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The sitcom Dharma & Greg put Jenna Elfman on the map, but in real life her better half for the last 30 years has been husband and fellow actor Bodhi Elfman. Though the couple met when Jenna was just 19, kids didn’t enter the equation until much later, and the pair are now parents to two boys, 11-year-old Easton and 14-year-old Story.
Thanks to Jenna’s role on the series Fear the Walking Dead, the family has swapped Los Angeles for Austin, where the Elfmans have been home-schooling their boys throughout the pandemic. Here, she opens up about what taking on teacher duties has taught her, how she copes with a house full of “wild and crazy men” and why she thinks there’s no “perfect block of time” to start a family.
Your boys are 11 and 14 now. What is this stage of their lives like?
The context of COVID is always a unique thing because I’ve been homeschooling them since 2020, and it’s been a new sort of…
