Meant to be! Ellen Pompeo’s character Meredith Grey may have a rocky relationship history on Grey’s Anatomy — but her real-life love story is much more stable.
Pompeo met husband Chris Ivery in a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003 and after six months of friendship, the couple began dating. “One night she just looked different to me,” Ivery told People in a joint December 2006 with the Old School star.The pair quickly realized their meet-cute was meant to be when they discovered they had grown up about 10 miles away from each other in neighboring Massachusetts towns.
For Pompeo, it didn’t take much more to know the music producer was The One. “I guess you fall in love and you think he’s the guy right away,” she gushed. “Right when you fall in love, you think he’s the guy.
You don’t sort of fall into a relationship thinking it’s only going to be temporary. We were six degrees our whole lives, so I feel like we were sort of meant to be.”The twosome secretly tied the knot a year later, with former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg officiating the ceremony. “They took us in this underground tunnel underneath City Hall … and you’re in the mayor’s office.
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