20 of the Longest Celebrity Marriages — & Why They Lasted

Join us as we take a look at some of the celebrity couples out there who, through all of the glitz and glamor have managed to stand the test of time.

Cindy Crawford & Rande Gerber – 20 Years

The couple got married in 1998 and since then, they have been inseparable. According to Gerber, the secret to their marriage is being friends, first and foremost. “We started as friends, and we remained? friends,” he said. “You have to just keep that friendship and fun in the relationship.”

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Jerry & Jessica Seinfeld – 19 Years

It’s unclear if Jessica Seinfeld’s friendship with comedian Jerry caused her previous marriage with Eric Nederlander to fall apart. Nevertheless, the two hit it off shortly after and the rest was history. Apparently, food is what has kept the two together. “Chicken parmesan. It’s why Jerry wanted to marry me,” she said. “It remains the glue of our family.” Fast forward over two decades later, and the couple is still going strong. They have even had three kids together.

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John Travolta & Kelly Preston – 29 Years

John Travolta and Kelly Preston met at a screen test for their 1989 comedy, The Experts. Preston was still married to actor Kevin Gage at the time, but for Travolta, it was love at first sight. In 1990 John Travolta managed to sweep Kelly off her feet. He proposed on New Year’s Eve 1991, and Kelly hasn’t thought twice about her decision since.

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Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann – 23 Years

One of the industry’s funniest couples is living proof that comedians take love very seriously. Filmmaker Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann met on the set of the 1996 film, The Cable Guy. They were married a year later, and have two daughters, Maude and Iris. The couple works together often, Mann has been featured in many of Apatow’s films such as Knocked Up and This Is 40. Both of their daughters appeared in the two movies as well, as Leslie Mann’s character’s daughters.

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Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick – 32 years

Married for over 30 years, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are the Hollywood couple who we have all grown to envy. The actors met on the set of the television series, Lemon Sky when Bacon was 29, and Sedgwick was 22 and married in 1988. They live a happy life, both have successful careers and have two children together. The couple manages to get through their struggles by not only loving one another but also liking each other as well.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones & Michael Douglas – 20 Years

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, who share the same birthday, met at the Deauville Film Festival in 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito. The couple got engaged in 1999 and were married in 2000. Their wedding was named “wedding of the year” by the BBC. In 2010, Douglas was diagnosed with tongue cancer, and Zeta-Jones faced an emotionally hard time. The couple decided to live separately in 2013 but reconciled in 2014 and have stayed stronger than ever, ever since.

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Annette Bening & Warren Beatty – 28 Years

Annette Bening and Warren Beatty have been married for what seems like an eternity. They met in 1990 when Beatty was searching for a leading lady for the mafia drama Bugsy. He fell in love with her on their first date, but the two stayed friends until just before the filming of the film was over. Warren invited Annette to dinner, and although she had her doubts, she went with him. Twenty-six years and four kids later, the power couple is stronger than ever.

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Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan – 30 Years

Hollywood may break some people up, but it also sometimes brings people together – like Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan, who actually first met on the set of Family Ties, where they played love interests Allen and Ellen. They even had some kissing scenes for the show, but they didn’t fall in love right away! It wasn’t until 1987 when they starred together on the film, Bright Lights, Big City, that they realized they could be the couple they kept playing in the movies.

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Julia Roberts & Danny Moder – 16 Years

It’s amazing that an actress as famous and as sought-after as Julia Roberts has managed to stay in a stable marriage for as long as she has! Even after roles in movies such as Notting Hill and Pretty Woman, Roberts has no plans on breaking up with her husband Danny Moder anytime soon! Moder, who was working as a cameraman on the set of one of her movies when they met, was actually married at the time. Despite this, she just had to be with him.

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Steve Carell & Nancy Carell – 24 Years

While he has been something of a late bloomer in the world of comedy, Steve Carell has certainly been able to hold down a stable marriage for a long time. He met wife Nancy Walls in a drama class and didn’t know how to talk to her. Apparently, Nancy said the following to Steve: “If somebody like you were to ask me out, I would definitely go out with him. If there was a person like you.”

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Viola Davis & Julius Tennon – 17 Years

Viola Davis had pretty much given up on love until meeting the love of her life, Julius Tennon. Davis prayed for Tennon, literally, and less than a month later, the couple met. He was exactly what she was looking for, an actor and former football player, that overheard Davis complaining that she didn’t know many people in Los Angeles, so he introduced himself. The two married in 2003, and in 2011, they adopted their daughter, Genesis. Together, they focus on good parenting and putting their marriage in the center.

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Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber – 30 Years

Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber, one of the hottest ‘it’ couples of the ’80s, have been married for thirty-two years. While the duo has kept their personal lives quite private over the years, we know that Harmon is completely smitten with his wife. During an interview, he revealed that he wears a ring when he’s not shooting because “…I’m proud of who I’m married to. I’m just so proud of her.” It’s clear that this marriage is all about love and respect, which may be the very secret to their successful marriage.

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David McCallum & Katherine Carpenter – 50 Years

David McCallum is an actor who first gained notoriety in the 1960s television series, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Today, you may know him for his role as Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard from NCIS. McCallum and former model, Katherine Carpenter, have been married for fifty-two amazing years. McCallum might have suffered heartbreak initially when his first wife left him for actor co-star, Charles Bronson in 1967. However, McCallum met then 21-year-old Carpenter during that same year. The two fell in love, got married, and share two beautiful children together. Things really do have a way of working out…

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Billy & Janice Crystal – 47 Years

When Harry Met Sally star, Billy Crystal, and his wife have been married for forty-nine years! This is almost unheard of considering that most Hollywood relationships crumble within a few short years…if that couple is lucky. So what’s the secret exactly? During an interview with Us, Crystal revealed that he and Janice “laugh a lot. We’ve grown together, we’ve parented together, we’ve grand-parented together. I’m lucky that I found the person when I was 18.” Beyond that, Crystal revealed that he and his beloved wife “just keep listening to each other.”

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Tom & Lois Bergeron – 37 Years

Tom Bergeron is a television personality best known as the host for America’s Funniest Home Videos and Dancing With the Stars. He and his wife met back in the ’80s. Though they only got married in 1982, Lois had a big effect on Tom’s meditative transformation and anger management from the very beginning. The two have been married for 37 years and share two beautiful daughters together. Considering that we see very few pictures of the couple, it’s clear that they prefer to keep their personal lives under wraps, which also may be a secret to their healthy relationship.

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Steven & Maureen Van Zandt – 36 Years

There is no denying that Steven Van Zandt is quite a versatile celebrity! Although he has played in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Van Sandt has also starred in shows such as The Sopranos! With many strings to his bow, it’s not too surprising that the actor/musician was able to hold down a stable relationship over the years. He has been married to Maureen Santoro since 1983. Funnily enough, Santoro also played Van Zandt’s on-screen wife in The Sopranos!

