Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Shares How She Found 'Diamond' Boyfriend Stephen Gimigliano After Dating Around: 'There's A Lot of Trash Out There' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Stephen Gimigliano.Photo:Swan Gallet/WWD/Penske Media/Getty

Swan Gallet/WWD/Penske Media/Getty

Michaela Jaé Rodriguezintends to start and end her search for love with boyfriend Stephen Gimigliano.

“I am very grateful that I do have my boyfriend in my life. I love, love,” Rodriguez, 33, tells PEOPLE for this week’s issue. “He is my first and most likely last. And I’m very thankful for that. He has shown what it is like to have true love in your life, someone who cares for you, and also what trash does not look like.”

She continues, “He is much more than any of that. I know there are a lot of men out here that are trash, and I know I can say that because I’ve been through the gamut, but this man, he is nothing of the sort. He is a diamond.”

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Stephen Gimigliano on April 4, 2023 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy/Variety via Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Variety via Getty

Rodriguez and Gimigliano celebrated their fourth anniversary on Oct. 25, 2023. The actress commemorated the occasion withan Instagram reelmontaging clips of the couple.

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“Everybody was like, you were trying to hide him from us? And I’m like, yes, child because y’all wanna be all up in my business, and I just wanted to be me and him, okay,” she said at the time. “People do need to see love on a trans woman. They need to see that. They need to see what love is and how it expands beyond gender, race, anything.”

source: people.com