Ellen Degeneres Shares Photo of Kiss With Portia De Rossi to Celebrate National Coming Out Day

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have just celebrated National Coming Out Day by posting a photo of themselves sharing a kiss on the set of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” As noted by the Daily Mail, the photo was taken earlier this year when Portia dropped by the show to surprise Ellen on her 60th birthday.

The most popular lesbian couple in the world started dating in 2004, and the two got married in 2008 after same-sex marriage was legalized by the California Supreme Court. The couple celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in August.

“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 back in 2016.

“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.”

Ellen DeGeneres is actually the first openly lesbian person to play an openly lesbian character in a TV series. Her character in “Ellen” came out of the closet to her therapist (played by Oprah Winfrey) in the ‘90s and, in turn, the talk show host also came out as a lesbian on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

Meanwhile, Portia de Rossi had admitted that the first time she truly came out was at the Golden Globes in 2014, when “Arrested Development” was nominated. That was the first time the two were spotted together as a couple, and Portia said that was also the first time she came out as a lesbian.

After watching so many celebrity couples split up in the past few years, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s relationship just seems like a breath of fresh air.