page_title: Chyler Leigh
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Chyler Leigh / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Chyler Leigh [4]
context_page_description: Chyler Leigh West, known professionally as Chyler Leigh, is an American actress, singer and model. She is known for portraying Janey Briggs in the comedy film Not Another Teen Movie, Lexie Grey in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, and Alex Danvers in the DC Comics superhero series Supergirl.
context_section_description: In 2002, Leigh married fellow actor Nathan West in Alaska.  The couple worked together in 2000 on the television series 7th Heaven, playing Mary Camden's (Jessica Biel) troubled friends Frankie and Johnnie. Leigh and West have three children – a son and two daughters (born 2003, 2006, and 2009).
  Leigh has said that she and her husband have a pact in which the person who guesses the baby's sex correctly gets to choose the name. When pregnant with their first child, she guessed she was having a boy so she chose the first name and Nathan gave him his middle name. For their second child, Nathan correctly guessed it was a girl, so he named her. Their third child, also a girl, was guessed correctly by West, and he again chose the name.
  Leigh is a Christian and credits her faith and a "really awesome church" with giving her and her husband "a reason to live". She also supports The Thirst Project, a non-profit organization in America which aims to bring safe drinking water to communities around the world.
  In 2019, Leigh revealed that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder a decade earlier.
  In June 2020, Leigh came out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
  Leigh and her family previously lived in Los Angeles , but they now split their time between Vancouver and Nashville.
caption: Leigh in 2018
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