--- title: Jenna Dewan Tatum Talks Sex and Relationships with Channing Tatum description: Jenna Dewan Tatum speaks about her relationship with Channing Tatum, saying that being a dancer makes "you feel your body in a certain way." canonical: https://time.com/4596452/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex/ author: Suyin Haynes article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-09T19:08:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:04.826Z og:title: Jenna Dewan Tatum Spoke Candidly About Her Sex Life With Channing Tatum og:description: The actor didn't hold back in a new interview out next week og:url: https://time.com/4596452/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61228aa3b41b0042/6988b27bab6d77e4d06ac36f/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex-lives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Universal Pictures' "Hail, Caesar!" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jenna Dewan Tatum Spoke Candidly About Her Sex Life With Channing Tatum twitter:description: The actor didn't hold back in a new interview out next week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61228aa3b41b0042/6988b27bab6d77e4d06ac36f/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex-lives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jenna Dewan Tatum Spoke Candidly About Her Sex Life With Channing Tatum > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage) Gregg DeGuire—WireImage by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Dec 9, 2016 7:08 PM UTC [Jenna Dewan Tatum](http://time.com/4382086/channing-tatum-jenna-dewan-youtube-step-up/?iid=sr-link2) has opened up about her relationship and sex life with [husband Channing Tatum](http://motto.time.com/4378518/jenna-dewan-tatum-channing-tatum-marriage/?iid=sr-link1), saying that being a dancer makes “you feel your body in a certain way.” [In the new interview with Cosmopolitan](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8465250/jenna-dewan-tatum-january-2017/), Dewan Tatum opened up about the beginnings of the couple’s relationship, after the [two first met on-set in 2006.](http://time.com/4450019/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-recreate-step-up-dance/?iid=sr-link1) The actor said the pair had been together ever since Tatum said to her, “I couldn’t stop thinking about you. Let’s do this. I just want to be with you.” “I’ve always been a very sexual person,” Dewan Tatum said in the interview, which hits newsstands on Dec. 13\. “We definitely have a very happy and healthy \[sex life\].” The couple married three years after meeting through their lead roles in the dance movie Step Up, and welcomed [their daughter Everly](http://time.com/4464412/jenna-dewan-tatum-daughter-step-up/?iid=sr-link5) to the family in in [2013](http://celebritybabies.people.com/2013/06/02/channing-tatum-jenna-dewan-tatum-welcome-daughter-everly/). “Something about being a dancer connects you to your physical body. It’s primal, earthy, sexual energy by nature…Channing is very much the same way. He’s very in tune with that,” the actress said. \[[_Cosmopolitan_](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a8465250/jenna-dewan-tatum-january-2017/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4596452/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4596452/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex/"},"headline":"Jenna Dewan Tatum Spoke Candidly About Her Sex Life With Channing Tatum","datePublished":"2016-12-09T19:08:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:04.826Z","description":"The actor didn't hold back in a new interview out next week","url":"https://time.com/4596452/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex/","keywords":["motto","Channing Tatum","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61228aa3b41b0042/6988b27bab6d77e4d06ac36f/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex-lives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suyin Haynes","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61228aa3b41b0042/6988b27bab6d77e4d06ac36f/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex-lives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Universal Pictures' \"Hail, Caesar!\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of Universal Pictures' \"Hail, Caesar!\" - Arrivals","creditText":"Gregg DeGuire—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4596452/jenna-dewan-channing-tatum-sex/","name":"Jenna Dewan Tatum Spoke Candidly About Her Sex Life With Channing Tatum"}}]}] ```