Millie Bobby Brown Reveals How Fiancé Jake Bongiovi Changed Her Stance on Marriage

Jake Bongiovi turned Millie Bobby Brown's world upside down when it comes to marriage. 

In fact, the Stranger Things star—who announced her engagement to Jon Bon Jovi's 21-year-old son in April—recently revealed she didn't always see herself tying the knot. 

"That wasn't my dream," Millie, 19, told Glamour for one of its Women of the Year cover stories published Oct. 16. "My dream was to have a baby."

All that changed when she met Jake.

"I wanted to be the woman that my mom is to me and I wanted to be the woman that my grandmother was to me," the actress continued. "So that was never my, like, intention, to be a wife. But after meeting Jake and seeing, 'Oh, I don't have to be this stereotypical wife for him. He doesn't want me to be that either. He wants me to go and do my thing and live my life, and he will hold my hand in the process of that.' I was like, 'Oh, I do want this.'"

When Millie first met her fiancé in 2021, she had been reeling from what she previously told Allure was an "unhealthy situation" with TikToker Hunter Ecimovic. But with Jake, she's learned to love herself—and him in return.

"I think I was so afraid to be a strong woman in a relationship," the Enola Holmes alum told Glamour, later adding, "When I met Jake, I just felt I could be loud. He embraced that and encouraged that. And I fell in love with myself while being with him."

To see photos of Millie and Jake's relationship, keep reading.

Millie and Jake enjoyed a day out with her sister Ava Brown, 11, and friends at the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park.

Millie announced the couple's engagement on Instagram, quoting Taylor Swift's song "Lover." The two would go on to celebrate with family and friends at an engagement party weeks later.

Jake marked Millie's 19th birthday on Feb. 19, 2023 with a sweet tribute, writing, "Another year around the sun together happy 19th to the girl of my dreams."

The sweet post included photos of the couple.

The pair's silly side is depicted in one image of Jake and Millie clowning around in the pool

Jake and Millie snuggle up in a romantic selfie.

Millie shared photos of the couple in celebration of the New Year, writing, "endlessly in love with the year I've had."

One snapshot showed a photo booth strip of the loved-up couple.

As Millie put it, "grateful for my friends, family, donkey (bernard), my doggies, my puppies teeth, and my partner for life."

Millie and Jake were twinning at the premiere of Stranger Things season four in New York City.

Millie and Jake make their first joint appearance at a celebrity event—the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards in London.

"We're starting a band," Jake wrote on Instagram, "send name ideas."

Jake posted this photo, with the caption, "bff <3"