Washington, who is normally private about her relationship, is opening up in a new memoir.
During an appearance on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna Sept. 26, Washington said the revelation came afterThe first person she told the news to was her husband, Nnamdi Asomugha, a pro football player turned actor whom she married in 2013. They share two children together and she is stepmother to his teenage daughter.
He played college football for the California Golden Bears and played in the NFL for 11 years for the Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco. He hung up his cleats in 2013. They were both represented by CAA at the time, so the talent agency arranged for Asomugha to meet Washington and the cast backstage while he was in New York visiting friends and seeing shows.have met earlier, though:"Later I would be reminded that although I’d never met Nnamdi before, he and I had cohosted a fundraiser in Northern California for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign," she writes in her book.
“For months I had been wearing my engagement ring secretly pinned inside my clothing for fear that if people knew we were engaged, it would be impossible to have a wedding away from public spectacle," she writes.“We wanted the details of the day to reflect where we came from, who we were, and the future we hoped to build together.”
Washington writes about feeling pressure to be perfect when she was growing up and in college. She told TODAY how that experience influences her approach to parenting with Asomugha.
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