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Christopher & Georgianne Walken – 49 Years

Marriage and movie-making don’t easily go together, which is why movie stars notoriously struggle with balancing their work and their personal lives. But Christopher Walken, who has a reputation for being good at everything, is here to prove that stereotype wrong. He’s been in over 100 movies since he started his acting career in the 1950s but has spent almost 50 years of that happily married to his wife, Georgianne. Her time is also centered in Hollywood as a casting director.

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Alan & Arlene Alda – 61 Years

The actor behind the role of Hawkeye Pierce in the beloved show M*A*S*H, Alda has been married to his wife Arlene since 1957. According to one CNN review, his book Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (And Other Things I’ve Learned) is quite the testament to their love. One reviewer wrote, “…he writes rapturously of meeting a woman named Arlene. Within a few pages, they’re taking walks in Bronx Park, stealing time from Alda’s military service…and getting married. The book is 224 pages, so you wait for the other shoe to drop: petty arguments, ugly affairs, divorce … Nothing.”

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Ron & Cheryl Howard – 43 Years

Even though Ron Howard has been married to writer Cheryl Alley since 1975, today they still look as happy as ever. Out of their four beautiful children, two have even pursued acting careers of their own, just like dad – although he’s since made the switch to directing. “I felt really lucky when we met,” he said of his wife. “It’s crazy — we were teenagers, it shouldn’t have worked. We got married young, that shouldn’t have worked either, and yet it really and truly has,” he said.

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Jeff & Susan Bridges – 42 years

Just when Jeff Bridges was starting to get noticed and looking at a potentially huge career, he found himself starring in another big, romantic drama: his own relationship with the woman who would one day become his wife. While on the set of the 1975 country film Rancho Deluxe, he fell in love with a waitress named Susan. After only a summer together, the film ended and the two had to make a big decision. Jeff wasn’t ready to get married, but he wasn’t willing to lose the girl, either – so they married in 1977, and lived with their three children happily ever after.

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Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy – 23 Years

Although these two split up for several years in the ’90s, they got back together, and when William proposed, Felicity said yes. The duo tied the knot in 1997, and William says Felicity has always been his “dream girl.” The couple had two daughters together, Sophia and Georgia. No matter what this couple has faced, they’ve faced it together.

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Jamie Lee Curtis & Christopher Guest – 35 years

Jamie Lee Curtis is known for playing all kinds of roles, from the truly moving to the truly angsty – but one of her many strengths is certainly making an audience laugh. So it’s no surprise that she’s married to mockumentary legend, Christopher Guest. But from the day they said ‘I do’ in 1984 until today, the world has been impressed by their devotion and strength in matrimony. The way Curtis explains it is, “I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is.” They have adopted two children together.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Brad Hall – 31 Years

Young love is always treated with skepticism, and rightly so – but Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall made it work with flying colors. They met as college students at the prestigious Northwestern University, and 31 years later they still love each other like it was yesterday. After her renowned success on the long-running show Seinfeld, Julia’s success trumped that of Brad’s, and many others, too – she’s won more Emmy Awards and more Screen Actors Guild Awards than any other performer. But it clearly didn’t change their love!

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Sting & Trudie Styler – 26 Years

Well, if Shakespeare isn’t romantic, nothing is. For Sting and Trudie Styler, their first taste of Shakespeare brought them together for life. They met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and became a couple in 1982 – but they waited ten more years before officially tying the knot. Although they waited for marriage, they didn’t wait for children. Out of their many children, only one was born after they became man and wife. Although Trudie stuck with acting for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sting moved on to pursue his musical career as the frontman of the famous rock band, The Police.

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Kirk Douglas & Anne Buydens – 64 Years

Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens really take the wedding cake on this one. Having been married since 1954, there are few other couples in Hollywood whose relationship has lasted this long. And with both of them on the other side of 100 years now, it seems like they really will love each other til death do them part. Between Kirk’s two more sons with Anne and his two other sons from a previous marriage, it seems like their children have caught the bug from their father: Michael Douglas is a renowned actor in his own right, with Eric also acting, and Joel and Peter as producers.

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Vincent & Linda McMahon – 53 Years

When we talk about the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), it’s impossible not to include Vince McMahon in that conversation. Despite being at the center of a lot of the show’s drama, the CEO has managed to stay married all that time. There is no denying that Vince and wife Linda have been on a big journey over the last 30 years. Now though, they are in charge of a multi-million dollar company and even their kids Shane and Stephanie have big positions in it.

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Meryl Streep & Don Gummer – 40 Years

It’s hard to see which has lasted longer, Meryl Streep’s reputation as one of the greatest actresses in the world or her marriage to Don Gummer. For the last 40+ years, the star of Mamma Mia has been joined at the hip with husband Gummer. Streep has decided to stay fairly quiet about her long-lasting marriage. However, what we do know is that the couple has four kids together, and that’s got to mean something.

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Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo – 18 Years

It all started in 2001 when Amy Adams met her future husband, Darren Le Gallo, in acting class. Although the two didn’t begin dating until a year later — when they collaborated on a short film called Pennies — it’s clear that their love is unfaltering. A painter and actor himself, Gallo “demanded that we go out on a date” and the rest is history. In 2010, just two years after getting engaged, the lovebirds welcomed their first child. Finally, after thirteen years of blissful love, Adams and Gallo exchanged vows during their classic spring wedding.

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Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller – 16 Years

The first time they met, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller spent their night together eating grilled cheese sandwiches and playing Scrabble until the sun came up. Their first date after that initial meeting was definitely exciting although a bit disastrous considering they had gotten into an accident on their way back from mini-golfing. This duo may have hit a few bumps along the way, as all couples do, but we think it’s safe to say that it was love at first sight. Rogen popped the question in 2010, just six years after they initially met and started dating.

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Lisa Kudrow and Michel Stern – 25+ Years

Phoebe and Mike weren’t the only ones to find love. In fact, Lisa Kudrow found her match with French advertising executive, Michel Stern. According to Kudrow herself, it was love at first sight when they met in the late eighties although Stern was already in a relationship. Under those circumstances, Stern had to wait a bit before making a move. In 1995, just one year after Friends premiered on NBC, the couple got married. So, what’s the secret to their twenty-plus marriage? During an interview with Glamour, Kudrow revealed that they “respect each other’s independence…”

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Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman – 27 Years

Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman met on the first day of college at the University of Pennsylvania in the early nineties. That’s right — they were college sweethearts before tying the knot in 2003. The two have been together for twenty-seven years now, which is the thing Banks is “most proud of.” While they’ve hit their obstacles like any other couple, Banks believes that “a little traditional when it comes to marriage” is good. The two now own Brownstone Productions together, the company responsible for all three Pitch Perfect films as well as the Charlie’s Angels reboot.

