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Kristen Bell is taking a visit down reminiscence lane as she celebrates her rising love story with Dax Shepard. Whereas showing on the Wednesday, June 19, episode of SiriusXM’s “The place Everyone Is aware of Your Identify with Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson (Typically)” podcast, the actress recalled the second she met her husband at producer Shauna Robertson’s 2007 sushi birthday dinner.

“He has a presence,” Kristen, 43, recalled of Dax, 49. “A protectiveness and he has very broad shoulders. He’s like an the other way up triangle, however my major takeaway was that he was chatty.”

A connection wasn’t actually fashioned till they reunited at a Los Angeles Kings and Detroit Crimson Wings hockey sport. Kristen was going to the occasion in hopes of chatting along with her newly single buddy Michael. However because it seems, the actress ended up speaking to his buddy Dax.

“I knew Michael and I used to be like, ‘All proper, we’re again on the only. We haven’t been single in years. That is gonna be nice. I’m gonna go over and flirt with Michael,’” Kristen recalled. “Michael had one thing else to do and was speaking to another person and Dax got here as much as me and I used to be like, ‘Oh, you had been at Shauna’s dinner,’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, that’s proper. I keep in mind you vaguely.’”

Whereas the dialog was nice, it wasn’t till the pair engaged in some playful banter that Kristen realized Dax was into her.

“I used to be chewing gum and he mentioned, ‘Do you might have any extra gum?’ and I mentioned, ‘No, simply this,’ and I sort of coyly took it out of my mouth and he grabbed it from me,” Kristen recalled. “He goes, ‘I’ll take it’ after which he put it in his mouth, and I used to be like, ‘This man needs to f**ok me.’”

The couple ended up getting married in October 2013 throughout a easy ceremony at a Beverly Hills courthouse. They now share daughters Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9.

Whereas celebrating Valentine’s Day in 2018, Kristen shared a number of items of recommendation for different {couples} hoping to have a powerful and profitable relationship.

“Rejoice in what makes the opposite particular person completely happy and permit them their particular person pursuits,” she wrote by way of Instagram. “Know that everybody is doing the perfect they will with what they’ve obtained.”