Ashley Graham's husband Justin Ervin candidly opens up about their marriage after 15 years together

Ashley Graham's husband Justin Ervin has revealed their intimate marriage secrets after their whirlwind 15-year romance.

Justin, 36, was at the Sundance Film Festival working for Elvis Mitchell at The Elvis Suite presented by Darling&Co. where he was shooting a series with filmmakers and talent who stopped by to be interviewed by the film critic.

DailyMail.com caught up with Justin in between takes as he gushed about his supermodel wife Ashley, 37, and their three kids: Isaac, five, and three-year-old twins Malachi and Roman.

After working in Park City, Utah, for eight days, the cinematographer said that being away for that long is 'not the longest' he's been away from home.

'It's not unusual for me to be gone even up to two weeks at a time. You know, I love my family. 

'I miss my family, but they're all rooting for me and cheering me on back home,' he told DailyMail.com in an interview that took place on January 27.

The couple relocated from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs in 2022.

Justin described his family as a 'traveling family,' and even joked that he and Ashley 'compare' their Delta 'SkyMiles points.' 

'I think that every family has the unique context, and the context and the culture of our home is that we're an active family. 

'We're a traveling family. When we get to take the kids with us, it's always a special event,' he explained.

'But when we're home, one or the other of us really enjoy diving into full parent mode. So it's either, just full parent mode at home, or full parent mode on the road.'

He went on to describe their kids, who have remained out of the spotlight, as 'a ball of fun.' 

'Every morning is Christmas, every night is WrestleMania,' he spilled.

When asked if their three boys have showed any interest in the modeling or entertainment industry, Justin said that he's leaving it 'up to them' to decide.

'I mean, you've seen them in campaigns. We don't show their faces intentionally. 

'We think that their identity is their identity, and we think it's up to them to determine how they want to move about in the world. 

'So, even though we're proud of them and we'll show things without revealing their identity, we're leaving that to another time,' he told DailyMail.com.

'And whatever they choose to do will be as the result of their own talent and interest.'

Ashley and Justin met in 2009 while volunteering at a church event and got engaged in June 2010 after he proposed to her on their front stoop of their Brooklyn apartment.

The lovebirds married two months later during a private ceremony, in which they opted for a 'traditional' wedding.

Ashley and Justin spent much of the early years of their marriage as a long-distance couple as the model was based in New York City and the film director was based in Los Angeles. 

In a March 2016 interview, Ashley told Entertainment Tonight, 'We have a rule. We don't go longer than two weeks without seeing each other.

'It's absolutely fabulous. I love it. We just meet in LA or New York. We meet in Paris, Miami. It's pretty sexy.'

She said in another interview in 2019 that their secret to a happy marriage is to 'have sex all the time.'

'Even if you don’t feel like it, just have sex. I have found that if we haven't had sex, we get snippy, and then if we are having sex, we're all over each other.

'For us it's like, "Oh, let's have sex." And then we're just right back in a great mood,' she told Elle magazine.

After welcoming their twins in January 2022, Ashley revealed Justin got a vasectomy since they decided that they were done having children.

Years later, Justin describes their marriage as 'very special' and 'unique.'

He told DailyMail.com, 'I would describe it as any other husband would describe being married to their spouse for 15 years.

'I think the visibility adds an interesting context. But I think that you know when you are in love and when you're committed and when you are raising a family, there's a certain beauty, especially over a 15-year period, that is very special and unique to yourselves.'

Ashley has opened up about experiencing ups and downs in her modeling career and has been honest about facing challenges with body image due to having a curvy figure. 

The model has been a longtime advocate for body positivity and is known for empowering women through her campaigns ever since she made history in 2016 by becoming the first size 14 model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.

When asked what's been his favorite shoot of hers over the years, Justin replied, 'It's hard to say. I mean, there's so many amazing highs and amazing moments that we've shared together and that I've been happy to observe her and root her on with as well.'

Justin, for his part, recently wrapped Sundance Film Festival where he said he had the 'privilege' of working for Elvis Mitchell again.

'I shot his documentary, Is That Black Enough for You?!? on Netflix, and now he invited me to come back and shoot this series with a bunch of A-list filmmakers and talent who are showing here at Sundance and people of various career spanning reputations. It's great,' he told DailyMail.com.

It's unknown at this time when the Sundance series will be released or where it will be distributed, but some of Elvis' conversations have already been shared online, including his talk with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino. 

'I really enjoyed the Questlove conversation. I really enjoyed the [Kiss of the Spider Woman director] Bill Condon conversation. Quentin was outstanding,' Justin revealed. 'Bill Murray was extremely transparent, and that was amazing to see.'

The filmmaker, for his part, is in the middle of developing a television series that he says is going to get picked up 'sometime in the fall.' 

Justin continued, 'I'm releasing my film that I directed called PowerNomics. 

'It's the story of Dr. Claud Anderson, an economist who worked under the [Jimmy] Carter administration, and he's an octogenarian (a person in their 80s) who has written the the program for Black Economic Empowerment. 

'And so it's an amazing story. Charlamagne tha God is executive producing it, and we are currently in submission to festivals.'

In addition, Justin is also part of a dance film for a 'very high profile New York Dance Company' and will be back on the road in the coming weeks to shoot a documentary in Connecticut. 

He's hoping to be back at Sundance Film Festival one year debuting his own film.

'I, as a rule, really don't go to film festivals unless I have some sort of specific reason to be there, whether it's a film of mine, or whether, like, at DOC NYC last year, I spoke on a cinematography panel,' Justin explained to DailyMail.com.

'Or, like, in this respect, coming aboard with Elvis and Darling&Co. to shoot a series of important conversations. I mean, having something to do that puts you just above an onlooker or the crowd.'