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Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden – 36 Years

Bryan Cranston met his wife, Robin Dearden, in 1984 but the pair didn’t get married until July of 1989. Nothing like his Walter ‘Heisenberg’ White character from Breaking Bad, Cranston credits therapy as an important part of his real-life marriage to Dearden. According to the actor himself, “I see a [therapist] from time to time when I’m feeling edgy or anxiety-ridden. My wife and I go to a couples’ therapist. Our agreement is, if either of us feels like we want to go, the other can’t object.” Now, if only Walter and Skyler could have taken some notes…

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Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond – 26 Years

Comic icon, Tina Fey, began dating Jeff Richmond back in 1994 just two years after she joined Chicago’s Second City improv theater group. It wasn’t until seven years later that the two got married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on June 3rd, 2001. The two work together quite a lot as Richmond works as a composer and soundtrack consultant for shows like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. They live in a multi-million dollar apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City with their two daughters, Alice and Penelope Athena.

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Hugh Jackman & Deborra-Lee Furness – 22 Years

This relationship might be a little one-sided, in terms of fame. However, Hugh Jackman’s marriage to Deborra-Lee Furness is one for the ages, literally. After they met on the set of the Aussie show Correlli back in 1995, the two tied the knot just a year later. “She was the star, and I had this major crush on her,” he said. However, it turns out that Furness reciprocated the feelings and they have been together ever since.

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Joel McHale & Sarah Williams – 24 Years

It’s hard being a celebrity and living your life out of the public’s eye, but Joel McHale and his wife, Sarah Williams, have managed to do it for more than 20 years. The couple met straight out of college and got married in 1996. The couple has managed to stay out of the tabloids, they attend red carpets together and post happy photos of each other on social media. The couple has two sons together, and to be honest, we think they make the perfect family.

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Matt & Luciana Damon – 15 Years

Actor Matt Damon met Argentine Luciana Barroso in 2003 while he was filming Stuck on You. Not much is known about Barroso, but she and Damon got engaged in September 2005 in a private civil ceremony in 2005 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. The couple has four daughters, Isabella, Gia, and Stella from their marriage and Alexia, from Barroso’s previous marriage, whom Matt considers his own. Over the years, the Damon family have split their time between Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.

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Elton John & David Furnish – 26 Years

After more than 25 years together, Elton John and David Furnish have become “couple goals.” The couple met in 1993 and were immediately attracted to each other. They met at a dinner party, hosted at Elton John’s house. David had just turned 31, and his lifestyle was much different than Elton’s. After 12 years of dating, Elton proposed, and they married as soon as same-sex marriage became legal in the UK in 2014. In 2010, David and Elton had their son, Zachary, via surrogacy, and in 2013, they welcomed Elijah into the world.

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Bono & Alison Hewson – 38 Years

Bono, the frontman of one of the world’s most successful band’s U2, married his wife, Alison, in 1982. The couple attributes the success of their marriage to the fact that they are both passionate about what they do, and they allow each other to pursue their goals. Although they have been married for nearly 40 years, the couple did go through a strain in 1986, due to the time the band spent recording Joshua Tree. The pair managed to work it out and have been head over heels in love proving to be a rock star doesn’t mean you cannot pursue a family.

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Steven Spielberg & Kate Capshaw – 29 Years

Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg met while shooting for a film he directed, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984. She had been working on the soap opera The Edge of Night until then, which she ended up giving up to be a part of his film – little did they know the movie would change their lives forever. They married in 1991 and have seven children in total, both from previous marriages and together.

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Dustin Hoffman & Lisa Hoffman – 40 Years

Dustin Hoffman married Lisa in 1980, and the couple has four beautiful children together. The couple met because Dustin’s mother was friends with Lisa’s grandmother. They were childhood friends that reconnected when she was 22, and Dustin was 38. Lisa talks openly about being very disconnected from Hollywood, stating that she “just happens to be married to an actor.” She has a law degree, and although she knew that she wouldn’t practice law, she wanted to do something for herself.

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Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa – 29 Years

Springsteen and his E Street Band invited Scialfa on the road as a part of their Born in the USA tour…and the rest, well the rest is history. The couple has been married for nearly 30 years and has had three children together – rumor has it that Patti had been in love with Bruce for years and that it came as no surprise when the two finally got together. Springsteen has been writing love songs about Patti for years, and it doesn’t seem like this love is going to die down anytime soon.

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Dolly Parton & Carl Dean – 52 Years

It was love at first sight for Carl and Dolly. They met when she was only 18, and he was 21, it was Parton’s first day in Nashville, they met outside of a laundromat – their love story sounds like a country song. Two years later, the couple tied the knot. The only people that attended the wedding were Parton’s mom, the preacher, and his wife. Although the couple does not have kids, they love spoiling their nieces, and Parton’s famous goddaughter, Miley Cyrus.

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Christian Bale & Sibi Blažić – 20 Years

The notoriously private couple Christian Bale and Sibi Blažić have been married for 20 years and have two children together. The former model changed the award-winning actor’s view on love before he met her he had no interest in getting married, seeing as everyone in his family had divorced. The couple met when she was working as a personal assistant to Bale’s friend, Winona Ryder. They fell for each other quickly and eloped in January 2000. Although there is not much known about their relationship, these two are deeply in love.

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Martin & Helen Scorsese – 21 Years

Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese married his fifth wife and current spouse, Helen, in 1999. They have a daughter together, Francesca, who appeared in both The Departed and The Aviator. Before meeting the love of his life, Scorsese was married to several leading ladies, including Isabella Rossellini and Julia Cameron. The couple has been living out of the limelight, despite Scorsese being one of Hollywood’s most well-known filmmakers.

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Sam Elliott & Katharine Ross – 33 Years

Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross first met back in 1969 when Ross was filming Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid alongside Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Elliott had a very small role, so it wasn’t until almost 10 years later that the two ultimately reconnected for the horror film, The Legacy. They began dating in 1978 and tied the knot in 1984. Although this was Ross’ fifth marriage, it seemed as though she finally found the one. 37 years later and they’re still going strong, although “you’ve got to work at it [marriage],” says Elliott.

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Rachel Zoe & Rodger Berman – 22 Years

Back in 1991, at the tender age of 19, Rachel Zoe met the love of her life, Rodger Berman. The future couple was both working in restaurants when they met. “I vividly remember the first time I saw her, wearing a tight black mini dress, high-heeled pumps, stick-straight hair, and big red lips covered in M.A.C. Chili lipstick (her trademark),” he revealed. “She was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.” They’ve had two kids since.

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Samuel L. Jackson & LaTanya Richardson – 38 years

It’s amazing to think that at 70 years old, Samuel L. Jackson is still starring in so many huge blockbusters. Not only is he as prolific as ever in Hollywood – but he has also been married for nearly 40 years! Ever since marrying LaTanya Richardson back in 1980, Jackson has had a loyal wife by his side. Together, they have even founded a charity in a joint effort to improve education.

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Tom Selleck & Jillie Mack – 31 Years

He is often regarded as one of the most wanted men on TV. Men have wanted to be him and women have wanted to be with him! But for Tom Selleck, there is only one woman who can have his heart – Jillie Mack. The Magnum P.I. star opened about why his marriage has been so great. “Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well,” he said. “I just still enjoy my wife’s company enormously.”

