“We’ve been traveling a lot for work recently but we try to have a lot of date nights,” Hilaria said, which she noted “usually involves dinner.”

“He loves a good dinner,” she added. “We either go out or I cook and we usually end up chatting and catching each other up on our seven kids and our projects.”

But since tying the knot in 2012, Hilaria and Alec—who share kids Carmen, 12, Rafael, 10, Leonardo, 9, Romeo, 8, Eduardo, 5, Maria Lucia, 5, and Ilaria, 3, together—have faced their fair share of challenges.

“There’s been so much chaos in our lives,” Hilaria explained, “so much of it wonderful, some horrible things but we’ve managed to figure it out.”