Wives for the rest of their lives! Raven-Symoné and Miranda Pearman-Maday started letting fans see more of their relationship once they got married.
The two never addressed their relationship publicly until they walked down the aisle in June 2020.
Symoné also didn’t come out as a lesbian until she took a break from Hollywood to go to college at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She said being a child star, who started working at age 3, impacted her journey to self-acceptance.
“I never thought I would come out because my personal life didn’t matter,” the That’s So Raven alum said in a 2016 It Got Better video. “It was only what was supposed to be sold as the Raven-Symoné brand. So it was something that I always thought in my head, I’ll have a ‘friend.’ I’ll have a husband and I’ll have a ‘friend’ on the side so I can be happy.”
She said she finally came out publicly because she found someone who was much more than a friend. “I don’t care anymore because I fell in love,” she said.
Symoné and Pearman-Maday married in an intimate June 2020 ceremony. “I got married to a woman who understands me from trigger to joy, from breakfast to midnight snack, from stage to home,” the “Spacetruck” singer wrote in her Instagram wedding announcement.
On their one-year anniversary, the two gushed over each other on social media. “Marriage is about compromise and sacrifice • lucky for me im [sic] married to someone who gets that,” Pearman-Maday wrote along with a photo of the happy couple.
The Cosby Show alum was a little more verbose, writing a lengthy post about how much she still loves her wife and how happy she is after the first year of marriage.
“You know how to communicate with me like no one ever has,” Symoné wrote on Instagram in June 2021. “I too have dreamed of a life like this. So every morning it takes me a while to shake my head into reality. I never thought I’d be living such a fulfilled life. Your beauty gives me butterfly’s [sic] in my chest, your knowledge gives my brain a best friend, your corny jokes gives my tears a reason to fall other than pain. You are the switch in my life that turned the light on. You brighten my life.”
Scroll through to see Symoné and Pearman-Maday’s romance through the years:
Wives for the rest of their lives! Raven-Symoné and Miranda Pearman-Maday started letting fans see more of their relationship once they got married.
The two never addressed their relationship publicly until they walked down the aisle in June 2020.
Symoné also didn’t come out as a lesbian until she took a break from Hollywood to go to college at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She said being a child star, who started working at age 3, impacted her journey to self-acceptance.
“I never thought I would come out because my personal life didn’t matter,” the That’s So Raven alum said in a 2016 It Got Better video. “It was only what was supposed to be sold as the Raven-Symoné brand. So it was something that I always thought in my head, I’ll have a ‘friend.’ I’ll have a husband and I’ll have a ‘friend’ on the side so I can be happy.”
She said she finally came out publicly because she found someone who was much more than a friend. “I don’t care anymore because I fell in love,” she said.
Symoné and Pearman-Maday married in an intimate June 2020 ceremony. “I got married to a woman who understands me from trigger to joy, from breakfast to midnight snack, from stage to home,” the “Spacetruck” singer wrote in her Instagram wedding announcement.
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On their one-year anniversary, the two gushed over each other on social media. “Marriage is about compromise and sacrifice • lucky for me im [sic] married to someone who gets that,” Pearman-Maday wrote along with a photo of the happy couple.
The Cosby Show alum was a little more verbose, writing a lengthy post about how much she still loves her wife and how happy she is after the first year of marriage.
“You know how to communicate with me like no one ever has,” Symoné wrote on Instagram in June 2021. “I too have dreamed of a life like this. So every morning it takes me a while to shake my head into reality. I never thought I’d be living such a fulfilled life. Your beauty gives me butterfly’s [sic] in my chest, your knowledge gives my brain a best friend, your corny jokes gives my tears a reason to fall other than pain. You are the switch in my life that turned the light on. You brighten my life.”
Scroll through to see Symoné and Pearman-Maday’s romance through the years:
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2015
The two haven’t offered too many details about the beginning of their relationship, but they did open up about how they crossed paths. “The first time we met was at a gay bar in West Hollywood where Symoné was a host of a karaoke night,” Pearman-Maday said in a Q&A video.
Meanwhile, Symoné confirmed the origin of their relationship started when she commented on an Instagram throwback photo of the two. “Damn babe you took it back to the start of the relationship #2015/2016,” she commented in June 2020.
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June 18, 2020
The two married in a small ceremony put together by their friends. Symoné styled her love in a white Gucci jumpsuit while the Disney alum wore a black button-down shirt. Grey’s Anatomy star Debbie Allen hosted the nuptials in her garden and even cooked for the guests.
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April 2021
The two officially started working together on their YouTube channel, titled 8 pm. The wives give fans a look into their domestic life with cooking videos, but they can also get a little outrageous on the platform. The lovebirds once picked out tattoos for each other, but they weren’t allowed to look at the design until it was inked on their bodies.
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May 2021
The women opened up about wanting to start a family. “I want four kids. I want a big family,” Symoné explained to Entertainment Tonight. “I want to be able to make sure that the gatherings at the dinner table and the gatherings at holidays are full of excitement and fun. I really don’t like the attention on me, even though I’m in the industry, you might think it’s true. But if we just have one child, I feel like it’s not enough distraction. I want a whole bunch of people in the house.”
Pearman-Maday added that they were looking into freezing their eggs, but they’re also open to adoption.
Credit: Courtesy Miranda Pearman-Maday/Instagram
June 2021
For their first anniversary, Symoné emphasized how prioritizing their mental health is a huge part of their relationship.
“We both go to therapy. We both go to therapy in our own version. I just wanted to tell you how much I love you and tell you that your journey of mental health and making yourself better has definitely sparked want in me to get better as well,” Symoné told Pearman-Maday in a June YouTube video. “I know that our relationship personally, our relationship outward to the public and our relationship with ourselves will only get better if we take care of our brains.”
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July 2021
The couple gushed about their new YouTube channel while making their red carpet debut at the Space Jam: A New Legacy’s Los Angeles premiere. “Oh my goodness, we love the fact that we get to be ourselves, that we don’t have a huge conglomerate telling us what to do,” the Masked Singer alum told Entertainment Tonight at the event. “We love working together and coming up with cool videos for it and bonding. It feels great … and to be able to do it with my wife and really have that strength and that companionship, it makes it even easier.”
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April 2022
The Cheetah Girls actress told Tamron Hall that her wife had never seen any of her TV shows before they met — and she thought it was “fantastic.” She explained, “Imagine being in a relationship with someone who doesn’t look at you like a famous person even though you have been famous your whole entire life. You get to be seen. And Miranda provided me with a reality with an honest conversation to the point where she forgets that I’m Raven-Symone or doesn’t even consider me that person.”
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December 2022
The wives hit the purple carpet at the 2022 Creative Arts Children’s & Family Emmys in Los Angeles.
