Jason Ritter and Melanie Lynskey are well-known actors who have worked in movies and TV shows. They are also a couple who is always there for each other. Melanie was recently body-shamed online, so Jason let the trolls know how he felt. Because of this and other things, we think this couple is perfect for each other, so we wanted to tell you all about it.
Melanie and Jason Ritter met on the set of The Big Ask.
Like a lot of other Hollywood couples, they met on the set of a movie. The first time they worked together was on the set of The Big Ask in 2013, but they keep getting cast in the same movies. In the movie We’ll Never Have Paris, they even got to play each other’s siblings.
Jason asked Melanie to marry him in the most adorable way.
Melanie and Jason were together for four years before the actor asked the actress to marry him in 2017. She said that she didn’t know he was going to ask her to marry him, so she was surprised when he did it on their sofa. In an interview, the only thing the actress wanted to say was,
It was cute.
Soon their family got a little bit bigger.
In 2018, a year after they got engaged, they brought a baby girl into their lives. Melanie posted on her social media,
We feel lucky to have been able to have our news just be for friends and family for a while, but I guess the story got out, so! Yes! Jason Ritter and I had a daughter in December.
The actress is always posting cute pictures of their daughter with her father. In one of the pictures, she wrote:
A little girl who knows she has the best dad in the world.
Lynskey also said that when it comes to being parents, they work together as a team.
He’s so helpful, so supportive, and he’s willing to travel with me, so the family can be together,
she said.
I do the same for him, but I’ve been working a lot recently, so he’s been making the sacrifice more often than I have.
They had to hurry up and get married.
Jason and Melanie didn’t have a big wedding. Instead, they had a very small party with only 6 people. Someone gave her the wrong information, so they had to hurry up with their wedding. She was going to film for the TV show Yellowjackets in Vancouver, and someone told her,
Jason won’t be able to get into Canada unless you’re married — which just wasn’t true,
said the actress.
Melanie was scared and said,
We have a child, what? We have to get married tomorrow.
Melanie said the woman who married them was a nice lady. The wedding took place on their front porch. Two of their friends and their daughter came to visit.
Since the beginning of her career, people have said things about Melanie’s looks that she didn’t ask for.
Melanie’s life has not been perfect. There have been times when coworkers and people on the internet made comments about her weight. Melanie remembers when she was working on the set of the movie Coyote Ugly with the costume designer.
Nobody told me there would be girls like you.’ Really intense feedback about my physicality, my body.
Jason defended Melanie from online trolls.
Melanie talked about the mean things people had said about her body online at the start of 2022. People would act worried about her health after they said mean things about her. To which the actress responded,
You don’t see me on my Peloton! You don’t see me running through the park with my child. Skinny does not always equal healthy,
Even Melanie’s husband Jason defended her by making a funny post on social media that said,
If anyone has any further unsolicited comments about *anybody* else’s body, they can feel free to write them in permanent ink onto their own foreheads and swan dive directly into the sun.
They always have each other’s backs.
Jason is also Melanie’s biggest fan when it comes to her work.
Definitely, we’ve helped put each other on tape and things like that. And it is nice if we are having a problem or if we’re nervous about a scene or if something’s sticking. I really feel like I can ask her. I’m so inspired by her. I think she’s such a wonderful actress,
said the actor.
When asked in an interview about her husband, Melanie gave the sweetest answer:
I honestly feel like I won the lottery, I have the greatest husband, he’s such a good dad, he loves me, he makes me feel beautiful no matter what, he’s a good, good person, and he’s so cute.
