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The Gist

• Nick Lachey and his wife, Vanessa Lachey, have been together since 2006.

• The Love Is Blind co-hosts celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary in July 2025.

• They share three kids: sons Camden and Phoenix and daughter Brooklyn.

Nick and Vanessa Lachey’s love story is what Y2K dreams are made of. Back in the early 2000s, Nick was a member of the boy band 98 Degrees, while Vanessa was a veejay for MTV’s Total Request Live (RIP), and inevitably, the two crossed paths. But it wasn’t until Nick asked Vanessa to play his love interest in the music video for his song “What’s Left of Me” in 2006 that sparks really began to fly between them.

“I remember feeling first date jitters. This video shoot was the first time it was like…,” Vanessa said during an interview with People TV in 2019, before Nick finished her sentence, adding: “Whatcha doin after?” From that point on, Nick and Vanessa were a couple (save for a brief breakup in 2009). They got married in July 2011 and welcomed three children together—sons Camden and Phoenix, and a daughter, Brooklyn.

Fast forward to 2020, and the pair became coworkers, hosting Netflix’s now-hit reality dating series Love Is Blind together. Asked by Brides in February 2025 if they think they would’ve picked each other had they first met in the show’s famous ‘pods,’ Nick said, “We always say yes, and I think we would have.”

Here’s everything to know about Nick and Vanessa Lachey’s relationship—from TRL to becoming a family of five.

They met through MTV’s Total Request Live.

Nick and Vanessa first crossed paths on MTV’s Total Request Live in 2003 while Vanessa was a veejay for the show and Nick was often a guest promoting his music with 98 Degrees and his reality show, Newlyweds, with then-wife Jessica Simpson.

However, Nick doesn’t entirely credit the iconic Y2K show for their long-lasting romance. “I wouldn’t necessarily say TRL brought us together, but that was definitely part of our time together—me being a musician and her being on-air talent,” he told Billboard back in 2017. “I saw her multiple times throughout the years when she was on TRL.” Vanessa added, “It was always about business and it was always nice to see him.”

It wasn’t until years later that their friendship turned romantic. In 2006, Nick, who had recently filed for divorce from Simpson, asked Vanessa, who had gotten out of a long-term relationship herself, to play his love interest in the music video for his song “What’s Left of Me”—and their chemistry was undeniable.

“The video, which was on TRL, was the beginning of our relationship. That’s what made it no longer friends and it got romantic,” Vanessa explained to Billboard, adding that she was so nervous she called in sick the day the music video premiered on the show. Thankfully, fellow host La La Anthony filled in.

They briefly broke up in 2009—then got engaged.

After dodging breakup rumors for months, Nick and Vanessa called it quits in June 2009, People reported at the time.

While hosting Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On in 2022, Vanessa opened up about how the show’s premise hit close to home. She told contestants that she and Nick broke up briefly and saw other people during their split before realizing that they wanted to be together.

“We both saw one other person and we realized that if we got out of our own way, we could be amazing together,” she said. “But it took seeing somebody else and me realizing I don’t mind the things that I thought bugged me or were holding me back. I don’t mind all that.”

By October, they’d patched things up. During an appearance on Good Day Philadelphia, Nick announced that he and Vanessa were a couple again, telling viewers: “I am happy in a relationship. I was single for a minute there, and then we’ve kind of patched things up.”

One year later, Nick proposed to Vanessa with an Asscher-cut diamond ring with trapezoid stones on each side. Explaining how the proposal went down, he painted a detailed picture for fans during the couple’s TLC wedding special.

“I took her to the Montage in Orange County, we sat by the pool, had drinks, it was a beautiful time. The whole time, I’ve got the ring in my pocket,” he said. “Got down on both knees and laid it on her. And then we cried, and celebrated, it was really… It was beautiful.”

They’ve been married for over a decade.

On July 15, 2011, Nick and Vanessa tied the knot during an intimate ceremony on Richard Branson’s private island in the British Virgin Islands. Vanessa walked down the aisle in a strapless Monique Lhuillier dress with a tiered ballgown skirt, and the couple wrote their own vows. Following the wedding, the newlyweds headed to St. Barts for their honeymoon.

The couple celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary in 2025, with Vanessa taking to Instagram to commemorate their relationship milestone. Alongside a throwback photo of the two on their wedding day, she wrote in the short and sweet caption, “19 years together, 14 years married (today) I’m FOREVER Yours Faithfully! Happy Anniversary, My Love! ❤️💫👦🏻👧🏼🧒🏻🐾🧿.”

Nick, meanwhile, got a bit sappier in his lengthy Instagram tribute post to his wife of over a decade. “14 years ago, I said I Do to a life with this incredible woman,” he wrote. “On that day, we started a journey that has brought us three amazing children and the family I always dreamed of. V, there is nothing we can’t accomplish together and I can’t wait to see where we go next.”

They’re proud parents to three kids.

The couple welcomed their first child together, a son named Camden John Lachey, on September 12, 2012. They welcomed their daughter, Brooklyn Elisabeth Lachey, on January 5, 2015. On Christmas Eve 2016, Nick and Vanessa welcomed their third child, a baby boy named Phoenix Robert Lachey.

“It’s a very Merry Christmas indeed! We had our Christmas Miracle. Phoenix Robert Lachey decided to show up early and was born on Christmas Eve,” Vanessa wrote of her son being 10 weeks premature on Instagram. “Mommy, Daddy, Camden & Brooklyn LOVE You very much! #LacheyPartyOf5.”

The couple have shared regular snapshots of their kids’ lives over the years, from the trio bonding at the beach and donning matching Christmas pajamas with their parents to enjoying a trip to Disneyland in 2025. Even when they’re just chilling at home, their parents make sure to let them know they’re loved.

“The one thing that we’ve always agreed on is that we will always, always let our children know how much we love them,” Vanessa told People in 2024. “It sounds so simple, but I didn’t have that constant affirmation, physically and verbally, when I was younger.”

While the kids spent a few years living in Hawaii, they’ve since relocated to California. After the cancellation of NCIS: Hawai’i in 2024—in which Vanessa played Jane Tennant, the franchise’s first-ever female lead—the actress announced on Instagram that she and her family were leaving the Aloha State. “Home is where the heart is…,” she wrote in her caption. “Hawai’i, you will always have my heart! Mahalo Nui Loa [Thank you very much] for 3 beautiful, magical years you gave me and my family!”

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