Ken Jeong and Wife Celebrate 20 Years of Marriage: ‘You Still Complete Me’
The couple got together long before Jeong saw his career breakthrough with 2009's 'The Hangover.'
Ken Jeong and his wife, Tran Ho, have officially been married for 20 years.
The actor and comedian took to social media to celebrate the occasion. "Twenty years down, forever to go. You still complete me, Ho,” he wrote alongside a photo of them from what appears to be their wedding in September 2004.
According to People, the couple met when they were both practicing doctors at a Los Angeles hospital, which hosted a singles mixer. At the time, he hadn’t yet had his breakthrough as an actor.
In 2015, he told the podcast, Sex & Money that she was “really the first person I ever met that made me laugh so hard.” He continued, “We really bonded by our love of comedy. You don’t meet a lot of people in medicine, much less date them, who like that, but we had that in common.”
His breakthrough would come later, in 2009’s The Hangover; prior to that, he appeared in 2007’s Knocked Up, the same year Jeong and Ho had twin daughters, Alexa and Zooey.
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Throughout his entire career, his wife has been by his side and has emboldened him to keep going, even when she went through breast cancer treatment while caring for their kids.
In 2011, the 55-year-old penned a personal essay for HuffPost, where he credited his wife for fully supporting him when he landed The Hangover.
“I was going to turn it down, but Tran encouraged me not to," he wrote. "She would not let her diagnosis change our lives or strip us from our dreams."
He added, "For as long as we'd known each other, she'd been my biggest champion in my efforts to pursue a career in comedy. She knew this was my chance, and again, she selflessly put herself second.”