Portia de Rossi

Portia De Rossi was born on 31 January 1973 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Her father is Barry Rogers and her mother who is a medical receptionist. Her father died when she was at the age nine and they later moved to Grovedale where spent her childhood. There she was a child model for print and TV commercials.

 According to the wiki, at the age of 15, she changed her name as Portia de Rossi in 1988. The name came from the character from William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'.  Talking about her education she studied at Melbourne Girls Grammar School and later completed her university degree from the University of Melbourne.

She has been married to twice. First Portia married to Mel Metcalfe. She stayed with Mel from 1996 to 1999. Later it was known that the marriage was done to get a green card. Portia on an interview revealed that she was very much frightened about her being lesbian. In 2005 Portia De Rossi met Ellen DeGeneres whom she married on 16 August 2008 and they conducted their wedding in Beverly Hills.

After Portia marriage with Ellen, in 2010, she legally changed her name to Portia De James DeGeneres. And as petition she filed for the name was granted she became the citizen of the United States.

Portia De Rossi before moving to States she was part of the movie named Sirens in 1994. Shifting to Los Angeles she landed in the Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher. In the year 1998, she became the main cast of Ally Mc Beal and played the role of Nelle Porter. The other admired role she did is as the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in America's Prince: The John F. Kenndey Jr. in 2003.

When it comes to 2009 and 2010, she was seen on the ABC show 'Better off Ted'. With her incredible beauty she was listed in the Stuff Magazine's 100 Sexist Women, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Women in 2003 and 24 in Maxim 100 Most Beautiful. Then in 2014, Portia appeared with her most loved show Scandal. She got the role of Elizabeth North in the season 4 of the series.

Portia De Rossi has also written a book Unbeatable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain where she has depicted her anorexia nervosa and bulimia. For the promotion of her book, she went to various shows including Ellen's.

Portia De Rossi has a good deal of earnings, she went through plastic surgery which makes her look half the age she is. Until March 2017 they lived in the mansion worth $24.5 million.

Portia De Rossi usually likes to play with her hair and have a different haircut and she is a very stylish person and lives a sophisticated life. Portia De Rossi went through a massive plastic surgery, she did nasal tip reconstruction, eyelid surgery, smoothen skin and border her upper lip.

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Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres after nine years of marriage are still by each other sides. We could also hear the news of them having trouble in their married life.  Their Santa Barbara home of California was also in the sale which both loved a lot. However, everything seems to be fine now this couple was also seen enjoying dinner in West Hollywood.

As this couple seems to love each other very much as they are very much concerned about one another's health, Life and style mag. 

As per news flash The look of love! Ellen DeGeneres' wife Portia de Rossi looks happy and radiant as she steps out to run errands in Beverly Hills.