John Legend is opening up about his love for wife Chrissy Teigen, saying he didn’t know he wanted to marry her upon their first meeting.
The “All Of Me” singer appears on the cover of LA Confidential’s December/January issue and talked candidly about his model wife.
When asked if it was love at first sight for him, he admitted, "Not right away.”
"I’m more cautious than that,” he explained. “I wasn’t like, ‘This is the woman I’m going to marry’ from day one. For me I’m the kind of person who needs to grow into that feeling. It was probably a couple of years in when I could already see us being together forever."
The couple got married in Italy in September 2013. They started dating in 2007 and got engaged in 2011. Stevie Wonder performed with Legend at the reception at an estate in Lake Como.
The Sport’s Illustrated model has previously opened up about “playing it cool” when they first met.
“The worst thing you can do is try to lock someone like that down early on, then have them think, There’s so much more out there,” she told Cosmopolitan in June. “I played it cool for a long time. Never once did I ask, ‘What are we?’ Marriage was never my goal, because I’ve never been very traditional. I was just happy to be with him.”
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