Rebecca Yarros’ Husband Jason: Their Karaoke-Bar Meet-Cute—and His ‘No Games’ Love
The 'Fourth Wing' author says part of her husband sneaks into every male love interest she writes
Key Takeaways
- Rebecca and husband Jason have been together for 26 years after meeting at a karaoke bar.
- Yarros says an element of Jason sneaks into every male hero she has written.
- Rebecca and Jason have six kids together, one of whom was adopted.
If you’re a fan of Rebecca Yarros, you know she writes beautiful swoonworthy romances that delight, dazzle and defy expectations. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the author herself is happily married and has her own sweet love story. Below, we share everything you need to know about the Fourth Wing author’s husband, including how they met and the surprising way he’s impacted her work.
Get to know Rebecca Yarros’ husband
Yarros, 45, has been with her husband Jason, a retired United States Army veteran, for 26 years. They met when they were 19, and according to the author, “The rest is history.”
In April, Yarros wrote on Instagram, “26 years ago today, I took this beautiful green-eyed boy ice cream after he’d had his wisdom teeth taken out. We’d met the previous night at a karaoke bar, and when he said he’d call the next day if I gave him my number, I thought, ‘yeah, sure you will…’But then he did. Even after surgery. No waiting. No games. It’s the first and foremost thing that I love about him: He always does what he says he will. So I hunted down his favorite flavor of ice cream and took it out to post where he was recovering.”
Throughout their relationship, Jason has been involved in the military. He was deployed several times and sustained an injury during his first deployment. One way Yarros coped with the stress of this? Reading.
“I would buy an author’s entire backlist and would keep all the books in shoe boxes under my bed,” Yarros told Jenna Bush Hager on her Open Book with Jenna podcast in 2025. “I would just lean over and grab the next book, and I would read it after I got home, got the kids to bed. It was the only thing that would allow me to escape the anxiety and have a place to go where I felt like everything was gonna be okay.”
Does Rebecca Yarros have kids?
Rebecca and Jason have six kids, one of whom was adopted.
“Our youngest is our adoption miracle, the little girl placed in my arms when we decided to foster, and then were blessed to adopt her 2 years after she’d been placed with us,” Yarros wrote on Instagram in 2019. “There are no half-siblings or adopted siblings in this house. No step-daughters or adopted-daughters. There are simply DAUGHTERS, and that has made all the difference in our family. These two are sisters, though they share no common blood. They share LOVE.”
Another thing her kids share is Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS), a group of disorders that cause fragile bones, dislocations, chronic pain and dizziness. Yarros has said she and her four sons have the condition, but since the disease is genetic there is a chance her biological daughter could develop symptoms as well.
“We bend too far, heal too slowly, snap our bones too easily and are prone to dislocating our joints,” Yarros revealed on Instagram in 2024. “Our skin is soft, and hyper elastic, but also fragile. We suffer from chronic fatigue and pain. A lot of pain.”
“We hyperextend…everything. Elbows, knees, fingers, all of it,” she continued. “We spend a lot of time with ortho docs.”
How Rebecca Yarros’ husband impacts her work
According to Yarros, when it comes to writing her male love interests, “There’s always an element of my hero that comes from my husband, always. He just sneaks in there every single time.”
As for how fans responded to that? Yarros told Bush Hager, “I think they like it. They like the male characters I write, which I have to laugh because, of course, my husband leaks into them.”
“But I think romance is a beautiful place where women can go to fall in love over and over again and see themselves represented and see their own self-worth actualized and learn how to voice what they want,” Yarros continued. “It can help them set standards in their real-life relationships, like, ‘Hey, this kind of stuff is out there, and it exists. This is what I’m worth.’”
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