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Joy Behar and her daughter, Eve Behar, are supportive of each other's pursuits.
Eve, The View co-host's only child, whom she shares with her ex-husband Joseph Behar, was born in New York on Nov. 26, 1970.
While Eve lives a largely private life, she has shared photos and messages about her daytime talk show host mom over the years. In a Mother's Day post shared on Instagram in 2020, Eve posted a hand-drawn portrait of her son Luca kissing Joy on the cheek.
"Happy Mother's Day to my mom and all the rest of us bad asses," she wrote. "Dog moms, goat moms. Etc. everyone who helps raise the young ones. Nannies, friends, aunts."
Eve, who was 12 when her mom tried out stand-up for the first time, has opened up over the years about her experience watching Joy succeed as a comedian.
"She did pretty well pretty fast," Eve said in Joy Behar: Left Front Center, a 2010 CBS News Sunday Morning special about her mother's career. "I think once she made the decision, she said, 'This is it, I'm going for it.' "
Here's everything to know about Joy Behar's daughter, Eve Behar.
In 1962, Joy married a college sociology professor and author named Joseph Behar, and they welcomed Eve on Nov. 26, 1970, in New York.
During her big city childhood, Eve managed to connect to nature and animals, according to her website.
"In Eve's early years, she was lucky to live next to Forest Park and loved exploring what seemed like deep woods even though Queens Boulevard was right there," her biography explains.
Joy and Joseph divorced in 1981 after 16 years of marriage, and Joy started her comedy career soon after.
Before embarking on her new career path, Joy was a high school English teacher who worked with kids "who'd had an entanglement with law enforcement," according to a 2022 TIME profile.
"It was difficult," Joy told Parade in 2010 about balancing her new career and motherhood. "I felt conflicted. But I was broke after my divorce, and at 39, I got fired from my day job. When I look back, I don't think I would do it if I knew all that I had to go through. But I didn't know what else to do to make money."
She continued, "Also, my mother was still alive, so Eve had always her as a back up babysitter. Eve's father was there [too]."
Joy waited 29 years to wed Steve Janowitz, a middle school math teacher. The couple started dating in 1982 but didn't officially tie the knot until Aug. 11, 2011.
Joy and Eve have consistently lived near each other, and Joy shared in a 2009 interview that they were living in the same New York City apartment building and would routinely get facials and pedicures and go shopping together.
In 2015, Joy and Janowitz purchased a home in Sag Harbor, the same Long Island village where Eve and her family live.
"I started with a small, very modest house in Sagaponack," she told Behind the Hedges about her real estate ventures in 2021. "Then to a 'less modest' house in East Hampton."
Eve dabbled in the entertainment industry before becoming a full-time ceramicist. In 2000, she was an associate producer for 10 episodes of the TV series Strangers with Candy, which starred Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris.
Her current role as a ceramicist in Sag Harbor, New York, was a passion that sparked early on in childhood. "With tremendous family support, trying all different forms of art from drawing to dance to acting, when Eve came upon clay, it was a done deal," her biography reads.
She took ceramics classes all over the city during and after graduating from CUNY Hunter College, even while working as a television producer. In 1995, she moved to Florence, Italy, to study at the Studio Art Center International, where she received a post-baccalaureate degree in ceramics, painting and art history.
In 2001, she became a full-time student at the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Canada, where she spent three years dedicated to her craft. At the end of her tenure there, she earned the best in show award at the school's graduate show of 2004.
By 2016, Eve was named the gallery director at Celadon Clay Art Gallery in Bridgehampton, and she has taught and served as the president of the Clay Art Guild of the Hamptons.
Joy has shared that her daughter comes from a long line of creatives. "Eve's grandmother on her father's side was an artist, and my uncle on my father's side was an artist, so it's in the genes," she said in a 2019 interview.
After living in Canada for three years, Eve returned to New York and married physician assistant Alphonso Anthony Scotti at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City in 2007, per The New York Times.
Two years after Eve's wedding, Joy expressed her sentiments about becoming a grandmother someday.
"I presume it will be a lot easier when I'm a grandparent because I won't have full-time duty," she said. "I mean, people always say 'if I knew this was going to be so good, I would've had grandchildren first.' "
"Luca is 8 months old. He's extremely brilliant," Joy told Anderson Cooper on his talk show Anderson Live in 2011. "He says various things: Mama, Dada, E=MC²."
"It's just like you're in love again," she continued. "You know when you're first in love with a guy, and you're running towards each other in slow motion. You just can't get enough of each other. It's like that, only it's your baby."
In November 2020, Eve posted an Instagram series showing photography her son worked on for her.
"My 9 yo wanted to help me with some photography- turns out he is a real pro AND he used some photo editing program to jazz up a few images," she captioned the post. "I have to pay him in Robux though."
Eve is also a mom to her dog, Jack. In May 2024, she shared a series of photos on Instagram that concluded with a "bonus reel of Jack loving live!"
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