Richardson formed the JWR foundation to provide environmental education and promote personal responsibility and accountability concerning the health of the Earth. The foundation was founded in January 2001. He also ran with the Olympic torch for the foundation in Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 2001, and did various events for the foundation. It has been many years since he has done anything with the foundation and reportedly closed it. Personal life Richardson is a first cousin of fellow Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell and first cousin once removed of Baylee Littrell, son of Brian. Richardson has been married to Kristin Kay Willits, a dancer, actress, photographer, and model, since 2000. They met when they both worked together at Disney World in June 1992. Kristin was dancing in "Beauty and the Beast" as a jello-mold and a maid while playing the character of Snow White in "The Lion King" Show. She was also part of Radio City Rockettes in 1994. Kristin was also featured in one of the Backstreet Boys' earliest videos, "I'll Never Break Your Heart", and as one of the dancers at the American Music Awards in 1999. they dated privately on and off for 7–8 years, breaking up in 1996 and getting back together in late 1997/early 1998. He proposed to her over the holidays at the same place where they said "I love you," and their engagement, along with bandmate and cousin Brian Littrell's to Leighanne Wallace, was announced on MTV on February 15, 2000. The couple married on June 17, 2000, at the Cathedral Domain Camp and Conference Center in rural Lee County in eastern Kentucky. Together they have two sons. Kristin was later in the 2015 documentary Pushing Motherhood, in which she speaks openly about her and Kevin's struggles with fertility. Discography Solo albums Cover Story (2012, unreleased) Filmography See also Backstreet Boys References External links Kevin Richardson's Facebook page 1971 births 20th-century American singers 21st-century American singers Backstreet Boys members Male actors from Kentucky American male pop singers Male models from Kentucky Living people Musicians from Lexington, Kentucky People from Estill County, Kentucky Actors from Lexington, Kentucky Singers from Kentucky Songwriters from Kentucky