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Denzel and Pauletta Washington – 35 Years

After being labeled the best-looking man of 1996 by People magazine, many fans were hopeful of winning the heart of Denzel Washington. However, they would prove to be devastated when they learned he was already married! The Training Day star met his wife Pauletta back in 1977 and six years later, they tied the knot. Since then, they have had four children and a few decades after first getting married, they renewed their vows in South Africa, of all places!

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Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith – 21 Years

There is no denying that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith aren’t your typical couple. A marriage takes hard work, and Hollywood specifically packs the pressure onto couples. Will and Jada have always managed to make it work for them. “If there is a secret I would say is that we never went into working in our relationship,” Will said. “We only ever worked on ourselves individually, and then presented ourselves to one another better than we were previously.”

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Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi – 14 Years

Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi are honestly couple goals. The two have known each other for nearly 20 years and have been together for 15 of those years. The pair met in 2000 at a social gathering when same-sex relationships were still fairly taboo. They started dating in 2004 but didn’t come out as a couple until 2005. Finally, the two tied the knot in 2008 once the same-sex marriage ban was lifted. This couple continues to awe on the red carpet together, and it’s clear that their love is everlasting.

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Angela Bassett & Courtney B. Vance – 13 Years

Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance have been one of Hollywood’s most gorgeous couples for years – they seem to be aging like a fine wine, both together and apart. The couple met at the Yale School of Drama, and despite their romance blossoming into one of Hollywood’s finest, it wasn’t anything close to love at first sight. The two remained friends for years, but it didn’t turn romantic for over a decade. They began dating in 1994 and made things official when they tied the knot in 2007.

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Sissy Spacek & Jack Fisk – 44 Years

Singer and award-winning actress, Sissy Spacek, has been married to Jack Fisk for nearly forty-six years. Spacek met Fisk, a production designer and art director, in 1973 on the set of Badlands in which Spacek was playing the role of a serial killer’s girlfriend. The two got hitched just a year later on April 13th, 1974. and have been going strong ever since. During an interview with People, Sissy “never expected a lifelong relationship. In fact, we even opened a bank account and put $30 in it, because that’s how much it cost to get divorced.”

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Billy Ray & Tish Cyrus – 26 Years

In December of 1993, Billy Ray secretly married Tish Finley, against his record company’s advice. Tish was pregnant with their second child, Braison. Billy Ray adopted two young children Tish had brought into their marriage, Brandi and Trace, and raised them as his own. In 2010, the couple hit a bit of a rough patch but they managed to work through it and kept their love alive.

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Michelle Pfeiffer & David E. Kelley – 26 Years

Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelly met on a blind date in 1993 – believe it or not, the couple went bowling. Their story is your typical whirlwind romance – they married ten months after they began dating. With so many Hollywood relationships that seem to start and end in the blink of an eye, it comes to somewhat of a surprise that this love story has stayed strong for more than 25 years. According to sources, it was Kelly’s support that made an impression on Michelle.

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Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson – 30 Years

While they are regarded as one of the most stable couples in all of Hollywood, Tom Hanks actually met Rita Wilson under interesting circumstances. When the two met on the set of Bosom Buddies, Hanks was already married. Rita Wilson left a lasting impression on Hanks and the couple married in 1988. “I still can’t believe my wife goes out with me,” Hanks has been quoted saying.

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Victoria & David Beckham – 19 Years

This pop singer/fashion designer and professional footballer have been married since 1999, just two years after they began dating. But after four beautiful children and almost twenty years of anniversaries with neverending declarations of love for each other, it’s easy to see why the couple has managed to make it last throughout the years. These two really are the definition of couple goals.

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Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally – 17 Years

Comedian actors Mullally and Offerman met while acting in a play in Los Angeles in 2000. Mullally had already made it big acting in Will & Grace, Offerman was still trying to make his mark in Hollywood. The dynamic duo’s secret to a successful marriage is that the couple refuses to be apart for more than two weeks. The couple is so confident in their relationship, they recently wrote a book together, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.

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Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick – 21 Years

While her character on Sex and The City might struggle to hold down one relationship and have some sort of stability, Sarah Jessica Parker definitely hasn’t had that problem in real life. It was Parker’s brother who introduced her to Matthew Broderick a few decades ago and it didn’t take long before they tied the knot. “I love that he’s the father of my children,” she said. “And it’s because of him that there’s this whole other world that I love.”

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Cobie Smulders and Taran Killian – 8 years

Cobie Smulders gain fame during her iconic in the role of Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother. She met her husband, and after a few good pool games and listening to jazz in New York, they fell in love. The couple has been happily married for eight years, and they have 2 daughters. Taran Killian appeared in a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother back in the day, as an anchorman for a local television.

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Ru Paul and George LeBar – 3 years

Ru Paul met his husband, George LeBar, a couple of years ago in New York City. It was in a club called the Limelight on the dance floor at George’s birthday party in 1994. They decided to tie the knot in January 2017. Apparently, he was very amused when the press announced their marriage because the media thought they were just married, when in fact, they were married for a few years at the time. He shared this in January, on the red carpet at Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Rachel Brosnahan and Jason Ralph – 4 years

Rachel Brosnahan is the star of the show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and tied the knot with fellow actor Jason Ralph, who is one of the main characters in shows like The Magicians and Land’s Younger. Apparently, he was very amused when the press announced their marriage because the media thought they were just married, when in fact, they were married for a few years at the time. He shared this in January, on the red carpet at Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha – 7 years

Kerry Washington is one of the main characters in the TV series Scandal, playing Olivia Pope’s character. She married the former San Francisco player, Nnamdi Asomugha, in 2013. She is happily married to the former player, and they have three kids together. Kerry Washington is very protective of her personal life and doesn’t like to talk about it with the press. Who can blame her?

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Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak – 3 years

Jim Parsons was one of the lead characters in the TV show The Big Bang Theory, which was a huge success all across the globe. Although they have been together for almost 15 years, they decided to tie the knot in March 2017. In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Jim Parsons said that the reason why they married after such a long time was that they never cared about being married. After they married, for Jim, it was very meaningful, more than he could have ever predicted.

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Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman – 38 years

Danny DeVito is a very well known actor in the industry, acting iconic roles in sitcoms such as Taxi in the 70s and in movies such as Batman Returns, having a very long career. About his personal life, Danny DeVito is married to the actress Rhea Perlman, with which he tied to knot in 1982. Rhea Perlman starred in the TV series Cheers back in the 1980s. They have a lovely marriage together and 3 children.

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Colin Firth and Livia Giuggioli – 23 years

Colin and Livia have been together for quite some time. They met on the set of Nostomo in 1996 and married one year later. So what is their secret to success? We are not quite sure. Which is probably the answer – they keep their private life private. All we know is that they have stood the test of time.

