Xtreme Vogue London Desk: Sarah Marshal
Adam Levine didn’t think he was the marrying kind, either.
“This is the longest, most functional relationship I’ve ever been in,” he told Howard Stern in 2012, talking about his girlfriend at the time, model Anne Vyalitsyna. “I don’t want to screw it up.”
There were reasons why, after winning repeatedly at the game of meeting women but not being able to nail the long-term commitment part, he couldn’t picture himself settling down.
“There’s two kinds of men,” Levine reasoned with Details in the spring of 2012. “There are men who are f–king misogynist pigs, and then there are men who just really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world. And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous, and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.”
Of course, that must have been the reason.
He started dating Behati Prinsloo in 2012 and they’ll celebrate their ninth wedding anniversary in July as parents of three children together: Daughters Dusty Rose, 6, and Gio Grace, 5, and a months-old baby they haven’t yet introduced to the wider world.
“I pushed harder for the minivan,” Levine, who’s celebrating his 44th birthday March 18, quipped on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show earlier this month. “I see a minivan as you just bought into a whole new thing. You can make a minivan whatever you want it. It doesn’t have to be your mom’s Chrysler Town & Country. It can be this spectacular spaceship and fun.”
The L.A. native has credited his South African model bride with changing him for the better.
“She makes me the best person I can be,” he said at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. “She’s the best in the world.”
