Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s explosive relationship timeline

Nearly three months after they started dating, Spears and Federline exchanged vows in California in September 2004.

During a 2005 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, the Toxic The singer said she was the one who proposed to Federline.

“Actually, I was a little bit rejected at first. I was a little bit put down,” she recalls.

Her feelings echoed Federline’s story, which stated that they discussed getting engaged after the European leg of her tour.

“There we were, in first class, drinking cocktails, talking about life, and then, bam, she casually, or maybe not so casually, proposed to me,” he writes. “I kind of laughed it off, played it cool and told her no.”