Andie MacDowell has been married twice and came close to walking down the aisle a third time. But these days, she’s content on her own.
“I’m so single,” the star of The Way Homeshared on The Drew Barrymore Show in 2024. It’s possible she’s gone on a date or two since then, but it doesn’t sound like finding another husband is at the top of her to-do list.
“People finally gave up, because everybody would say, 'So, is there a man?'” Macdowell, 67, told Barrymore. “You know, years and years go by. Now, nobody asks me anymore."
“We had such an evolution of who we are as human beings," she added. "I do think that there is nothing wrong with being single, really. I have great female friends and I have some male friends that I like too."
Of course, MacDowell didn’t arrive at her conclusion without falling in love along the way. Keep reading to learn more about her high-profile relationships.
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Nope. So far as the public is concerned, MacDowell has been flying solo for years. Speaking to Barrymore, the Groundhog Daystar explained that she’s single in part because she isn’t interested in playing the “subservient” role in a relationship.
“I think because I'm so independent and I've been alone for so long that any kind of dominance over me [is off-putting],” she explained.
She shared a similar sentiment in a 2018 interview with The Huffington Post. “I’m not dating. I wouldn’t mind it, but I don’t want to play that role anymore,” she said. “I’ve done it before. You get in with a man, and they start expecting that. I can’t do it.”
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Who are Andie Macdowell’s ex-husbands?
MacDowell met her first husband, model-turned-contractor Paul Qualley, while shooting a Gap ad in 1985.
Reflecting on that fateful day decades later (and long after their divorce), MacDowell wrote on Facebook, “...You can see how completely smitten I was when I met the father of my children on a GAP shoot. We had chemistry right off the bat — it was electric.”
The two tied the knot just a year after meeting and settled down on a ranch in Montana, where they had what appeared to be an idyllic marriage away from the glare of Hollywood. MacDowell, then a rising movie star, would jet off to shoots while Qualley stayed behind to manage the household and care for their three kids.
But at some point in the late ‘90s, their arrangement began to sour. “I decided I didn't want to grow older in the middle of nowhere among people who weren't my family," MacDowell told The Age in 2002. She and Qualley moved with their kids to North Carolina, just down the street from her sister, and a year later, the couple was getting divorced.
They kept it cordial for the sake of the children, but tensions surfaced publicly after MacDowell remarried in 2001. Qualley reportedly remarked that he hoped her new marriage would bring their kids more stability—a comment that MacDowell didn’t take lightly.
"Who knows if he said it or not," she responded in an interview with The Age. "I think I was stable the whole time, and that's not why I got remarried. I married because I love my husband."
She also suggested that Qualley’s reputation for being a house husband, which she helped build over the years, was perhaps not as warranted as it seemed.
"He was not really Mr Mom any more than I was Mrs Mom,” she said. “We had nannies.”
If there were any hard feelings, though, it appears they’re long gone. Looking back on their marriage, MacDowell wrote on Facebook in 2025, “...Even though we ended up getting a divorce (we were both heartbroken) we came out of it with three absolutely gorgeous children. Life is not always easy and sometimes you go through difficult times. But the great beauty of the process of life is you never know how it’s going to end.”
Andie MacDowell's second husband: Rhett Hartzog
MacDowell’s second marriage was to her former classmate Rhett Hartzog.
The two originally knew each other growing up in South Carolina, where they graduated from Gaffney High School just a year apart. “I had a secret crush on her in high school,” Hartzog, who owned a jewelry business in Atlanta, admitted after their relationship went public.
They reconnected in 1999 through MacDowell’s sister and were engaged later that year. “She’s such a good person, a great mother and a good Christian,” Hartzog told People. “She’s as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.”
They tied the knot in November 2001 in Asheville, North Carolina, with 450 guests in attendance, including MacDowell’s three children from her first marriage. But the fairy-tale reunion didn’t last. After nearly three years of marriage, MacDowell filed for divorce. Details surrounding the split were kept largely out of the public eye, with one source telling People, “It’s a painful and very private time.”
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MacDowell is a mom of three. She shares son Justin (born in 1986) and daughters Rainey (born in 1990) and Margaret (born in 1994) with her first husband, Paul Qualley.
Her oldest, Justin, tends to stay out of the spotlight, though he’s popped up alongside his mom at events over the years. Her daughters, meanwhile, have followed her into the entertainment world. Rainey is a multihyphenate—acting, modeling and making music under the name Rainsford—while Margaret has become a major star in her own right, landing roles in projects like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Netflix’s Maid and The Substance.
For MacDowell, building a family alongside her career was always the goal. “Being a mother was a priority to me,” she wrote in an Instagram post (via People). “I definitely wanted to have a successful career but I did not want it to be at the cost of not having the opportunity to have a family.”
She’s now a grandmother as well, first taking on the role in 2022 when her son Justin and his partner, Nicolette, welcomed a baby girl named Cozette. “I've never had somebody look into me and see my soul like that,” she said. “It was definitely a soul-to-soul connection.”
In December 2024, her daughter Rainey welcomed a baby girl named Bluebell.
Are Andie MacDowell and Paul Qualley still together?
No. The pair divorced in 1999 after 13 years of marriage and three kids. Qualley has stayed out of the spotlight since then, but he was at daughter Margaret’s star-studded 2023 wedding to musician Jack Antonoff.
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MacDowell’s third engagement was to Asheville-area businessman Kevin Geagan, but little is known about their romance other than that they got engaged over the 2005 holiday season. “I can tell you that we are engaged. Obviously, I'm very happy.” Geagan, who owned a used-car business, golf course and other ventures in North Carolina, said at the time.
But despite the promising start, the relationship didn’t make it down the aisle. In true MacDowell fashion, the split was handled privately and without much fanfare, so it’s anyone’s guess as to why they called off the wedding.
Is Andie MacDowell single?
It’s possible she’s in a relationship and keeping it to herself, but her public statements over the past several years suggest she’s happily single.
"I feel like a lot of times, we get this pressure we have to be with someone. That we're incomplete if we choose to be single,” she said on The Talk in 2019. “...I've been married and I know what it's like. It's great and everything, but I don't know that I really want to do it [again]. I want great friends … I want to go to bed by myself ... My life feels very full."
In a 2024 interview with Flow Space, she put it more bluntly. “Why would you even date? What’s the purpose?” she said. “Are you doing it because you want to have sex? Are you doing it because you want to be in a relationship? The things that I’m inspired to do right now are to make really good friends. I want smart friends. I want friends that care about me, that are loving and loyal, and that have deep conversations about things that I care about. But to go out and search for someone? What am I searching for?”
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