--- title: Jessica Biel Admits She Was the Opposite of an NSYNC Fangirl description: Jessica Biel has been married to Justin Timberlake for seven years, but she wasn't a big fan of the boy band that launched his career. canonical: https://time.com/5708504/jessica-biel-justin-timberlake-shade/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-23T15:55:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:04.152Z og:title: Jessica Biel Admits She Was the Opposite of an NSYNC Fangirl og:description: Jessica Biel revealed she was not much of a fan of her husband's boy band og:url: https://time.com/5708504/jessica-biel-justin-timberlake-shade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7fac0e2450279442/698a04c3b21a9ce3595028e5/jessica-biel-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon- Season 7 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jessica Biel Admits She Was the Opposite of an NSYNC Fangirl twitter:description: Jessica Biel revealed she was not much of a fan of her husband's boy band twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7fac0e2450279442/698a04c3b21a9ce3595028e5/jessica-biel-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Back in the Day, Jessica Biel Was No Fan of Her Future Husband's Boy Band NSYNC as Jimmy Fallon Reveals > Sponsored content. 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Justin Timberlake by the Numbers_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 23, 2019 3:55 PM UTC  Actress Jessica Biel during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on October 22, 2019 Actress Jessica Biel during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on October 22, 2019 NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 23, 2019 3:55 PM UTC [Jessica Biel](https://time.com/4685394/justin-timberlake-jessica-biel-son-terrible-twos/) and [Justin Timberlake](https://time.com/5139585/super-bowl-selfie-kid-justin-timberlake-on-ellen/) have been married for seven years now. But there was a time when Biel wouldn’t even give the nascent boy bander the time of day, as she admitted to [Jimmy Fallon](https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/) during an appearance on his _Tonight Show_ this week. After reminiscing about their wedding, Fallon reminded Biel that there was a time she wasn’t a big NSYNC fan. (Don’t worry: she wasn’t into the [Backstreet Boys](https://time.com/5521940/backstreet-boys-dna-interview/) either, so it wasn’t a rival boy band kind of thing.) Instead, she was a big fan of things like musicals, telling Fallon she knew every word to _Rent_. “I, like, lived under a rock,” she recalled. But of course Fallon couldn’t let that lie. He unearthed footage of Biel from a 1999 interview in which she’s asked about her interest in NSYNC. “To be honest, I don’t listen… I know of them, of course,” she shrugged. “I’m not a huge fan. But, I mean, cool I guess.” It’s the most nonchalant and unbothered of rejections of one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons of the late ’90s. Ironically, of course, Biel would meet Timberlake a few years later and by 2012 they would be married. (They now share one four-year-old child together too, Silas.) So it all worked out for Timberlake in the end — even if it wasn’t his NSYNC fame that necessarily gave him his shot at happily ever after with Biel. But did she come around to their music eventually? According to her story to Fallon, she’s pretty much just as indifferent as ever. 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