Personal Life
In July 2003, Van Der Beek married actress Heather McComb. Van Der Beek's representative confirmed in June 2009 that the couple had separated in April 2009, and on November 20, 2009, Van Der Beek filed for divorce. Their divorce was finalized on March 31, 2010.
On April 9, 2010, Van Der Beek announced via Twitter that he and his girlfriend, business consultant Kimberly Brook, were expecting their first child together, a girl. Van Der Beek and Brook married on August 1, 2010, in a small ceremony at the Kabbalah Center near Dizengoff Plaza in Tel Aviv, Israel. She took his last name, and the couple's daughter, Olivia Van Der Beek, was born on September 25, 2010. On October 26, 2011, Van Der Beek announced their second child was on the way. The Van Der Beeks welcomed a son, Joshua, on March 13, 2012.
In the May 2012 issue of Maxim, Van Der Beek was interviewed in the column "24 Hours To Live." Asked if he would be going to heaven or hell, Van Der Beek said that he had "always believed that each religion is a little bit right and a little bit wrong. As long as none of them are 100 percent right, I like my chances."
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