Boy meets love! Rider Strong and Alexandra Barreto sparked an instant connection on the set of the short-lived sequence Pepper Dennis.
The Boy Meets World alum and Barreto were cast as Chick and Blanca, respectively, on the 2006 sitcom reverse Rebecca Romijn. Despite the comedy’s early cancellation after one season, the pair quickly turned their working relationship into a personal one.
Strong — who rose to fame as Shawn Hunter on the early 2000s hit — proposed to the Fosters alum in December 2012.
“I took her for a walk below the redwoods at the belongings the place I grew up in Northern California,” Strong exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “It used to be pouring rain, but it surely didn’t look adore it used to be going to forestall anytime soon, so I just decided to go for it.”
The Benefit of the Doubt actor got down on bended knee with a homemade diamond bauble. “I spent weeks making the ring in secret. I found an old-school jeweler who works out of his basement in Echo Park and requested him to show me find out how to do a misplaced wax casting,” he recalled to Us. “My brother [Shiloh Strong] and I write in combination at his loft in downtown L.A., so I used to be ready to set up a workspace there. I carved the ring out of wax, after which solid it in white gold. I had my dad make a wooden ring box for me. My dad made my mother’s ring, so I was following in his footsteps.”
The twosome tied the knot one year later in a camp-themed wedding.
“I’m incredibly lucky to be getting married to my absolute best friend and partner-in-crime,” the “Pod Meets World” podcast cohost — who reprised his BMW character on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World — exclusively told Us in October 2013 ahead of the massive day. “We’re tying the knot at a summer time camp in Oregon. It’s going to be a camp-themed weekend with everyone sleeping in bunks, a ropes path, games [and] a ability display. Let’s hope it doesn’t rain too much!”
The California native and the Too Late actress went on to welcome their first kid, son Indigo “Indy” Barreto Strong. Us showed in January 2015 that Barreto gave birth one month prior after conserving her being pregnant non-public.
Since changing into a father, the actor has enjoyed sharing his passions together with his son. However, Indigo has not been as eager to watch Strong’s film and TV projects.
“I do a caricature known as Star vs. the Forces of Evil. It in truth simply ended and I in the end was once like, ‘Hey! Let’s watch this one!’ Because it came up on his recommendations [displays] one morning,” Strong exclusively told Us in August 2019 of his son, then 4 years old. “I was like, ‘Let’s watch the display that I do a voice in!’ My son didn't care. Like, didn't. No. … I’m like, ‘The man! With the three eyes! And the horns! That’s my voice!’ He’s like, ‘Nah. Doesn’t subject. Not spectacular.’”
While Indigo remained indifferent to his famous parents’ careers, Strong has frequently shared advice with his fellow Boy Meets World costars about raising children.
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“[I’m] doling out condescending parenting advice because I’ve got a four-year lead on her,” he jokingly told Us in 2019, referring to Danielle Fishel’s eldest son, Adler, born that July. “[I inform her], ‘Listen. Here’s methods to sleep train, right here’s what books to read.’”
Scroll below to look Strong and the Dungeon Master actress’ whole relationship timeline:
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