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Best known for playing Phoebe Buffay on the now-iconic NBC sitcom Friends, Lisa Kudrow’s quirky character is one of the many reasons millions of fans still enjoy watching reruns of the show today.

Like the fictional folk-singing massage therapist she once played — who ultimately fell in love with Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd) — Lisa also fell for her real-life husband, Michel Stern, in the most unexpected way off screen.

Lisa and the French-born L.A.

advertising executive first crossed paths in the 1980s when he was dating her roommate. Despite having an instant crush on him, Lisa respected their relationship and kept mum about her feelings.

"I was living with a French girl and he had just moved here and they were dating when we first met," she said, according to The Daily Mail.

"But I'm freakishly polite, so I saw him and went, 'Well, he's the perfect man and it's a