Millie Bobby Brown explains why she married Jake Bongiovi at 20

Millie Bobby Brown knew once she and Jake Bongiovi were on the same page with politics and how they would raise children that she would marry him. On the most recent “Call Her Daddy” podcast episode, Brown told host Alex Cooper about her marriage with Jon Bon Jovi’s son.She and Bongiovi tied the knot last year.“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 said during 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 announcing their engagement in April 2023, Brown and Bongiovi tied the knot in May 2024.

Brown was 20 at the time and Bongiovi was 22, which sparked a lot of controversy. The “Stranger Things” star told Cooper that her parents married young, as did Bongiovi’s parents, so it wasn’t out of the ordinary 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 said.During her “Call Her Daddy” podcast appearance, Brown recalled her big day and her attempt to not be a “bridezilla,” despite wanting everything to be perfect. “I didn’t stress, I’m just a planner.

I wasn’t yelling at people, I’m not ‘bridezilla,’ bu...