Personal life

Vedder married longtime girlfriend Beth Liebling in 1994. The couple divorced in 2000. Vedder is currently dating model Jill McCormick.^[11] He and McCormick have one daughter, Olivia, who was born June 11, 2004.

Eddie is also a friend of The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, singer Chris Cornell, and was a close friend of the late Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone, being by Johnny's side on his deathbed. Since Johnny's death, Eddie and Pearl Jam have played a cover of Ramones' hit "I Believe In Miracles" regularly at live shows.

Eddie attended San Dieguito High School, now called San Dieguito Academy, and donated more than $10,000 from a local concert towards the construction of a theater for the school.

In his spare time, Eddie is a surfer and active in surf related conservation efforts; most notably, the Surfrider Foundation.^[12] He is also a friend of famed surfers Kelly Slater, Laird Hamilton, and fellow musician Jack Johnson. He was featured with Laird Hamilton in an episode of the documentary series Iconoclasts in 2006. He also has paddled outrigger canoes on occasion and in 2005 was nearly lost at sea trying to paddle from Moloka'i to Oahu.^[13]

Vedder shows his support for environmental activism by sporting an Earth First! tattoo on his right calf. The logo is of a monkey wrench crossed with a stone hammer. Vedder is also a vegetarian.^[14]

Vedder is also a long-time fan of the Chicago Cubs, and is good friends with pitcher Kerry Wood. Vedder has sung "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at four Cubs games since 1998. In 2007, a few days before performing with Pearl Jam in Chicago for Lollapalooza, he threw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field (the home of the Cubs).