I Dream of Jeannie’s Barbara Eden, Her Private World, Husband Jon Eicholtz

I Dream of Jeannie alum Barbara Eden isn’t one to bottle up her emotions. So, for anyone curious about her advice for those trying to find their way in Hollywood, their wish is her command. 

“You don’t pay any attention to anything anyone says,” the 94-year-old stressed on a June 2025 episode of Jennie Garth‘s I Choose Me podcast. “Because you will get so much criticism, negativity or too much, you know, a puff thing. So, just be true to yourself.” 

A tip certainly worth the head nod considering how magical Eden’s world feels five-plus decades after she wrapped her fame-making television series. 

“I’m really lucky,” the two-time Golden Globe nominee told People in October 2021, name-dropping her “very supportive husband” Jon Eicholtz and her dear friends. “I think life, everything, has to work itself out. There’s a reason for most things, and I can’t wish for it.”

While she spent her five seasons as a 2,000-year-old genie seeing to her master’s every desire—Larry Hagman‘s dashing astronaut Major Anthony Nelson—her greatest desires came true when she met her third husband, a real estate developer and architect, in 1991.