Judge Judy may be known for her no-nonsense work in the courtroom, but Judy Sheindlin also has another big love in her life: her kids. The famed TV judge first tied the knot with attorney Ronald Levy back in 1964, just as she was turning 21. As she told Fox's OBJECTified in 2017, in those times, there were certain expectations that young women faced at that age. "It was time for me to get married [because] all my friends were getting married," she shared. That being said, she was certain she wanted to have kids, not because it was expected, but because "I was never one of those women who said, 'I want a career, and I'm really not into having babies.'" So that's exactly what she did. As The Sun reports, daughter Jamie was born in 1966 and her younger brother, Adam, followed in 1968.
Sheindlin hit pause on her career to raise her kids and she has no regrets about it, however, she told Fox that she soon became "very bored" staying at home. She returned to school to get her Master's in Family Law from NYU and, after five years of being a devoted housewife, decided it was time to get back to work. However, Levy didn't agree and they grew apart. Sheindlin told Fox, "My first husband is a lovely, lovely man but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that." They divorced in 1976.
