Portia de Rossi -- Ellen's wife not ready for kids

De Rossi, who played legal eagle Nell Porter on Ally McBeal and most recently perished on the operating table on FX's plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck, gamely answers questions about her wife and doesn't begrudge any public interest in their relationship.

"It's pretty great that we're a gay couple and people want us to be happy and do well and be successful. That means a lot. It's like with the wedding, when we were thinking of giving photos to a magazine. We didn't want to sell them — we'd never do that. But we thought we should give them because it's a pretty significant thing to have a gay wedding. It was the happiest day of our lives, and we wanted people to see that."

One thing people won't be seeing anytime soon? A DeGeneres/de Rossi baby, online speculation notwithstanding.

"It's the same thing every single year — that I'm trying to get pregnant. And I'm not," de Rossi says. "Maybe one day I'll want to have kids, but it's not something we've talked about recently."