Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen made a rare public appearance at their brother Trent’s wedding.
Mary-Kate and Ashley, both 40, were spotted in a family photo shared via Instagram on Thursday, June 25, by Trent and his wife, Alexis, following their nuptials last month.
In the photo, Mary-Kate and Ashley stood next to the bride while rocking floor-length black gowns. The social media upload also featured Ashley’s husband, Louis Eisner, and their younger sister, Elizabeth, her husband, Robbie Arnett, and their half-siblings, Courtney and Jake.
Trent, Ashley, Mary-Kate and Elizabeth, 37, were born to parents Jarnette and David Olsen. Following the pair’s divorce in 1996, David remarried, welcoming daughter Courtney, 29, and son Jake, 28, with wife McKenzie.
Mary-Kate and Ashley became household names while sharing the role of Michelle Tanner on Full House from 1987 to 1995. After the sitcom came to an end, the twins branched out with their own empire of movies, TV shows and brand deals.
As they got older, both Ashley and Mary-Kate chose to take a step back from the public eye. They stopped acting in the mid 2000s after starting their fashion label, The Row.
“We were raised to be discreet people,” Mary-Kate told i-D magazine in a June 2021 profile, with Ashley noting that they “have each other to lean on.”
“We definitely go by intuition and instinct and it can either confirm that feeling, or if we’re both not feeling right about something, for some reason, we just don’t do it,” Ashley explained at the time. “Our instincts are kind of the same. But I think what’s great is that we have each other to lean on.”
In the past, the siblings denied having any plans to return to acting.
“We’ve been there, we’ve done that, we started out that way,” Mary-Kate told Vogue in 2019 about her and Ashley returning to their roots. “This is the way we chose to move forward in our lives: to not be in the spotlight, to really have something that speaks for itself.”
Ashley chimed in, adding, “We didn’t want to be in front of it, we didn’t necessarily even want to let people know it was us. It was really about the product, to the point where we were like: Who could we get to front this so that we don’t have to?”
She continued: “We like working together and we like having that dialogue. I think it helps harden your ideas to be able to hear them out loud, to speak something through.”
