Robin Roberts announces marriage to longtime partner Amber Laign through dog’s Instagram

Robin Roberts announces marriage to longtime partner Amber Laign through dog’s Instagram

Robin Roberts and longtime partner Amber Laign have officially tied the knot, according to a post from their dog Lil Man Lukas’ Instagram account.

“My mommies are MARRIED!!!! Married?……yes….married!!!” said a caption posted Friday under a picture of Lil Man Lukas wearing a bowtie.

The two had been keeping fans updated on their marriage journey, posting Thursday that they had received their marriage license in Connecticut.

The Good Morning America anchor reportedly runs the dog’s Instagram with her now-wife. Earlier this year, Roberts confirmed she and Laign were planning to wed.

“I’m hesitating because I haven’t said it out loud yet . . . I’m saying ‘yes’ to marriage,” Roberts announced on an episode of Good Morning America on Jan. 2. “We’re getting married this year.”

“It was something we had talked about but we had put it off. She became ill but . . . it is saying yes to that, and that next chapter,” she added.

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Amber Laign (L) and Robin Roberts (R) attend 11th Annual GLSEN Respect awards at Gotham Hall in  2014 in New York.

Both women have dealt with daunting health issues in the past decades. Laign was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, roughly 14 years after Roberts was diagnosed with the same disease.

“I went through it twice, barely shed a tear,” Roberts said during a 2022 interview with Ellen DeGeneres.

“I’m a puddle every time I think about what Amber is going through. But she is being so courageous and is handling it extremely well.”

“I’m able to kind of give her a roadmap because I’ve gone through it, but she’s also given me a roadmap on how to be a caregiver,” Roberts added.

Roberts was also diagnosed with a rare blood and bone marrow disease in 2012 and needed a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

She first met Laign, a message therapist, in 2005 when the two were set up for a blind date by a mutual friend. They kept their relationship private until 2013, when Roberts posted on Facebook, mentioning her “long time girlfriend, Amber,” for the first time.

Evan Rosen

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