When Shinoda Mariko (32) said she wanted to get married by the age of 32, she wasn’t kidding.
The former AKB48 member turned TV talent/model announced that she has gotten married (back on February 16th) to a businessman three years younger than her and also a man she just met back in October.
This is the second marriage for a top ranked AKB48 member after last year’s marriage of Maeda Atsuko (27) to actor Katsuji Ryo (32) last July.
According to Shinoda, she met her husband at a dinner party with friends at the end of October last year. She said the two had many things in common from growing up eating brown rice, ideal family, the future.
Many of her AKB48 friends took to social media to congratulation Shinoda.
Takahashi Minami congratulated Shinoda with a three shot of her and Kojima Haruna with Shinoda:
麻里子様ご結婚おめでとうございますー✨
私はこの人に沢山救われたんだ🥺
末永くお幸せに!
明日のこれ何?
絶対「上からマリコ」かける!! pic.twitter.com/tu2AHv0noS— 高橋みなみ (@taka4848mina) February 20, 2019
Oshima Yuko congratulated Mariko but was curious if it was OK to talk about brown rice?
麻里ちゃん、結婚おめでとー✨
幸せ掴んでうらやましい。。。😭❤️(ところで、玄米の話は触れた方がいいですか?🤔)— 大島優子 (@Oshima__Yuko) February 20, 2019
Minegishi Minami congratulated Shinoda:
まりちゃん
結婚おめでとう👏💓いつも人の喜ぶことを率先してやってくれるまりちゃん、
幸せになってね〜💏#玄米婚— 峯岸みなみ (@chan__31) February 20, 2019
Itano Tomomi congratulated the couple and wrote that probability of marriage of those eating brown rice is higher over white rice:
みんなが幸せになっていって嬉しい👼❤️
玄米婚より、白米婚のが確率はかなり高いよね🥴わたし、白米婚かなー😳— 板野友美 (@tomo_coco73) February 20, 2019
Shinoda wrote “There is a rumor this will be a brown rice wedding”!
これが噂の玄米婚😎👌
— 篠田麻里子 (@mariko_dayo) February 20, 2019
Akimoto Sayaka echoed the brown rice:
玄、玄、玄米っ🌾‼️
— SAYAKA AKIMOTO 秋元才加 (@akimotooo726) February 20, 2019
Kojima Haruna wrote… “Brown Rice” and wrote to Takahashi Minami, “A small white rice faction” which Takahashi replied “Oh, us?”.
玄米。。。🤔 pic.twitter.com/OC8BowrRtU
— 小嶋 陽菜 (@kojiharunyan) February 20, 2019
わい白米派
— 小嶋 陽菜 (@kojiharunyan) February 20, 2019
Meanwhile company SHARP tweeted to Shinoda Mariko and Koji Haru of their cooker that makes brown rice:
こちら、おまかせ玄米モードのある炊飯器です。よろしければご参考に。 pic.twitter.com/jXZnbwktv8
— SHARP シャープ株式会社 (@SHARP_JP) February 20, 2019