Personal Life
Borstein is married to actor and writer Jackson Douglas, whom she met while studying improv at the ACME Comedy Theater. Douglas proposed to her during the taping of a MADtv skit; the couple married in 1999. In the DVD commentary for the Family Guy episode "Stewie Kills Lois" – at the time, she was pregnant – she joked about the possibility of naming her baby Stewie. The couple's son, Barnaby Borstein Douglas, was born on September 8, 2008. Borstein gave birth to their daughter, Henrietta Borstein Douglas, on October 1, 2012.
Borstein plays the harp, as she demonstrated on Gilmore Girls.
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