starsRachel Bilson and Adam Brody from striking up a relationship.
Having all eyes on them wasn’t always easy.
In Alan Sepinwall’s oral history about the show, “Welcome to the O.C.”

Superstars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen welcomed Bilson into their car before noting she abandoned her then-boyfriend in the chaos.
The relationship lasted three years before they broke things off in 2006.
After news of their split first surfaced, a source offered the reason for the breakup toPeople.

“They’ve been on and off for a while now,” they said.
“It was a typical romance and they just grew apart.”
“Ran into my ol buddy from JFK to LAX,” she wrote.
He fared really well" (viaGlamour).
B*tches" in 2021.
After both “The O.C.”
and her showmance drew to an end, Bilson moved in on her personal life and professional life.
The real-life Seth Cohen has stayed busy, too.
A decade before that, he married"Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester.
The couple have two children together, a girl born in 2015 and a boy born in 2020.
Everyone fared really well, indeed.