"We made a commitment early on to be a family, even though we weren't a couple."
"Coming from someone who's literally in the midst of a divorce, I can't even imagine [getting married] again," she told Gwyneth. "So that's amazing, that you found love, and you found the space and the vulnerability at that level to say yes, and to do it again. Was that hard for you?"
"Probably the hardest thing I've ever done," Gwyneth answered.
Gwyneth and Chris have two children — Apple, 16, and Moses, 14.
Meanwhile, Kelly shares 6-year-old River and 4-year-old Remington with her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. She was also stepmother to Brandon's two children from his previous marriage.
During a September episode of the Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly said while she would be sharing her personal feelings on her divorce, she wouldn't be going into too much detail for the sake of the couple's children.
"Divorce is never easy," she said at the time. "And we're both from divorced families, so we know the best thing here is to protect our children and their little hearts."
"It sounds weird and impossible," Gwyneth said. "But we worked with a therapist, who was amazing at helping us communicate."
"Luckily, we both came from families that were strong, and our parents were still together," she went on. "We really did want the same things, and we wanted the divorce ideally to impact the kids as little as possible."
"We just tried to make a commitment to really stay close, and we've been able to do that," she went on. "It wasn't easy. I'm proud of us for having really stuck to it."
"Now it's many years, and so it's much easier now," Gwyneth added. "It's harder in the beginning, of course. But you just have to make a concerted effort to really think about what is best for the children in this moment, and you have to push your own reactivity down as best you can."
"Chris and I committed to putting them first," she said at the time. "And that's harder than it looks."
"Some days you really don't wanna be with the person that you're getting divorced from," she went on. But, if you're committed to having family dinner, then you do it."
"You take a deep breath, you look the person in the eye, you remember your pact and you smile and you hug and you make a joke and you just recommit to this new relationship that you are trying to foster."