Despite not having a daughter, Jessica Biel is passing on her good looks: her seldom-seen son Silas is her spitting image.
During Wednesday’s episode of the Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, Kelly Ripa quipped that Jessica Biel should “have a daughter” because it isn’t “fair that [she] should rob another woman of having that face.”
However, Biel responded by assuring listeners that she had indeed passed on her looks.
“Honestly, I already gave my face to my son Silas,” Jessica Biel said of her and her husband Justin Timberlake’s 9-year-old.
She insisted that it wasn’t just a passing resemblance. “He and I have the same face,” she noted.
In another part of the podcast, the Blade: Trinity star elaborated on why she and Timberlake decided to keep Silas and his brother Phinneas’s faces off social media.
“We get hammered [by the paparazzi] on the West Coast,” she explained. Biel added, “That’s why we don’t live there anymore to try and create some normalcy.”
For now, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake reside in Montana with their sons.
“We understand that our job has this major public-facing element, but these kids didn’t choose this,” she added. “I don’t want to expose them in a way until they have an ability to make the decision for themselves.”
“I just don’t want [high profile] to be on my account,” she insisted. “No disrespect to anyone who feels comfortable doing that, that’s just our family choice. Maybe it’s a mistake. I don’t know.”
Married since 2012, she and Timberlake only share photos of their children on Instagram that show the back of their heads.
Their second son Phinneas arrived in July 2020. This was a year after Biel and Timberlake made headlines when the “Sexy Back” singer was seen holding hands with his Palmer co-star Alisha Wainwright. Despite the controversy, the couple remained together following Timberlake’s public apology.
Biel admits that her marriage to Timberlake isn’t always sunshine and rainbows.
“It’s always a work in progress. It’s constantly trying to find the balance, trying to find the time when we can connect,” Biel said during a recent appearance on The View.
“Thank goodness for Zoom and FaceTime. For traveling families — well, for everybody, really — but for parents who are gone a lot, that’s been really helpful,” Biel added.