Vanessa Lachey only wanted to marry Nick Lachey after they broke up to see other people

13 April 2022

Vanessa Lachey only wanted to marry Nick Lachey after they broke up to see other people.

Vanessa Lachey explains how she knew she wanted to marry Nick Lachey

The 41-year-old actress has been married to 98 Degrees star Nick, 48, since 2011 but admitted that after they had been dating for five years, she gave Nick an ultimatum because she wanted children.

She said: "We dated for five years. So I finally said, "What are we doing?" I had moved in with him, I had renovated his entire bachelor pad, there was a bar in the pool, I was like 'whatever you want', and now I'm like, "OK I want to put kids in the pool. So that's when I started doing the dance [waves her ring finger in the air]. If I'm being completely candid and transparent, we took a break. We both saw one other person and we realized that if we got out of our own way, we could be amazing together."

The married couple are now presenters of the Netflix reality show 'The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On', which sees couples put their love to the test while having encounters with other potential matches and the former beauty queen - who has Camden, nine, Brooklyn, seven , and five-year-old Phoenix with Nick - admitted that seeing other people was "what it took" to realise Nick was the person she wanted to be with.

Speaking on the 'The Ultimatum', she added: "But it took me seeing somebody else and me realizing I don't mind the things that bugged me or were holding me back. I don't mind all that, the bigger picture is how I feel about that person and their values of wanting to be with me and knowing everything about me."