Marriage will taKe Persuasion! DAKOTA'S HARD LESSONS IN LOVE

Her unique childhood has made navigating boyfriend Chris' blended family a breeze

In October last year, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin made a rare public display of love for his longtime girlfriend Dakota Johnson.

Standing on stage at the band's concert in London, the famously private rock star prepared to launch into the song My Universe and announced, "This is about universe... and she's here!"

He then pointed to Dakota, who was standing on a balcony, enjoying the show. The crowd went berserk.

The couple might have been together for five years, but they share very little of their private life with the world.

Little by little, however, it seems they might just be loosening up.

Fifty Shades of Grey actress Dakota, 32, for example, recently gave another small glimpse of their lives.

"Chris and I came down here the other day and I was without my glasses," she told a journalist as she sat on a patch of Malibu's 33km-long coastline, where she and Chris, 45, share a house. "We were watching 'seals' for 10, 15 minutes - and it was seaweed! He just let me think they were seals the whole time..."

After meeting through friends in 2017, Dakota says the pair "never really left each other".