Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, have been pulling on our heart strings for years since officially becoming a couple in 2005, and are one of the longest lasting couples in Hollywood (via Insider).

The lovebirds were married in 2008, and despite their commitment to one another, they never had kids. DeGeneres told People in 2014, “Honestly, we’d probably be great parents. But it’s a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility — I wouldn’t want to screw them up! We love our animals.”

Speaking to Today in 2015, DeGeneres admitted, “I love kids, but that’s such a big commitment. It seems long-term. It seems like a commitment that you have to stick with. And I just don’t know if I can — it’s too risky.”

Of course, the topic wouldn’t be complete without a little humor, and the comedian has also joked, “Like, what if I don’t like the kid? What if it turns out that it’s not as cute as I wanted or as talented? I’m gonna compare it to all these kids that I have on this show that are so smart and so funny. And I’m like, ‘You are nowhere near these kids I had on today'” (via US Weekly).

DeGeneres and de Rossi don't feel like they missed out by not having kids

For de Rossi, she admits that there is a pressure in your 30s to have kids. “Am I going to have kids so I don’t miss out on something that other people really seem to love? Or is it that I really genuinely want to do this with my whole heart? I didn’t feel that my response was ‘yes’ to the latter. You have to really want to have kids, and neither of us did. So it’s just going to be me and Ellen and no babies — but we’re the best of friends and married life is blissful, it really is. I’ve never been happier than I am right now” (via Out). 

They may not have kids, but DeGeneres and de Rossi have their animals. “Animals are the closest things to God,” DeGeneres, who wanted to be a veterinarian, told People.

For years, the couple has been dogged by tabloid rumors of divorce, but de Rossi says the rumors are actually a good thing. “I know it sounds ridiculous, but when that started happening I thought, ‘Oh, now we’re finally accepted.’ We get the same s–t as every celebrity couple,” she said. “I thought, ‘Wow, this is great that I’m pregnant, not pregnant, divorced, not divorced,’ whatever. That means there is an acceptance for this” (via US Weekly). 

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