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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman – 50 years

Like many other actors, these two actors met on the set in 1953 while performing Picnic on Broadway. It was only later when they fell in love and started dating after they starred in the movie The Long Hot Summer. They married on January 29, 1958, and they have three daughters together (Newman already had 3 children from the previous marriage with Jaqueline Witte). Their happy marriage lasted for 50 years until Paul Newman died in 2008.

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Ellen Page and Emma Portner – 2 years

When she first saw Emma Portner, Ellen Page knew that she must marry this girl. When she saw a video of her on Instagram, she saw a very talented woman in Portner, who is a Canadian choreographer. Ellen Page told The New York Times that Emma Portner is very talented and cool, and she knew that both of them are very creative spirits. They announced their marriage in January 2018. According to Ellen Page, it was love at first sight.

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Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford – 8 years

According to the Sun, these two knew each other since they were kids; they were childhood pen pals. An insider told the paper that they were exchanging letters through the church, but after their careers took off and things got more serious, they started talking again. Their romance blossomed in 2012, and they tied the knot. The actress and the rock wed at a farm in Somerset, United Kingdom. They have 2 kids together.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. – 20 Years

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. met in 1997 while they were filming the teen horror, I Know What You Did Last Summer, although they didn’t start dating until 2000. By April of 2001, they were engaged but didn’t get hitched until a year later in Mexico when they were both in their mid-twenties. They share two children together — a daughter (born 2009) and a son (born 2012). During an interview with Us Magazine, Gellar acknowledged that marriage is work. “It’s like any relationship in your life. You have to nurture it and take time with it.”

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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell – 37 Years

So maybe Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell aren’t married but they definitely know a thing or two about relationships. After all, they’re one of the most iconic in Hollywood, proving that just because you like it doesn’t mean you have to put a ring on it. Although they met in 1966, the pair didn’t go on their first date until 1983. The two believe that the secret to a “lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.”

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Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher – 18 Years

We know — Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher initially seem like an unexpected match…until you see them together and then you understand why they’re together. The pair met back in ’02 at a party in Sydney, Australia and immediately started dating. They got engaged by 2004 and were married just six weeks later in Paris after Fisher converted to Judaism. Their wedding was intimate and small as it was “very important to me to have a beautiful ritual celebrated with my family and friends.” Today, the couple splits their time between Los Angeles and London with their two daughters and son.

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Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne – 37 years

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne may be one of Hollywood’s most controversial couples – but through thick and thin, the couple has stayed together. Sharon met Ozzy when she was 18, while working for her father, who was managing Black Sabbath at the time. As they started dating, Sharon took over his management as a solo artist. The two were married in 1982 and have three children together, Aimee, Kelly, and Jack.

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Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos – 26 Years

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos met in 1994 at his screen test for All My Children. Kelly was playing Hayley Vaughan, and sure enough, Consuelos was auditioning for the role of Mateo Santos, Hayley’s love interest. Fast forward almost three decades later, and the actors are more in love than ever before. They have three children. Kelly’s key to making it through the rough patches is accepting the moments of frustration, looking at the bigger picture.

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Barbra Streisand & James Brolin – 22 Years

Barbra Streisand and James Brolin are known as one of Hollywood’s greatest power couples. They first met when they were set up at a party and hit it off immediately. They went on their first date in 1996 and married in 1998. She speaks fondly of their first date, “I met him at a dinner and expected a bearded mountain-man type, and he had cut off all his hair and was clean-shaven,” Streisand said in an interview.

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Keith Richards & Patti Hansen – 37 years 

Rocker Keith Richards met his wife, model Patti Hansen in 1979 – rumor has it that Hansen had no idea who Richards was at the time. The couple married four years later, on December 18th, 1983, Richards’s 40th birthday. Looking at photos of the duo, their contrasts are almost as apparent as their adoration for each other. The couple has two daughters, Theodora Dupree and Alexandra Nicole. Both daughters followed in their mother’s footsteps and are now making their way into the high-fashion world.

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Brooke Shields & Chris Henchy – 17 Years

Chris Henchy is a screenwriter and producer that married model-actress, Brooke Shields, in 2001. The two met through a mutual friend in ’99 on the Warner Bros. lot. It wasn’t long before the duo got engaged. In fact, Henchy proposed to Shields in July of 2000 when they were on vacation in Mexico. They were married less than a year later in April of 2001. According to the actress, communication is a huge part of what makes their marriage work, as well as some space. During an interview, she revealed that “a little space is good.”

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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard – 18 Years

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard have the kind of relationship that comes along every so often — so real, so trusting, so beautiful. Being that Sarsgaard is a close friend of Maggie’s younger brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, the two lovebirds met and began a romantic relationship in 2002. Although they tied the knot in May of 2009, Maggie gave birth to their eldest daughter, Ramona, in 2006. In 2012, Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard welcomed their second baby girl, Gloria Ray. The family happily lives in a beautiful 4-story brownstone in Brooklyn.

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Tim McGraw & Faith Hill – 22 Years

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill first met while they were both trying to make in the business back in ’94 at the New Faces Show in Nashville, Tennessee. At that point, Hill and McGraw were both in other relationships. As fate would have it, though, McGraw and Hill ultimately met again two years later when they both headlined a joint tour in ’96. Sparks flew, and it wasn’t long before McGraw proposed and Hill accepted. Twenty-three years and three kids later, the two lovebirds couldn’t be any happier.

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Ringo Starr & Barbara Bach – 37 Years

Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach have been together for almost four decades. Bach is widely recognized for her role as the Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me. Starr was the drummer for the best-selling band in history, The Beatles. The two lovebirds met on the set of Caveman back in 1980 and got married just a year later. So, what’s their secret to a long and happy marriage? According to an interview with People, Bach spoke of her husband saying, “I love the man, and that’s it.” That’s clearly proof that ‘love is all you need…’

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45 of the Worst Celebrity Parents in History

We Reveal Some of the Worst Celebrity Parents in History

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who are the worst celebrity parents of them all? Well, we’re checking out the worst celebrity parents in history — from modern-day pop stars through Swinging Sixties icons to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Along the way, we’ll discover a secret love child, who smuggled their son to Mexico, and who the real Wicked Witch of the West really was. So, fasten your seatbelts, as it’s about to get real bumpy!

Jeremy Bieber

Jeremy Bieber is the father of one of the best-selling music artists of the century, Canada’s very own pop tart, Justin Bieber. However, Jeremy was allegedly absent from his son’s childhood and only showed up once Justin became famous.

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He’s also been accused of exploiting his son’s fame and fortune for his own personal gains by starting a company called Bieber Industries. Rumors like these suggest Bieber’s family dynamics may have negatively impacted his struggles with mental health and dependencies on illicit substances.

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

In 1992, Vanity Fair magazine stated Nirvana lead singer and rock icon Kurt Cobain and his partner, Courtney Love used illicit substances while she was pregnant with their daughter Frances Bean. The subsequent media storm claimed Courtney and Kurt were unfit to raise a child, leading Child Services to briefly remove Frances from her parents’ home.

