(20 July 1996 - present)
Arja met her future husband Juha-Pekka Karmala in 1985, when they were both studying at Hämeenlinna college. At the time they were both going out with other people, and they did not get together until Juha-Pekka moved to Jyväskylä to study special needs teaching. They were engaged in 1993 and married on 20 July 1996. Their children are: Patrik (born 5 August 1995), Karla Sol Angel (born 20 July 2001 in Colombia, adopted), and Verna Luna Gunilla (born 8 November 2006). The pair are very protective of their children's privacy, and never talk about them to the papers or allow their photographs to be published.