The 41-year-old actor reflected on how he met his wife of nearly 30 years, Katherine, in a profile for Men’s Health.
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Katherine Ritchson and Alan Ritchson attend the New York premiere of ‘Ordinary Angels’ held at the SVA Theater on February 19, 2024 in New York City.
Alan Ritchson and his wife, Catherine, were high school sweethearts, but their decades-long love story didn’t start out plain sailing.
of Reacher In his profile, the 41-year-old star recalled the first time he met his wife of nearly 30 years. men’s health — and revealed the waiting game he played before actually talking to her.
The two were in the same ballet class at high school in Florida, he told the outlet. But it took months and a friend of hers to find out about her interests before she worked up the courage to talk to her. When he learned that his girlfriend was into ice skating, he approached her.
“After sitting next to you for the millionth time, tying your shoelaces inches away, I was like, ‘I heard you ice skating,’ which is so awkward now,” he said. looked back on the past 17 years. My old self. “She seemed like the sweetest person in the world.”
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Katherine, who was 16 at the time, told a similar story about how they first met. In September she said: path to wisdom podcast, “I’ll never forget the first time I met him in the studio. I turned to my friend Miriam and said, ‘Who is that?’ At one point he came up to me and we just chatted. ”
The two dated for a while, but Ritchson broke up with her at the end of their first summer together, she said. He thought it was “just a fling.”
“I’ve been making him pay for it ever since,” she joked. “He still justifies it. He was like, ‘You lived 30 minutes away and you couldn’t afford gas.'”
The two met again while Katherine was attending the University of Florida. Ritchson was in Miami for a modeling shoot and a mutual friend contacted her. The rest is “history,” she said on the podcast.
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Ritchson and Katherine married in 2006 and have three sons, Calem, born in 2012, Edan, born in 2013, and Amory, born in 2015.
On Valentine’s Day this year, ordinary angel The star paid tribute to his wife on Instagram, writing, “My beautiful bride. Happy day of love. You give my life meaning and purpose beyond the temporary and joyful. stretches my soul beyond the important to the essential. I feel eternity on your lips and know eternity in your embrace. I am forever and ever I am also your servant.”
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Duchess Kate has also shown her love for her husband on social media. After the premiere of Season 2 on Amazon Prime Video Reacher Ritchson, who has appeared in the role of Jack Reacher, a military veteran played by Tom Cruise in two films based on Lee Child’s novels of the same name, wrote of Ritchson in December: “This guy worked harder than I expected. I’m so proud of him.”
The year before that, Reacher It premiered to rave reviews, but she reflected on the years of hard work Ritchson put into the role, saying, “If I say, ‘I’m so proud of him,’ you’ll never understand. I hope you like this series.” I am blessed,” he wrote. As much as Alan loved making it too. He did his best to make it happen. ”
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