‘Brady Bunch’ Ster Maureen McCormick shares the key to successful 40-year-old Hollywood marriage

Maureen McCormick, who played famous as Marcia Brady in “The Brady Bunch”, celebrated her 40th wedding anniversary this year. The actress and her husband, Michael Cummings, say that the secret of a permanent union under the Hollywood -Slichters is surprisingly simple.

“You must have a sense of humor about things,” the actor recently told People On the evening of the John Ritter Foundation from the Heart Gala in Los Angeles.

“You can’t take things too seriously,” he said. “You have to let things go and just the one you are with, it’s a lifelong deal.”

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“Four the differences,” McCormick also told The Outlet. She revealed that they both knew “right away” that they wanted to build one before.

It also helped that Cummings was not a starstruck by McCormick’s TV awareness when they first met.

“I didn’t know who she was, but I liked what I saw,” he said. “I saw those eyes and just fell in love.”

McCormick said that his lack of knowledge about her acting career was ‘very refreshing for me’.

Maureen McCormick played as Marcia Brady in “The Brady Bunch.” She is seen here in 1972. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty images)

“… [He had] No pre -set ideas about who I was, “said the former children’s star.” It was really great. “

“Since I was small, I wanted to get married and find someone,” said McCormick, 69. “It’s just the craziest thing, but I looked at his eyes, we were at a concert, and I just felt he was the one.”

The couple began to date in the 1980s. They married in 1985 and welcomed their daughter, Natalie Michelle Cummings, in 1989.

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Over the years they have given priority to family above fame.

‘To be honest, we didn’t stop celebrating [our anniversary]Because I think a lot of work is needed [in] This place in our relationship, “said McCormick.” It’s better than ever. We feel very grateful and grateful to have found each other. “

McCormick played five seasons from 1969 to 1974 in “The Brady Bunch”. She repeated her role in various spin -off specials and films and later appeared on shows such as “The Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island.” She also participated in “Dancing with the Stars” in 2016.

The cast of “The Brady Bunch” from top left: Christopher Knight (Peter), Barry Williams (Greg) and Ann B. Davis (Alice). Van Middestste row: Eve Plumb (Jan), Florence Henderson (Carol), Robert Reed (Mike) and Maureen McCormick (Marcia). From the bottom row: Susan Olsen (Cindy) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby). (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

In February, McCormick Cummings mentioned her “Forever Valentine” A sincere Instagram post.

In 2024, McCormick spoke more than 40 years sober and said she would not have it in any other way.

At that time she told it US Weekly She felt “incredibly happy” that she had found sobriety after she fell into drug addiction when “The Brady Bunch” ended.

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Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady in “The Brady Bunch”, circa 1972. (CBS Via Getty Images)

“It is not easy at all in the beginning, but it gets better every day,” she said at the time.

McCormick said that austerity has been ‘everything for me’. She also credited her husband to help her get clean.

“I am so happy to be sober and really be clear and comfortable in my skin,” she said. “My husband was a large part of that for me, together with my mother, dad, family and some really good friends.”

Maureen McCormick and Michael Cummings can be seen here on a TV guide exhibition on September 15, 1998 in the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills. (Ron Galella, LTD/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

“I feel very blessed to have him in my life,” she added, referring to Cummings.

The road to austerity was not flexible for McCormick. For five years she struggled with a cocaine addiction, which she described in her 2008 memoirs, “Here is the story.”

“I had played Marcia Brady for five years. But I was not in any way, shape or shape. She was perfect. I was anything but that,” wrote McCormick, as quoted by De Telegraaf.

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Maureen McCormick lives the Los Angeles premiere of “Moving On” in the DGA Theater Complex on March 15, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Rodin Eckenroth/Wireimage/Getty images)

“I sought refuge in apparently glamorous cocaine caves above Hollywood,” she admitted. “I thought I would find answers there, while in reality I just ran further from myself. From there I walked down on a path of self -destruction that cost me my career and almost my life.”

“Over the years I fought against drug addiction and bulimia,” she wrote. “I was treated in a psychiatric department, went in and out of rehabilitation and looked at God for answers … If there was cola, I had to stay up and do every last flake, even if it meant to sleep without days. Nothing else mattered.”

In 2018 McCormick told US Weekly That her parents “almost brought me to the police.”

Actress Maureen McCormick and Michael Cummings are seen backstage during the CMT Music Awards 2008 on April 14, 2008 in Nashville. (Jeff Kravitz/Filmmagic/Getty images)

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“They had tried it for years and knew something was going on,” she said. “I was pretty secret, and I was able to hide very, very well. But then I started messing around on jobs and so many things, so I am sure everyone in the industry knew at the time that I was going on.”

It was Cummings, she told the outlet, who gave her an ultimatum after her last relapse.

“He came to me and said,” If you ever do this medicine more, I am gone, I will leave, “McCormick recalled.” It woke me up. It was like the coldest shower you could ever take. There is just no way to lose someone I love. “