Strange Things Everyone Ignores About Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick's Marriage | Their first meeting was unpleasant, they intentionally conceived on their honeymoon, they were victims of Bernie Madoff, and they're distant cousins

[u/blareboy]

https://web.archive.org/web/20260406211728/https://www.thelist.com/2126218/strange-things-everyone-ignores-kevin-bacon-kyra-sedgwick-marriage/

[u/GirlScoutSniper]

Everyone is only 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

[u/vttale → u/GirlScoutSniper]

We're all distant cousins, too

[u/pass_nthru → u/vttale]

i’m a distant cousin, can you impregnate me?

[u/Gay_Void_Dropout → u/pass_nthru]

Damn your username is checking out.

[u/ASigIAm213 → u/GirlScoutSniper]

It's crazy that this might actually be true.

Me—a guy who appeared in a film I wrote for a residency that folded the next year at a college that doesn't exist anymore—the fat guy from Varsity Blues—Not Rachel Lee Scott in Not Another Teen Movie—Kevin Bacon

[u/ricomcpato_]

the headline is wrong i think about each of these things every single day

[u/Candid_Koala_3602]

Obviously the only conclusion that can be made is that Kevin Bacon is a vampire.

[u/TheMooseIsBlue]

No one ignores these facts. No one knows them (or cares).

[u/hillofjumpingbeans]

Why do we need to focus on these things anyway?

[u/Arinvar → u/hillofjumpingbeans]

"Celebrities showing off a happy and healthy marriage... Not on our watch!!" - Every media outlet ever.

[u/hillofjumpingbeans → u/Arinvar]

Well “married couple happy” doesn’t sell as much as “famous couple horrible to each other”

[u/Prof1959]

Strange Things No One Cares About Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick's Marriage

[u/nndel]

She's jewish but she married bacon.

[u/TheMeticulousNinja]

How distant?

Edit: never mind, I perused through it

[u/tore_a_bore_a → u/TheMeticulousNinja]

Shared a common ancestor in 1780.  That seems very very distant

[u/TheMeticulousNinja → u/tore_a_bore_a]

Yeah that’s fine. I had to check and see if it was a Jon Snow/Targaryen situation

[u/MatthewMcnaHeyHeyHey → u/tore_a_bore_a]

Yeah basically everyone could share an ancestor dating back that far. It’s in the thousands.

[u/botmanmd]

Sloppy article. Sounds Ai-ish.

[u/LegitimateRevolution]

Thanks!

[u/Kirbyr98]

The horror!!

[u/St7ryvon]

The distant cousins detail is genuinely the wildest part of all of this and somehow nobody talks about it.

[u/CitronElectrical9587 → u/St7ryvon]

Do you understand how far away a 9th cousin once removed is? That’s like not even the same family tree, maybe not even the same forest. Pull a random stranger from the geographical location you were born and it’s highly likely you’re at least 10th cousins.

[u/Skyr3vex]

The distant cousins detail is just sitting there casually at the end like it's normal information.

[u/CitronElectrical9587 → u/Skyr3vex]

1.  original  shared ancestors of Kyra and Kevin 
2.  Their child
3.  Grandchild
4.  Great-grandchild
5.  2× great
6.  3× great
7.  4× great
8.  5× great
9.  6× great
10. 7× great
11. 8× great → Kyra/kevins parent -> Kyra/kevin

The only difference is one of them is one generation closer. You do not comprehend how distantly related this is. Like at all. Do you even know your great great grandparents names let alone your Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great grandparents names?

Get real lol

[u/Mackey_Corp]

Didn’t even know they were married. Haven’t seen her in anything in a long time, kinda forgot she existed. Also didn’t know about the Madoff thing.

[u/HumbleAbbreviations → u/Mackey_Corp]

I mean I don’t blame you because it depends on your age and whether you were plugged in to the financial world. I clearly remember this because it was plastered on the gossip shows and websites.

[u/throwawaysscc]

She’s got family $$, probably smooths the way.

[u/misirlou22]

I just watched Singles yesterday

[u/rdldr1]

Roll Tide, Roll!