She is the wife in his stand-up and a producer on his specials, and in 2025 she turned her paintings into jewelry and handbags.
Lana Gomez, the Los Angeles painter who has been married to Sebastian Maniscalco since 2013, turned 43 in September. Maniscalco marked it with an Instagram post that began with a disclaimer: “I’m not a big ‘happy birthday on social media’ guy. If you live in my house, I feel like I should be able to tell you in person.”
He then called her the only woman who could manage two kids, two dogs “and a husband who needs a meeting every time somebody moves a throw pillow.”
It’s the same husband Maniscalco plays on stage and in interviews, the one with rules about the gas tank and the refrigerator. Gomez is usually on the other side of them. She is also his only wife; the first marriage some bio sites describe has no credible source behind it.
| Lana Gomez | Details |
|---|---|
| Age | 43 (birthday in September) |
| Grew up in | Memphis, Tennessee, and Naples, Florida |
| Work | Painter; producer on his comedy specials |
| Married | Aug. 24, 2013 |
| Children | Serafina, 9 (born April 2017), and Caruso, 7 (born June 15, 2019) |
| Age gap | About 10 years; Maniscalco turned 53 in July |
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How Sebastian Maniscalco met his wife
In 2009, Maniscalco asked his trainer whether he had any single female clients. “I asked him, ‘You got any hot chicks?'” he told People in a 2024 video interview. The trainer had one, a client who came in at 6 a.m., so Maniscalco booked the 7 a.m. slot.
After that, he showed up with his hair done, wearing “full cologne” and covered in baby oil. “When my trainer was training me on the mat, the mat was filled with oil from my body,” he said.
He asked her out while she was on the treadmill, he recalled on The Fighter and the Kid podcast in 2015: “You want to go out with this?” By his account, Gomez joked that she didn’t go out with anybody over 13% body fat and said she would think about it. She eventually said yes.
Gomez wasn’t familiar with his comedy, so before their first dinner she watched “a lot of it.” She barely spoke that night. “Two and a half hours of asking questions and not getting anything back was exhausting,” Maniscalco said. When he ran out of questions and started to “dip into his material,” she recognized it.
The house she redesigned with Kelly Wearstler
In 2017, Maniscalco told Architectural Digest that decorating was “definitely not in my wheelhouse.” His family, he said, went to the furniture store, bought a set and brought it home.
Gomez knew the field. After an art degree from the University of Tennessee, she moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and joined interior designer Kelly Wearstler’s studio, where she worked as resident painter through 2009. The magazine credited a large canvas of hers, which hung behind Wearstler’s desk, with jump-starting her painting career.
When the couple bought a Spanish-style house near West Hollywood in 2014, Gomez brought in her former boss. “This project was primarily Kelly and my wife working together, and I was more the guy who was asking, ‘How much is it?'” Maniscalco told Home Journal, which also featured the house.
Neither of them would budge on comfort. Gomez told Home Journal they were “sort of like the comfort police” and tested everything before committing. Their custom sofas were three and a half feet deep, which Architectural Digest called the perfect measurement for lying side by side to watch a movie.
Maniscalco told Architectural Digest that when a floor lamp by the designer Anton Alvarez arrived, he thought it hadn’t been unpacked yet. “Lana and I were thinking, How are we going to tell Kelly we hate this lamp?” he said. It became one of their favorite things in the house.
Serafina was born in April 2017, while the work was still going on. By the time the magazine’s feature ran that December, Maniscalco was giving Wearstler the credit. “Kelly really educates you,” he said. “I feel like I got a master’s in design.”
Different rules at home
Maniscalco is the son of a Sicilian immigrant; his father, Salvatore, came to the United States at 15. Gomez comes from a Sephardic Jewish family. In the People interview, the difference showed up at the refrigerator.
“I grew up in a family where we had people over a lot,” Gomez said. Her rule for guests is to help themselves from the pantry or the fridge. Maniscalco thinks they should ask first. “You don’t walk around like you’re paying the mortgage,” he said. He also hates it when her friends sit on the kitchen counter, which Gomez said she still does.
Gomez said his family jokes its way through hard moments, while hers treats some subjects as off limits. The first time she cried in front of him, he told her she had a horrible crying face. In her words, he “cannot turn his comedy brain off,” though she said his approach has since rubbed off on her.
“Our relationship has always been based on ripping each other apart.”
Lana Gomez, to People in 2024
Maniscalco took the meeting of the two families to the screen in About My Father, the 2023 comedy in which Robert De Niro plays his dad. He told People the story came from meeting her family. His father had never been to the country club, he said, “but I was there, and I just mirrored my experience and gave the thoughts to my father.” The in-laws in the movie are fictional.
What she says about the wife in his act
The wife in Maniscalco’s act lets the gas tank run low. In his Hulu special It Ain’t Right, she tells him to stop complaining and pay $70 for parking.
Gomez gave her side of the gas tank story in the People interview. With more than 40 miles left, she said, she can take the kids to school and run a couple of errands before filling up. “He makes me sound dumber than I am,” she said, laughing. Maniscalco’s explanation was that comedy runs on contrasts.
She also helps make the act. Gomez has producer credits on his specials going back to Aren’t You Embarrassed? in 2014, and It Ain’t Right, which premiered on Hulu on Nov. 21, 2025, lists her as an executive producer under the name Lana Maniscalco.
The day after the premiere, she posted that she had heard him work on the jokes “day after day” and had been there with their kids when the special was filmed in his hometown. Her part, she wrote, included “sometimes making him laugh and other times getting the ‘that’s not funny’ look.”
Her jewelry and handbag lines
In 2025, Gomez turned her paintings into two collaborations.
- SHAY x Lana Gomez launched in October 2025 with the Los Angeles fine jewelry house SHAY. The pieces are 18-karat gold set with natural diamonds and emeralds. “Inspired by the details in my paintings, we drew from the wavy forms,” Gomez wrote on Instagram.
- The Lana Bag, made with the handbag brand Pagerie, came out late in 2025. Only 50 exist, each one numbered and cut from a single large painting by Gomez.
The Maniscalcos in 2026
In May, Maniscalco posted that Serafina had turned 9. She celebrated with a “Granny Fina” party, where she and her friends dressed as little grandmothers and he got “roped into dressing like a grandfather.”
He marked their 13th anniversary on Aug. 24 with a Facebook post: “God bless her for putting up with me.” About two weeks later came the birthday post and the throw pillow.
For Halloween, the couple posted a photo from “the Maniscalco candy aisle.” He was a candy bar labeled “Snikbastian,” Caruso was “Bubble Russo” gum, Serafina wore a giant pair of red lips, and Gomez was a peppermint with “Lana Mint” across the wrapper.
