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Kristen Bell She’s taking a trip down memory lane as she celebrates her growing love story Dax ShepardAppearing on SiriusXM’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson (Sometimes)” on Wednesday, June 19th PodcastsThe actress recalled the moment she met her producer husband. Shauna RobertsonSushi birthday dinner in 2007.
“He has a presence,” Kristen, 43, remembers of Dax, 49. “He’s protective, he’s broad-shouldered, he’s got an inverted triangle shape, but what struck me most was how talkative he is.”
The pair didn’t really bond until they met again at a hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and the Detroit Red Wings: Kristen went to the event hoping to talk to her friend Michael, who had recently become single, but ended up talking to Michael’s friend Dax.
“Knowing Michael, I was like, ‘Okay, I’m single again. I haven’t been single in years. This is awesome. I’m going to go see Michael and flirt with him,'” Kristen recalled. “Michael was off doing other things and talking to other people, and Dax came up to me and I was like, ‘Oh, you were at Shauna’s dinner,’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, I vaguely remember that.'”
The conversation was great, but it wasn’t until they were joking around that Kristen realized Dax had feelings for her.
“I was chewing gum and he was like, ‘Do you have any more gum?’ and I was like, ‘No, I have this,’ and I kind of embarrassedly took it out of my mouth and he snatched it away,” Kristen recalled. “He was like, ‘Here you go,’ and he put it in his mouth. And I was like, ‘This guy wants to fuck me.'”
The couple married in a simple ceremony at a Beverly Hills courthouse in October 2013 and now have two daughters, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9.
While celebrating Valentine’s Day 2018, Kristen shared some advice for other couples hoping to build strong, rewarding relationships.
“Take joy in the other person’s happiness and acknowledge their personal interests,” she wrote. Instagram“Know that everyone is doing the best they can with what they have.”