Carly Matros married Home Improvement actor Zachery Ty Bryan in 2007 after the two met in high school, and the marriage ended in divorce in September 2020. Counted from those dates, it lasted somewhere between 12 years 8 months and just under 13 years 9 months, depending on which month of 2007 the wedding fell in. The couple have four children, and Matros has otherwise stayed largely out of the public eye, so what is on record about her comes almost entirely through Bryan’s career and his own interviews. That record is short, and the length of the marriage is the one figure in it that takes real care to state correctly.
The Whole Record in Brief
Matros, Zachery Ty Bryan’s ex-wife, met him in high school, married him in 2007, and divorced him in September 2020, a marriage of roughly 13 years give or take the wedding month. They share four children, and she has largely avoided public attention.
Where the Story Starts
Bryan is best known as Brad Taylor on Home Improvement, and the reports on his marriage begin with the same detail: he and Matros met in high school. The school named most often is La Cañada High School in California. They married in 2007, and a timeline of Bryan’s marital history pairs that year with a September 2020 divorce. The record gives a wedding year and no month, which matters more than it sounds.
The Marriage Length Nobody Agrees On
Reported durations run from 12 years to 14 years, and each one traces back to the same two facts, a 2007 wedding and a 2020 divorce. Subtracting the years gives 13, which is the figure most people reach for. But a bare year hides up to eleven months in either direction, so the honest answer is a range, and it takes only a little arithmetic to set its edges.
The shortest possible marriage under those dates is a December 31, 2007 wedding ending on September 1, 2020. The longest is a January 1, 2007 wedding ending on September 30, 2020. I counted the full years, months, and days between each pair of dates, with a mid-year wedding sitting in the middle.
| Assumed wedding date | Assumed end date | Length |
| January 1, 2007 | September 30, 2020 | 13 years, 8 months, 29 days |
| June 30, 2007 | September 15, 2020 | 13 years, 2 months, 16 days |
| December 31, 2007 | September 1, 2020 | 12 years, 8 months, 1 day |
So a 12-year figure fits a wedding late in 2007, and 13 fits most of the rest of the year. A 14-year figure doesn’t fit any combination of those dates, because even the longest case falls more than three months short of it.
Anyone who wants to test other date pairs can find the exact gap between two dates with a chronological age calculator, which accepts any start date and any reference date. For quoting the marriage in one phrase, “about 13 years” is the safest shorthand, and “more than a decade” holds up on any reading.
What Bryan Has Said About Her
In a 2023 Hollywood Reporter profile, Bryan described her as “an incredible human being, an incredible mother,” according to Entertainment Tonight’s report on that interview.
That remark is the clearest window into who she is, and it comes from his side of the story. Her work, her whereabouts, and her life since the divorce are private matters, and leaving them alone is the right call for someone who has kept a low profile.
Conclusion
Carly Matros is a private person known publicly through one marriage, which began in 2007 and ended in September 2020. The defensible way to describe it is about 13 years, or more than a decade if precision isn’t needed, since the missing wedding month leaves a range of roughly 12 years 8 months to just under 13 years 9 months. Anyone repeating a figure for it should check it against those two dates first, and leave the rest of her life to her.
FAQ
Why did Carly Matros and Zachery Ty Bryan divorce?
Bryan said in a 2023 Hollywood Reporter interview that he was not being a faithful husband and was not living the way he was raised. That is his own account of it.
Who announced the divorce?
Bryan did, publicly, in 2020. He later told the same magazine he had borrowed the wording from another actor’s statement because he didn’t know what to say.
Was September 2020 the filing date or the final judgment?
Coverage says the marriage ended in September 2020 without separating a filing date from a final judgment. Treat the month as the end point only.
Was Carly Matros Zachery Ty Bryan’s first wife?
Yes hollywoodLife describes it as his only marriage before his 2021 engagement.
Where did Bryan discuss the marriage in detail?
In a June 2023 Hollywood Reporter profile, which Entertainment Tonight summarized on June 22, 2023. His remarks about the marriage and about her as a mother come from that piece.