Adam Brody and Leighton Meester Have ‘De Facto Separate Toilets’

Adam Brody is getting candid about his living arrangements with wife Leighton Meester.

“We have de facto separate toilets,” Brody, 45, told Access Hollywood at the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday, January 5. “I go in the office. It’s nice. One layer farther away from the kids and one layer more deep with privacy.”

Meester, 38, appeared confused by her husband’s remark. “I just put no thought into the toilet situation whatsoever,” she said. “Never crossed my mind.”

Meester attended the awards show at The Beverly Hilton in celebration of Brody, who was nominated for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Comedy for his role in Nobody Wants This. Brody ultimately lost the award to The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White. (A Man on the Inside’s Ted Danson, Only Murders in the Building’s Steve Martin and Martin Short and Shrinking’s Jason Segel were also nominated for the award.)

While reflecting on his nomination, Brody recalled receiving the news while with Meester. “I received calls, but I don’t honestly remember calling anyone. We were in bed together, so that was nice. I don’t think I called anyone,” Brody said when asked who was the first person he reached out to via phone.

Before Brody earned the nod for his performance, Meester weighed in on whether she thought the show would be successful prior to its release.

“I mean, I don’t know if I’m one to say,” she said. “I feel like we watched it together before it came out and I was like, ‘It works. It works. It’s so good.’ And you’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ … I think there’s no way to know, especially with streaming now you kind of can’t tell. And then it came out and it was like, ‘Alright.’”

After watching the show, Meester called Brody’s kiss with costar Kristen Bell “great.” Brody, for his part, said Meester “taught me.” He added, “She gets the good stuff, that’s not even like the A-material.”

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Brody and Meester tied the knot in February 2014 and welcomed daughter Arlo, 9, and a son, 4, whose name has not been revealed. While the pair have kept their romance largely out of the public eye, Brody shared a rare glimpse into their relationship one month before the Golden Globes.

“Despite the state of the world, I feel like I’m living my best life,” he told British magazine Stylist in December 2024. “I have a beautiful, dreamy family life. I have a good work-life balance and get to spend a lot of time with my kids. I’m in that really great period of middle age where I’m old enough to have seniority and work security but also still have enough of my body to be active and do all the things I want to. I’m a lucky guy.”