Gabourey Sidibe made her narration with Brandon Frankel Instagram authoritative successful May 2019 with a selfie, conscionable 2 months aft they met connected the dating app Raya. And arsenic Brandon revealed 3 years aboriginal in Brides, their archetypal day lasted “more than 7 hours.” 

Brandon projected to the Empire actress successful November 2020, sharing their breathtaking news to his Instagram with a saccharine connection envisioning their adjacent section together.
“I asked my champion person to wed me, and she said ‘YES’! So excited to walk the remainder of my beingness with the astir amazing, hilarious, beautiful, and inspiring pistillate I’ve ever know,” helium wrote. “I couldn’t ideate a beingness without you. We marque the champion team, and we marque everything amusive and memorable.”

Wishing her Brandon a blessed birthday one period aft getting engaged, Gabourey shared a naughty photo—one that whitethorn person besides been a peek astatine their proposal—with her followers. The representation featured Brandon’s connection from a period earlier, kneeling connected the furniture bare with ballon’s spelling retired “Will you wed me?” successful a strategical location.
“You are the funniest, kindest, toughest, astir protective antheral successful the world,” she wrote connected Instagram in December 2020. “You’re ever down for each my hairsbreadth brained schemes, from coating your nails, to earing atom noodle roseate h2o crystal cream, to ridiculous photograph shoots similar this 1!” 

The Precious star shared a enactment Brandon near for her, wishing her a bully greeting successful an August 2022 Instagram post. 
“Been moving each week and coming location astatine 2am erstwhile @brandontour is dormant and past I’m inactive dormant erstwhile helium gets up,” she shared with her followers. “We’re fundamentally ships successful the nighttime but helium inactive makes definite to emotion maine existent bully adjacent erstwhile we’re not physically successful the aforesaid space.”
Gabourey joked, “Damn… helium REALLY wants that PS5.”

After being asked astir their wedding plans for months and claiming to beryllium readying for outpouring 2023 nuptials, the Oscar-nominated histrion revealed successful December 2022 that she and Brandon were already married. 
“The happening astir weddings is I don’t similar them,” she explained on Live with Kelly and Ryan at the time. “Here’s an illustration of however overmuch I don’t similar them: I’m really married. We got joined implicit a twelvemonth ago.”
Gabourey went connected to explicate that her and her husband privately tied the knot astatine their room array 4 months aft their engagement, but they were inactive readying to yet person a ceremony.
And aft she revealed the news, Brandon gushed astir beingness arsenic a newlywed.
“I tin yet telephone her my WIFE publicly! Since @gabby3shabby yet spilled the beans today,” helium wrote connected Instagram. “So thankful to person recovered my everlastingly person, my partner-in-crime, and the emotion of my life. Every time if the champion time with you.”

In March 2023, Brandon amazed his woman with a caller tattoo: her sanction connected his precocious thigh. He posted a video to Instagram of him getting “Gabourey” inked—as good as her very sweet response. 
“Oh what did you do? Why did you bash this,” she said, laughing. “Okay. Spelled correctly, bully job.”
And helium ensured radical that the determination was solely his own. 
“I emotion my woman truthful overmuch I wanted to ink her sanction connected maine forever,” helium wrote. “And she was precise disquieted erstwhile I showed her what I did that y’all would deliberation she made maine bash it. I guarantee you, I’m conscionable brainsick successful love.”

Gabourey and Brandon announced they were expecting twins successful February 2024 successful a representation connected Instagram with him placing a manus connected her babe bump. 
“I’m pregnant! We thought it was clip to springiness our cats immoderate work truthful we’re giving them each a babe to instrumentality attraction of,” she captioned the reveal. “Double the babies, treble the cats, treble the fun!!”

Four months aft welcoming twins Maya and Cooper with her hubby successful April 2024, she gave her followers an update arsenic to however they were navigating beingness with their newborns. Sharing a representation of the 2 babies lounging successful their respective bouncer chairs while she read The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton to them, she captioned the August 2024 post, “Story Time.”

Gabourey posted a saccharine moment betwixt the twins connected her Instagram story, showing however beardown their enslaved was astatine just 4 months old.  
“They can’t interaction their sensory books,” she captioned the August 2024 video, “because they’re excessively engaged holding hands.”

The endowment cause has nary shortage of posts dedicated to his 3 favourite girls. In November 2024, Brandon posted a tribute for Gabourey and their twins arsenic Cooper and Maya reached the 7-month-old milestone, giving them the rubric of the “loves” of his life. 
“No substance however pugnacious things get, oregon however brainsick the satellite becomes, the mode you each airy up erstwhile you spot maine conscionable warms my heart,” helium wrote. “I emotion you each the most.”

Gabourey posted a video of her archetypal Christmas with her and Brandon’s twins—who were 8 months aged for the holiday—and talented them with an enactment table, puzzles and toys. 
“First Frankel Family Christmas for The SidiBabies was a success,” she shared successful her Dec. 26 post. “They truly loved the boxes!”  
And her hubby couldn’t hold with much with their success, commenting, “We did it! We won the genitor ‘Super Bowl’!”

Celebrating her and Brandon’s sixth anniversary, Gabourey shared a precious tribute to her husband, sharing a bid of photos together, reminiscing connected their relationship. 
“We met successful precocious March [2019],” the Big C alum captioned the March 2025 carousel. “In June, helium visited maine successful New Orleans and for fun, I took him to spot a tarot paper scholar who told him he’d beryllium joined soon and with kids.”
“[Brandon] has been moving afloat velocity towards maine mundane since we met,” she added. “If I had realized sooner what a fantastic hubby helium would crook retired to be, I would’ve stood inactive and fto him drawback maine sooner.”