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Kurt, of course, took his own life two years later, and Courtney blames the Vanity Fair article. She also maintains that she never took anything while pregnant.

Kris Jenner

As the matriarch of one of America’s most famous families, Kris Jenner should be a role model. Instead, though, she’s a shameless self-promoter. Let’s begin with the time Kris told her daughter, nine-year-old Khloé Kardashian, she needed a nose job.

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Then, there was the time Kris told Khloé that she best stay on a diet as her weight gain was damaging her brand. Next, she encouraged Kim to pose for Playboy magazine. And if that wasn’t bad enough, she promoted Kim’s personal intimate tape, selling it to the highest bidder.

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger’s divorce was an absolute mess. Baldwin spent a million dollars in lawyer’s fees and trying to see his daughter Ireland. But then, in 2007, Alec lost his mind. After trying to reach his 11-year-old many times without success, the actor left her a disturbing, angry voicemail calling her a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”

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Then, TMZ released the voicemail for the world to hear. Baldwin said the backlash had him contemplating taking his own life. But that, he said, would have been a victory for Basinger.

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey has often been accused of exploiting her children for their own shameless self-promotion. In an attempt to show her perfect life and motherhood, the diva has shared countless photo ops featuring her twins, Monroe and Morrocan.

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But ever since the kids were tiny, reports say she’s had an army of ever-present nannies to change their diapers and look after them. Several of Mariah’s ex-boyfriends say she insists on having her own music blasting through speakers when they are up to bedroom activities!

Lana Turner

In the late 1950s, Hollywood siren Lana Turner was in a toxic relationship with mob enforcer Johnny Stompanato. The known gangster once stalked her to London — but Lana’s co-star, James Bond actor Sean Connery, disarmed him! After one brutal fight too many, though, Johnny lost his life.

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Turner’s daughter, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane, confessed, saying Johnny had attacked her mother. But over the years, many rumors have circulated. It seems likely that Lana was the one who took Stompanato’s life, and she talked her daughter into taking the fall.

Yolanda Hadid

Former model Yolanda Hadid is the mother of models Bella, Gigi, and Anwar Hadid. She rose to fame on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills but has faced a lot of criticism for her parenting methods.

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Some people have accused her of emphasizing her daughters’ looks too much and encouraging them to pursue modeling careers at a young age. Yolanda Hadid allegedly placed her daughters on restrictive diets and allowed Bella to get a nose job when she was just 14.

David Hasselhoff

Knight Rider and Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff had a terrible relationship with his children. In 2007, his teenage daughter, Taylor Ann, posted a video of her dad lying on the floor eating a hamburger as she pleaded with him to seek help after he fell off the wagon.

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Saying he’ll lose his job on America’s Got Talent, Hasselhoff tells Taylor Ann she doesn’t know anything about life. The video went viral, meaning the whole world saw Hasselhoff’s terrible parenting skills.

Mama June

Mama June might just be the worst mother of them all. Reality TV’s biggest supervillain rose to fame in TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo. Georgia’s finest exploited her own seven-year-old daughter, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, by entering her into dozens of beauty pageants. But, worse was to come…

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In 2014, Mama June got back together with Mark McDaniel. He had just gotten out of prison for conducting an inappropriate relationship with another of Mama June’s daughters, Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell. Mama and Mark’s rekindled relationship resulted in the cancellation of the series.

Tom Jones

For more than two decades, Tom Jones denied that Jonathan Berkery was his son. Jonathan was born after a four-day fling with ex-model Katherine Berkery. One lengthy legal battle and one DNA test later, the Welsh singer finally agreed to pay Katherine a lump sum and monthly child support but refused to admit that Jonathan was his child.

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His father’s abandonment caused Jonathan life-long problems with homelessness and dependence on illicit substances. To make ends meet, Jonathan performs at bars and clubs, as well as on the streets. In 2018, he apparently also stacked supermarket shelves in Hoboken for $7.40 an hour.

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were once pop icons. They had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina in 1993 but their rocky relationship, Brown’s mistreatment, and dependencies on illicit substances soon saw their young daughter become their primary caregiver.

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Despite such a tough upbringing, Bobbi Kristina became a singer and TV personality. Sadly, Whitney took her own life in 2011. Four years later, Bobbi Kristina followed in her mother’s footsteps, also attempting to take her life in a bath. Sadly, she passed away six months later.

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford was Hollywood’s golden girl. Unable to have kids of her own, her performance of a lifetime was playing a loving mother to Christina and Christopher, who she adopted in 1940. But behind the scenes, Joan was a cruel narcissist who often smacked her children with clothes hangers.

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The star would pose for Christmas photos with the kids before rewrapping or giving all but one of the gifts away to charity. After her mother passed away, Christina detailed her decades of mistreatment in a tell-all book entitled Mommie Dearest.

Jon Voight

In 1975, actress Marcheline Bertrand gave birth to Jon Voight’s daughter Angelina Jolie. One year later, Jon had an extra-marital affair, abandoned the family, and became estranged from his daughter. As such, Angelina’s relationship with her father has always been messy.

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Over the decades, she made many attempts to reconcile her relationship with Jon, but no matter how hard she tried, she would never win her father’s love. Voight threw Angelina under the bus on Access Hollywood, criticizing her marriages and accusing her of having “serious mental problems.”

Nina Simone

Legendary singer Nina Simone married New York police detective Andrew Stroud in 1961 and had a daughter. But as soon as Lisa Simone Kelly was born, Stroud began to show his true colors as a narcissist, leading Nina to develop serious mental health issues.

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By the early 1970s, the High Priestess of Soul was so desperate to escape her abusive husband that she left her daughter with relatives and moved to Liberia, Africa. But when Lisa visited Nina, her mother badly mistreated her, so she went back to her father.

Octomom

Remember Octomom? If not, let us refresh your memories. In 2009, Californian Natalie Suleman achieved celebrity status for giving birth to octuplets. But, her time in the spotlight was brief when the media discovered she already had six children, reportedly paid for by the taxpayer.

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To cash in on her new-found fame, Octomom appeared in a plethora of chat shows and even an adult film. In 2012, Suleman filed for bankruptcy, having blown her earnings on a lavish lifestyle while leaving her 14 children to fend for themselves.

Richard Williams

Richard Williams may not be a household name, but his daughters Venus and Serena are. The tennis coach wrote a “78-page manifesto” before his daughters were born and pushed his daughters to dominate women’s tennis, both becoming champions. But along the way, he made their childhoods a living nightmare.

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Venus and Serena began playing tennis aged four. He pushed them far too hard, and both girls missed out on real childhoods. In 2021, a biopic of his life, King Richard, was released — starring Will Smith as the overbearing parent.

