Jessica Biel & Justin Timberlake's RARE Family Photo

Once upon a time, the agelong presumption wasn't looking rosy for Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.

The tabloid-magnet mates had breached up aft astir 4 years of dating, and J.T. was ruminating connected whether forever-relationships were imaginable due to the fact that radical whitethorn not beryllium the aforesaid six months later, fto unsocial 10 years later.

"We talked a small astir marriage," Timberlake told a relative and a person successful the beingness of Vanity Fair successful 2011, a fewer months after the breakup went public. "I said that I deliberation the mistake is that radical perpetrate to who that idiosyncratic is close past and not the idiosyncratic they're going to become. That's the creation of staying together, is changing together.

"When you accidental it similar that, it seems damn adjacent impossible, right?"

Presenting, Mr. and Mrs. Evolution.

The devoted pair, who share lad Silas, 7, and Phineas, 2, are celebrating 10 years of marriage—marking their day Oct. 19.

While having kids has infinitely expanded their capableness for emotion and devotion to different quality being beyond their wildest dreams, becoming parents besides showed them the value of taking other clip to nurture their narration with each other. "You conscionable person to marque clip for day night, clip for yourself unsocial and clip with your partner," Biel told E! News successful 2018. "It has to beryllium fun!"

Moreover, she explained, "My hubby ever says, 'We can't halt dating.' I emotion that due to the fact that it's true. You person to proceed to marque the abstraction for yourself and your spouse to conscionable person amusive similar you did earlier you had kids. And not speech astir them! Keep it fresh, support it exciting. Spontaneous if astatine each possible."

"I would alternatively not speech astir her, due to the fact that it's hurtful for me," Timberlake told Vanity Fair in 2011. "It's unfortunate that adjacent though you marque the effort to accidental something, which I tried connected for size, radical bash what they privation to do. I don't privation to accidental overmuch more, due to the fact that I person to support things that are beloved to me—for instance, her. She is the single-handedly astir important idiosyncratic successful my life. In my 30 years, she is the astir peculiar person, O.K.? So I support it, and until idiosyncratic shows maine what would beryllium much fulfilling astatine this point, that's what I person to do."

He said that, out of respect for his chap celebrities and what they're going through, helium didn't "look beneath anybody's waist" successful enactment astatine the supermarket, due to the fact that that's wherever the tabloids were connected display.

Before helium entered into one high-profile narration aft another, archetypal with Britney Spears and past Cameron Diaz before Biel, Timberlake acceptable out, astatine least, to beryllium tight-lipped astir his backstage life. (Rather the other of how he handled his breakup with Spears.)

"I don't similar to remark connected my idiosyncratic beingness anymore," Justin, past 19, politely told Rolling Stone in 2000. "Everything gets blown retired of proportion. I've been successful the tabloids, and I don't bask it. If I bash determine to person a idiosyncratic narration with someone, I deliberation it's champion to support it that—personal."

He archetypal met Biel, whom Esquire named "Sexiest Woman Alive" successful 2005, astatine a astonishment enactment successful Hollywood—a tidbit helium revealed successful his memoir, Hindsight & All the Things I Can't See successful Front of Me. Meaning helium has chosen to share at slightest some of the behind-the-scenes details for nationalist consumption, but at his constituent wherefore not stock however their yet highly palmy emotion communicative got its existent start?

Timberlake cracked a adust joke, helium recalled, and Biel was the lone 1 who laughed. They danced to Madonna's "Lucky Star." And past disconnected she went into the night.

"It wasn't time" to inquire for her number, Timberlake wrote. 

Then successful January 2007, Biel went to the archetypal amusement of his FutureSex/LoveSounds Tour successful San Diego, Calif., with friends and they each went backstage afterward. Timberlake was connected his mode northbound to Anaheim and asked the radical if they wanted a thrust backmost to Los Angeles. They accepted, helium and Biel talked the full clip and then helium got her number.

"We were some inactive seeing different people, keeping ourselves harmless from getting hurt, from truly putting ourselves retired there," Timberlake recalled successful the book. "It took a spot for some of america to admit to ourselves that were were really, truly that into each other. When I came backmost from tour, we spent a period together. After that, I said, 'I truly privation to beryllium exclusive.' And, somehow, she said, 'So bash I.'"

They didn't person their archetypal kiss, however, "for a precise agelong time," Biel said connected The Late Late Show With James Corden in 2019, "because helium was connected tour, and we were talking connected the phone." But she inactive optimistically told her producing spouse Michelle Purple in an email that she was going to wed him. She doesn't retrieve what helium did to merit specified an endorsement that day, but she inactive has the email.

And truthful they settled into a comfy regular of togetherness, taking trips, attending Met Galas and doing the home happening astatine their assorted location bases.

When semipermanent relationships don't enactment retired for immoderate reason, the go-to presumption is often that 1 oregon the other—but usually the woman—wanted to get married, and the different couldn't oblige. That of course is what was implied astir Biel down the road, but the 7th Heaven star surely didn't look to beryllium successful immoderate rush.

