‘She changed my life’

Timberlake on falling for Biel

It took six months of dating other people before Justin

Timberlake and Jessica Biel decided to make their early relationship exclusive.

The couple was first linked in January, 2007 and wed in Italy in 2012, but in his new memoir Hindsight: And All the Things I Can’t

See in Front of Me, Justin reveals it took them some time to build up their romance following their first meeting at a Hollywood party.

“When I met Jess, it was undeniable how beautiful she is,” the singer recalls.

“I made some sort of sarcastic comment, really dry. Nobody got it except her. She laughed, and I noticed, all of a sudden, and in the way where you wonder if a person’s like you, if they have a very dry, dark sense of humour, too.”

Timberlake didn’t work up the courage to ask Biel for her number that night, but he made sure to ask her out the next time they crossed paths, when the star and her friends attended one of his concerts on the FutureSex/ LoveSounds Tour.

“Then the Golden Globes came up, and that’s when we planned on seeing each other,” he shares.

However, they were both hesitant to treat the budding romance seriously until six months into their relationship, when they finally realized they had started to fall in love.

“We were both still seeing other people, keeping ourselves safe from getting hurt, from really putting ourselves out there,” Timberlake explains.

They eventually decided to stop dating around and give their love a chance to blossom.

“We’ve had a lot of unforgettable times,” he continues. “She’s become a huge influence on my life, and I have such an admiration for her, especially seeing her as a mother now... She changed me. She changed my life.”