Brigitte Bardot

French actress, model, and singer Brigitte Bardot was an icon of the ’50s and ’60s. But when the blonde bombshell became pregnant with her partner Jacques Charrier’s child, she had zero desire to become a mother.

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Once their son, Nicolas, was born, their marriage fell apart and the media attacked Bardot for being a bad mother. Bardot eventually filed for divorce and granted Jacques full custody of Nicolas, whom she referred to as a “tumor” in a no holds barred autobiography.

Gloria Grahame

You’ll probably know Gloria Grahame from her role as George Bailey’s (Jimmy Stewart) girlfriend in the amazing Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life. But, her real life was anything but wonderful. She was married four times, and her second husband was famous film director Nicholas Ray.

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However, in 1950, Nicholas accused Gloria of having an inappropriate relationship with his 13-year-old son, Anthony. Unlikely as this may sound, Gloria Grahame and Anthony Ray reconnected in 1958. They eloped to Tijuana, Mexico in May 1960 and had two children together.

Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen has five children with three different women, and he’d probably admit to having been a terrible father. He’s led a reckless party lifestyle for decades and has cheated on several partners with adult film stars. His children have even denounced him multiple times.

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In 2011, Sheen’s twin sons, Max and Bob, were removed from his care. Five years later, the Two and Half Men star sued their mom, Brooke Mueller, so he could pay less child support. At the same time, his former fiancée Brett Rossi sued him for stalking her.

Brooke Mueller

While Charlie’s a bad dad, his ex — Brooke Mueller — needs her own entry as a bad mom. The actress has had a whopping 21 stints in rehab. As such, a judge declared Brooke an “unfit mother” and took away twins Max and Bob.

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Since Charlie couldn’t look after them either, Sheen’s amazing ex-wife, Denise Richards, was awarded legal guardianship of the boys. In more recent years, Brooke Mueller was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold at UCLA Medical Center.

Judy Garland

Being the daughter of one of the greatest entertainers of the twentieth century was always difficult, especially considering Judy Garland’s dependencies on illicit substances. Despite Judy’s advice, “Watch me, learn from me, and learn from my mistakes,” her daughter Liza Minnelli struggled with many of the same addiction issues as her famous mom.

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When Liza followed in Judy’s footsteps along the Yellow Brick Road into showbiz, Judy became as green with envy as the Emerald City. Judy took her own life in 1969, aged 47.

Ethel Gumm

Generational trauma has a lot to answer for, and Judy Garland’s mom Ethel Gumm is no exception. Ethel gave birth to Judy in 1922, and within two years, she was parading her daughter around Vaudeville venues, nightclubs, and speakeasies — seeking the fame and fortune she herself missed out on.

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Edith would threaten violence if Judy performed poorly, placed her on diet pills when she was 10, gave her sleeping pills, and controlled her finances. Garland later described her mother as “the real Wicked Witch of the West.”

Joe and Katherine Jackson

Pushy parents Joe and Katherine Jackson helped their children, The Jackson Five, top the charts in the 1970s. But, they over-disciplined and mistreated the kids. As such, the Jackson boys never had a normal childhood and were instead forced to practice music routines for five hours every day after school.

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This affected them for the rest of their lives. Joe was a monster, and Michael bore the brunt of his physicality. Joe even gave MJ the nickname “Big Nose,” which might explain the King of Pop’s obsession with plastic surgery.

Michael Jackson

The Jackson child most affected by their “monstrous” father was Michael. He went on to have many hang-ups, and the 2019 Netflix documentary Leaving Neverland alleges his inappropriate relationships with minors. But, don’t forget MJ was also a father. And a pretty lousy one at that.

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When his son Blanket was just nine months old, he dangled the tiny tot over the balcony of his Berlin hotel four stories above the ground. According to the pop star, he was just excited to show off his newborn baby to all the fans standing outside the hotel.

Christopher Plummer

Best known for his role as the dedicated patriarch of the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music, Christopher Plummer was a terrible husband and father. He married Tammy Grimes in 1956, and a year later, they had their daughter Amanda.

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Or rather, Tammy did because Christopher left his wife in the delivery room while she was in labor and went out on the town. The highly-rated and well-regarded actor rarely saw his daughter after she was born, but he might have caught her playing Hunny Bunny in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

Loretta Young and Clark Gable

Loretta Young says Clark Gable forced himself on her on a train while they were filming the 1935 adventure Call of the Wild. The young actress fell pregnant, hid her pregnancy, and eventually gave birth to a girl she named Judy after St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.

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Loretta placed Judy in an orphanage but adopted her a year and a half later. While adopting her own biological daughter hid the truth, Judy grew up to look just like her father, letting the cat out of the bag.

Ryan O’Neal and Joanna Moore

Heartthrob Ryan O’Neal and actress Joanna Moore had a tumultuous relationship and two children. As such, Tatum and Griffin grew up surrounded by illegal substances and adult beverages. Then, a man who supplied Ryan and Joanna’s substances had an inappropriate relationship with the young Tatum.

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When she later tried to take her own life, her father reportedly criticized her technique. Ryan O’Neal was accused of knocking his 14-year-old son’s teeth out with a baseball bat. He was also arrested in 2007 for an assault on Griffin involving a weapon. Tatum and Ryan have since reunited in an attempt to reconcile their relationship.

Britney Spears

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline married and had two children in the mid-1990s. Sadly, Britney’s fame and fortune, combined with their chaotic marriage, sent her head into a much-publicized spin. During Britney’s dark days, she was often snapped by paparazzi as she failed to look after her children.

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One famous photo showed Spears driving with her infant son on her lap, while a video captured her stumbling when holding her baby. The newspapers were just as happy when a Toxic child custody battle ensued.

Kevin Federline

This fella deserves his own entry. In July 2004, Britney Spears became engaged to one of her dancers K-Fed, after she had known him for only three months — which is a love-bombing red flag in itself… but not enough to make Britney see the error of her ways.

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What should have made up her mind was the fact that Kevin abandoned actress Shar Jackson while she was still pregnant with their second child to go out with Britney. Numerous reports state that K-Fed ain’t nothing but a gold digger.

Jamie Spears

After Britney Spears’ mental health struggles, she was placed under a conservatorship. This meant her father, Jamie, was given control over her finances and personal decisions. The conservatorship was meant to be temporary but had actually been in place for over a decade, despite Britney and her fans advocating for its end.

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During a live-streamed 2021 court proceeding, Britney finally opened up about her mental health struggles, her loss of agency, and how her father often forced her to work. Following that hearing, the judge ruled to end the conservatorship and our fave pop star now has free reign to do and say whatever she wants.

Édith Piaf

French warbler Édith Piaf famously sang “Je Ne Regrette Rien”, but she must have regretted how her life turned out. She became pregnant when she was 16 and put her musical career on hold to work in a factory. At 17, Édith gave birth to a daughter.

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However, Édith often left her newborn baby Marcelle alone in a Parisian hotel room as she performed and socialized. When her partner Louis Dupont found out, he rescued his daughter. Sadly, Marcelle passed away from meningitis when she was just two years old.

