Shelley Smith, ‘The Associates’ actress and former model, dead at 70

Shelley Smith appears in the TV movie"The Night the City Screamed."Maguire and Smith had just celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary. The couple met through friends and married in 2005.

"We had both gone through relatively tough divorces and were, you know, a little gun shy… We were just so well-connected," Maguire told Fox News Digital."And then we had a lot of parallels in our life because she was a supermodel and had been very successful, and then she went into acting, and then she went back to school."

Maguire is a Tony-Award winner who also left the profession to further his education and become a divorce attorney."She got a degree in marriage and family therapy and at the same time was having her own," before having her twins Nicky and Miranda. Realizing there was a market for women struggling with fertility, Smith founded her own egg donation and surrogacy business, and committed her life to helping expand families.

"You know, you're here for a very short period of time. And the real measure of success is what did you do with it? What did you do with your time? And she… was really devoted to helping people have babies. That's her greatest legacy. That's what she would be proudest of."Maguire has been astounded by the amount of people who have reached out in wake of Smith's passing, and shared that the family is planning an online tribute for his wife.

Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.

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