Riki Lindhome secretly married Fred Armisen two years ago, welcomed baby weeks after first date
Riki Lindhome and Fred Armisen are married. Getty Images
Riki Lindhome and Fred Armisen are married â and have been since 2022.
Not only did the couple tie the knot two years ago, but they have been raising baby boy Keaton, now 2, together since his March 2022 arrival via surrogate.
The actress, 45, was expecting the little one via a donated sperm and egg when she started to develop feelings for Armisen, she told People on Wednesday.
The couple are also raising baby boy Keaton. rikilindhome/Instagram
Lindhome welcomed son Keaton in March 2022, weeks into dating Armisen. rikilindhome/Instagram
The longtime friends were filming âWednesdayâ at the time and moved âfast.â
In fact, Lindhome told the actor, 57, that she loved him during their first dinner date â leaving Armisen âshock[ed].â
Their journey to âinsta-familyâ was a ânatural evolution,â she said.
Lindhome subsequently moved into Armisenâs home. Getty Images for Netflix
The duo wed three months later. rikilindhome/Instagram
âI thought maybe I would be a single mom with a boyfriend,â she recalled. âI didnât know what would happen. I didnât even know if he was interested at first â I didnât know anything.â
However, when Lindhome introduced 3-week-old Keaton to Armisen when he returned from a work trip abroad, the comedian was ready for fatherhood.
âI said, âAll I want is the truth. If you feel in your gut thatâs not for you, it doesnât make you a jerk. Iâm not mad at you,’â she said at the time.
âI said, âI still think youâre the best. I just want you to really feel what you feel. And then be honest about it because itâs a big life-altering thing. ⊠So you just tell me what your heart says,’â Lindhome continued â to which Armisen replied, âYes.â
The actress fell for her husband âfastâ after years of friendship. Variety via Getty Images
She said âI love youâ on their first date. Getty Images for The 2024 MAKERS Conference
Lindhome and the infant moved into his home, and the couple had a courthouse wedding three months later.
âThe wedding was three minutes long and then we got some ice cream,â the bride gushed, saying she was ânot a wedding person.â
The newlyweds kept their nuptials a secret â even from Lindhomeâs mom.
She thought sheâd be a âsingle mom with a boyfriend.â rikilindhome/Instagram
However, Armisen said âyesâ to fatherhood. rikilindhome/Instagram
âThis was just for us,â she explained. âWe didnât really tell people. We didnât announce it or anything. And we thought people would hear about it eventually. And thatâs what happened, one friend at a time.â
Lindhome insisted that their whirlwind romance wasnât ârushed.â
She claimed, âMine was faster because I was in a different circumstance. But we just went at the pace that was natural. ⊠We just found our rhythm together.â
Armisen has been married two times before. Getty Images
As for Lindhome, this is her first marriage. rikilindhome/Instagram
While the marriage is the singerâs first, Armisen was previously married to Sally Timms from 1998 to 2004 and Elisabeth Moss from 2009 to 2011.
The âHandmaidâs Taleâ alum, 41, blasted her ex in a 2014 New York Magazine interview, calling their time together âextremely traumatic and awful and horrible.â
Two years later, Armisen admitted to Marc Maron that he had âa problem with intimacyâ in both marriages and self-sabotaged the unions with âcheating and infidelityâ that he was âneither ashamed or proud of.â