Former Hallmark Couple Discloses Fascinating Financial Arrangement

When Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn co-starred in the 2017 Hallmark movie “Love Locks,” their paychecks likely didn’t go to the same place. That’s because the two stars have “completely separate bank accounts,” Romijn revealed on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM Radio show on July 17, 2025.

The couple opened up on “Andy Cohen Live” about how they’ve handled their finances since they married in 2007. O’Connell, 51, and Romijn, 52, disclosed that they each deposit their own paychecks into individual bank accounts, and then transfer some into a “community pot” four times a year to cover family expenses.

Rebecca Romijn Says the Person Who’s ‘Working More’ Adds More to the ‘Community Pot’

During the couple’s SiriusXM appearance, Cohen joked that “money is not coming in” for O’Connell since CBS canceled “The Talk,” the daytime talk show he co-hosted from 2021 to 2024.

But Cohen quipped that Romijn’s salary must be “full of zeros right now.” Romijn’s career is on a roll, given that the third season of her Paramount+ show “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” premiered on July 17, she just wrapped filming the fourth, and she will soon return as Mystique in Marvel’s “Avengers: Doomsday.”

When Cohen asked whether their financial arrangement was something they discussed early on, Romijn said, “For sure. That’s, like, one of the first conversations you have when you decide to enter into a legal agreement together.”

Romijn, who was married to “Full House” star John Stamos from 1998 to 2005, added that she and O’Connell both contribute to a “community pot” to pay for family expenses. They share 16-year-old twin daughters Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip.  

“I have to say, we actually throttle how much money we put into that account sometimes,” O’Connell said, and Romijn interjected, “depending on who’s working more.”

“The one who’s not working gets a little bit of a break,” she explained, and the one who is working puts in a little more. And we really tag-team with work.”

Jerry O’Connell Once Called Rebecca Romijn On Air to Ask for Betting Money

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In August 2024, before the couple had disclosed their financial arrangement publicly, O’Connell called Romijn during an appearance on the “Pardon My Take” podcast to ask if she was okay with him dipping into their community pot to pay for fantasy football fees.

Hoping to participate with the podcast co-hosts, he told her on the air, “They are part of a fantasy league and I would like to join. It is going to cost 1/10 of repairing our driveway.”

Laughing, Romijn told him, “Jer, you’ve never won in fantasy football. “You get mad at the entire family. You get mad at everybody when you don’t win.”

O’Connell, whose former series “Carter” is available to stream on Hallmark+, quipped, “This could be a very victorious moment for all of us.” His wife hesitated and then agreed — as long as he promised to win.

O’Connell and Romijn have other unique agreements as part of their marriage, they told Cohen, including with their child-rearing.

“We decided when our girls were born that … one of us would always stay home with our daughters while the other works,” Romijn explained to Cohen. “So, no one else is ever going to raise them besides us.”