Cate Blanchett’s Husband Proposed After 21 Days, but She Would Have Said Yes After 3

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton have been married since 1997. (Getty Images)

Cate Blanchett is kissing and telling, but it’s okay because it’s about her own husband.

Whirlwind romances have always been en vogue for Hollywooders — and, as we’ve seen time and again, they often don’t work out. The Australian actress is one of the exceptions. Married to actor Andrew Upton for 18 years, he proposed after 21 days together, but she admiits she would have said yes after just three.

“He turned to me — we were in bed, as you are after three days — and he said, ‘Cate…’” Blanchett, who’s notoriously private about her personal life said on Tuesday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I thought: S–t. He’s going to ask me to marry him and I’m going to have to say yes. And then he said, 'I’m hungry. Do you want to go get something to eat?’”

Just over two weeks later though, Upton, who met Blanchett, 46, on the set of a TV show, popped the question.

“He asked me after about 21 days and I said yes,” the Carol star, who has four children with Upton (three sons and a daughter they adopted in March), recalled. “I cooked him the worst meal. I somehow decided that to stuff a trout with walnuts and goat cheese would be a good idea. He ate it, then he asked me to marry him, so clearly he was hallucinating.”

What was it about Blanchett that sealed the deal for Upton? Well, we know it wasn’t her sexy lingerie collection.

“[People] would be horrified if they could see my underwear drawer,” she told PeopleStyle over the weekend. “I swear to God, the only reason I take jobs and do photo shoots is so I can get more underpants.”

Come on, the Armani lover (and fragrance pitchwoman) has that embarrassing of an underwear collection? Yup.

“I still have underpants my mother made me in high school,“ Blanchett said. "I just — something about going to the lingerie section, I don’t know what — I get overwhelmed, I never know what to buy. So I have the most embarrassing, embarrassing underwear. It’s so old at this point, it’s like, 'prison gray’.”

Well, it doesn’t matter. Her connection to her husband runs far deeper than lingerie.