Michael Turchin and Lance Bass.Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Lance Bassis celebrating a special milestone with husbandMichael Turchin.
The *NSYNC singer, 44, just marked nine years of marriage with Turchin, 36, with a sweet Instagrampost.
Bass penned a heartfelt message for his husband of nearly a decade alongside photos of their2014 nuptials— the first same-sex marriage ceremony to be aired on television.
“Spending the future with you has never been more exciting!” he finished. “I love you.”
While Bass and Turchin have been married for nine years, they have been dating for 12.
In 2021, the couple not onlycelebrated 10 years as a couple, but also welcomed their 2-year-old twins,son Alexander James and daughter Violet Betty, via surrogate.
That same year, Bass told PEOPLE that the key to he and Turchin’s lasting marriage is “just [being] understanding, letting them be who they are and not trying to change someone."
“I think you are who you are and you just gotta accept them the way they are,” the father of two told PEOPLE. “There’s beauty in the differences that you have, and we have lots of differences that intrigue me.”
Added Bass: “I think that’s why I was so attracted to [Turchin] in the first place, was that we had such different lives and different talents.”
Michael Turchin and Lance Bass.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
Long before saying “I do” and welcoming their kids,the couple started off strictly platonic, Turchin recalled to PEOPLE in 2014.
“We just started talking and began hanging out as friends,” the artist said at the time. “I am so shy and never would have made the first move.”
Eventually, the now-husbands developed feelings for one another, but it took a while to solidify their relationship.
“I was attracted to him and wanted things to go further, but I was convinced he wasn’t into me … So I focused on becoming such good friends that I wouldn’t be able to look at him in any other way,” Bass told PEOPLE. “We spent every day together for a month before I did it, but I finally went in for that first kiss.”
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“We had a great foundation to build upon,” he added.
source: people.com
