Reviewed and last updated on October 12, 2026 by Awais Ahmed, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Urban Scope News.
Jessica Rose Lee is an American entrepreneur and equestrian who founded the California lifestyle brand Saddle Club and is married to Smallville actor Tom Welling. Her public profile rests on a fashion marketing background, volunteer work with horse rescue charities and, in recent years, a sport-horse breeding business on the couple’s ranch in Northern California.
Much of the online coverage of her centres on her marriage, and a good deal of it repeats claims that no reliable source supports. This article sticks to what established outlets have reported, drawing mainly on a 2017 magazine profile in which she describes her own career and on a January 2026 interview given by her husband. Where the public record runs out, it says so.
She is sometimes confused with Jessica Lee Rose, the actress known for the web series lonelygirl15. They are different people.
Early Life, Education and a Fashion Career
The best-documented part of Jessica Rose Lee’s early life is her lifelong attachment to horses. In a 2017 profile in Horse & Style Magazine, she is described as a child who asked her parents for a pony at the age of nine and received one. That experience pulled her into the equestrian world, and it shaped almost everything she did afterwards.
She studied at San Diego State University and then moved into luxury fashion marketing. The same profile says she worked in sales and marketing at Ralph Lauren. At the same time she stayed close to horses, working as an assistant rider at private stables training grand prix show jumpers at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center and organising events at local racetracks.
Details beyond that are thin. Her birthplace, her parents and the wider family she grew up in are not documented in any source worth citing, and she has not made them part of her public image. That is common for people who become widely searched for through a famous partner rather than a public career of their own, a pattern that also runs through the story of Dick Van Dyke’s first wife, Margie Willett.
How Horse Rescue Led to Saddle Club
Saddle Club grew out of volunteer work. Jessica Rose Lee says she began volunteering with Red Bucket Equine Rescue in Southern California in 2015, helping to rehabilitate horses that had been abused, abandoned or neglected. She later partnered with a second charity, Humanity for Horses, which is based in Mount Shasta, California.
One horse stood out. Delilah, a thoroughbred mare who arrived at Red Bucket in poor condition, became the horse she rode every week as a volunteer. Delilah appeared as an extra in a film shot at the rescue in 2015 and was adopted into a permanent home in 2016, which Lee describes as a typical Red Bucket success story.
Wanting to do more than give her time, Lee drew on her fashion experience to start Saddle Club, a California lifestyle brand inspired by modern equestrian style. According to the 2017 profile, the first collection launched in late 2016 and included a bandana made from repurposed vintage bandanas, a cotton T-shirt made in Los Angeles, a jacket reworked from vintage American military jackets and a leather saddle pack. Prices ran from $48 to $298, and the brand planned to donate 20 per cent of net profits to equine rescue programmes.
That 20 per cent figure describes the brand’s plan at launch. Nothing in the sources reviewed shows whether the arrangement is still in place, or how Saddle Club is operating today, so it is best read as part of the brand’s origin story rather than a current claim.
Riding and Competing
Lee is a competing rider as well as a brand founder. In the 2017 profile she describes taking on an American Holsteiner mare that had shown as a jumper early in her career but had been out of work for about five years. After a summer of training, including evening rides on trails in Griffith Park, the pair competed at the year-end Gold Coast show and won a red ribbon.
The mare also modelled for Saddle Club’s marketing images, which shows how closely her riding and her business overlapped at that stage. The profile gives no results beyond that show, so any claim about a wider competitive record should be treated with caution.
Her Relationship and Marriage to Tom Welling
Jessica Rose Lee and Tom Welling began dating in 2014, several years after Smallville ended its ten-season run in 2011. The couple kept the relationship relatively private for years. Welling had previously been married to the model Jamie White, with entertainment reports giving the marriage as running from 2002 to 2015.
They became engaged in early 2018, although Welling did not share the news publicly until April of that year. Their first son was born in January 2019, and the couple married on 30 November 2019 at Sunstone Vineyards & Winery in Santa Ynez, California. Page Six, citing Us Weekly, reported the wedding shortly afterwards, noting that she changed her Instagram handle to Jessica Rose Welling. She is now often credited as Jessica Rose Lee Welling.
The couple’s second son was born in June 2021. They have not made their children’s daily lives a public subject, so this article does not name them or add details beyond what has been reported about the family as a whole.
It is a story that sits alongside others on Urban Scope News about partners of famous actors, such as the life of Tom Hanks’s first wife, Samantha Lewes, although Lee’s own career makes her profile quite different.
The Move to Northern California and a Horse-Breeding Business
The most recent substantial coverage of Lee’s life comes from her husband. In a January 2026 interview with People, Welling explained that the family left Los Angeles after a 2020 trip to Northern California during the COVID-19 pandemic. They had gone to visit relatives, saw a ranch with two homes on it and decided to settle there rather than return to the city.
The ranch is also where Lee’s equestrian work now centres. Welling told the magazine the couple have American sport horses and jumpers and that they breed. He said he is glad to help but that his wife is the one running the operation. Neither the size of the business nor its finances have been made public.
Lee still appears with her husband at major events. The couple attended the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Chasing Summer, a film in which Welling stars, in January 2026. Beyond that, she keeps a low public profile, and the family’s exact location is not something this article seeks to pin down.
Jessica Rose Lee’s Age and Net Worth: What Is Actually Known
Her exact age is not publicly confirmed. Her husband publicly wished her a happy birthday on 26 January 2025, which points to a January birthday, but no reliable source gives her year of birth. Websites that state a specific age or birth year disagree with one another, so none of those figures should be treated as fact.
The same caution applies to her net worth. No verified figure exists, and the estimates that circulate on celebrity sites rarely show where they come from. She has documented business interests in Saddle Club and in horse breeding, but neither has published revenue or profit figures. Estimates of her husband’s wealth cannot be transferred to her, because a marriage does not establish what each partner owns independently.
Common Questions About Jessica Rose Lee
Who is Jessica Rose Lee?
She is an American entrepreneur and equestrian who founded the lifestyle brand Saddle Club and is married to actor Tom Welling. She has a background in luxury fashion marketing and has volunteered with horse rescue charities.
Who is Jessica Rose Lee married to?
She is married to Smallville actor Tom Welling. They wed on 30 November 2019 at Sunstone Vineyards & Winery in Santa Ynez, California.
Does she have children?
Yes. She and Welling have two sons, born in January 2019 and June 2021.
What does Jessica Rose Lee do for a living?
She founded Saddle Club, an equestrian-inspired brand, and is described by her husband as running the couple’s sport-horse breeding operation in Northern California.
Is she the same person as Jessica Lee Rose?
No. Jessica Lee Rose is an actress best known for lonelygirl15. Jessica Rose Lee is the equestrian and entrepreneur married to Tom Welling.
How old is Jessica Rose Lee?
Her age has not been confirmed by a reliable source. Her husband marked her birthday on 26 January 2025, but her birth year is not publicly established.
What the Record Supports
Stripped of speculation, Jessica Rose Lee’s story is one of a childhood interest in horses that became a career path. It took her through fashion marketing and rescue volunteering, and on to a lifestyle brand and a breeding programme on a ranch in Northern California.
What the sources can confirm is a short list: her education, her work history, her marriage, her two sons and the move out of Los Angeles. Everything else, from her birthplace to her wealth, is either unpublished or unverified, and it is better left out than guessed.
