Chris Henchy is a producer, writer, and director, but he and Brooke Shields weren't working on the same project when they met. In her book "Down Came the Rain," Shields recounts how her dog, Darla, decided to go exploring when she brought the canine with her to the Warner Bros. lot. "Chris brought her back. He was writing for a show filmed on the lot and loved dogs," she recalled. "He chatted and he made me laugh."
When Henchy and Shields crossed paths again weeks later, a friendship developed, and that eventually blossomed into a full-fledged romance. After getting married in 2001, the pair set their sights on starting a family ASAP. "Knowing we wanted children helped us decide we wanted to be married," Shields told People. The couple had to turn to in vitro fertilization to accomplish this goal, undergoing seven rounds of IVF and mourning a miscarriage before their first daughter, Rowan, was born in 2003.
That same year, the short-lived sitcom "I'm With Her" premiered on ABC. It was created by Henchy and inspired by his relationship with Shields. But on the show, a teacher meets an actor after her dog bites him. Describing how art imitated life, Henchy told Deseret News, "It's the world of going into a restaurant with her and getting the best table and then showing up three days later with your buddies and sitting waiting an hour and sitting by the kitchen."
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