Personal Life
While in college, Reed realized he was homosexual, but chose to keep it private. Despite his sexual orientation, he dated women and married fellow Northwestern student Marilyn Rosenberg in 1954. The couple had one daughter, Karen, in 1956 and divorced in 1959.
Reed continued to keep his sexuality private because he felt his career required him to be secretive about his homosexuality. However, most of the Brady Bunch cast members — most notably Barry Williams and Florence Henderson — knew of his sexual orientation, and expressed outrage at the media's exploitation of it after his death.
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