Yahoo Lifestyle 'The View' Co-Hosts Debate Barbara Corcoran's Controversial Bedroom Arrangement With Husband
A few days after Barbara Corcoran opened up about the sleeping arrangement she has with her husband, the co-hosts of The View weighed in with their thoughts on the controversial marriage strategy.
Corcoran, 75, has been married to Bill Higgins since 1988. Corcoran and Higgins share two children—and, as the businesswoman explained during a recent podcast appearance, they have a longstanding separate bedrooms rule.
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“I have to invite him into my bedroom,” she told Jamie Kern Lima during an episode of the IT Cosmetics founder’s The Jamie Kern Lima Show that dropped on Monday, Dec. 2. “And I like it that way. He’s never invited me back, because he knows I’ll never come into his bedroom. But I have to invite him into my bedroom.”
When Kern Lima followed up to ask if the arrangement improved their sex life, Corcoran gave an emphatic “no,” adding, “but he thinks it does.”
The View co-host Joy Behar opened the discussion about Corcoran’s separate bedrooms arrangement with a joke, telling the audience that the Shark Tank star “just revealed what goes on behind closed doors in her marriage—and doesn’t sound like much.” The show then played a clip from the video podcast before the ABC talk show hosts began discussing the pros and cons of the setup. The show later shared a clip of their discussion on Instagram on Friday, Dec. 6.
Behar said she occasionally makes use of a second bedroom in the home she shares with her husband, Steve Janowitz. “I get out of the bed because the dog snores, and my husband snores, so it’s a concerto,” she explained.
Ana Navarro then shared a story about a cousin of hers who struggled to sleep in the same room as their husband, who used a loud CPAP machine. “Listen, sleeping is important, right?” Navarro said.
While Sunny Hostin said sleeping in separate bedrooms “wouldn’t work” for her after 26 years of marriage, she offered another idea for her co-hosts to consider. “I could get behind separate bathrooms,” she said.
“Well, that’s a given,” Behar agreed. The 82-year-old TV host then made another suggestion that she said “really works.”
"Not separate bedrooms—separate countries,” Behar said, igniting laughter among her co-hosts and in the live audience. She reflected on how her early years with Janowitz—long before they got married in 2011) involved the two living separately. “He was commuting from the Bronx,” she explained. “I have to say, it was the hottest time of our relationship, because we were not in the same room constantly. It’s like, enough with him. He’s here all the time.”
