Adam Levine’s feminine appeal

Adam Levine is an unabashed womanizer, said Craig Marks in Details. Over the past decade, the Maroon 5 singer has been linked to a bevy of beauties, including Kirsten Dunst, Maria Sharapova, Natalie Portman, and Cameron Diaz. Levine credits his extended family for his success with the opposite sex. “One of my theories on why I’m so capable of understanding women is that after my parents split, my mom moved in with her brother’s ex-wife—my aunt—who was also newly single,” he explains. “So I was living in a house with two jilted women, plus my cousin, who’s more like my sister, and my brother, Michael, who we eventually find out is gay. Just the estrogen alone. You know when you’re 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn’t suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.” The 33-year-old pop rocker thinks that promiscuous men typically fall into one of two categories. “There are men who are f---ing misogynist pigs, and then there are men who just really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world,” he says. “And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous, and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.”

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