
‘Broad City’ Star Abbi Jacobson Details the ‘Wild’ Lengths She and Wife Jodi Balfour Go to Feel Safe As a Gay Couple
“Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson revealed that she and wife Jodi Balfour sometimes pretend to be sisters when traveling through certain states.
“As my wife and I drive,” Jacobson, 42, exclusively told Page Six at a special screening of “Tangles” earlier this week, “if we’re driving across the country, there are states where we’re sisters. Just in case.”
The openly gay actress said she was grateful to be able to work in Hollywood without hiding her sexuality, acknowledging that “a lot of people haven’t been able to” do the same.
“It’s really crazy how far we’ve come in so many areas,” she added.
Jacobson, 42, met virtually with the “For All Mankind” star, 39, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The actresses first announced they were dating in October 2021 after keeping their relationship a secret for a year.
“One year with this amazing human. I don’t know how I got so lucky ❤️,” Jacobson wrote on Instagram at the time.
The actresses were married in 2024 at Public Records in Brooklyn.
Jacobson is best known for co-creating and starring alongside Ilana Glazer in the hit Comedy Central series “Broad City,” which ran from 2014 to 2019 and is now streaming on Hulu.
“It felt like I had the most fun,” Jacobson said. “The fact that it resonates with people and continues to do so, it’s like, I mean, it’s the best.”
Jacobson now lends her voice to the animated drama “Tangles,” which follows a young woman named Sarah as she cares for her mother after a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the graphic novel by Sarah Leavitt, the film also features the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein and Seth Rogen.
The screening benefited Hilarity for Charity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lauren Miller Rogen and her husband, Seth Rogen, which raises awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and supports families affected by the disease.
Miller Rogen’s mother was diagnosed with a degenerative brain disorder when she was 55 years old.
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