Adam Noah Levine[5] was born in Los Angeles on March 18, 1979[6] to Fred Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy (née Noah) Levine, an admissions counselor.[4][7] Journalist and author Timothy Noah is his uncle.[8] He has two brothers, Michael and Sam.[9] Levine's parents divorced when he was seven. Growing up, he spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father.[10] He underwent therapy for his parents' divorce, but called it a "waste of time" explaining that his parents could not "accept the fact that I might have been OK with it. I cried my eyes out and kicked and screamed and said, 'Why?' and all the things you do when you find out. A few days later I was fine but I still had to go to therapy.