Chloë Sevigny Says Becoming a Mom at 45 Had an Unexpected Impact on Her Marriage

Chloë Sevigny has been the ultimate cool girl in fashion and indie films for over 30 years but, since welcoming her son and marrying husband Sinisa Mackovic in 2020, she’s added wife and working mom to her many roles.

Becoming a mom to her now-four-year-old son Vanja was a “miracle” for Sevigny, 49, as she told Rolling Stone in January, “I didn’t think it was going to happen to me.” After such a dramatic life change, many would expect the Boys Don’t Cry star to experience the marital strain many new parents go through when they welcome an addition to their family.

However, in a September 4 cover story for The Cut, their first print issue, Sevigny says motherhood has brought her closer to Mackovic. “I value my relationship with my husband so much more,” she says.

“I value him and how much he participates and what he does for our household so much more than I ever could imagine. I’ll do anything not to lose him.”

Sevigny says Mackovic, a Croatian art gallery director who she met in 2018, handles most of the logistics in their family. “I don’t want to do this by myself,” she adds, joking that a long career in Hollywood has made her a “coddled actress” who doesn’t even know how to buy a plane ticket.

Her husband has also helped her deal with mom guilt amid a hectic period of production and promotion for projects like her new movie Bonjour Tristesse and Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: Menendez Story.

“When I’m having one of my anxiety spirals, he’ll always talk me down,” she says. “What’s so nice about my husband is he’s so competent. I can trust he can take care of everything, so I don’t have to, and that’s really relaxing.”

That said, Sevigny is still struggling to be stern with both herself and her son when it comes to things like leaving him with a babysitter or not letting him sleep in his parent’s bed.

“He’s a good set baby,” she says. “He is very quiet — he realizes that if he wants to make noise, he has to go outside.” And, like many moms, the actress isn’t trying to escape her son too much. “I almost like it better having him there and then I feel less guilty about being at work.”

“I like having him close by. Maybe I spoil him or baby him too much, but I feel more at ease,” she adds. “All our faults, we’ve made them ourselves. We’re in our bed, and we have to lie in it. But now, it’s like I can sleep better when he’s there.”

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