Jonas Brothers Detail “Bizarre” Interest in Their Sex Lives as Teens

Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas Call Out “Bizarre” Interest in Their Teen Sex Lives

The Jonas Brothers are still perplexed about how the world was burnin’ up for details about their sex lives at a young age.

While looking back on the early years of their career, Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas didn’t hold back when detailing how much of the public fascination had nothing to do with their music. After all, at the time, Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas famously donned purity rings as symbols of their dedication to not having sex before marriage.

“There was a lot of interest in our sexual life during our teenage years,” Joe, 36 told Variety in an interview published on Dec. 3, “which was odd.”

Nick, 33, meanwhile, dubbed the past attention on the brothers’ sex lives “very inappropriate.” He also signaled that it was a product of its time that would not be accepted today.

Though Kevin began dating now-wife Danielle Jonas in 2007, both Nick and Joe embarked on high-profile teen romances, with Joe briefly dating Taylor Swift in 2008 and Camp Rock costar Demi Lovato in 2010. For his part, Nick was linked to fellow Disney Channel stars Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez between 2006 and 2010.

And the way the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle star sees it, the kind of scrutiny the brothers faced through was a product of its time that would not be accepted today.

“If we were a small part of things—course-correcting people taking that much interest in teenagers’ sex lives—then I’m happy we went through whatever we went through to get there,” he said. “But yeah, it was a bizarre time.”

Now, more than a decade later, Nick—who went on to marry Priyanka Chopra in 2018—shared the advice he would give his and his siblings’ younger selves if he could.

“I would tell them just to take a little pressure off,” he explained. “I think we came up in a time—our work with Disney—and obviously, demographics of that being primarily a younger audience, teens, so there’s this real pressure to be a role model, to be an example. I think back when we would’ve said, ‘Oh, we love that. We don’t mind the pressure. We’re trying to be good guys.'”

He continued, “I think as a 33-year-old, talking to my 13-year-old self, I’d say, “Hey, don’t try to carry the world on your shoulders. If you just need to be a kid growing up, going through experiences, do that.”

Take a trip down memory lane by looking back at the Jonas Brothers through the years…