Jane Goodall reveals hurdles over job commitments

Jane Goodall has opened up about her first marriage and how she wishes it could have played out. The 91-year-old primatologist was a guest Wednesday on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast, where the two spoke about relationships and how Goodall was able to handle both her job and a love life. She met her first husband, the late National Geographic photographer Hugo van Lawick, when his magazine sent him to take photos of Goodall while she was studying chimpanzees in Africa.

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"They wanted to make a film and they wanted good photographs, so they sent Hugo van Lawick, and I really didn’t want him to come," she told Cooper. "I hadn't met him because I just wanted to be there with the chimps, you know. I didn’t want anybody, and I was afraid they'd be scared of him and, you know, all my hard work would be undone." Goodall quickly learned about van Lawick’s love of animals and appreciated the work he was doing to "share the knowledge that chimpanzees really are like us." They were soon married for ten years from 1964 to 1974 and welcomed one child together, Hugo Eric Louis.