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Ellen DeGeneresknows her life wouldn’t be the same withoutPortia de Rossi.
The talk show host, 60, posted a photo of herself giving de Rossi a kiss during a taping ofThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.
“It’s the greatest gift you could give yourself,” she captioned the sweet snap. She added the hashtag #NationalComingOutDay.
The couple started dating in December 2004 while de Rossi was on the Fox sitcomArrested Development.
In 2008,,DeGeneres announced onThe Ellen Degeneresshow that she was planning on marryingde Rossi after news broke that the California Supreme Court would allow same-sex marriages.
“Portia and I constantly say to each other, ‘We are so lucky.’ Sometimes it’s lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there,” DeGeneres told PEOPLE inher 2016 cover story. “I’ve gotten to a place where I really am just settled. Really. I know that I’m not going anywhere. She’s not going anywhere. I’m not saying the relationship took a while; I’m saying in my life, it took a while to find this.”
In 1997, DeGenerespublicly came out as gayon the cover ofTIMEmagazine. That same year, her character on the ABC hit sitcomEllenalso came out.
“It was the hardest thing that I ever had to do in my life,” she previously said of coming out. “I would not change one moment of it because it led me to be exactly where I am today.”
source: people.com
