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Margaret Qualley has found her person.
In a new cover story for Cosmopolitan’s Fall 2025 issue, The Substance actress, 30, opened up about her relationship with husband Jack Antonoff, revealing that before they met she “felt really lonely” in her relationships.
“In every other relationship I’ve ever been in, I still felt really lonely because I wasn’t with my person, and it’s like I was seeking something,” Qualley said in the interview, published Monday, Aug. 4. “I don’t feel like that anymore. Jack makes me feel safe and comfortable.”
“I spent so many years trying to be someone’s perfect girl, and that girl changed over and over again,” she continued. “But I can’t lie to Jack. I can’t be that for him — he’d see through it. So I just have to be myself. He’s been the person I’ve pictured my whole life. And I’m not even saying that metaphorically.”
Plus, Qualley added, it helps that the Grammy-winning producer, 41, looks a lot like her first celebrity crush. “My first crush was Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy, and I’ve been looking for that essence my whole life,” she told Cosmopolitan. “I’m like, ‘That’s Jack.’ ”
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Margaret Qualley for Cosmopolitan's Fall 2025 issueThe Honey Don't! star also shared rare insight into the couple’s relationship, including how the pair — who tied the knot in 2023 — first met.
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“Falling in love with Jack was the biggest feeling I’ve ever felt,” Qualley told Cosmopolitan. “We met right as COVID was ending, at the first party I’d been to. We saw each other on a roof, and we just started talking and never stopped. We went on a series of walks throughout the city that summer.”
She said Antonoff was the first to say “I love you” in their relationship. When asked about it, she told the outlet, “He did, obviously.”
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Margaret Qualley for 'Cosmopolitan'“I’m very old-school about stuff like this. I would never put myself out there first,” she continued. “I never text twice. I mean, now we’re married and I can text him anything at any time. We’re always having a conversation; he’s like my human diary.”
“But before we were together,” she added, “at the beginning, I would always follow Southern-girl etiquette.”
This healthy love that they have now, she said, makes her feel “like there’s always a ground below you.”
“You can’t fall very far,” Qualley explained, “because you’re going to be caught. But love is also hard. It’s why I feel inspired to make movies about love, whether it’s platonic or romantic or whatever. The kind of thing I would be proud to show my kids one day.”
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Qualley and Antonoff made one of their earliest public appearances as a couple at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards. In May 2022, they sparked engagement rumors at the Cannes Film Festival after Qualley was spotted wearing a diamond ring. At the time, a source confirmed to PEOPLE that the couple were engaged.
The actress and producer later wed in New Jersey on Aug. 19, 2023, in front of numerous celebrity guests, including Taylor Swift, Zoë Kravitz and Lana Del Rey.
Before Antonoff, Qualley was linked to Nat Wolff, Pete Davidson and Shia LaBeouf. Antonoff, meanwhile, has dated Lena Dunham and model Carlotta Kohl.
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