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- Jessica Biel shares how she and her husband Justin Timberlake manage their marriage with busy schedules and careers.
- The actress also opened up about parenting their two sons, Silas and Phineas.
- Biel shares how her female friendships have been her “rock” and jokes Timberlake is one of her “chosen sisters.”
Jessica Biel knows she can always count on husband Justin Timberlake.
The actress, 43, opened up about her marriage to the “Sexy Back” singer, 44, and how he’s lent his support throughout her busy career in an interview with InStyle.
“I think having a partner who understands this industry and adjacent industries like music industry has been really deeply important and profound for my life and for our partnership because he just understands when I’m working crazy long hours,” she said of their work-life dynamic.
On the flip side, Biel shared how she gave Timberlake the same understanding whenever he “works all night long.”
“That’s kind of normal,” she said of their hectic schedules. “So we are able to support each other throughout strange schedules and time apart because we know that’s just what it takes to make this kind of art.”
The couple, who married in 2012 and are parents to their sons Silas, 10, and Phineas, 4, rely on their “village” whenever they have to leave home for work. Though they always strive to alternate their schedules so one parent is always available, Biel admitted that there are times when opportunity knocks and things don’t always go to plan.
“Sometimes we do a good job; we try to have one of us working full time, only one,” she explained. “It doesn’t always happen, because the opportunities arise and the timing is what it is. You just have to take advantage of it. We’re doing the same thing every other parent is doing: ‘Okay, tennis. You got the tennis? I’ll get the thing.’”
Overall, Biel told the outlet she was “really lucky” to have “amazing groups of women” in her life that she can rely on and have come to be her “rocks as I’ve grown up.”
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“I’m really lucky, because I have amazing groups of women kind of scattered throughout the country that have really been my rocks as I’ve grown up.”
“I would also consider my husband one of my chosen sisters,” Biel said, joking, “The next part is earnest: ‘He’s also my best friend. All of them together have gotten me through my life. I don’t know how I would have survived life without them.'”
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