Millie Bobby Brown knew as soon as she and Jake Bongiovi have been on the identical web page with politics and the way they might increase youngsters that she would marry him.
On the latest “Call Her Daddy” podcast episode, Brown advised host Alex Cooper about her marriage with Jon Bon Jovi’s son. She and Bongiovi tied the knot final yr.
“We’ve been together for four years. When we moved in together, we had dogs together, and we were taking care of our animals, and we started living this day-to-day life, I thought, ‘Oh, I really don’t think I could ever see you as anything else. I don’t want to be with anyone else ever again. I don’t want to date, I don’t want to meet anyone, I want you,” Brown mentioned throughout the podcast.
“When we started talking about politics and how we want to raise our kids, we started talking about really, really big things that I’ve never spoken about, and I’m already very young, so I’ve never spoken about that with boys anyway. But to be able to even think about those things, I was like, ‘S—. Maybe I do want to be with him forever.’ I didn’t know if he felt that way. We talked about marriage, but I didn’t really know when it was going to be. When he proposed, it made sense. Everything aligned.”
After asserting their engagement in April 2023, Brown and Bongiovi tied the knot in Might 2024. Brown was 20 on the time and Bongiovi was 22, which sparked loads of controversy.
The “Stranger Things” star advised Cooper that her mother and father married younger, as did Bongiovi’s mother and father, so it wasn’t out of the odd for them.
“We had really great role models growing up, so we didn’t see anything different. We didn’t get jaded by all the other stuff,” she mentioned.
Throughout her “Call Her Daddy” podcast look, Brown recalled her huge day and her try to not be a “bridezilla,” regardless of wanting the whole lot to be excellent.
“I didn’t stress, I’m just a planner. I wasn’t yelling at people, I’m not ‘bridezilla,’ but I knew every second of that schedule,” she mentioned.
Since Brown was very acutely aware of everybody else’s schedules for her marriage ceremony, she ended up throwing herself off previous to strolling down the aisle.
“So I had a really big wedding party, and I knew that right before I would go, ‘Okay, you guys go.’ And I knew the second that the song would go right, so I’d go, ‘You guys go, you guys go.’ Like, I was ready because they were walking down the aisle. And I had forgotten to put my veil on. I’d forgotten all,” Brown mentioned.
“So by the time that everybody went ‘Oh, s—.’ And my dad went ‘Millie, it’s your turn.’ And I was like, ‘It’s my time.’ And I put my veil on. I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, now I’ve gotta cue myself.’”
As soon as Brown received by means of the ceremony, she was in a position to let her guard down and benefit from the evening.
“I will say, as much as I did control every factor of it. I remember everything about the ceremony, the vows. I remember the feeling, not caring,” she mentioned.
As soon as she and Bongiovi have been on their honeymoon, he knowledgeable Brown that she was going to have a “comedown” in any case the marriage festivities.
Brown advised Cooper that she did have a comedown as a result of her marriage ceremony felt like “lightning in a bottle.”
Now over a yr into their marriage, Bongiovi and Brown dwell on a farm in Georgia with 25 barn animals and 10 canines that keep inside their house and 23 that keep in an outside rescue constructing.
Brown advised Cooper that her husband lastly needed to have a dialog together with her and advised her “no more” to all of her cattle.
Brown’s enterprise to Georgia started whereas filming “Stranger Things” in Atlanta. Her mother and father have been adamant about “sheltering” her from Los Angeles and insisted she discover a everlasting residence within the Peach State. The actress ended up buying her farm throughout the road from her mother and father’ house.
Brown has mentioned being accused of shopping for a farm to leap onto the development of being a “trad wife” influencer, which is a shortened model of a “traditional wife.”
Trad wives are a subculture of girls who consider in clear gender roles and present different girls their homemaker existence on social media, which regularly entails dwelling on a homestead and making meals from scratch.
In the course of the podcast look, Brown advised Cooper that it’s comprehensible why folks would view her as a “trad wife,” however she doesn’t utterly agree with their take.
“I get it, like I understand why they would say that. I have chickens, I get the eggs, I know what it looks like from afar. I did get married young. It’s all really veering in that direction, except I love my job, I love being untraditional and unconventional in so many ways of my life. I just love being on a farm and Jake does, too, so that would then make him a ‘trad husband’? I don’t know,” Brown mentioned.
The actress defined that she cooks dinner for her husband “every night,” however refuses to go grocery buying — that could be a process for Bongiovi.
Throughout a current look on the “Smartless” podcast, Brown revealed that it’s been a “thing” for her to have youngsters younger due to when her mother and father had their first youngster.
“My mom actually had her first child at 21 and my dad was 19. This has been my thing since before I met Jake. I wanted to be a mom just like the way my mom was to me,” mentioned Brown.
“Jake knows how important it is to me. Of course, I want to focus on really establishing myself as an actor and as a producer, but I also find it’s so important to start a family for me personally.”
Brown had been prepared to begin a household with Bongiovi previous to tying the knot, however he had his personal necessities for his or her future.
“Jake was like, we cannot do that until we get married,” she mentioned. “So that was his thing. And my thing was, I really want a family. I really want a big family. I’m one of four. He’s one of four. So, it is definitely in our future.”
