<P> Twenty - three years later, Danny (now 45 - years old) is now a successful plastic surgeon in Los Angeles who feigns unhappy marriages to get women, and to avoid romantic commitment that may lead to heartbreak . The only woman aware of his schemes is his office manager and best friend Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston), a divorced mother of two . At a party, Danny meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a sixth grade math teacher, without his wedding ring on, and they have a connection together . The next morning, she finds the ring and assumes he is married . She refuses to date him because her parents divorced due to adultery . </P> <P> Instead of telling her the truth, Danny tells her that he is getting divorced from a woman named Devlin . Danny tells Palmer that they are getting divorced because she cheated on him with a man named "Dolph Lundgren" (not the actor). Palmer then insists on meeting Devlin . Danny asks Katherine to pose as "Devlin" and they go shopping for new clothes to dress like a trophy wife . </P> <P> A made - over Katherine / "Devlin" then meets with Danny and Palmer and gives them her blessing . However, after hearing Katherine talking on the phone with her kids, Palmer assumes that her kids are Danny's as well . Danny then privately meets with Katherine's kids, Maggie (Bailee Madison) and Michael (Griffin Gluck), to get them to play along and gives them the aliases of "Kiki Dee" and "Bart" respectively . Danny accepts their demands for being his fake children . </P> <P> Palmer meets the kids at a play center where Maggie has adopted a fake british accent, and Michael acts very morose . They blackmail Danny in front of Palmer to take them all to Hawaii . At the airport, they are all surprised by Danny's goofball cousin Eddie (Nick Swardson), who has adopted an Austrian disguise as the "Dolph Lundgren" that Danny had made up earlier . To maintain the lies, Danny and Katherine are forced to bring him along . </P>

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