19 July 2026
Josh Duhamel has shared the moment he realised he was “too old” for his wife.
Josh DUhamel is 21 years older than Audra Mari
The 53-year-old actor has a much younger sister, Kassidy, and admitted seeing a baby photo of her drove home the size of the age gap between himself and 32-year-old Audra Mari – who he married in 2022 after four years of dating – because she and his sibling were born just “months apart”.
Speaking on The HoneyDew With Ryan Sickler, Josh laughed: “Kassidy came along … and I was playing football at Minot State University. Go Beavers!
“Warming up on the sideline. And I remember looking up at the stands, and I see my mom and [she] has this bump. And I’m like, ‘What the— Is my mom pregnant?’ … I was 21 years old … and she’s having another baby. And I was like, ‘Oh my god, you gotta be kidding me!’ So, now we love it.”
The Win a Date with Tad Hamilton star then told how there is a photo of him at 21 holding the “little bitty infant” Kassidy.
He laughed as he recalled: “I looked at the photo, and I looked at my wife, and I said, ‘You know, you and Kassidy are exactly the same age.’
“[I thought] ‘Is that a highlight or a lowlight? I’m not sure’. [I told Audra], ‘Ooof, I am officially too old for you’ … They’re literally like months apart in age.
“I never looked at it like that until I saw that photo. I was like, ‘Wait a second.’ ”
The Ransom Canyon star – who has Axl, 12, with ex-wife Fergie, and Shepherd, two, and Rocca, two months, with his spouse – recently admitted he initially ruled out dating Audra because he thought she was “too young” for him but she soon changed his mind.
Appearing on The Skinny Confidential podcast, he said: “We had a barbecue at my house .. “She and I had been in contact because I knew she was from North Dakota, she’d done really, really well in Miss USA [beauty pageant]. I wasn’t even inviting her because I wanted to date her because she was too young for me to be honest.
“I wasn’t looking for [that]. I’m not going to be that dude. So I invited her and she comes to the door and I’m like: ‘Holy s***. [She’s] so beautiful.’
“I was still like: ‘No, no, no’.”
However, Josh was won over by Audra after seeing the way she interacted with the children at the barbecue – admitting she came across as “really wholesome” and reminded him of “home”.
He added: “I remember her taking care of these kids at the party, making sure they had enough [to eat] and I was like that reminds me of home and the kind of girl I want to really be with.
“And I’d gone through a couple of relationships with girls here in LA and it just wasn’t the same. There’s something really wholesome about it and I think that was when I was like: ‘Maybe she’s not too young’ … Maybe I am that dude. I don’t know. “
