Lily Tomlin Explains Why She’s “So Glad” She Never Had Children With Her Wife

Her character Frankie Bergstein in Netflix’s Grace and Frankie may be a wild, yet nurturing mother, but Lily Tomlin isn’t. And she has never wanted to be. She and her wife Jane Wagner have been together for 50 years, and instead of raising children, they’ve spent most of their lives just creating. Tomlin, a comedian and actress, and Wagner, an experienced screenwriter, have quite the impressive portfolio of professional collaborations, including Tomlin’s one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (which won a Tony) and the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman.“We share similar feelings about people and about the world,” Tomlin told People in 1988. “She’s able to verbalize it and I’m able to physicalize it. She writes satirically but tenderly, and she loves farce and black comedy and broad slapstick. When you put all this together and make an audience laugh and be moved, it’s just glorious.” They got married at a friend’s house in 2013. “It was sweet,” Tomli...