Maureen Lee Lenker
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Lindhome welcomed a son via surrogate only a few weeks after their first date.
Surprise — they're married!
On Wednesday, actress Riki Lindhome revealed to People that she and comedian Fred Armisen have been married for two years.
What's more, when Lindhome first started falling for Armisen on the set of Wednesday, having been friends with him for 15 years, she was getting ready to welcome a new baby into her life. "I could tell I was having feelings, but then I was like, ‘Well, I can’t say anything because I’m about to have a baby," she told People.
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Her son, Keaton, was born on March 1, 2022 via surrogate. At that point, she and Armisen had only been dating a few weeks.
"I was ready to date him, I didn’t know what it would turn into,” she said. “I thought maybe I would be a single mom with a boyfriend. I didn’t know what would happen. I didn’t even know if he was interested at first — I didn’t know anything. But it was a natural evolution."
The couple married only three months after Keaton's birth, on June 1, 2022, on a Wednesday in a nod to the show that brought them together. "We got married in a courthouse," she explained. "It's not a secret, but we didn’t really tell people. We didn’t announce it or anything. And we thought people would hear about it eventually. And that’s what happened, one friend at a time."
Lindhome also explained that it wasn't so much about keeping their marriage a secret as it was that neither she nor Armisen cared about the idea of having a wedding. Their wedding lasted only three minutes at the courthouse and that they went for ice cream afterwards.
"I didn’t even tell my mom," she confessed. “I never wanted to get married. I am not a wedding person. It’s not for me. But this was just for us. We also didn’t want to hurt people’s feelings by not having a wedding — and we didn’t want to get pressured into having one. We just wanted to be like, 'Guess what we did a few months ago?'"
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But when Lindhome and Armisen first began dating on the set of Wednesday, she never expected to marry him so soon. Instead, she was often torn between her developing feelings for Armisen and the prospect of new motherhood. She didn't want him to think she had any expectation that he would suddenly become the father of a newborn. "I said, ‘All I want is the truth. If you feel in your gut that's not for you, it doesn't make you a jerk. I'm not mad at you,” she recounted. "I said, ‘I still think you're the best. I just want you to really feel what you feel. And then be honest about it because it's a big life-altering thing.’ And he said, 'Okay, okay.'"
Lindhome told Armisen she loved him two weeks before Keaton was born. "knew that I was starting to have feelings for him, and I wanted to go on a date. That's what I knew. So I was like, 'Okay, let's explore,'" she remembered. "Then it unfolded naturally over time. I wasn't like, 'You're the dad.' I was like, ‘I want to have dinner with you.’ My thought was, ‘I want to kiss you. I want to see you.’ Then it just kept going."
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After Keaton was born, Lindhome moved into Armisen's house where they formed what she described as an "insta-family."
"It was something we had to find together and see if it could work," she concluded. "Every relationship has a different pace. Every single one. Mine was faster because I was in a different circ*mstance. But we just went at the pace that was natural. It didn't feel rushed. We just found our rhythm together. It felt like it just was good."
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