Joey King Tells the Story Behind Her Engagement Ring & Her Husband's Involvement in the Design Process
Joey King is on the cover of Only Natural Diamonds, the Natural Diamond Council’s seasonal magazine, so it’s only natural that she’d talk about her engagement ring!
The 24-year-old We Were The Lucky Ones actress is married to director Steven Piet and she’s opening up about her one-of-a-kind engagement ring for the magazine’s Spring/Summer issue.
Joey also chatted with the mag about how her approach to taking on new roles has changed throughout her career, what’s next for her, and what goes into her style.
Head inside to see everything she shared with the mag…
Check out everything she had to share!
On her engagement ring: “So, my husband has incredible taste. He’s very good at curating an aesthetic, a taste. I knew that he was planning on proposing at some point. I didn’t know when. But when he asked me if I wanted to be involved in the ring process I said no, I said I trust you more than I trust myself, to be honest, with the jewels, the whole gamut. But he [eventually] asked me to get involved a little bit and wanted my input and showed me a bunch of different things that he thought were beautiful and really cool. I’m so glad he asked me to get involved because I had so much fun looking with him. He had found Mociun and he was curious if I liked the design direction because it was very unique and less traditional. I was obsessed. I did go to [designer Caitlin Mociun’s] store in Brooklyn with my sisters on a girl’s trip and looked at all these rings that I thought were absolutely spectacular. When I saw my ring, it was very clear that it was the one I fell in love with. It was just stunning. And so, leaving the store, knowing that it was the one, I had my sisters communicating with him just so I wasn’t doing it, and then months later, seeing it in this beautiful little box as he was proposing to me was just so amazing. The ring’s name is called The Structure of the Cosmos. It’s one of a kind. Caitlin Mociun is so talented. I never got to meet with her. I met with her wonderful employees. I was in awe over all the rings online. I knew I had to see them in person.”
On how her approach to new roles has changed over the years: “Taking on new roles is interesting because I think my taste has developed in such a different way as I have gotten older, and it has changed so much over the years. My taste when I was eleven of course varied from when I was sixteen. And my taste when I was sixteen is so different from my taste now. I think the best part is that I look at the roadmap of my career and I look behind me and it’s kind of an amazing way to capture time and all the things that I’ve done. And in terms of character preparation, each role is a different kind of set of tools. So how I prepare for We Were the Lucky Ones is going to be very different from how I prepare for A Family Affair. Every role is a different set of tools. Each one just requires a different kind of personality.”
On her style and how she chose the looks for her wedding: “My lovely stylist, Jared Eng, was so wonderfully involved in the process of getting me all the wonderful things that I wore from Oscar de la Renta and sourcing all the jewelry for the wedding from Zydo. I have a big personality, I am a very playful person, and I like bright colors. I wanted my wedding to feel very bright, with lots of color in the flowers and the decor. But I also wanted all the elements of my outfit – my jewels, my dress – to feel classic but in this way that had my personality infused into it. And so having long, dangly earrings with flowers on them, and my dress was covered in flowers… I love things that add movement. Every time I turned my head and would laugh and smile, they would have life to them. And I think that having fun with that is one of the things that makes me feel most myself.”
On what’s next for her career: “This year is going to be a really exciting and busy year. I have the rest of We Were the Lucky Ones coming out, Uglies is supposed to come out this year, Despicable Me is coming out in early July, and my movie A Family Affair with Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron is also coming out. I am so grateful for this year. I have a lot of hopes and dreams for myself, and I have been able to find a lot of gratitude for how lucky I’ve been so far. But the main thing I want for myself, which is bigger than any five-year or ten-year plan, is that I hope to have longevity. This is my favorite thing to do in the world and so I hope I can figure out some way that I can do this til’ I’m well into my nineties.”
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