Many know Seth Meyers as an outspoken American comedian and television presenter, but despite the fact that he usually speaks on almost any subject, he has successfully kept the subject of his personal life a secret, to the point that few people know about his wife, Alexi Ashe to know.
Alexi, a lawyer, works with one of the leading service providers and advocates for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender-based violence known as the Family Sanctuary
Though better known as the wife of Seth Meyers, the human rights lawyer had already built a career in the legal industry before marrying the funnyman.
Alexi Ashe Biography, Age
Alexi Ashe was born in 1983 in New Mexico, USA to Tom and Joan Ashe. She grew up with her older sister, Ariel Ashe, who is an interior designer.
After graduating from high school, she attended Occidental College, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California, and from there she transferred to Southwestern University School of Law. Because of her passion for protecting human rights, Alexi Ashe worked as a legal intern for Human Rights First while she was in law school.
Since graduating, she has worked in the Family and Crime Prevention and Child Protection Department of the Los Angeles Law Firm. Alexi Ashe also worked as an assistant district attorney for the DA’s Special Victims Bureau and Human Trafficking Bureau in Brooklyn.She is currently an attorney at Sanctuary for Families, a non-profit organization that addresses the needs of victims of all forms of abuse. She provides free services to victims of human trafficking and domestic violence around the world.
In addition, Alexi is co-chair of the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition. Because of her work to combat human trafficking, the beautiful woman is named among the “New Abolitionists” in New York.
Facts about Seth Meyer’s wife
Married Seth Meyers
Alexi Ashe and Seth Meyers got married on September 1, 2013, and have been together ever since. According to Meyers, they met at the wedding of Chris Kattan, his co-Saturday Night Live cast member. As the story goes, Alexi’s sister worked in Saturday Night Live’s set design department. She (Alexi) was a guest at the wedding and met her future husband there.
According to Seth, she was the closest contact he had ever had with anyone he could see himself with and as soon as he met Alexi he loved her at first sight so they hit it off immediately.
After five years of dating, they got engaged and he then tied the knot in a star-studded ceremony held at Chickemmoo Farm in Martha’s Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts. On her wedding day, Alexi Ashe wore a beautiful lace Carolina Herrera wedding dress that was the talk of the town at the time.
It’s been five years since they became husband and wife and they’re still going strong, while the couple they met at the wedding have already gone their separate ways.
food poisoning
During her rehearsal meal just before her marriage to Alexi, she ate a bad oyster, which led to food poisoning and consequently her being taken to the hospital for medical treatment. Despite the advice of a nurse who told her to call off her wedding, she went ahead with the ceremony.
children
The legal practitioner had her first child namedAshe Olsen Meyers on March 27, 2016. As a feminist, you always realize that your children will not bear your last name—a very bitter pill to swallow.
However, Alexi Ashe came up with a brilliant solution to this problem by giving your child the first name Ashe, thus ensuring that it has both her husband’s and the child’s surname. Although not everyone succeeds in this, Ashe Meyers is actually a cute name for a boy.
On April 8, 2018, Alexi had her second son named Axel Ray. Reminiscing about the birth of Axel, Seth said on his late-night show on April 9, 2018 that he was born in the lobby of her apartment. He’d called 911 and before he could finish his one-minute conversation with them, the baby had arrived.
Not long after, the New York City Police Department and Fire Department came to Alexi Ashe and helped cut the umbilical cord while her neighbors made sure the newborn stayed warm by putting towels in the dryer.
