Maria Shriver open to love in her 70s after staying single ‘my whole 60s’: ‘If a great man comes along’

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Maria Shriv­er is step­ping into a new decade with an open heart

As the for­mer first lady of Cal­i­for­nia approach­es her 70th birth­day in Novem­ber, she shared can­did thoughts about her sin­gle life and open­ness to love dur­ing a guest appear­ance on ‘Today’.

Maria Shriv­er says she’s has ‘been sin­gle my whole 60s’

Shriv­er reflect­ed on the past decade, not­ing she had been sin­gle through­out her 60s and enjoyed the expe­ri­ence.

Your 60s are fan­tas­tic, and I was sin­gle in my 60s,” said Shriv­er. “I have been sin­gle my whole 60s. And now I’m end­ing my 60s. I loved being sin­gle, but oth­er peo­ple had a big prob­lem with it,” she said on ‘Today with Jen­na & Friends’ on Fri­day, June 27.  

The moth­er of four explained that while she has been “hap­pi­ly sin­gle,” many peo­ple around her seemed eager to see her in a rela­tion­ship.

“I also think peo­ple want you to be hap­py and they want you to have love and they want you to be in a cou­ple,” she added as per Peo­ple.

Maria Shriver is ‘interested in any great love experience’ at 70

When co-host Jen­na Bush Hager asked whether she was cur­rent­ly “inter­est­ed in dat­ing,” Shriv­er respond­ed, “I’m inter­est­ed in any great love expe­ri­ence.”

Bush Hager pushed fur­ther, inter­pret­ing the answer as a yes, to which Shriv­er replied, “That’s a yes. I’m kind of try­ing to be open and yes to life in all its forms. How about that? I just made that all up.”

Shriv­er added that she believes love is pos­si­ble at any age. “I think if a great man comes along, that’s great, at any age, by the way,” she said

Maria Shriv­er says her kids want her on a dat­ing app, but she says ‘absolute­ly not!’

Shriver’s most pub­lic rela­tion­ship was her 25-year mar­riage to Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, with whom she shares four chil­dren — Kather­ine Schwarzeneg­ger, 35, Christi­na Schwarzeneg­ger, 33, Patrick Schwarzeneg­ger, 31, and Christo­pher Schwarzeneg­ger, 27.

The cou­ple sep­a­rat­ed in 2011 fol­low­ing rev­e­la­tions that Schwarzeneg­ger had fathered a child with their house­keep­er. Their divorce was final­ized in 2021, and since then, Shriv­er has not been pub­licly linked to any­one.

Speak­ing ear­li­er this month on the ‘Jamie Kern Lima Show’, Shriv­er said, “I’m not look­ing, but I’m open to what­ev­er God sends my way.”

She added that her chil­dren have joked about set­ting her up online. “My kids have kid­ded around going, ‘We should make you a dat­ing app [pro­file],’” said Shriv­er. “I’m like ‘Absolute­ly not!’”