You may know Kimberly Williams-Paisley for herlong-lasting marriage with country music star Brad Paisley.
These days, she is still busy with acting projects and family life, as well as charitable work.
As she toldSouthern Living, she’s grateful to have so much going on.
“It’s all something I want to be doing.
That’s such a luxury, that my life is busy with stuff that I’ve chosen to do.
It’s amazing,” she said.
But she didn’t become the successful and busy woman she is today simply overnight.
Kimberly is the oldest of the siblings and seems close to both.
Over 500 women auditioned for the role, which she won and gained her stardom through.
Her next big career-defining role came in 2001, playing Dana on “According to Jim.”
Williams-Paisley’s character is Cheryl’s sister a role many people still recognize her for.
She was on the show for seven seasons and rejoined the cast for the final episode in 2009.
Court taught me a lot about hosting, though I never quite mastered it the way she did.
There were times that this cast was the MOST FUN group to play with," Williams-Paisley wrote.
Just like Williams-Paisley, her costarCourtney Thorne-Smith lives a different lifetoday than she did during the show.
Audiences got a chance to see the couple together when she starred in his music video.
After that call, the pair started dating and have been together ever since.
However, it became much more real after meeting “Whiskey Lullaby” singer Brad Paisley.
The pair became engaged quickly after they started dating, and they married in 2003.
They had a beautiful wedding surrounded by friends and family.
Williams-Paisley wore a beautiful Monique Lhuillier gown for the ceremony, and a second Mark Zunino for the reception.
The celebration ended with Paisely singing the comical song “Toilet Seat Down” before the couple left.
In 2023, Kimberly shared anInstagram postcelebrating two decades of marriage.
“This is 20 years.
Oh the places we’ve been!
Happy anniversary [Brad Paisley].
The slideshow show accompanying the caption showed sweet photos as well as comical moments between the celebrity couple.
Kimberly toldPeoplethat not taking themselves too seriously has been one of the keys to their successful marriage.
“We record the meaningful moments, the best laughs.
Two years later, in 2009, Kimberly gave birth to another boy, Jasper Warren.
Parenthood completely changed the couple’s life.
Kimberly appears to love motherhood and truly values any time she can spend with her children.
We’re trying to do that as much as we can,” she toldPeople.
In the photo, she has a large baby bump and looks visibly tired from hours of labor.
Still, she looked back on the moment fondly.
In the caption, she wrote, “February 22nd, 2007.
Happy 15th birthday Huck!!
We love you so!!”
In it, she opened up about her and her family’s journey with her mother’s health.
She thought this was strange but was able to explain it away at the time.
A couple years later, Linda was diagnosed.
The actor published her book so other families could take comfort and learn from her story.
She shared aselfie to her Instagramshowing her lying in bed in a hospital gown.
She discovered it was due to damage to her laryngeal nerve.
“I lost my voice on stage at my Alzheimer’s event in Nashville.
It was embarrassing & scary & it never quite came back.
It’s been a challenging couple of years,” she wrote in the caption.
She continued, explaining, “I tried everything I could to heal it.
The Store is a community food program dedicated to battling hunger.
The idea for The Store was inspired after volunteering with their children.
We want to give people that short-term solution as they are trying to get back on their feet.”
I remember thinking, ‘Why are we talking right now?
Don’t we both have to go places?’
But now, I understand that this is just what we do in the South.”
Between her acting work and her husband’s music career, the couple is often busy.
But, at home, they live a simpler life with their family and many pets.
She said they’ve collected quite a few animals over time.
“I never thought we would have a donkey, but we do!
… We adopted him; he’s a rescue donkey,” she said."
The family also has two rescue dogs and a bearded dragon (a throw in of lizard).
