It turned out to be one of the most awkward evenings Jessica DiMeo had ever had.

She had been invited to eat dinner with the presenter and her guests—women she had never met before—after making an appearance on a podcast.

The conversation flowed in a private atmosphere, but one of them overreacted.

“She just kept asking me questions,” Nurse Jessica remembers. “Are you content? Do you really want to have children with him? All of these things didn’t seem cool to me.

The 26-year-old Joe, Jessica’s husband and the first person in history to survive a face and double hand transplant, is the “him” to whom the woman was so disrespectfully referring.

And their love story is so amazing and transformative that it has attracted hundreds of millions of followers worldwide.

As of right now, the duo has over 255,000 Facebook fans and over 240,000 Instagram followers. On TikTok, Joe has about 226,000 followers, while Jessica has over 370,000.

The Daily Mail revealed their happy engagement in November of last year, when Joe proposed outside a steakhouse in New York.

The amazing pair, who have only been married for a few months, sat down with us to talk about their relationship’s highs and lows as well as their exciting future plans.

When Jessica, 34, and Joe, 26, DeMio talked to Daily Mail+, they posed in their backyard with their dog, Kirkland, in West Orange, New Jersey.

When Jessica, 34, and Joe, 26, DeMio chatted with the Daily Mail, they posed with their dog, Kirkland, in the backyard of their house in West Orange, New Jersey.

In December 2024 + 22, Jessica and Joe ‘eloped’ in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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In December 2024, Jessica and Joe ‘eloped’ in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Jessica’s arm is looped across Joe’s as they sit comfortably on the sofa in their house in northern New Jersey. The 34-year-old California native claims that she usually dated older guys and never saw herself residing on the East Coast or being married to a younger man.

However, love has a tendency of upending lives, and this instance is no exception.

For those who are unfamiliar with the event, Joe’s life was irrevocably altered in 2018 after he fell asleep behind the wheel while driving home from a night job. The New Jersey resident was only ten minutes away from his apartment, so it was a typical trip.