Mark Wahlberg met model Rhea Durham at a press junket in New York City in 2001, and their first date was a church service. They started a long-term relationship, had four children between 2003 and 2010, and married on August 1, 2009, in a private Catholic ceremony in Beverly Hills. The couple remain married.
- How they met
- They first met during a press junket in New York City in 2001; Wahlberg asked Durham to attend church with him the next day (their first date was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York).
- Children
- Four children together: daughter Ella Rae (born 2003), son Michael (born 2006), son Brendan Joseph (born 2008), and daughter Grace Margaret (born 2010).