The world realized that Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers have been engaged in February, as he thanked his “fiancée” whereas accepting the MVP award on the NFL Honors, however the couple had made the choice to stroll down the aisle lengthy earlier than that.

“After we introduced that we have been engaged, we needed to try this solely as a result of we did not need another person to do it earlier than we did,” Woodley instructed the Hollywood Reporter for an interview printed Friday. “And we did not do it for months and months after we had turn out to be engaged, however the response to it was actually lots, and so we have been like, ‘Let’s simply politely decline [to talk about the relationship] for a short while and stay in our little bubble.'”

Woodley and Rodgers have since revealed that they started courting in 2020, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, which meant that they bought to know one another extra rapidly than they’d have beneath regular circumstances. She has stated that they moved in collectively instantly, as a result of a long-distance relationship, she in Los Angeles and he within the Wisconsin metropolis the place his workforce, the Inexperienced Bay Packers, play — and all of the journey that comes with it — simply wasn’t potential. 

Wanting again, the Large Little Lies star finds the timing serendipitous in one other manner.

“You would journey, however you had masks on,” Woodley stated. “There was a way of anonymity that in any other case I do not suppose we might have had. We have been actually capable of get to know each other the best way we needed to get to know each other and never have any noise or chaos round us.”

They have been capable of spend months simply hanging out like another couple … a minimum of in some methods. There was loads of “cuddle time,” and so they sorted Woodley, the canine they share. However there have been additionally hours dedicated to getting Rodgers able to guest-host Jeopardy! forward of his exhibits that aired in April.

Woodley’s again to work now, with a number of initiatives within the works. (Her Netflix romance, The Final Letter From Your Lover, comes out July 30.)

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However the 29-year-old remembered having to show issues down prior to now, as a result of she was battling a well being situation.

“It was fairly debilitating,” Woodley defined. “I stated no to a whole lot of initiatives, not as a result of I needed to however as a result of I bodily could not take part in them. And I undoubtedly suffered much more than I needed to as a result of I did not maintain myself. The self-inflicted strain of not desirous to be helped or taken care of created extra bodily unrest all through these years.”

She has beforehand described herself in her early 20s as “very, very sick” and “battling a deeply private, very scary bodily state of affairs.”

Now, she stated she is lastly on her method to feeling higher.

“I am on the tail finish of it, which could be very thrilling, however it’s an fascinating factor, going by one thing so bodily dominating whereas additionally having so many individuals take note of the alternatives you make, the belongings you say, what you do, what you appear to be,” Woodley stated. “It spun me out for some time. You’re feeling so extremely remoted and alone. Except somebody can see that you’ve a damaged arm or a damaged leg, it is actually tough for individuals to narrate to the ache that you just’re experiencing when it is a silent, quiet and invisible ache.”

The expertise has taught her one thing essential.

“It made me be taught the extremely tough life job of not caring what individuals take into consideration you in a short time,” she stated. “The extra I paid consideration to the noise that was surrounding me, the longer it was taking my physique and my thoughts to heal as a result of I wasn’t targeted on myself, I used to be targeted on a picture of myself by way of the lens of everybody round us.”

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