Editing Jeff Bridges (section)

== Personal life ==
{{stack|[[File:Jeff Bridges (Berlin Film Festival 2011) revised.jpg|thumb|upright|Bridges at the premiere of ''[[True Grit (2010 film)|True Grit]]'' at the [[2011 Berlin Film Festival]]]]}}
Bridges and his siblings inherited their family house in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] from their parents. In January 2025, the house burned down in the [[Palisades Fire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jeff-bridges-family-home-malibu-destroyed-palisades-fire-1236105814/|title=Jeff Bridges’ Family Home in Malibu Destroyed in Palisades Fire|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=January 9, 2025|access-date=January 9, 2025}}</ref>

=== Marriage and family ===
Bridges married Susan Geston in 1977.<ref name="wife">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprah.com/own-master-class/jeff-bridges-unbelievable-love-story-video_1|title=Jeff Bridges Unbelievable Love Story—and the Photo to Prove It|website=oprah.com|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/10/a-true-hollywood-love-story|title=A True Hollywood Love Story|first=Rebecca|last=Dana|date=March 10, 2010|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/columnists/rasmussen-about-my-cousin-susan/article_5ffc068a-254e-11df-8f5d-001cc4c002e0.html|title=Rasmussen: About my cousin, Susan|first=Randy|last=Rasmussen|website=rapidcityjournal.com|date=March 2010 |access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bridges-lives-in-whorehouse-set-heavens-gate-2016-8|title=Jeff Bridges bought and lives inside a crazy set from one of his old movies|website=businessinsider.com|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref> They had met while filming ''[[Rancho Deluxe]]'' (1975), on a ranch where Geston had been working as a [[waitress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://missoulian.com/entertainment/movies/jeff-bridges-talks-montana-ties-ahead-of-missoula-concert/article_ab69845e-2ba2-5d88-9b3d-97cae9f5365c.html|title=Jeff Bridges talks Montana ties ahead of Missoula concert|first=Brian |last=D'Ambrosio|website=missoulian.com|date=March 7, 2016 |access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/thr-cover-jeff-bridges-revealing-70887|title=THR Cover: Jeff Bridges' Revealing New Interview|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 12, 2011|access-date=2017-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-bridges-met-wife-photo_us_5661ef65e4b072e9d1c61223|title=Photo Captures Jeff Bridges' Fateful First Meeting With His True Love|date=December 7, 2015|access-date=2017-08-13|via=Huff Post}}</ref><ref name=tca /><ref name="marriage" /> They have three daughters, born in 1981, 1983 and 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/11/bafta-brittania-awards-betty-white-jeff-bridges-dakota-fanning.html|title=Betty White, Jeff Bridges scoop up Britannia Awards |date=November 5, 2010 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2017-08-13 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/04/happy-birthday-jeff-bridges-youre-61-today-december-4/ |title=Happy Birthday, Jeff Bridges! You're 61 Today, December 4! |date=2010-12-04 |work=Hollywood Life |access-date=2017-08-13 |archive-date=August 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813183046/http://hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/04/happy-birthday-jeff-bridges-youre-61-today-december-4/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Religious beliefs ===
Bridges has studied [[Buddhism]] and has described himself as "a Buddhistly bent guy".<ref name="tricycle"/> On most days, he meditates for half an hour before beginning work on a film set.<ref name="tricycle">{{cite journal|last=Butler|first=Katy|date=Fall 2010|title=The Natural – How Jeff Bridges works with anxiety and maintaining a joyful mind|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/jeff-bridges/|journal=[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]|volume=20|issue=1|page=54}}</ref>

=== Health problems ===
On October 19, 2020, Bridges announced that he had been diagnosed with [[Non-Hodgkin lymphoma]]  and has gone through [[chemotherapy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/jeff-bridges-announces-he-has-been-diagnosed-lymphoma-n1243956 |work=[[NBC News]] |title=Jeff Bridges announces he has been diagnosed with lymphoma |last=Arkin |first=Daniel |date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=October 19, 2020 }}</ref> On September 12, 2021, Bridges announced that his cancer was in [[Remission (medicine)|remission]]: "My cancer is in remission — the 9" × 12" mass has shrunk down to the size of a [[Marble (toy)|marble]]."<ref name="fieldstadt" /><ref name="bridgeslatest">{{cite web |url=https://jeffbridges.com/latest |date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913195035/https://jeffbridges.com/latest |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |access-date=November 4, 2022 |first=Jeff |last=Bridges |work=Jeff Bridges |title=Latest 9.13.21 }}</ref> Bridges also announced he contracted [[COVID-19]] while in treatment and which he fought for almost five weeks.<ref name="fieldstadt">{{cite web |last=Fieldstadt |first=Elisha |title=Jeff Bridges says he got Covid while in chemo and it made 'cancer look like a piece of cake' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeff-bridges-says-he-got-covid-while-chemo-it-made-n1279072 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=September 13, 2021 |access-date=September 14, 2021 }}</ref>

He described the long process of recovery from both diseases, relating how large his tumor had grown, yet being unaware it was there. After five weeks in the hospital with Covid, he had months of recuperation at home before he could function again.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2023/jeff-bridges-cancer-covid-the-old-man-interview.html |magazine=[[AARP: The Magazine]] |title=Jeff Bridges, 73, Reflects on His Cancer, COVID Battle: 'The Obstacle Was Death' |first=Tom |last=Chiarella |author-link=Tom Chiarella |date=May 23, 2023 |access-date=July 15, 2024 }}</ref>

=== Philanthropy ===
In 1984, Bridges and other entertainment industry leaders founded the End Hunger Network aimed at encouraging, stimulating and supporting action to end childhood hunger.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/jeff-bridges|title=Jeff Bridges: Charity Work & Causes|website=Look to the Stars|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref> He supported President Obama's initiative to End Childhood Hunger by 2015. In November 2010, Bridges became spokesman for the No Kid Hungry campaign of the organization [[Share our Strength]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffbridges.com/endhunger.html|title=End Hunger|website=JeffBridges.com|access-date=August 13, 2017|archive-date=October 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016235115/http://www.jeffbridges.com/endhunger.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its goal was to present and undertake a state-by-state strategy to end childhood hunger in the United States by 2015.<ref name="PRNews" /> Bridges also supports environmental causes and organizations such as the [[Amazon Conservation Team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGI8omNZI8o| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/JGI8omNZI8o| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=Video: Why Does Jeff Bridges Support the Amazon Conservation Team?| website=[[YouTube]]|access-date=October 27, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazonteam.org/why-does-jeff-bridges-support-amazon-conservation-team|title=Why does Jeff Bridges support the Amazon Conservation Team?|website=Amazon Conservation Team|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>