“We would hide in the closets to have our first kiss.”
Despite their immediate rapport, Justin wasn’t ready to give up casual dating, yet.
“We laughed, we joked, and there was a definite chemistry between us,” Justin recalled.
“And I sort of realized, ‘Okay, this is someone I have to take seriously.'”
Because of this, the future PM deleted Sophie’s follow-up email after their initial reconnection.
Accordingly, their first outing was to an Afghan restaurant and a karaoke bar.
About a year later, the couple became engaged.
“He really went out of his way.
There were candles and rose petals everywhere.
I felt like I was a princess.”
The two were married in May 2005; Justin was 33 years old, while Sophie was 30.
Everyone was crying."
The couple’s second child, Ella-Grace, was born two years later, in February 2009.
The final addition to the Trudeau family is son Hadrien, born in February 2014.
On his ninth birthday, in 2023, Sophie penned a tribute to her youngest child on social media.
“We waited for you with so much love,” shewrote.
He was re-elected in 2019, and again in 2021.