Charles Jacobus Theron

In 1991, when gorgeous South African actress Charlize Theron was just 15, her armed and inebriated father, Charles Jacobus Theron, threatened his wife and daughter’s lives one too many times. But while one of Charlize’s parents was a monster, her other parent was a real-life hero. Her mom, Gerda Maritz, took her husband’s life in self-defense to protect Charlize.

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In 2018, Charlize explained, “I am lucky enough that I had a great mom who really kind of made me brave and always told me to be brave.”

Axl Rose

Guns N’ Roses leading man Axl Rose didn’t have the easiest upbringing. His father, William Bailey, was “a troubled and charismatic local delinquent.” He was emotionally abusive, and Axl often had to defend himself from violent outbursts. Axl’s parents divorced when he was young, so he was raised by his mother and stepfather.

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Wiliam Bailey remained an estranged father but crawled out from the woodwork when Axl became famous. However, their relationship remained strained because Bailey did things like sell unofficial Guns N’ Roses merchandise, leading Axl to file a lawsuit.

Hulk and Linda Hogan

Hulk Hogan was a wrestling superhero in the ’80s and ’90s. But, his home life was villainous. The 54-year-old’s wife, Linda, divorced Hulk after discovering he cheated on her with their daughter’s 33-year-old friend.

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Hulk’s infidelity ruined his marriage, his relationship with his daughter, and his daughter’s relationship with her friend. Not to be outdone, Linda dated long blond-haired Charlie Hill, who was almost 30 years her junior and had gone to Brooke’s high school. The boy toy ended up suing Linda for $1.5 million.

Jaid Barrymore

Drew Barrymore followed in the Barrymore acting dynasty’s footsteps by shooting to fame as a seven-year-old actress in E.T. The Extraterrestrial. However, her life soon became a whirlwind thanks to her mother, Jaid. By the time she was eight, Drew was already calling herself a “party girl,” going out clubbing with her mother at New York’s famous Studio 54 nightclub five times a week.

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Jaid institutionalized Drew at Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital for 18 months when she was 13, so a year later, Drew officially divorced her mother.

Kit Culkin

Drew Barrymore’s not the only celebrity to have emancipated themself from their parents. Macaulay Culkin’s childhood was marred by his father’s terrible behavior. Macauley grew up in cramped conditions with his mom, dad, and seven siblings. When he rocketed to fame in Home Alone, his father became jealous and treated him even worse.

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Macauley also accused Kit and Patricia Culkin of mismanaging his earnings and exploiting his movie career. After a lengthy and bitter legal battle over control of his finances, Macaulay ultimately divorced his mother and father.

Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby was a great singer, but he was a terrible father. Or was he? After Crosby passed away, his son Gary’s book Going My Own Way described his father as distant, cruel, and abusive. But, hold on to your horses because Bing’s other son Phillip chimed in to defend his father.

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Phillip called Gary “a liar, ugly, greedy, talentless, and money-grubbing.” Not finished there, he also said his brother was a “whining, crybaby, walking around with a two-by-four on his shoulder and just daring people to nudge it off.”

Dina Lohan

Lindsay Lohan’s mom is often referred to as the “Worst Mother in America.” Dina Lohan gained notoriety as her daughter Lindsay’s manager and is to blame for the child star turned party girl’s bad reputation.

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Dina introduced Lindsay to adult beverages and Hollywood’s excesses when she was still a teenager. Lindsay has also accused her mom of stealing her earnings. In 2012, Dina appeared on Dr. Phil to tell her side of the story, but it didn’t go well. She flipped off the cameras and demanded to go home.

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda’s relationship with his children Peter and Jane was complex. Despite his iconic Hollywood status, Henry was emotionally unavailable. Serving in World War II made him even more distant, leading to outbursts of anger whenever his children sought his love or comfort.

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All this led to their mother, Frances Seymour, taking her own life. Fonda lied to his children about the cause of her death and kept them away from the funeral. Young Jane Fonda eventually discovered the truth of her mother’s demise by reading a magazine.

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine’s relationship with her daughter, Stephanie Sachiko Parker, a.k.a. Sachi, was always strained. When Sachi was little, her mother began receiving kidnapping threats, so the tiny tot was sent to Japan to live with her father and his mistress.

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Shirley was often busy filming or touring, so only visited her daughter for Christmas and holidays. Sachi eventually released a tell-all book about her mother’s negligence and abandonment. Her mother described the book as a “dishonest, opportunistic effort” written by a child she had always loved.

Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi

Marlon Brando’s marriage to Anna Kashfi was a whirlwind, and when they filed for divorce, their son Christian was the subject of a bitter custody battle — which the actor eventually won. Anna discovered that Marlon was in France filming, so she kidnapped Christian from school and smuggled him over the Mexican border.

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All this trauma affected Christian badly. In 1990, he took the life of his half-sister Cheyenne and went to jail. Christian was eventually found living in a tent, starving, emaciated, and suffering from pneumonia. He passed away in 2008, aged 49.

Woody Allen

Woody Allen has made some great films over the years, but he has to be the worst celebrity parent in history. Creepy, cruel, manipulative, and blackmailing, the film director had inappropriate relations with several of his adopted children and even married his own stepdaughter, Soon-Yi Previn.

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30 years later, Dylan Farrow revisited the childhood trauma Allen inflicted on her in HBO’s brilliant but harrowing 2018 documentary, Allen v. Farrow. Woody maintains that young Dylan was coached by her mother, Mia Farrow, to say awful things about him.

Murry Wilson

The Beach Boys featured three brothers— Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson — plus a cousin and a friend. Their harmonized vocals, carefree lyrics, and radiant attitudes suggested everything was fine and dandy in sunny California. But behind the scenes, The Beach Boys’ father, Murry Wilson, was a monster.

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Murry Wilson’s methods to get his boys to perform were so obscene we cannot mention them here. Brian recalled, “My dad was violent. He was cruel… Whenever I got afraid, he would yell at me or slap me.”

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury was a star of stage and screen who delighted audiences during an eight-decade career. Most famous for playing writer detective Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury was undoubtedly a loving mother to children Anthony, Diedre, and David. But, there’s a but — a big but!

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Legend says that in 1968, Lansbury wrote a note for her 15–year-old daughter giving her permission to party with the Manson Family. In fairness, once she found out, Angela saved Diedre from maniacal cult leader Charles Manson and moved her family to Ireland.

Constance Meester

Actress and singer Leighton Meester is best known for playing Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl. She was born when her mother was in prison, so her grandmother raised her until her mother’s release. But in 2011, Leighton accused her mother of stealing her younger brother’s medical care funds to pay for cosmetic surgery.

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Constance sued Leighton, claiming she was entitled to her daughter’s earnings as she’d made sacrifices by moving Leighton to Los Angeles for her acting career. The legal dispute was eventually settled out of court.