Portia de Rossi: “Marriage Competely Changed My Life”

From the department of In Case You’re Wondering: Portia de Rossi says her August 2008 marriage to Ellen DeGeneres “completely changed my life.”

“Marriage is a different way of being together,” de Rossi told People while promoting her new ABC series Better Off Ted at the Television Critics Association event in Pasadena, CA. “There’s a peace to [being married] and a sense of togetherness that we just didn’t have before. And I didn’t even realize it would change as much as it has, but it’s so lovely.”

Though together since 2004, the actress says their summertime nuptials brought them even closer together.

“I think the emotions that went with that as a gay woman kind of surprised me — that I would be that relieved to have my mother be present at the ceremony to bless the union, and to call [Ellen] her daughter-in-law,” said de Rossi, who proclaimed herself more confident since coming out.

As for her series? Let’s hope it’s better off, too.

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