred, I just sat there going, 'I don't know that life gets better than this moment.''Best of SheKnows 14 Best Books About Jackie Kennedy's Life & Loves — Get Them for Up to 77% Off Ahead of Prime Day Keira Knightley's Stunningly Experimental Fashion Evolution Through the Years 60 Times Emma Stone's Timeless Red Carpet Fashion Looks Took Our Breath Away
Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Mariska Hargitay reveals how husband Peter Hermann reacted to her sexual assault
Mariska Hargitay opened up about how her husband reacted to her bombshell revelation that she was raped by a friend when she was in her 30s. The 61-year-old actress appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper as she revealed the effects of telling Peter Hermann - who she has been married to since 2004 - about the abuse. At the time Mariska recalled to the now 57-year-old actor what had happened and he confirmed that it was a sexual assault. She explained: 'That's why I understand about denial and dissociating and I have so much room for that. 'Now, I look at it and I say I'm grateful for that part of myself that kept me safe, for that part of myself that said you're not ready to deal with it.' Back in January 2024, the talented actress made the revelation as she said she 'checked out of her body' during the terrifying assault in a heartbreaking first-person essay for People. On the podcast, she candidly talked about how she was 'in denial' over the assault. Mariska explained: 'I couldn't process that I couldn't get out of it. I have gotten out of so many things through my intellect, through comedy, through just outsmarting. 'I couldn't understand that I couldn't. That just lived in me and so I blamed myself and then it got to the point where it just became so clear what happened.' Previously, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unite actress had candidly opened up about being raped. In the 2024 essay, she wrote: 'A man raped me in my thirties. It wasn't sexual at all. It was dominance and control. Overpowering control. He was a friend. Then he wasn't. 'I tried all the ways I knew to get out of it. I tried to make jokes, to be charming, to set a boundary, to reason, to say no. He grabbed me by the arms and held me down. I was terrified. I didn't want it to escalate to violence. I now know it was already sexual violence, but I was afraid he would become physically violent.' The star said she went into 'freeze mode' after the assault as she couldn't process what had happened. She said: 'So I cut it out. I removed it from my narrative. I now have so much empathy for the part of me that made that choice because that part got me through it. It never happened. Now I honor that part: I did what I had to do to survive. Mariska founded the Joyful Heart Foundation in 2004, which aims to support the healing of survivors and alter society's response to sexual assault - and said the foundation enabled her to begin healing. She wrote: 'I think I also needed to see what healing could look like. I look back on speeches where I said, 'I'm not a survivor,'' she writes. 'I wasn't being untruthful; it wasn't how I thought of myself.' Mariska said she 'minimized' the rape over the years before she had a 'reckoning and realization: 'My husband Peter (Hermann) remembers me saying, 'I mean, it wasn't rape.' Then things started shifting in me, and I began talking about it more in earnest with those closest to me.' She said she now wants 'an acknowledgment and an apology' from her attacker, writing: 'As for justice, it's important to know that it may look different for each survivor. For me, I want an acknowledgment and an apology. "I'm sorry for what I did to you. I raped you. I am without excuse." 'This is a painful part of my story. The experience was horrible. But it doesn't come close to defining me, in the same way that no other single part of my story defines me. 'No single part of anyone's story defines them.' She turns 60 in two weeks, and then in September of this year she will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her hit series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Mariska, whose mother was the legendary 1950s pinup Jayne Mansfield, played second fiddle on the show for the first decade. From 1999 until 2011, the leading man on the program was Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler, with Mariska offering support as Olivia Benson. 'I was the second detective alongside Elliot Stabler. He was the male lead and a little more experienced and I was trying to catch up,' she reflected. Then, however, Christopher Meloni left the program in 2011 and Mariska was left to become the lead character on the program. Life imitated art, as around that same time her character Olivia Benson was getting promoted, eventually ascending to the position of squad captain. She was tragically killed at the age of 34 in a grisly car accident - with three of her children, including three-year-old Mariska, in the backseat. Mariska's father was the Hungarian heartthrob Mickey Hargitay, who earned the bodybuilding title Mr. Universe in 1955. After Jayne's tragic death, Mariska moved in with her father, who was able to provide her with a stable upbringing until she ventured into acting herself. She has been married to Hermann, 56, since 2004 and the pair share three children.
New York Times
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Mariska Hargitay Comes to Terms With a Lifetime of Family Secrets
Mariska Hargitay was at home, and she was sprinting up the stairs, bounding between the corners of her very full life. I had to hustle to keep pace. She checked in with her oldest son — tall, polite, home from his first year at Princeton — and supervised the setup of an engagement party she was hosting for her goddaughter. Gardeners buzzed about the terraces of her Manhattan penthouse. She apologized, superfluously, for the noise. Her latest obsession, a family heirloom grand piano that had recently entered her apartment via crane, dominated the living room, with a custom 'M' bench, courtesy of her husband, the actor Peter Hermann ('Younger'). 'That's my next thing — I'm going to learn to play soon,' Hargitay vowed. Another dash and we were on the floor below, a warren of cozy offices, painted in jewel tones, with overstuffed couches and muscular art by Annie Leibovitz. Tucked on a bookshelf were some of Hargitay's awards. She has earned Emmys for playing Olivia Benson, the beloved 'Law & Order: SVU' hardass, and for producing the 2017 documentary 'I Am Evidence,' about the backlog of rape kits. This is where Hargitay had conceived, edited and even shot some of her newest and perhaps most life-altering project, the documentary 'My Mom Jayne.' It's at once an unflinching portrait of her mother, the 1950s star and pinup Jayne Mansfield, who died when Mariska was 3; a homage to her father, the bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay; and an investigation into her own clouded and secretive origins. Directing the film, which will air June 27 on HBO, and proclaiming her story has unlocked something profound for Hargitay, 61. 'I am so clear now about the truth,' she said. 'This big haze came off — a veil of fear. And now I just feel so much at peace. It's like a miracle to me to feel this way. I never thought I could.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
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Mariska Hargitay's Son is a Dead Ringer For His Mom on the Red Carpet
Mariska Hargitay's Son is a Dead Ringer For His Mom on the Red Carpet originally appeared on Parade. August Hermann looks just like his famous parents! The 18-year-old New Yorker is the son of Law and Order: SVU legend Mariska Hargitay and Younger star Peter Hermann. August stepped out with his mom on Sunday to attend the premiere of Re-Creation at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theater in New York City. Pictured with his arm around his mom, Hermann towered over Hargitay, 61. Dressed in a black sweater and cream-colored pinstriped pants, the teen looked quite dashing alongside his famous mum, who wore a black blouse, navy trousers, and silver pointy-toed shoes. 🎬 🎬 When it comes to parenting advice, Hargitay's SVU costars know she's the one to go to with questions. Peter Scanavino, who plays ADA Dominick Carisi on the long-running series, told TODAY that Hargitay gave him some advice he holds close. 'She gave a very good parenting piece of advice to me and my wife, which was, don't threaten a punishment to your children that you're not willing to carry out,' he shared. 'If you say, 'One more time, we're going to go home,' don't say that unless you're really prepared to do it. And I think that's been a very good lesson and rule to have as a parent.'Mariska Hargitay's Son is a Dead Ringer For His Mom on the Red Carpet first appeared on Parade on Jun 9, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.
