Looks like Nicole Richie had to be convinced to marry husband and father of her kids, Joel Madden!

In an interview, musician Joel Madden recently revealed that wife Nicole Richie was not too keen on marriage or Joel stepping the relationship up a notch. He says,  “my wife is pretty good at rejecting me…people don’t know this. But I asked her to marry me 10 times before she actually said yes — I was asking every other Tuesday.”

Tough! Joel finally got her  because he wanted the two of them to be married for their children, and for the future of their family.  And I guess his persistence paid off:  the couple have been happily married with two children, Harlow and Sparrow, since 2010.

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