diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java
index f12e1d1d083345..91b20a61221662 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java
@@ -47,8 +47,13 @@ public void chooseHeight(
     } else {
       // Show proportionally additional ascent and top
       final int additional = mHeight - (-fm.top + fm.bottom);
-      fm.top -= additional;
-      fm.ascent -= additional;
+
+      // Round up for the negative values and down for the positive values  (arbritary choice)
+      // So that bottom - top equals additional even if it's an odd number.
+      fm.top -= Math.ceil(additional / 2.0f);
+      fm.bottom += Math.floor(additional / 2.0f);
+      fm.ascent = fm.top;
+      fm.descent = fm.bottom;
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.java b/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..eadb7d3544bcb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpanTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+package com.facebook.react.views.text;
+
+import android.graphics.Paint;
+
+import static org.fest.assertions.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PowerMockIgnore;
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner;
+
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class)
+@PowerMockIgnore({"org.mockito.*", "org.robolectric.*", "android.*"})
+public class CustomLineHeightSpanTest {
+
+  @Test
+  public void evenLineHeightShouldIncreaseAllMetricsProportionally() {
+    CustomLineHeightSpan customLineHeightSpan = new CustomLineHeightSpan(22);
+    Paint.FontMetricsInt fm = new Paint.FontMetricsInt();
+    fm.top = -10;
+    fm.ascent = -5;
+    fm.descent = 5;
+    fm.bottom = 10;
+    customLineHeightSpan.chooseHeight("Hi", 0, 2, 0, 0, fm);
+    // Since line height is even it should be equally added to top and bottom.
+    assertThat(fm.top).isEqualTo(-11);
+    assertThat(fm.ascent).isEqualTo(-11);
+    assertThat(fm.descent).isEqualTo(11);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom).isEqualTo(11);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom - fm.top).isEqualTo(22);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void oddLineHeightShouldAlsoWork() {
+    CustomLineHeightSpan customLineHeightSpan = new CustomLineHeightSpan(23);
+    Paint.FontMetricsInt fm = new Paint.FontMetricsInt();
+    fm.top = -10;
+    fm.ascent = -5;
+    fm.descent = 5;
+    fm.bottom = 10;
+    customLineHeightSpan.chooseHeight("Hi", 0, 2, 0, 0, fm);
+    // Only test that the sum is correct so the implementation
+    // is free to add the odd value either on top or bottom.
+    assertThat(fm.descent - fm.ascent).isEqualTo(23);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom - fm.top).isEqualTo(23);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void shouldReduceTopFirst() {
+    CustomLineHeightSpan customLineHeightSpan = new CustomLineHeightSpan(19);
+    Paint.FontMetricsInt fm = new Paint.FontMetricsInt();
+    fm.top = -10;
+    fm.ascent = -5;
+    fm.descent = 5;
+    fm.bottom = 10;
+    customLineHeightSpan.chooseHeight("Hi", 0, 2, 0, 0, fm);
+    assertThat(fm.top).isEqualTo(-9);
+    assertThat(fm.ascent).isEqualTo(-5);
+    assertThat(fm.descent).isEqualTo(5);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom).isEqualTo(10);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void shouldReduceBottomSecond() {
+    CustomLineHeightSpan customLineHeightSpan = new CustomLineHeightSpan(14);
+    Paint.FontMetricsInt fm = new Paint.FontMetricsInt();
+    fm.top = -10;
+    fm.ascent = -5;
+    fm.descent = 5;
+    fm.bottom = 10;
+    customLineHeightSpan.chooseHeight("Hi", 0, 2, 0, 0, fm);
+    assertThat(fm.top).isEqualTo(-5);
+    assertThat(fm.ascent).isEqualTo(-5);
+    assertThat(fm.descent).isEqualTo(5);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom).isEqualTo(9);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void shouldReduceAscentThird() {
+    CustomLineHeightSpan customLineHeightSpan = new CustomLineHeightSpan(9);
+    Paint.FontMetricsInt fm = new Paint.FontMetricsInt();
+    fm.top = -10;
+    fm.ascent = -5;
+    fm.descent = 5;
+    fm.bottom = 10;
+    customLineHeightSpan.chooseHeight("Hi", 0, 2, 0, 0, fm);
+    assertThat(fm.top).isEqualTo(-4);
+    assertThat(fm.ascent).isEqualTo(-4);
+    assertThat(fm.descent).isEqualTo(5);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom).isEqualTo(5);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void shouldReduceDescentLast() {
+    CustomLineHeightSpan customLineHeightSpan = new CustomLineHeightSpan(4);
+    Paint.FontMetricsInt fm = new Paint.FontMetricsInt();
+    fm.top = -10;
+    fm.ascent = -5;
+    fm.descent = 5;
+    fm.bottom = 10;
+    customLineHeightSpan.chooseHeight("Hi", 0, 2, 0, 0, fm);
+    assertThat(fm.top).isEqualTo(0);
+    assertThat(fm.ascent).isEqualTo(0);
+    assertThat(fm.descent).isEqualTo(4);
+    assertThat(fm.bottom).isEqualTo(4);
+  }
+}