Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Wife, Vanessa Nadal, Is Making Waves in the Beauty Industry

Miranda isn’t the only one with a lengthy list of accomplishments under his belt. According to Nadal’s bio on Fordham University's website, she’s an attorney, a trained chemical engineer and an adjunct professor of law at Fordham.

After earning her degree in chemical engineering at MIT, she worked at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company and developed innovative technologies for skincare products. She then turned her attention to law because of her desire to affect change. After attending Fordham Law, Nadal worked as a litigation associate at a law firm and also worked as a consultant for the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.

Nadal combined her skills to launch a career that’s both unique and fascinating. At Fordham, she teaches students about the history of cosmetics laws and dives into topics like misbranding and how to choose the safest products for your skin. Plus, according to InStyle, she’s contributing to a textbook about fashion law by the Fashion Institute at Fordham's Law School. All we have to say is: Where do we sign up?

It sounds like these two took a page out of a classic rom-com, because according to Miranda, he had the biggest crush on Nadal since high school, but he just couldn't work up the nerve to approach her. He told The New York Times, “She was gorgeous and I’m famously bad at talking to women I find attractive...I have a total lack of game."

Fortunately, when he found her a few years later on Facebook, he finally made his move by inviting her to attend a hip-hop improv show. But according to Nadal, they barely got a chance to talk to each other. After convincing a friend to help him get Nadal’s number, Miranda reached out once again and invited her to another show. This time, when she saw Miranda perform, she knew that he was something special. She told the New York Times, “When he came on stage, I thought, I really like this guy...He’s really, really smart.”

By the end of Miranda's show, sparks were already flying between the two. As they stood and talked, they bonded over their mutual love of Grand Theft Auto, Miranda recalled. "I very coolly said, 'All right, you’re going to come over to my house tonight, and we’re going to play Grand Theft Auto and watch the Jay-Z movie and listen to Marc Anthony…’ After that, we very quickly gave each other keys to our apartments."