Chynna Phillips & Billy Baldwin Reveal Marriage Secret: Separate Houses

Actor William Baldwin and wife, singer Chynna Phillips attend the 18th Annual Genesis Awards presented by the Humane Society of the United States on March 20, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California
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Chynna Phillips Baldwin and Billy Baldwin have been married since 1995, and things haven’t always been easy for the couple. They have three adult children now: daughters Jameson, 24, and Brooke, 19, and son Vance, 22. And since their kids are all grown up, they have a bit of an unconventional lifestyle.

The married couple opened up about their living arrangements in a YouTube video posted to Chynna’s channel. They admitted that while they are still married and very much together, they live in different houses in different cities in California.

Actor William Baldwin and wife Chynna Phillips (L) attend the ABC Upfront presentation at Lincoln Center on May 15, 2007 in New York City

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She said, “Billy and I are sort of in this new kind of arrangement that is actually really working for me. I don’t know if it’s working for Billster, but I’m really happy with what we’re doing. Basically, it’s totally unstructured … let me explain. I said to Billy, ‘Look, why don’t we just do a little test run to see what it feels like to have me in Santa Barbara, you in Beverly Hills, and then we flip-flop.’ Then in between, we have date nights together, we have therapy, we have dinner with the children and we go to the beach or the museum.”

Actress/singer Chynna Phillips (L) and her husband, actor WIlliam Baldwin, arrive at the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant at the Mandalay Bay Events Center August 23, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada

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While they still have sleepovers and spend time together, Chynna said that the arrangement helps them not have to be together 24/7. She admitted that Billy was a bit more skeptical about the whole thing, but he was willing to try whatever she wanted in order to have a good marriage.

In this handout photo provided by Gene Duncan, actor William Baldwin and his wife, singer Chynna Phillips, pose with Minnie Mouse in Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort on October 15,2013 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Chynna Phillips, the lead singer of the musical trio Wilson Phillips, was performing at the theme park

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Billy joked, “The reality is you have the allergy, I have a certain energy that makes you have a — see, your back just tweaked just now. You do things that, you know, sort of alter my energy sometimes.” Check out the entire video below and let us know what you think in the comments!

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