This time last year, Jim Carrey’s 22 year old daughter Jane was having a shotgun wedding. Jane married Alex Santana, and instead of throwing a fit or something, Jim was surprisingly supportive of his daughter’s decisions, totally and completely. Jane gave birth to Jim’s first (and as yet, only) grandchild, a little boy named Jackson Riley Santana, in early Spring 2010. In Touch Weekly reports that Jane and Alex have split up… making it a very short marriage:
Just a year after their wedding, Jane Carrey and her husband, Blood Money singer Alex Santana, are calling it quits, a spokesperson for her comedian father, Jim, exclusively confirms to In Touch.
“The couple will remain friends, as well as devoted parents to their 9-month-old son, Jackson Riley,” Marleah Leslie says.
According to a family friend, the 23-year-old Jane Carrey Band front woman and her baby are visiting funnyman Jim in New York, where he is currently filming Mr. Popper’s Penguins.
Jane’s breakup trails her dad’s shocking split from longtime love Jenny McCarthy last spring.
[From In Touch Weekly]
This is the first time I’ve ever really paid attention to photos of Jane – she’s very, very pretty. She’s Jim’s daughter from his first marriage – and they are reportedly very close, and Jim relishes his role as a young grandfather. It’s sad to see a young couple with a baby split up, but… they were really young. People grow up, they grow apart, it happens. Let’s hope Jim continues to support his daughter, because she‘s probably going to need to lean on someone.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She looks just like her dad!
Jim looks just like his daughter!
lol
Thats sad, they just had a baby recently!
She’s beautiful! I’d never seen her before now, either.
This is why I don’t like ‘shotgun weddings’. I’ve never understood why people think they should jump into a marriage they aren’t ready for, just because they’re having a *baby* they aren’t ready for. Two mistakes don’t make a solution. (& please don’t misunderstand, I don’t mean that children are ‘mistakes’, just not being careful about birth control is the mistake.)
Said marriages fail more often than not, which just causes everyone more emotional pain. I really feel for young couples going through this sort of thing, but also find myself annoyed that so many aren’t more careful about birth control.
Jim looks to be real close with his daughter and grandson, I’m sure they will be fine.
And she does look just like him!
Jane is a beautiful young woman with an adorable baby and a dad who loves her; hopefully she’ll be AOK.
I remember all the stories about how much Jim ignored Jane when she was a kid. I don’t think he was always a good father, but, hopefully, he is now.
If they have as close of a bond as it is reported, I am sure Jim will be there for his daughter 100%. Jim seems to be a pretty awesome person and hopefully her split isn’t drama-filled.
I don’t think a couple whose marriage lasted less than a year, who got married because they “had to” grew apart. They didn’t know each other well enough to begin with.
Sad. A baby takes so much time and energy … I don’t know many people who say the first year of their child’s life was the best/strongest time of their marriage.
She is really really pretty!
And this, folks, is why people should not get married just because they get pregnant! A good friend was going to break up with his girlfriend, she got pregnant & now they are engaged. And I am so against it… ARG!
aww. she’s young tho. its tough but she’ll be ok i hope. and ya, she is really pretty girl! i love jim carrey, not only cuz i grew up with his movies but also because he seems like a great dad and grandfather. seriously, how fun would that be to have jim carrey as your grandfather?!
lol! This marriage shit keeps getting funnier by the second……i agree with the poster that said they did not grow apart…nahhhh….they didnt know each other to begin with. Well i hope she still has lots of time for many more marriages down the lline.
She looks so much like him 🙂
Totally agree-I got knocked up after dating my boyfriend for 6 months and he wanted to get married and I said -NO. We did eventually get married when my daughter was 1 1/2 on out own terms instead of a pregnancy. And seriously right after she was born-I had to kick his ass quite a few times to step up and help! Since I refused to marry him he fell right into step so I would! lol It definitely worked for us! =D
I remember years back Jim was on the Ellen show (maybe 2005-2006) and he was riding this tiny bicycle around the studio and totally wiped out. His daughter was there in the audience and she looked like she was ready to die with embarrassment. Just struck me that even when your father is a huge star like Jim Carrey, he can still totally humiliate you in public.
Ugh. Hope the ex-couple manage to stay civil for the sake of that baby.
Pretty girl, cute baby!
I’m surprised Carolyn (?) isn’t commenting about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward getting married because Joanne was prego. 😛
When I was pregnant, I wanted to get married to the dad, but I wanted to wait until after the kid was born. We never married, but we were together until my son was 4, we were together for 8 years, total.
My oldest sister didn’t have a shotgun wedding, per se, but she and my brother-in-law got married when my niece was 4 months old (by a justice of the peace, without her side of the family present), but they recently celebrated their 25th anniversary in October and renewed their vows in a church ceremony.
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