LOS ANGELES - former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, announced Monday that they are separate.
The statement, issued by a spokesman for Schwarzenegger, said the two were working on the future of their relationship while living apart and would continue their four children to parents as a whole.
"This was a personal and professional time of great transition for each of us," the two has said in a prepared statement. "After much thought, reflection, discussion and prayer, we have taken this decision as a whole."
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, ends his run of seven years as Governor in January and has been travelling the speech circuit and pursue various entertainment projects.
Time of Schwarzenegger as Governor, Shriver and children of the couple never moved to Sacramento, preferring their estate canyon isolated in Los Angeles, a few kilometres from the Pacific Ocean.
Shriver, a member of the Kennedy political dynasty and the daughter of the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, left his job as an NBC journalist when Schwarzenegger took office. The State first lady, she headed the annual women's Conference which attracted a long list of enterprises, politicians and entertainment fixtures, with an audience of thousands.
The announcement of the separation between the months after the death of the Shriver father, founder of the Peace Corps and candidate for the presidential former vice Sargent Shriver, in January.
Schwarzenegger spokesman, Daniel Ketchell, said that he would not answer questions beyond what was said in the statement on Monday.
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