Rashida Jones Clarifies She's Married to Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig Only 'in the Eyes of God'
The actress and her musician partner, who often call each other 'husband' and 'wife,' welcomed their son Isaiah in 2018
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Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig in Beverly Hills in March 2024Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig don't need a marriage certificate to make things official.
Speaking to The New Yorker on Sunday, July 7, the Parks and Recreation actress opened up about her relationship with the Vampire Weekend frontman, whom she's been dating since 2016.
"We’re not married," Jones, 48, clarified. "We just kind of call each other that. But we are what we are, in the eyes of God!"
Jones, whose parents are producer Quincy Jones and late model Peggy Lipton, added, "My parents only got married when my dad had his first brain aneurysm and my sister was six months old, because of rights stuff."
She concluded, “I’m sure we’ll get married at some point, but we basically are."
Elsewhere in the interview, she revealed whether she's grown accustomed to the rock-star girlfriend role.
"Like, vintage fur coats and bus life? No. Too old for bus life. But I’m extremely proud," she said.
She adds, "He takes a very long time to make his albums, which is so lucky for me, because it means he’s home a lot of the time. This is our second tour cycle really, so we’ll see how far I go with rock wife."
In April, Koenig, 40, sat down with PEOPLE in light of the release of the band's fifth studio album, Only God Was Above Us. When asked to confirm the state of their relationship, after he'd referred to Jones as his wife in multiple interviews, he also said they were "married in the eyes of God."
Meanwhile, in March, the pair made a rare public appearance at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills.
Koenig and Jones welcomed their son Isaiah in 2018.
Related: Rashida Jones on Losing Mom Peggy Lipton Months After Welcoming Son Isaiah: 'I Was in Grief-Shock'
In 2021, the I Love You, Man actress opened up about the "emotionally intense couple of years that followed" during an interview with NPR. Her mother died from cancer at age 72 in May 2019 — just eight months after their son's birth.
"The thing that's the craziest about birth and death is just the utter rawness of feeling," Jones said at the time.
"I still feel this way, I think. It's like something cracks in you," she continued. "It's very binary, both things — becoming a mother and losing my mother — like, there's my life before and there's my life after. And strangely, there's something that's not recognizable before those two things happened."
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