The moment she arrives in her bungalo, Jane Seymour tosses off her travelling clothes, slips into a bathing suit and wraps a cheerful red pareo around her petite waist. Now this is more like it, she beams as she slowly inhales the warmth of the beautiful tropical island of Morea in French Polynesia.

It's been 5 years since her popular series Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman ended and yet this busy mother says her days are busier then ever. So busy in fact, that this holiday with her husband director/actor James Keach and two of their children, seven-year old twins John and Kristopher, is exactly what the doctor ordered.

And as the trip coincided with their tenth wedding anniversary, Jane and James decided to celebrate with a recommitment wedding ceremony filled with ancient Polynesian traditions and folklore.

Tribal elders watched over the holy ceremony, as the groom dressed in formal ceremonial costume and draped in a white pareo, canoed in to meet his bride. The couple were then enveloped in a traditional blanket to symbolize the two becoming one. Vows were exchanged followed by crowns and flowers as symbols of unending love.

A petite beauty at 52, Jane is still able to turn heads when she strolls along the beach in a bathing suit. She is also quite comfortable in her role as mother, wife, artist, designer, and champion of worthy causes. Though her schedule is always full, she says her most important committment is to her family. "That is one of the reasons for taking this trip", she says. I need to have some time with the children and more importantly- James and I really needed to relax.

Apart from the twins, she has, from her previous marriage to David Flynn, a son, 18-year old Sean, who still lives at home with her, and a daughter, 21-year-old Katie. She is also close to Flynn's daughter, Jennifer 23, and James' 26-year old son, Kalen.

Keen for her twins to experience the richness of the tropical paradise during their holiday, Jane took them to Dolphin Quest, a hands-on conservation and exploratory program designed to allow humans to interact and swim with dolphins in their natural habitat. There, John and Kris delighted in swimming alongside Lokahi, a nine-year-old bottlenose dolphin.

The twins were also treated to a special boys-only scuba-diving adventure with their father. "It was such an experience," says James. "The seascape is amazing. John and Kris were completely relaxed. I think the peace and serenity of scuba diving is something, everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime.

 

While her boys were busy, Jane settled down for a chat with HELLO.

You have experienced the beauty of these islands before. How has it been different this time around?

"Because this was a dream trip- a romantic getaway with my husband. We wanted to slow down the pace and have time together and, at the same time, have time alone with our children.

"We had the chance to introduce our children to scuba diving, which was huge! The fact that one of the twins is usually more afraid of things than the other and that he was able to overcome that fear was fantastic. They were underwater- feeding sharks without panicking, and at times there were 20 swimming around them. That was a really big moment both for them and for us."

"But most importantly, to top the entire holiday off, was our ceremony! As corny as it sounded and we thought it might seem, it wasn't at all. It was very real and it came at a perfect time in our lives. It was just beautiful and the children were able to be a part of our remaking our commitment to one another for the rest of our lives. Which is actually, in my opinion, more important thatn the original wedding itself. After ten years of marriage, you could certainly begin to take one another for granted. Instead, it's like celebrating a new faith in our relationship, and for the children to be a part of that, especially in the world we're in now, where everyone is getting divorced or not getting along, is very meaningful to me."