Actress Portia de Rossi says marrying
Ellen DeGeneres changed their relationship.
The 40-year-old de Rossi, who will
reprise the role of Lindsay Funke in Netflix's upcoming fourth season
of Arrested Development, said
marrying DeGeneres in 2008 also changed how others viewed their
relationship.
“I'm pretty happy with my life, so
whatever I'm doing professionally has to actually make it even better
than it is right now,” de Rossi told Los
Angeles Confidential. “We were together for four solid
years before we got married, but the minute we said 'I do,' the
minute we stood up in front of our parents and our friends and
committed to each other, our relationship changed. I don't think
people understand how important that little ceremony is and what it
actually does to people. To my mother, instead of thinking of our
relationship as a little bit less than my brother and his wife's
relationship in some way, it made them instantly equal in her mind,
and Ellen became her daughter rather than someone that I was with or
dating. It just made it more like family, and our commitment to each
other just strengthened instantly.”