Jessica Moss met Kevin Hardesty in the summer of 2000 at a feature film production company in Los Angeles. They married in 2017, when she was 36 and he was 54.

Moss and Hardesty both look good. They are aware that people in the world may look askance at their relationship given how young Moss was when they met. Moss: "It assumes that this 24-year-old is not a mature, whole woman and that she can't make her own choices and is therefore somehow confused or a victim"