When two icons of Y2K teenager dramas conclusion up together, followers just can’t get sufficient. Leighton Meester, who performed Blair on Gossip Woman, and Adam Brody, who played Seth on The O.C., have recognized every other since 2007. They begun courting in 2013 and married in mystery in 2014 — maintaining the the greater part of their partnership out of the general public eye.

It wasn’t until eventually 2017 that they gave their initially joint job interview and discussed the reality that in this universe, the authentic-existence Blair and Seth wound up having married. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Meester explained they “occasionally” discuss about their figures. “Once a year, randomly, on our Seth and Blair working day,” Meester quipped at the time. “It’s fantastic for a giggle. It does not excite us, I think, for the reason that we’re just human beings … but it’s exciting to us that it’s interesting to you. It is amazing.”

The pair may well not chat much too significantly about their romance, preferring to retain it personal, but they’ve obtained a good deal of background alongside one another (and now two little ones). Here’s a timeline of Meester and Brody’s romance, which include their very first conference and top secret wedding ceremony.

2007: Leighton & Adam Achieved For The Very first Time

Meester and Brody fulfilled again in 2007, when Gossip Female was staying shot. “Josh Schwartz developed equally displays and virtually the to start with time we fulfilled, that complete cast was taking in at Canter’s [Deli in Los Angeles] and I lived at Canter’s for like my complete 20s. And I was leaving, and he released all of us,” Brody instructed Anna Faris on a March 2021 episode of her Unqualified podcast.

But nothing at all occurred in between them appropriate away. “I was smitten instantly. And I was, you know, smitten for a very long time,” he said in an April 2023 episode of Podcrushed. “I didn’t get to know her for numerous a long time following, even even though we even worked together briefly. She’s so beautiful and she’s so sweet.”

2011: They Worked Jointly On The Oranges

They duo reconnected whilst doing the job alongside one another on the film The Oranges in 2011. “I was observing a person at the time [when we did the movie]. So, we met variety of by mutual do the job close friends off and on. And then we did not get alongside one another about a 12 months immediately after that motion picture when I was one,” Brody said on Unqualified in 2021.

February 2013: Leighton & Adam Started Courting

In February 2013, Us Weekly noted that Meester and Brody ended up “hanging out,” in accordance to a source. The insider additional, “They had been constantly shut and helpful.” Per the outlet’s report, the few experienced traveled collectively to Bangkok previously in 2013 and went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork on Feb. 1, 2013.

November 2013: They Bought Engaged

E! claimed that Meester and Brody were engaged, 9 months soon after they reportedly begun courting.

2014: They Bought Married In Mystery

Meester and Brody acquired married in a secret ceremony in February 2014. Per E!, they ended up noticed at Mexico’s St. Regis Punta Mita Vacation resort above Valentine’s Day. The trip, which appeared to be their honeymoon, happened only a couple months soon after the Gossip Female alum reportedly had her bachelorette celebration at West Hollywood restaurant Hamburger Mary’s.

Throughout an physical appearance on Sirius XM’s The Jess Cagle Demonstrate in March 2023, Brody spoke about their wedding ceremony. “My spouse and I truly acquired married really speedy right after we began courting,” he claimed, for each Brides. “That’s how type of quick a choice it was for me and us. I was hardly ever fearful of the idea of marriage or young children. It usually seemed like a route I would go [down] at some point, and I was psyched when it came alongside one another [and] when I satisfied the correct person.”

2015: They Welcomed Their Very first Baby

On Aug. 4, 2015, the couple’s 1st child was born — a daughter named Arlo Day, for each TMZ.

In August 2018, Meester opened up about parenting with Brody. “I think we’re a really modern day few,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “I believe we form of toggle back and forth… we both do the job, but also becoming actors, I consider we fully grasp each and every other, what we are both going by.”

2020: They Experienced Child No. 2

In September 2020, the couple verified they had welcomed a second child, a boy they jokingly nicknamed Joe Biden. For the duration of the Twitch exhibit The Pleasurable Time Boys Match Night Magnificent, he confirmed that he was a father of two. “I have a boy and he’s a dream, he’s a dream boy,” he claimed, for each People today.

A thirty day period later, in Oct 2020, Brody explained to Folks about getting a son. “It is been pretty magical,” he explained. “It’s such a ridiculous time for anyone and we are so, so, so lucky that we have some of the stability we do and have the overall flexibility with our positions we do. We chat about it all the time and we’re just ridiculously fortunate and blessed.”