Sarah Michelle Gellar Celebrates Husband Freddie Prinze Jr.’s 49th Birthday: ‘So Glad I Get to Grow Old with You'

Mar. 15, 2025

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar.Photo:Jerod Harris/Getty

Jerod Harris/Getty

Sarah Michelle Gellaris happy to “grow old” alongsideFreddie Prinze Jr.

TheBuffy the Vampire Slayerstar, 47, kicked off the birthday post for Prinze with a black-and-white photo of the pair kissing at their wedding, her arm wrapped around him as they smooched.

In the next slide, she added another monochrome snap from their 2002 nuptials, her arm wrapped around him as they both smiled widely.

“Happy Birthday @realfreddieprinze,” theCruel Intentionsstar wrote in the caption. “The world got very lucky the day you were born, but no one more so than me (and our children).” The couple sharestwo kids, daughterCharlotte Grace, 15, and sonRocky James, 12.

Freddie Prinze Jnr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2007.Claire Greenway/Getty

Claire Greenway/Getty

She opted for a simple caption, writing, “22 @realfreddieprinze,” and adding a few wedding-themed emojis: “🥂💍👰🏼.”

Gellar and Prinze first crossed paths on the set of their iconic teen slasher—but it wasn’t love at first sight, they later revealed. While chatting with PEOPLE back in 2001, Prinze admitted thatthe couple “really didn’t dig each other” at first.

But as they got to know each other, things changed and they formed a strong platonic bond. “One day I gave her a ride to the gym,” Prinze recalled. “We talked on the way up, and she was a cool chick.”

“We were friends for a good two years before we went on a date. She knew what kind of guy I was,” he previously explained toE! News. “She knew what my morals were, what my priorities were and vice versa.”

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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2024.Fati Sadou/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shutterstock

Fati Sadou/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shutterstock

And it may have been fate, as that first date in January 2000 that Prinze mentionedwas actually an accident, according to Gellar. “We were friends for a very long time,” she told PEOPLE in 2020. “We’d had many dinners before. And we were supposed to go with someone else, and the third person didn’t make it out, and we decided to still go.”

“We were just two people at dinner catching up,” she explained. “We had a long car ride and a long dinner and things just happened.”

But all it took was that one dinner for Prinze to know Gellar was the one. “I didn’t go on dates with other girls,” he previously told PEOPLE, “nor did I even want to pursue dates with other girls.”

source: people.com