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Joe Jonasis looking back at his younger years with a laugh!
In a clip posted to his TikTok, Joe seemingly addressed the purity rings he and his brothersKevin JonasandNick Jonaswore when they burst onto the scene in the early 2000s.
Alongside@jurassicah’s viral videoof a large group asking the camera, “Are you a virgin?,” Joe posted a throwback picture of the Jonas Brothers band members and wrote: “Me and my brothers literally doing anything in our teen years.”
At the end of the clip, Joe pops up wearing orange sunglasses and shakes his head.
Back in the early aughts, the Jonas Brothers wore the rings as a symbol of their commitment to hold off on having sex. A 2009 episode ofSouth Park, entitled “The Ring,” poked fun of the brothers' decision to wear the rings and even featured an animated version of the band.
These days, all three brothers are married with children, and Joe’s wifeSophie Turner— who iscurrently pregnantwith the couple’s second child — evencalled out the jewelryduring theJonas Brothers Family Roast, which aired on Netflix in November 2021.
“No, the rings weren’t a good idea,” she explained. “Yes, as a gesture they’re laughably, toe-curlingly lame.”
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In a 2019 interview withThe Guardian, Nick opened up about his experience as a teen star witnessing the fanfare over the rings.
“It was very tough to digest it in real time, trying to understand what it was going to mean to me, and what I wanted my choices to be, while having the media speaking about a 13-year-old’s sex life,” Nick said. “I don’t know if it would fly in this day and age. Very strange.”
Joe also spoke about frustration with the media’s portrayal of the rings in a 2019 Amazon documentary on the brothers,Chasing Happiness.
The singer emphasized that as a child in the Christian church, all the kids around him were wearing the rings andhe found it “cool.”
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source: people.com
