Jim Carrey got married again, and most of the internet only just found out he had a girlfriend. The 64-year-old comedian and actor quietly wed his longtime partner Min Ah in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, TMZ reported Wednesday. His publicist is already on record confirming he is, in fact, a real human being who attended his own wedding.
The 'Yes Man' Said Yes, Apparently
According to TMZ, the ceremony was small and private, which tracks for a relationship that Carrey has treated like a state secret since it began. Page Six reports that he and Min Ah were first photographed together back in February 2022, leaving a charity comedy show hosted by Judd Apatow at Largo in Los Angeles. That's four and a half years of keeping things quiet before finally making it legal.
Their public debut as a couple came in February of this year at the César Awards in Paris, where Carrey accepted an honorary award and delivered his acceptance speech in French. Min Ah sat in the audience alongside his daughter Jane and grandson Jackson. Carrey addressed her directly from the stage: "Thank you to my sublime companion, Min Ah. I love you, Min Ah." Romantic. Also the most information anyone had about her existence up to that point.
A Brief History of Jim Carrey's Love Life
This is Carrey's third marriage, which sounds like a lot until you remember he's 64 and has been one of the most famous people on earth since 1994. His first marriage was to Melissa Womer, a former actress who was working as a Comedy Store waitress when they met. They married in 1987, divorced in 1995, and share a daughter, Jane, who is now 38.
Martriage number two was to his "Dumb and Dumber" co-star Lauren Holly in 1996. That one lasted less than a year. He also famously dated Jenny McCarthy from 2005 to 2010, and more recently was linked to his "Kidding" co-star Ginger Gonzaga. They made their red carpet debut in January 2019 and split later that year. So by Hollywood standards, a relationship that has quietly lasted four-plus years before ending in a private wedding is practically a fairy tale.
The César Awards, the Clone Theories, and the Publicist Who Had Enough
Here is where the story gets strange. After Carrey appeared at the César Awards in February, a significant chunk of social media became convinced that something was wrong. Users pointed to his changed appearance and began speculating wildly, some going as far as claiming that a clone or impersonator had attended the ceremony in his place. That is the world we live in now.
His representative, Marleah Leslie, was forced to issue a statement to Page Six in March clarifying that Jim Carrey is, in fact, Jim Carrey. "Jim Carrey attended the César Awards, where he accepted his Honorary César Award," Leslie said, in what is almost certainly the most surreal press release she has ever had to draft. No word on whether Min Ah was also required to verify her corporeal existence.
Who Is Min Ah, Exactly?
Genuinely great question. Beyond the February 2022 photo and the César Awards appearance, very little is publicly known about Min Ah. Carrey and she have maintained an almost impressively airtight level of privacy for two people where one of them is Jim Carrey. People reported on those first photos of them together, but details beyond that have been sparse.
What we do know: she sat next to his daughter and grandson at a major awards ceremony, she was called his "sublime companion" in front of an international audience, and she has now married one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. Whether she anticipated also becoming the subject of clone-based conspiracy theories is unclear.
The Dingo Take
Less than a year. That's how long Jim Carrey's second marriage lasted, a union with his own co-star from a movie about two catastrophically stupid men who have no idea what they're doing. It did not work out. Three decades later, he's on marriage number three, conducted in secret, with a woman the public knew almost nothing about until she was already his wife. That is either deeply romantic or the plot of a thriller, and given that portions of the internet already believe he was replaced by a synthetic double, we're not ruling anything out.
What's actually kind of nice about this whole story, beneath the tabloid wrapping, is that Carrey appears to have figured something out late in the game. Four years of keeping a relationship private when you could paper every celebrity magazine in the country with it. A small ceremony. No announcement, no red carpet, no publicist-managed rollout. Just a wedding. For a man who spent the 90s making his entire inner life into a performance, that's a genuine character development arc.
So congratulations to Jim Carrey and Min Ah, whoever she may be. May this one outlast the Lauren Holly era. May his publicist never again have to confirm to a major publication that he is a biological human. And may the clone truthers find something more productive to do with their time, though based on available evidence, they absolutely will not.
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