- This Is Us star Mandy Moore married musician Taylor Goldsmith in November of 2018.
- Moore was previously married to Ryan Adams from 2009 until 2016.
- In September 2020, Moore announced that the couple is expecting a son in early 2021.
Mandy Moore earned an Emmy nomination for playing This Is Us's complicated matriarch, Rebecca Pearson. Now, in a life-imitating-art twist, Moore is pregnant with her first child. The singer and actress shared the happy news in an Instagram post, indicating that her baby—a son!—is expected in early 2021.
Moore and her husband, musician Taylor Goldsmith, married in November 2018. "Baby Boy Goldsmith coming early 2021," Moore captioned the exuberant series of photos, which zooms in on her subtle baby bump.
In addition to whatever she learned from playing Rebecca Pearson, Moore has the example her own mother set. The 36-year-old calls her family "extraordinarily close," and says she sees her own family reflected in This Is Us.
Here are a few key things to know about Moore's love life, and their growing family.
She met her now-husband on Instagram.
Back in May of 2015, Moore posted an Instagram expressing her love for Goldsmith's band, Dawes, and her excitement for their new album. "Somehow, Taylor saw it and sent a note to me," Moore has since told People. "We started emailing back and forth, then we went on a date and the rest is history. Thanks Instagram, for helping me meet my fiancé!" See, social media's not all bad!
Moore was still finalizing her divorce from Ryan Adams at the time, and Goldsmith's hectic tour schedule made things more challenging, but the fledgling couple were determined to make their love work. "We spent hours FaceTiming each other," Moore has explained. "We fell in love before we’d even really held hands or kissed or anything. It was great."
"We have a modern kind of love story,” Moore told InStyle. “But if someone would have told me three years ago, ‘That’s your future husband, and you’re going to meet him through Instagram,’ I would have thought that they were absolutely bonkers. It proves that you have to stay open-minded because you just never know.”
Moore and Goldsmith make a point of supporting each other's careers.
Moore appeared in the music video for Dawes' 2016 song "Roll With The Punches," and Goldsmith's comments about the whole thing will make you smile. "I’m pretty blown away by her acting," Goldsmith told Entertainment Weekly, "and just blown away by her in general, I guess. It was fun to bring together what we both do, even if just in some small way."
For his part, Goldsmith has regularly taken time out of his touring schedule to support Moore on various red carpets as This Is Us has scooped up its armfuls of awards.
The couple married in November 2018.
After more than two years of dating, Moore and Goldsmith tied the knot last November, in a romantic and intimate backyard ceremony at their home in Pasadena, California. “It was boho chic and very romantic,” a source told People. The ceremony was attended by Moore's This Is Us co-stars, plus an array of other guests including Minka Kelly, Cristina Thompson, and Emily Schuman.
“I feel incredibly understood and supported. I feel incredibly lucky to have somebody who is like, ‘I got your back,’” Moore told People. “I found the right person and I feel like we can handle anything together.”
Moore was previously married to Ryan Adams.
In 2009, Moore married the musician Ryan Adams, entering a partnership that she has since revealed made her feel "spiritually and fundamentally stuck." In a New York Times story published earlier this year, Moore, along with seven other women, accused Adams of manipulative and controlling behavior. Moore was just 23 when she met Adams, and claimed that he was “psychologically abusive," taking control of her career and belittling her talent. "His controlling behavior essentially did block my ability to make new connections in the industry during a very pivotal and potentially lucrative time—my entire mid-to-late 20s,” she told the Times.
Through his lawyer, Adams denied the claims, calling Moore's “characterization” of their relationship “completely inconsistent with his view.”
"I was living my life for him," Moore later told Marc Maron on his WTF podcast. "I had no sense of self. I felt like I was drowning. It was so untenable and unsustainable and it was so lonely. I was so sad. I was lonely with him."
Shortly before her wedding last November, Moore also opened up to Bustle about her time with Adams. "When I think back to that particular time period that we're talking about...It was heavy. It was dark. It was confusing. It was lonely. There was no room for me. There was no room for me to have anything else in my life."
Goldsmith has helped Moore to heal.
Speaking to Glamour about the period while she was divorcing Adams and first getting to know Goldsmith, Moore said some incredibly touching things about how her now-husband supported her. "I was still dealing with the trauma of my divorce when we started dating," she said. "Taylor was steadfast in his support—that was a huge sign for me... He makes me melt. I can imagine no better partner. He's going to be the most tremendous father. I view the past as a stepping-stone to get me where I am today. I would gladly weather all of that a million times over if it brought me to Taylor again."
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Emma Dibdin is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles who writes about culture, mental health, and true crime. She loves owls, hates cilantro, and can find the queer subtext in literally anything.