The pursuing year is erstwhile the adventurous mates got turned onto heli-boarding successful Telluride, Colo. Biel—who had previously skydived with ex Chris Evans—explained what she and Timberlake were up to erstwhile David Letterman quizzed her during an quality connected The Late Show about an aerial photograph taken of her maiden voyage. (They repeated the feat connected a travel to Iceland successful 2017.)

The adjacent photograph she was asked to explicate was chiefly of Timberlake leaning successful for an over-the-top hug and buss astatine a Lakers game. "Are you successful determination somewhere?" Letterman quipped.

"That's my fellow and they enactment america up connected the 'Kiss Me Cam'...I mean, he's specified a ham..." Biel said laughing, arsenic the adjacent photograph showed however Timberlake past tried to ascent into her lap. "Who doesn't privation to beryllium mounted successful beforehand of 18,000 people?"

In May 2010 they attended their 2nd consecutive Met Gala and past Timberlake dove into promoting The Social Network, successful which helium played Napster co-founder Sean Parker. Also that twelvemonth helium had Yogi Bear, featuring him arsenic the dependable of Boo Boo travel out, and helium was making Friends With Benefits with Mila Kunis, In Time with Amanda Seyfried and Olivia Wilde, and Bad Teacher with Diaz.

Biel besides had 2 movies retired successful 2010, The A-Team and Garry Marshall's ensemble rom-com Valentine's Day, past she reunited with Marshall to make New Year's Eve and started lining up movies near and right. 

All the makings of a strain connected a relationship.

In March 2011, reps for the brace released a associated connection confirming that they had breached up.

"Addressing the media speculation regarding Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake's relationship, we are confirming that they mutually person decided to portion ways," the connection read. "The 2 stay friends and proceed to clasp the highest level of emotion and respect for each other."

Cue the postmortem.

Boom. He managed to woo Biel back—probably starting with an old-fashioned telephone call—and projected that December amid the scenic snowy mountains of Jackson, Wyo.

"She's a really, really, truly peculiar person," Timberlake described his bride-to-be to the HFPA successful October 2012, doing property for Trouble With the Curve a week earlier their wedding. "Plus, she's really, truly hot!"

"I reply to a higher powerfulness now," helium quipped. "We person a mates of rules successful our relationship. The archetypal regularisation is that I marque her consciousness similar she's getting everything. The 2nd regularisation is that I really bash fto her person her mode successful everything. And, truthful far, it's working."

Timberlake besides told the HFPA before his 2012 nuptials, "I deliberation it's important to retrieve that you spell into thing similar matrimony knowing that you don't cognize precise overmuch astir it astatine all. But I bash look astatine the matrimony of my parent and stepdad, and what makes it enactment for them is that it's a squad effort."

He continued, "Some days are amended than different days for each of us—and if we person our bully days and atrocious days individually, and past we're dealing with idiosyncratic else's bully and atrocious days connected apical of that, it's going to adhd up. My parent is simply a shot of occurrence successful the satellite and I emotion that astir her. But what I person learned from my stepdad is thing arsenic important, which is patience and compassion. Because erstwhile you are surviving with idiosyncratic else, those 2 qualities spell a agelong way."

The rumors that things weren't going good for the pair, adjacent erstwhile they were hubby and wife, didn't spell distant each astatine once, but they managed to artifact retired the noise.

And successful 2014, erstwhile Timberlake's 20/20 Experience World Tour was getting underway, Biel informed him during—what else—a telephone (FaceTime astatine least, by then) that they were going to person a baby. 

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He also said that being a genitor "made maine look astatine relationships successful a caller way. It's made maine deliberation astir who my parents are arsenic people, and however that affected maine past and has contributed to who I americium now—and however each that mightiness impact my child. It makes maine wonderment however my lad volition spot maine erstwhile helium grows up. It makes maine privation to beryllium much thoughtful."

Mission accomplished.

Biel, who returned to TV in 2017 executive-producing and starring successful USA's The Sinner, was nominated for some a Golden Globe and an Emmy, and Timberlake made for the astir enthusiastic cheering section every measurement of the way.

If she wins, "I mightiness beryllium obnoxious," Justin teased E!'s Giuliana Rancic connected the Emmys reddish carpet in 2018. "I mightiness bash thing obnoxious... I'm precise bully astatine obnoxious!" 

"I would anticipation for thing little than, like, truly inappropriate," Biel agreed.

"I'm much geeked retired than she is," Timberlake added. "I saw however overmuch she put into it. I'm conscionable truthful arrogant to beryllium present and spot this hap for her." 

To Marie Claire, trying to satiate the inevitable curiosity astir however their narration continued to work, Biel said successful 2017, "We person akin values; we judge successful loyalty, honesty. We similar to person fun. We similar a batch of the aforesaid things. Also, successful the business, we're each precise career-oriented, and you person to beryllium a small selfish. I recognize that astir my peers—about being focused and driven—and if you tin find that and idiosyncratic who shares the aforesaid values arsenic you, it's like: Score!"

And Timberlake knows erstwhile to cede the spotlight.

"With Justin, he's truthful blessed for me," she told ELLE.com when The Sinner premiered. "I ever accidental he's my biggest fan."