Good Housekeeping (Oct. 2006)Why we love him We first met Fox as Charlie Salinger, the lost soul tending to his four orphaned siblings on TV’s Party of Five. Now he’s tending to Lost souls as Dr. Jack Shephard, a surgeon stranded on a strange island in the hit ABC series. Lucky for fans, that means plenty of wet-T-shirt moments for the 40-year-old, six-foot-two actor. Appropriately nicknamed Foxy by his fellow castaways, Fox has two kids in real life–daughter Kyle, eight, and son Byron, four–and for nearly 20 years, he has been with his Italian-born wife, Margherita, whom he fell in love with while he was a student at Columbia University in New York City. “We’re good friends and always have been,” Fox says of his spouse. “She’s an amazing woman and a phenomenal mother.” He’s unfazed by the fans who’d like to be marooned with him. “The sex symbol image of me–that feels like a different person,” he laughs. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t flattering. But I’m also sort of embarrassed by it.” More important is his role as Dad. “I want my kids to respect me as a father and as a friend,” he says. “I don’t want them to get carried away by all this fame stuff.” When it comes to being a good husband, Fox feels that love means learning another language. “The one thing I always tell my wife is ‘Ti amo piu di tutto nel mondo.’ It means ‘I love you more than anything in the world.’ I say it to her often.” |
