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Exclusive: Private Practice's KaDee Strickland Shares Her Personal Wedding Photos, Takes Us On Set, and Previews Tonight's Doozy of an Episode

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Mia Phillips

Updated on March 29, 2026

KaDee and husband, Jason Behr. Or, as we like to call them, the real life Barbie and Ken.

If you could eat one food without gaining weight, it would be: Chocolate, especially dark chocolate! I could eat it all day and in all forms. Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite.

The issue I'm most fired up about: Women's health and sexual issues. Everything under the blanket about the way women are being perceived through politics is really provocative for me because the whole notion that the Violence Against Women Act is something that could go away, the whole notion that women and their health care is something that is really being belittled right now in such a blatant way is what I'm most fired up about. When you are in a position, as someone who has been sexually assaulted or who has been a product of incest, and someone deems that as a potential for lying—the notion that women are so cunning and that something like abortion is so haphazard—that you would lie about being raped, it floors me. That using birth control is not a valid choice. I had to go on birth control because I had ovarian cysts. When I was a waitress/actress, Planned Parenthood is what I turned to. I wouldn't have had the capacity to get my one doctor visit in a year without that. Who knows where my health would be. I could go on for days about how misconstrued the media has been, and I really hope that people, especially women, show up in force to be more authentic in this moment with politics. The issue of sexual assault is something I'll always champion. The radicalism in parts of the Republican Party is frightening to me right now because it's not grounded in reality, from my point of view. The arguments just aren't grounded in reality. It's grounded in this created myth of how we behave as human beings, and that is not accurate.

The best advice I've ever received is: You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones. I think it's true especially in this business. It came from my mentor, Maggie Flanigan, because without having a full scope that you are enough, you don't do well. She's amazing. And then my father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

The career path I secretly want to take is: I'm doing it. There's no secret! There's nothing else.

People would most be surprised to learn about my TV husband, Paul Adelstein, is: He has a fetish for eating peanut butter and jelly. It's that pediatrician side of Cooper that shows up in Paul's eating habits. It's very dear to me. He's always eating peanut butter and jelly. Less lately, maybe cause he's doing more of it at home with his daughter, or maybe cause he's moved on, but he definitely loves his peanut butter and jelly.