Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly ended her relationship with longtime fiancé Riley Roberts well before revealing that she had begun the process of freezing her eggs.
The high-profile New York congresswoman is said to have quietly split from Roberts and called off their engagement nearly two years ago, according to reports.
Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts first met as undergraduates while attending Boston University.
The pair were last photographed together publicly at the 2021 Met Gala, with Ocasio-Cortez confirming their engagement the following year.
But about 18 months ago, the engagement was suddenly called off, according to Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent for Puck News.
It remains unclear what prompted the reported breakup. However, insiders have claimed Ocasio-Cortez had stopped wearing her engagement ring in the months leading up to the decision not to marry.
The reported split has emerged as Ocasio-Cortez, 36, announced she is freezing her eggs and plans to share parts of her fertility journey publicly.
Some viewers following her recent videos noticed that Roberts was absent from the discussion as the congresswoman spoke about the fertility process, despite her not publicly addressing any breakup with him.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reportedly split from her longtime fiancé Riley Roberts. The two are pictured together at the 2021 Met Gala
Sources had claimed the 36-year-old congresswoman stopped wearing her engagement ring nearly two years ago
The reports of the break up emerged days after the New York Democrat revealed she is in the process of freezing her eggs. On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez shared she was on her way for another ultrasound
A review of Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram page shows her last picture with Roberts was posted in December 2021, as they celebrated the holidays.
Despite the reports of the couple’s demise, Roberts was caught on camera by Daily Mail photographers walking their dog, Deco, around their apartment in Queens last summer.
Ocasio-Cortez was not with him for the walk and Roberts kept a low profile in a baseball hat, a white T-shirt, blue cargo shorts and loafers.
He was seen speaking with a security guard as they cased their apartment building for any vulnerable areas following a disturbing pro-Palestine vandalism attack on Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign headquarters.
That same month, the New York congresswoman was named in a House Ethics report for listing Roberts as her ‘spouse’ on federal documents she filed to attend the 2021 Met Gala, when she famously wore a ‘Tax the Rich’ dress, but did not list him as a spouse in her financial filings.
‘The Committee notes that at the same time Representative Ocasio-Cortez was seeking to take advantage of exceptions to the Gift Rule only applicable to spouses and/or certain relatives, she was not disclosing Mr. Roberts’s financial interests as is required of Members who are legally married,’ the House Ethics committee wrote in its report.
Within the filings, AOC’s attorney David Mitrani argued that the Democrat’s partner is not subject to ‘financial disclosure guidance [because] Mr. Roberts is not considered a spouse.’
Despite not being subject to spousal financial disclosures, the committee noted that Roberts reaped the benefits of being an official congressional spouse.
Ocasio-Cortez first met Roberts when they were both undergraduates at Boston University
Ocasio-Cortez was reprimanded in a July 2025 report for listing Roberts as her ‘spouse’ on federal documents. The two are pictured here in 2020
Roberts was spotted walking his and Ocasio-Cortez’s dog, Deco, around their Queens home in July 2025
One of the perks Roberts enjoyed was receiving an official spouse’s congressional pin, which allows the partners of lawmakers to access typically restricted parts of the Capitol complex.
The shocking reports of their break up comes just days after Ocasio-Cortez filmed herself injecting fertility drugs, in preparation for freezing her eggs.
‘This is just not something that men deal with,’ the Democrat bemoaned in the video posted to her Instagram Stories on Saturday.
‘Men run for office, or frankly, they interview for jobs and people don’t think in the back of their mind, “OK this guy’s running for office, how old is he? Oh, well is he gonna wanna start a family?”
‘This is a choice I am making to feel more in control of my life,’ the Representative, who has been in DC since being sworn into Congress at the age of 29, remarked.
‘I want you all to see that,’ she continued.
‘And because women can do anything, and I think it’s badass that I’m going to be giving myself shots in the green room [as I] get my glam on.’
She has since posted several updates about the process, telling viewers on Tuesday that she underwent a second ultrasound.
Roberts was seen speaking with an unidentified man in black garb on the walk around the neighborhood
AOC shared her incredibly candid journey of freezing her eggs in a Saturday Instagram post
As AOC now puts her plans to start a family on pause, speculation is mounting that she may run for higher office.
In a recent appearance on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl, she insisted she is ‘focused on winning the midterms. I’m running for Congress right now.’
But, she added: ‘I haven’t ruled out the possibility, and I’m very humbled to the tremendous amount of support out there,’ when prodded about a run for President.
She also noted that ‘anything is possible,’ when asked if she would challenge fellow New Yorker Chuck Schumer, the current Minority Leader in the US Senate, for his seat in 2028.
In an interview with POLITICO last month, she responded: ‘I mean, I can’t say that I’ve ruled it out,’ when asked about a presidential campaign.
Back in May, while speaking at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez was asked by legendary Obama strategist David Axelrod whether she planned to run for higher office in 2028.
‘They assume that my ambition is positional,’ Ocasio-Cortez replied, adding: ‘They assume that my ambition is a title or seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.’
She then outlined a wish list of socialist policies she would like to see implemented across the United States.
‘Presidents come and go. Senate [and] House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever,’ she noted, while attendees cheered.
‘A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights. All of that,’ she added.
‘When you aren’t attached. When you haven’t been like fantasizing about being this or that since the time you were seven years old, it is tremendously liberating, because I get to wake up every day and say, “How am I going to meet the moment?”‘
The Daily Mail has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment.
