I am a huuuuge Fred Armisen fan. And secretly I’ve always had a low key crush on him. So it wounds me a little to hear the, sigh, great news that Fred has been married for two years to actress and comedian Riki Lindhome.
And that’s not all! So the two have known each other for 15 years. The two were reunited when Fred guessed starred on Wednesday, which Riki is a cast member of.
And at that time Riki was fulfilling her dream of having a child which she conceived with a doner egg and sperm, using a surrogate. She gave birth just weeks after they started dating! She welcomed her son Keaton on March 1, 2022.
She told People.com that she came right out and told Fred he didn’t have to enter a relationship that included a newborn.
“He didn’t get to meet Keaton until three weeks after he was born because he was still working. And 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 told him. “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 didn’t want to pressure her boyfriend. After all, they had only been dating a few weeks. “I told him, ‘So you just tell me what your heart says, and he said ‘Yes.’ It was just insta-family, basically,” she says, laughing.
While the two worked together on set for two months, Lindhome wanted to tell Armisen how she felt. “I 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 remembers. “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.”
Mazel Tov!