Tommy Dorfman is married!
The 13 reasons why alum, 31, revealed on Thursday, May 2, that she eloped with her partner, Elise, in the fall of 2023.
“I married my best friend and didn’t tell anyone except @hunterabrams who came to photograph us late last year,” Dorfman wrote in an Instagram post. “We bought our own dresses @doverstreetmarketnewyork, where I worked before I got into acting, and it was perfect.”
Dorfman also described the duo’s romance in an essay for Fashion published on Thursday, sharing that they met on the dating website Hinge in 2021 and quickly fell in love.
“We got engaged two months after dating,” she wrote. “To our credit, we waited 12 months before moving in together, so you can’t say we’re U-Hauled.”
“That’s the point of falling in love, though; your responsibility barometer is not always where it should be,” Dorfman continued. “For us, love required that sickening combination of naivety, delusion and fate.”
In the Fashion In his essay, Dorfman recalled how she and Elise were in California when they decided to elope while “Elise and I sat above the shoreline in Malibu, joking about same-day weddings.”
What started as a joke quickly became a serious commitment. After an internet search, they discovered they could get married the same day in California and keep the wedding details confidential. Dorfman and Elise tied the knot just hours later and celebrated at a concert that evening.
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Dorfman previously announced in August 2022 that he was engaged to “the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with” during an episode of Rachel Bilson‘Broad Ideas’ podcast. She did not identify her partner at the time.
During the podcast, Dorfman also revealed that her partner helped give her estrogen injections.
“My fiancée knew how, so she did it for me the first time,” Dorfman said. “Then she was out of town and we FaceTimed and she walked me through it.”
Dorfman was previously married Peter Zurkuhlen in November 2016. In July 2021, they announced their split after Dorfman came out as transgender. Zurkuhlen filed for divorce in 2022.
In July 2021, Dorfman said Time that she had been “privately identifying and living as a woman” for almost a year.
“I knew I was interested in women in a way that I hadn’t really been aware of since high school,” she said. “I had this unresolved, unexplored thing. I was like, ‘This is the year I go on dates with girls and feel that again, and not be ashamed of it.’
