Get able to weep for what may have been, Full Home followers: John Stamos thought-about courting Lori Loughlin earlier than he met ex-wife Rebecca Romijn.
Stamos, 60, recalled his and Loughlin’s near-miss love connection in his memoir, If You Would Have Informed Me, which hit cabinets on Tuesday, October 24. In accordance with Stamos, he and Loughlin, 59, discovered themselves “all of a sudden single on the identical time” within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
“She’s my Sandra Dee from Grease, the nice lady with a form coronary heart who all the time makes me really feel upbeat after I’m round her,” Stamos wrote of Loughlin. “She’s one of many few girls I’ve spent day after day with and nonetheless all the time look ahead to seeing her once more. I do know what makes her chortle, we get one another and we’ve the type of true friendship that’s presupposed to be the muse of a terrific, lasting relationship.”

John Stamos, Lori Loughlin. Joe Scarnici/Getty Photographs for TV Land
Loughlin and Stamos turned mates whereas working collectively on Full Home, which ran from 1987 to 1995. Stamos performed Jesse Katsopolis, whereas Loughlin performed his love curiosity and later spouse, Rebecca Donaldson.
In 1994, Stamos met Romijn, 50, at an afterparty for a Victoria’s Secret trend present that Romijn walked in as a mannequin. Whereas Stamos attended the celebration with Loughlin, he ended up getting Romijn’s quantity. “[She’s] the Sandy-in-Black-Leather-based on the finish of Grease,” Stamos wrote of Romijn.
Loughlin, in the meantime, caught on to the truth that Stamos couldn’t look away from Romijn and her fellow fashions. “Lori has had my quantity the entire time,” Stamos continued. “As every leggy magnificence walks down the runway, she shoots me a figuring out look and maintains a little bit smirk. She is aware of I’m not as able to cool down as I really feel. She’s humoring me.”
Stamos recalled asking himself to decide on between the 2 girls with an additional reference to Grease. “Am I going to take a seat in a swing forlorn on the drive-in carrying a motorbike jacket warbling like John Travolta for Sandra Dee or am I placing on the letterman’s sweater to enter the carnival seeking black patent leather-based stilettos with chills multiplying?” he wrote. “Let’s simply say Rebecca’s first name sounds so much like, ‘Inform me about it, Stud,’ and it’s electrifying.”

Rebecca Romijn, John Stamos. KMazur/WireImage
Romijn and Stamos tied the knot in September 1998 after getting engaged on Christmas Eve the 12 months prior. The previous couple introduced their cut up in April 2004 after 5 years of marriage. He later married Caitlin McHugh in February 2018, whereas Romijn wed Jerry O’Connell in 2007. Stamos and McHugh, 37, share son Billy, 5, and Romijn and O’Connell, 49, are the dad and mom of 13-year-old twins Dolly and Charlie.
Loughlin, for her half, went on to marry Mossimo Giannulli in 1997. The duo share daughters Isabella, 25, and Olivia Jade, 24.
Stamos has beforehand mentioned that he and Loughlin went on a date of their late teenagers after assembly due to their work on cleaning soap operas. “We went on a date to Disneyland earlier than … we have been each married,” he instructed HuffPost in 2013. “We did have some off timing, however — no disrespect to her household and her husband now — I might say that she may very well be the one which acquired away.”
If You Would Have Informed Me is accessible now wherever books are bought.
