Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have divorced after 27 years of marriage. The two have issued a joint statement announcing the end of their marriage. After spending a long time together for 27 years, many people are surprised by the fact that they suddenly get divorced at this stage of age. Let’s know the whole story from Bill Gates and Melinda’s love story to divorce.
The ‘Inside Bills Brain’ series released on Netflix in 2019 has shown a lot about Bill Gates’ personal life. According to the documentary, Melinda joined Microsoft in 1987 as a product manager. During a business dinner, Bill met Melinda for the first time and gradually the closeness of the two began to grow.
Initially, Bill and Melinda were not serious about their relationship. At one point in the documentary, Bill says, “He had more boyfriends and I had Microsoft.” We were not serious about each other and neither asked for time to spend with each other. However, after a year of dating, the story changed.
One day Bill suddenly said ‘I love you’ to Melinda. Melinda also expressed her love for Bill. Bill said, “We cared about each other a lot and we had only two possibilities, either we would have a breakup or a marriage.” In the documentary, Melinda laughs, ‘They had to make a decision. One day I went to Bill’s room where he was making a list on his whiteboard as to what are the advantages and disadvantages of getting married. ‘
Melinda says that Bill wanted to get married but he was in a dilemma about whether he would be able to play it with running Microsoft. At the same time, Bill said that he had taken the idea of marriage very seriously. The two finally got married in 1994. At that time, Bill was 38 and Melinda was 29 years old.
They both have three children. In 1996, Melinda gave birth to their first daughter Jennifer. After this, in 1999, she became the mother of son Rory and in 2002, the second daughter Phoebe. 9 years after giving birth to children, Melinda left Microsoft, although she continued to support her husband at work.
In 1994, they both started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This foundation works on global health, education and development issues. During a Facebook Live in 2019, Bill said, ‘It is a challenging task to work together as well as to manage a family. We are very lucky because we see most things from the same perspective, we both have very similar goals.
In the documentary, Bill praised Melinda as a truly true companion. Bill said that Melinda has a positive outlook and she meets people in a better way than me. He is a better person than me.
Bill and Melinda’s older daughter Jennifer studies medical at Stanford. Jennifer has released a statement on her Instagram story in which she has written about the separation of her parents.
In the post Jennifer wrote, ‘This is a challenging time for our whole family. I am still learning how to handle myself and take care of the rest of the family at this time. I do not want to make any personal comment on the separation of the two. Thank you for all your support and cooperation. ‘
