Strange Facts About Ellen And Portia's Marriage
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00:00Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are one of Hollywood's most iconic and lovable power
00:05couples.
00:06After dating for four years, the cute pair married in 2008, and they've been going strong
00:11ever since.
00:12But there are quirky aspects to any marriage or long-term relationship, and these two are
00:18no exception.
00:19Here are some surprising details about their partnership.
00:23Big stars, small wedding
00:25When same-sex marriage was legalized in California in June 2008, DeGeneres and de Rossi could
00:31hardly wait to say, I do.
00:33But their big day was a surprisingly small affair.
00:36The pair tied the knot in front of just 19 guests at their beautiful Los Angeles home
00:41just two months later.
00:43DeGeneres told People that planning a big wedding just got to be too big and stressful.
00:49Sporting custom-made matching outfits from designer Zac Posen, the couple exchanged handwritten
00:54vows during the intimate ceremony.
00:56Although their romantic day was a private affair, the two didn't keep it entirely to
01:01themselves.
01:02This moving wedding video was aired on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
01:05I gotta say, that was the happiest day of my life.
01:08It really was.
01:09Me too.
01:11Bringing her work home
01:12DeGeneres is well-known for playing pranks on her show's guests, but did you know her
01:17mischievous games are also fair play at home?
01:20In November 2013, she hilariously live-tweeted a two-hour stretch in which she hid in a cupboard
01:26in an attempt to scare de Rossi, only to find out that de Rossi had actually been hiding
01:31in their closet waiting to scare her.
01:34Two years after this viral Twitter saga, the pair was at it again, this time in a series
01:39of workout-related prank videos.
01:42First DeGeneres secretly recorded de Rossi working out to a Jane Fonda video and posted
01:47it online.
01:48It wasn't long before de Rossi exacted her revenge, sharing a video of DeGeneres running
01:53on the treadmill while singing along with Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk.
01:57Don't believe me, just watch.
02:04Gift-free holidays
02:06DeGeneres and de Rossi are all about the love, not the presents.
02:10During a joint interview with E! News around Valentine's Day 2016, DeGeneres said the couple
02:16did not plan to exchange gifts on the romantic holiday.
02:19"'We don't even give each other presents for Christmas or birthdays anymore.
02:24We have everything.'"
02:25The comedian then said love and respect is all they need, before calling Portia her soulmate.
02:30"'She's my everything to me and I don't know what I'd do without her.'"
02:34At this point, de Rossi chimed in,
02:37"'There it is.
02:38That's my Valentine's Day gift.'"
02:41Designing women
02:42DeGeneres and de Rossi clearly share many passions, including interior design and flipping
02:47houses.
02:48In 2011, they gave Architectural Digest an inside look at their beautiful Beverly Hills
02:54home, one of seven they had lived in so far.
02:57DeGeneres told the magazine her family always rented when she was a kid, so the first thing
03:02she did when she made money was buy a house.
03:05And then, as de Rossi pointed out, she just kept on buying them.
03:09This way of living, of course, means a lot of moving, but they're both into it.
03:13As DeGeneres wrote in an essay for People in 2014,
03:17"'One tabloid said Portia's leaving me because she doesn't like moving a lot, which is funny
03:22because she is overseeing the construction of our new house and loving it.'"
03:27And they listed their gorgeous Santa Barbara home for $45 million in early 2017, so it
03:33seems the creative pair may have a new project lined up.
03:38Just the two of them
03:40DeGeneres and de Rossi clearly have a lot of love to give, but don't expect them to
03:43start a family anytime soon, or ever.
03:46The kid question has followed the pair around for years.
03:50In 2009, de Rossi spoke with Access Hollywood to dismiss the rumor that she'd been undergoing
03:55in vitro fertilization treatment, calling the claim,
03:58"...completely made up."
04:00DeGeneres firmly, yet humorously, tried to put an end to the speculation in her 2011
04:05book, Seriously, I'm Kidding.
04:07"...people are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children.
04:12We thought about it.
04:13We love to be around children, after they've been fed and bathed.
04:17But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own.
04:20There is far too much glass in our house."
04:23But the tabloids kept spreading the rumors anyway, so the couple appeared together on
04:27Ellen's show in 2014 to let the world know the truth.
04:31Finally starting a family like are people really that mad at us?
04:35Yeah, we've waited way too long.
04:38So no, no, we're not gonna have a baby.
04:40No, we're not.
04:40Okay, good for me to know now.