Some couples announce a wedding with a magazine cover. Elizabeth Olsen announced hers with a pronoun. In a June 2021 conversation for Variety’s Actors on Actors with Kaley Cuoco, she referred to musician Robbie Arnett as her “husband,” and the internet did what it always does with one stray word: it held a hearing. The verdict, as it turned out, was correct. Five years later the story has a new chapter, and the couple is still telling it the same way: barely, and on their own schedule.
One word, then one interview
Until that Variety chat, the official status was “engaged.” Reports of the engagement surfaced in July 2019, and Olsen never did a follow-up press release about anything that happened after it. So when “husband” slipped into the conversation, fans had a word and no wedding to attach it to.
The confirmation came a year later, from the couple themselves. Promoting their joint children’s book on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show in June 2022, Olsen said: “We eloped and then we had a wedding at another time.” And on the timing: “It was before COVID, I just never talked about it.”
She also explained the hurry. She had to work in England, and, in her words, “there are visa issues with that,” so the paperwork came first. Here is my read: that is the least romantic reason ever given for an elopement, and also the most honest one. Plenty of famous weddings are planned around a magazine deal. This one was planned around a border.
The couple who keep the door mostly shut
Olsen and Arnett have been together since 2017. He is a singer and multi-instrumentalist in the indie band Milo Greene, which is to say he is famous in the way that makes people say “oh, I know that song” in a coffee shop and then look it up. They make occasional joint appearances, like the 2019 Rape Foundation brunch pictured above, and then disappear back into their own lives.
Part of that is simply the absence of a feed. Olsen deleted her Instagram in 2020 and has said since that she does not plan to return to social media. There is no anniversary carousel, no soft-launch, no caption to decode. What strikes me is how much calmer that makes the whole story. Without a feed to read tea leaves from, the only real information is what she says on the record, and she says very little, very precisely.
A book they wrote together
The one thing the couple has openly shared is work. Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective, a picture book about a little girl who helps her friends with their worries, came out in 2022 with both their names on the cover. That book tour was the reason the elopement question finally got an answer: you cannot sit next to your co-author on the radio and keep calling him your fiancé.
I like that the first joint project of a very private couple was a book about naming your anxieties out loud. (Nobody asked me, but that is about as close to a public statement as these two get.)
2026: the baby news, reported but not announced
In June 2026, People reported that Olsen and Arnett were expecting their first child, after she was photographed at lunch in Los Angeles. Then on August 15, Page Six published photos of Olsen in Los Angeles carrying a newborn in a white baby carrier. As of this update, neither Olsen, Arnett nor their representatives have made a public statement, and the baby’s name and sex have not been shared.
So the facts we can stand on are photographs and a magazine report, not a quote. That is exactly how they handled the wedding, and I expect the confirmation, if it comes, to arrive the same way: casually, mid-sentence, in an interview about something else entirely.
The rest of the family
Olsen is the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and the twins’ fashion label Elizabeth and James was named after her and their brother James. The twins built a whole second career on saying almost nothing in public, so the family style is consistent. Meanwhile Olsen’s own career kept moving: in 2025 she starred in A24’s afterlife romance Eternity, choosing between Miles Teller and Callum Turner for all of time, which feels like a lot of pressure for one character after a real-life wedding planned around visa rules.
My take
Olsen did not hide a marriage; she just declined to perform it. One word in 2021, one sentence in 2022, and now, apparently, one baby carrier in 2026. Fans keep waiting for the big reveal, and I suspect they will keep getting the small ones, which, given how this couple works, are the only ones that count.
Sources
- Hola! USA: Olsen and Arnett on The Jess Cagle Show (SiriusXM), June 2022
- YouTube: Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett interview
- PBS SoCal: Variety Studio, Actors on Actors, Kaley Cuoco and Elizabeth Olsen (2021)
- NBC: Elizabeth Olsen casually revealed she’s married to Robbie Arnett
- Hello! USA: Elizabeth Olsen photographed with a newborn, August 2026 (citing Page Six)
- Entertainment Now: Olsen expecting first baby, per People (June 2026)
- W Magazine: Elizabeth Olsen on leaving Instagram
- TheWrap: A24’s Eternity trailer
