{"id":20095,"date":"2026-09-11T23:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=20095"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:07:11","slug":"kevin-bacon-took-a-dna-test-the-result-involved-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=20095","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon Took a DNA Test \u2014 The Result Involved His Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have been married since 1988, but years into their marriage, a genealogy show revealed something neither of them expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During their appearances on <em>Finding Your Roots<\/em>, researchers uncovered a surprising connection between the Hollywood couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They learned that Bacon and Sedgwick are <strong>ninth cousins once removed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sedgwick\u2019s reaction was priceless when she first heard the news\u2014and Bacon later described their shared ancestry in a surprisingly positive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the unexpected discovery, the couple has remained together for decades and recently celebrated their <strong>38th wedding anniversary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how exactly did a DNA and genealogy investigation uncover their family connection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have been married since 1988, but years into their marriage, a genealogy show revealed something neither of them expected. During their appearances on Finding Your Roots, researchers uncovered a surprising connection between the Hollywood couple. They learned that Bacon and Sedgwick are ninth cousins once removed. Sedgwick\u2019s reaction was priceless &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20097,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20095\/revisions\/20097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}