United Kingdom, May 12 -- Jamie Lee Curtis is proud of her 41-year marriage to Christopher Guest because there were so many divorces in her family.

The 66-year-old Hollywood actress has been married to the filmmaker - the father of her two children - since 1984 and she's now confessed it was always "important" for her to only tie the knot once because her mother Janet Leigh was married four times and her father Tony Curtis also had multiple marriages.

During an appearance on '60 Minutes', Jamie explained: "My mother was married four times. My father was married five times. That's nine.

"My stepfather was married three, so I come from an immediate family of 12 marriages.

"So my joke: 'I'm still married to my first husband', um you know...