Kristen Bell wouldn't be married to Dax Shepard if they met five years earlier

She said: "I think it's who you choose to make it work with. I don't think you could ever find your soulmate if you're not ready. I don't know if I think soulmates exist. We'd be a tabloid headline [if we married before]. We met at the time when we were both evolving into a place where it was 'Okay, what are the outcomes I want in my life?' ... I think you have to go through your own personal evolution to get there."

Meanwhile, the 39-year-old actress previously revealed she felt "no sparks whatsoever" when she first met her husband Dax.

She said: "The producer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Shauna Robertson, who’s Judd Apatow's previous producing partner, had a birthday dinner - like, 10 people, maybe less, at a sushi restaurant. And I had just gotten out of a long-term relationship, like, two months prior. And in retrospect, I realise he had just gotten out of a long relationship.

"We were sitting at a table. The only thing I remember is that he talked so much. And then I didn’t know who he was. I’m like, ‘Is that one of the guys from 'Jackass’ or something?' ... And then we left. There were no sparks whatsoever."

Kristen - who eventually married Dax in 2013, and has daughters Lincoln, six, and Delta, four, with him - then met her future husband a second time two weeks later, and began to see the potential for a romantic connection.

She recalled: "Two weeks later we both met at a hockey game ... we saw each other ... started to flirt,” she says. “Then a day after that I get a text that says, 'Hi, my name is Dax. I violated your privacy and got your number from Shauna. How do you feel about that?' And I was like, 'Excuse me? You sound stimulating.' He’s so bold and that was my kind of person. I was like, okay, starting it off with a really good joke that makes me feel, like, butterflies. I fell in love with him way before he fell in love with me."