Justin Timberlake Opens Up About Marriage, Making Jessica Biel Happy

October 5, 2012 - 10:22 am | Category: Love&Lust

Justin Timberlake isn’t one to go on and on about his love life, but the singer made an exception while promoting his new movie, Trouble With the Curve.

During a recent press conference with the Hollywood Foreign Press, Timberlake, 31, spoke candidly about his fiancee and love of five years, Jessica Biel, 30. “She’s a really, really, really special person,” the Tennessee native told reporters. “Plus, she’s really, really, hot!”

According to Timberlake, Biel — who once dated Captain America: First Avenger star Chris Evans, 31 — was reluctant to begin dating him in 2007. “There was nothing starry about the way we got together. It was very un-Hollywood-esque, in fact,” recalled Timberlake, who split with Cameron Diaz, 40, in late 2006. “We met and got talking. Afterwards I asked my friend if I could call her and ask her out. My friend called Jessica and Jessica said yes, and so I called her.”

“I did it the old fashioned way — by telephone,” Timberlake continued at the press conference. “That’s something I learned from both my stepdad and my grandfather — that there is a thing called chivalry and it doesn’t have to die with the birth of the internet. The way I see it, if you’re asking a girl out on a date, it’s only right to do it in a way that she can hear your voice. I had to be pretty persistent in order to get her to say yes. But I have a fair amount of tenacity and if I want something I stick to it. And in the end she agreed.”

Timberlake popped the question in Jackson, Wyoming, in December 2011. “I answer to a higher power now,” he joked. “We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.”