Swizz Beatz Is Alicia Keys' Comfort Zone, Says Body Language Expert

Swizz Beatz almost blew it on his first date with Alicia Keys. The musicians first met when they were teens—Alicia was 14 and Swizz was 16—but Alicia was never about it, according to People.

“We ended up in the same circles at various awards shows and industry events,” she wrote in her book More Myself. “He’d usually pull up in some fancy car, rolling deep with his Bronx crew and shining with diamonds. I wanted nothing to do with that scene or with Swizz.”

They’d continue to run into each other from time to time, but things didn’t quite click until a few years later when they worked on a project together. After chatting with Swizz for a while, Alicia admits in her book, she realized he was deeper than she’d ever given him credit for.

She agreed to go out to lunch with him. But while she arrived on time, Swizz was late, People reports. She was irked at first, but she ended up enjoying herself once he showed up. And as they walked out of the restaurant, the pianist noticed a huge gift—a painting of a grand piano with paintbrushes on the keys—strapped to her car.

“That’s why I was late,” Swizz said. The painting was symbolic, he explained. She was the keys and he was the brushes.

Things took off from there. The two got engaged in 2010 and found out they were pregnant with their first child Egypt a few months before tying the knot in Corsica. They welcomed their second child, Genesis, five years later.

Swizz makes Alicia "feel my most powerful self," she told E!. "He's always encouraging what it is that I'm envisioning. I love that there's a support there."

This is something Karen Donaldson, body language expert says is evident in the way the couple moves. More than the kind gestures and gifts they've used to show how in tune they are with the other, their physical gestures are doing the same. Ahead, Donaldson breaks down exactly how.