James Van Der Beek shared a heartfelt tribute to his spouse Kimberly as they celebrated their 15-year anniversary amid his most cancers battle.
Posting through Instagram on Friday, August 1, James, 48, gushed over his companion and credited her for all her assist, particularly since his analysis in 2023.
“15 years in the past right now, this girl agreed to be my bride,” James captioned a photograph of the couple. “@vanderkimberly you’re the most extraordinary human I’ve ever met. At some point I’ll inform the story of what you’ve endured these final two years and the way you’ve proven up, time and time and time once more. You haven’t solely saved my life… you’ve proven me what it’s to dwell.”
He continued, “There aren’t any phrases for the way a lot I really like and respect you. I couldn’t do that with out you.”
Concluding the caption, he added, “Pleased anniversary my love ❤️”
The Dawson’s Creek alum met Kimberly in 2009 throughout a visit to Israel and recalled the serendipitous assembly through an Instagram caption in 2020.
“I used to be in Israel, on a visit with an organized group, when it hit me: I used to be finished being single. I needed an actual relationship. A soul mate. Somebody with whom I may construct a household. I used to be mid-revelation, rattling all this off to a buddy of mine when a voice interrupted us, desirous to ask him a query,” James wrote. “I used to be aggravated. Who the hell was stepping throughout my second? I rotated … it was @vanderkimberly.”
The pair hit it off, and went on to wed in August 2010 in a small ceremony in Tel Aviv. Since then, they’ve welcomed six youngsters collectively: daughters Olivia, 14, Annabel, 11, Emilia, 9, and Gwendolyn, 6, and sons Joshua, 13, and Jeremiah, 2.
The actor first publicly revealed his most cancers analysis in November 2024, sharing that he had stage 3 colorectal most cancers. He had been battling the illness since being identified in 2023.
To mark his forty eighth birthday in Could, James posted an Instagram video and admitted it had been the “hardest yr of my life” as he defined the impact his most cancers battle has had on his household.
James defined that defining himself as a “loving, succesful, sturdy, supportive husband, father, supplier, steward of the land” was central to his id — and this was one thing thrown into disarray by his analysis.
“After which this yr, I needed to look my very own mortality within the eye. I got here nostril to nostril with loss of life,” he mentioned. “All of these definitions that I cared so deeply about had been stripped from me. I used to be away for therapy so I may not be a husband who was useful to my spouse. I may not be a father who may choose up his youngsters and put them to mattress and be there for them.”
Nonetheless, he concluded that he managed to understand he was nonetheless worthy of affection and self-love regardless of this dynamic shifting.
