diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/internal/span/CustomLineHeightSpan.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/internal/span/CustomLineHeightSpan.kt
index 830d987439cbb9..3eeb3abc3e7993 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/internal/span/CustomLineHeightSpan.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/internal/span/CustomLineHeightSpan.kt
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ package com.facebook.react.views.text.internal.span
 
 import android.graphics.Paint.FontMetricsInt
 import android.text.style.LineHeightSpan
+import com.facebook.react.internal.featureflags.ReactNativeFeatureFlags
+import kotlin.math.abs
 import kotlin.math.ceil
 import kotlin.math.floor
 import kotlin.math.min
@@ -20,14 +22,59 @@ import kotlin.math.min
 public class CustomLineHeightSpan(height: Float) : LineHeightSpan, ReactSpan {
   public val lineHeight: Int = ceil(height.toDouble()).toInt()
 
-  public override fun chooseHeight(
-      text: CharSequence?,
-      start: Int,
-      end: Int,
-      spanstartv: Int,
-      v: Int,
-      fm: FontMetricsInt
-  ) {
+  private fun chooseCenteredHeight(fm: FontMetricsInt) {
+    if (fm.descent > lineHeight) {
+      // Show as much descent as possible
+      fm.descent = lineHeight
+      fm.bottom = 0
+      fm.top = 0
+      fm.ascent = 0
+    } else if (-fm.ascent + fm.descent > lineHeight) {
+      // Calculate the amount we are over, and split the adjustment between descent and ascent
+      val difference = -(lineHeight + fm.ascent - fm.descent) / 2
+      val remainder = difference % 2
+      fm.ascent = fm.ascent + difference
+      fm.descent = fm.descent - difference - remainder
+      fm.top = fm.ascent
+      fm.bottom = fm.descent
+    } else if (-fm.top + fm.bottom > lineHeight) {
+      val excess = (-fm.top + fm.bottom) - lineHeight
+
+      // Calculate the differences from top to ascent and bottom to descent
+      val topToAscent = abs(fm.top - fm.ascent)
+      val bottomToDescent = abs(fm.bottom - fm.descent)
+
+      // Calculate the total delta
+      val totalDelta = topToAscent + bottomToDescent
+
+      // Calculate proportional reductions
+      val topReduction = (excess * topToAscent / totalDelta).toInt()
+      val bottomReduction = (excess * bottomToDescent / totalDelta).toInt()
+
+      // Adjust fm.top and fm.bottom
+      fm.top += topReduction
+      fm.bottom += bottomReduction
+
+      // If there's a remainder, put it on the top
+      val remainder = excess - (topReduction + bottomReduction)
+      fm.top += remainder
+    } else {
+      // Show proportionally additional ascent / top & descent / bottom
+      val additional = lineHeight - (-fm.top + fm.bottom)
+
+      // Round up for the negative values and down for the positive values  (arbitrary choice)
+      // So that bottom - top equals additional even if it's an odd number.
+      val top = (fm.top - ceil(additional / 2.0f)).toInt()
+      val bottom = (fm.bottom + floor(additional / 2.0f)).toInt()
+
+      fm.top = top
+      fm.ascent = top
+      fm.descent = bottom
+      fm.bottom = bottom
+    }
+  }
+
+  private fun chooseOriginalHeight(fm: FontMetricsInt) {
     // This is more complicated that I wanted it to be. You can find a good explanation of what the
     // FontMetrics mean here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27631736.
     // The general solution is that if there's not enough height to show the full line height, we
@@ -66,4 +113,16 @@ public class CustomLineHeightSpan(height: Float) : LineHeightSpan, ReactSpan {
       fm.bottom = bottom
     }
   }
+
+  public override fun chooseHeight(
+      text: CharSequence?,
+      start: Int,
+      end: Int,
+      spanstartv: Int,
+      v: Int,
+      fm: FontMetricsInt,
+  ) {
+    if (ReactNativeFeatureFlags.enableAndroidLineHeightCentering()) chooseCenteredHeight(fm)
+    else chooseOriginalHeight(fm)
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.kt
index f55c90af78de44..bed18787a9e6ae 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.kt
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 package com.facebook.react.views.text
 
 import android.graphics.Paint
+import com.facebook.react.internal.featureflags.ReactNativeFeatureFlagsForTests
 import com.facebook.react.views.text.internal.span.CustomLineHeightSpan
 import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat
+import org.junit.Before
 import org.junit.Test
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith
 import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
@@ -17,6 +19,11 @@ import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
 @RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
 class CustomLineHeightSpanTest {
 
+  @Before
+  fun setUp() {
+    ReactNativeFeatureFlagsForTests.setUp()
+  }
+
   @Test
   fun evenLineHeightShouldIncreaseAllMetricsProportionally() {
     val customLineHeightSpan = CustomLineHeightSpan(22f)