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Josh Duhamel is aware of what you’re considering.
Heck, he was as soon as considering the identical precise factor.
On the newest episode of of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, Duhamel delved into his previous and current with spouse Audra Mari.
Who’s 21 years youthful than the actor is.
As a consequence of Mari being a profitable magnificence pageant contestant, Duhamel says he was accustomed to her.
HOWEVER…
“It was truly platonic for years before that because I was like, ‘No, she’s too young for me. I’m not even going to go there,’” Duhamel stated on this episode of how and when he met his now-spouse. “Then, we started DMing back and forth.”
From there, a mutual buddy obtained concerned, as Duhamel and Mari continued speaking…. partly over each hailing from North Dakota, a state not precisely recognized for its massive inhabitants.
“I invited her to a barbecue, still thinking it was totally platonic just as a friend from [North Dakota]. There aren’t many people from there,” the actor continued on this podcast.
“But she did come, and I saw her and I was like, ‘Holy s***, this girl’s beautiful.’”
That is simple. However she’s additionally very younger, no less than in comparison with Duhamel, who break up from first spouse Fergie in 2019.
As you may anticipate, this age hole gave the veteran star some pause.
“But then she’s more mature than I am,” Duhamel went on about his second spouse, including:
“That’s really how we started dating and it’s been a beautiful thing. We’ve been married now for over two years. She’s an amazing mother.”
Duhamel and Mari had been first publicly linked in October 2019 after they had been noticed collectively on the Toronto airport.
He confirmed their relationship months later in a January 2020 interview, revealing that they had been very in love. Two years later, Duhamel proposed and by September 2022 they had been husband and spouse.
“Everyone told me that after you get married you feel different,” Mari informed Us Weekly again then.
“To be honest, I never really believed them, and I thought it would feel the same way it’s felt being with Joshua for the last three years. But it’s much different! I feel secure.”
Duhamel, who shares 11-year previous son Axl, with Fergie, has a one-year previous named Shepherd with Mari.
