Loretta Swit decided she did not want children or marriage early on in her life.
Swit got married once and never again.
The actress just celebrated her 85th birthday and continues to live life to the fullest.
Swit’s co-stars from “M*A*S*H” are her chosen family.

Loretta Swit is a renowned actress famous for her role in the Emmy award-winning series “M*A*S*H.” The bubbly blond US Army nurse, Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, was an attention-grabbing character who taught Swit much about feminism.
Margaret “Hot Lips” was a highly sexualized character who wore tight pants and skin-tight T-shirts, but as Swit got more comfortable with the character, she started encouraging the producers to give her more empowering lines.
Decades after the show ended, Swit still advocates for veterans in service and highlights some unknown things that happened to people during the war.
The actress narrated a documentary film, “Never the Same,” about the lives of British and American prisoners during the second world war.
While Swit learned a lot from playing her “M*A*S*H” character, she revealed she and Margaret could not have been more different. Her character was about getting married and having a family, but she never even saw that for her future.
Swit said she dated around at the time, but it was never serious; she enjoyed living her best bachelor woman’s life. The actress told People she was not interested in marriage and was content with having a thriving career and her friends and family around her.