Game Of Thrones Actress Sophie Turner On Getting Engaged: “I Love A Soul, Not A Gender”

Sophie Turner may be engaged to Joe Jonas at the age of 23, but the “Game of Thrones” star recently admitted that she never thought she’d get engaged so young. In fact, she didn’t think she’d ever get engaged at all.

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Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the hit HBO series, which will return for its eighth and final season in April, told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Tuesday that she had been “fully preparing myself to be single for the rest of my life.”

Ah, yes – I remember thinking that in my early 20s, when life seemed like one big party! But we all must grow up sooner or later, and for Sophie, all of that apparently changed once she met her 29-year-old fiance Joe Jonas, one of the Jonas Brothers.

She was recently giving an interview where she elaborated on the couple’s relationship, and how it all happened very naturally, and subverted her expectations of staying single forever. She also made an additional comment which has attracted some attention in the press…

“I think once you’ve found the right person, you just know,” she said of Jonas. “I feel like I’m much older a soul than I am in age. I feel like I’ve lived enough life to know. I’ve met enough guys to know — I’ve met enough girls to know.”

Yup – it’s that last part that piqued people’s interest. In regard to her comments about “girls,” Turner told the magazine with a shrug:

“Everyone experiments (…) It’s part of growing up. I love a soul, not a gender.”

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Last year, Turner told Marie Claire that she doesn’t see marriage as an achievement.

“There’s this weird misconception that being married is the greatest thing that’ll ever happen to you,” Turner said. “But I’ve always found that my career is something I work for, and when I achieve something, there’s a sense that this is the greatest thing I’ll do in my life.”

Now that the Game of Thrones star is due to be married, she hasn’t really changed her view on it not being an achievement – she’s just happy to have found her Mr. Right.

“It’s lovely to be engaged. Not like I achieved anything, but I found my person, like I’d find a house that I love and want to stay in forever. There’s a sense of peace that comes with finding your person. But there’s a drive that comes with your career.”

I think that’s a healthy attitude to have – having a glittering career and being married to a great person are definitely not mutually exclusive. And if the person you’re marrying just so happens to be a big celebrity too, then all the better, I guess…