For some marriage is a time-honored tradition, something that takes time like getting to know each other and spending time together. Usually, you will introduce your family to your new significant other. There is often a dating period in which couples get to know each other usually for a few years. And often there is an engagement period before walking down the aisle and saying ‘I do’ in front of all your family and friends. But for others, it's something that they are doing on a whim and within days of knowing each other. It's a spur of the moment wedding that shocks everyone around them.
And Hollywood marriages are even more different. They are quick and abundant. They can last for a few hours (we're looking at you, Britney Spears) to years. And some celebs are quick to walk down the aisle again and again. But it's still a surprise when you find out your favorite celebrities have gotten married multiple times since we are accustomed to seeing them with their current partners. They probably want us to forget those first marriages, the ones at the beginning of their careers.
Check out the list below of celebs who have been married multiple times, but you probably forgot!
16 Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood Marriages
Kim Kardashian’s been married to Kanye West for a few years now — it's four, to be exact. She’s all about him these days, but who could forget her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries? No one! But some may have forgotten that she was married before that.
At just 19, Kim married music producer Damon Thomas and they were together for about four years.
No one talks about that marriage anymore, after her dramatic split from Humphries.Kim discussed her super short and very public marriage to Kris on Watch What Happens Live! And the moment she knew it was over, according to ET Online: “When Kourtney and I did New York because I was in that awful cry face with that last marriage I had. That whole situation was just really hard for me.”
She continued, “At the time I just thought, ‘[Oh my God], I’m 30-years-old — I better get this together. I better get married. I think a lot of girls do go through that, where they freak out thinking they’re getting old and all their friends are having kids. So, it was more of that situation. But I knew on the honeymoon it wasn’t going to work out.”
That marriage was uncomfortable to watch on TV, and its demise was evident. Kim rushed that relationship.
15 Jennifer Lopez’s Young Married Love
Jennifer Lopez might be on her way to walk down the aisle for the fourth time with boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, but Jennifer’s been known to be a relationship kind of lady. When she married Marc Anthony it looked like it was the end of Jennifer’s single life. It was already her third marriage but the duo would go on to split. But Jennifer isn’t over love just yet.
Jennifer’s first marriage was to model/actor, Ojani Noa, in 1997. They didn’t last a year before splitting. Then she would go on to marry dancer Chris Judd from 2001 to 2002 and then of course singer Marc from 2004 to 2011 with who she shares twins, Max and Emme.“I do believe in marriage,” Jennifer said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “And I would love to grow old with somebody in a committed relationship. But I’m not forcing anything right now.”
But Jennifer is happy again with former baseball player beau, Alex Rodriguez, who understands her she tells Harper’s Bazaar: “It’s good, it’s healthy; we communicate well. We understand each other’s lives in a way that most other people couldn’t. We both entered the public eye in our early twenties and overachieved right from the start. And that affects every dynamic in your life, from your family to your work to your relationships. We have a similar makeup.”
14 Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible Marriage
Tom Cruise may have jumped on Oprah’s couch proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes at the time, but marriage would prove to be difficult for the actor. He gushed over his new lady when they first met, according to Radar. “I really just knew. It was an explosion. And she is just magic. And I really think that all men should celebrate their women. They should all jump on couches for them. When you find that woman, you should absolutely be unabashed about it. That’s how I feel about it.”
And there was no shortage of over the top quotes from Katie about Tom either, according to Radar, “From the moment I met him it just felt like I’d known him forever. I was blown away. He’s the most incredible man. He’s so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I’ve never laughed, and he’s a great friend. Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase. Tom is the most incredible man in the world. I was in love from the moment that I shook his hand for the first time.”
The couch-jumping was a viral moment before memes were even a thing.
But the duo eventually called it quits. But Katie’s not his only former wife. Tom Cruise was married to actress Nicole Kidman in the early1990’s before they split up in 2001 and before that, he was married to another actress Mimi Rogers. We all forgot about that one.
13 Drew Barrymore Just Not That Into Marriage
Drew Barrymore was the ultimate child star! She made it big when she starred in the classic movie, E.T. But her life would be bumpy from there on out, with a few failed marriages and some trouble with the law. But Drew cleaned up her act and was on the road to a what she thought would be a forever relationship with last husband, Will Kopelman. They were married in 2012 and soon welcomed two daughters, but the two called it quits by 2016. "It was just like my worst nightmare. I so wanted to raise kids in this ultratraditional way and do everything so the polar opposite of my experience," Drew told Ellen DeGeneres, according to Us Magazine.
“It really is about the tone you set, and you can talk until you're blue in the face, but kids watch what you do every single day of your life, all day long, and that behavior and that example and that love and community and honesty is just, I think, what's making everything feel safe for my kids. And that's really the intention I had as a parent — how do my kids have this incredible sense of, like, freedom inside their heart, because they know I've got them and their dad's got them and the [rest of their family]."Drew was also previously married to Jeremy Thomas in the 1990’s and actor/comedian Tom Green in the early 2000s.
12 Angelina Jolie Mr. & Mrs. Smith No More
Of course, we'll all remember when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt started dating. Their relationship began when they were cast opposite each other in the movie, Mr & Mrs. Smith, at the time Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston. “It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe. And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration,” Angelina said, according to People.
But it was on the set of Angelina’s 2015 movie, 'By The Sea', with Brad that she realized there was trouble in their marriage.
"We had met working together and we worked together well," she told W Magazine. "I wanted us to do some serious work together...I thought it would be a good way for us to communicate. In some ways it was, and in some ways, we learned some things." But she added, "There was a heaviness probably during that situation that carried on and it wasn't because of the film. It was something that we were dealing...things happen for different reasons, and things…why did I write that exact piece? Why did we feel that way when we made it? I'm not sure." And they split by 2016 after over a decade together.
Angelina was previously married to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. Angelina and Brad share 6 kids together.
11 Halle Berry Monster Marriages
Halle Berry’s been married three times and she also has three divorces under her belt, but she always has good intentions when walking into a relationship. “As women, we go into marriage thinking it’s going to last forever and that this is our prince on a shiny horse. That’s what fairy tales taught me as a kid... and I’m kind of anti-fairytales today. I’ve often felt guilty and responsible. I’ve suffered a lot of pain and anguish,” Halle once said about getting married, according to The Huffington Post. At least she had the best intentions while going into the marriage.
Halle hasn’t had the best luck with relationships. She married Baseball player David Justice in 1993 and then divorced in 1997. She then married singer Eric Benet in 2000. It was during this time that Halle snatched up her first Oscar. She was the first black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball in 2002. The couple divorced in 2005 and she later married French actor Olivier Martinez in 2013, before pulling the plug on the marriage in 2016. She has two children, a daughter by model Gabriel Aubrey and a son by ex-husband, Olivier Martinez. She may be single currently.
10 Janet Jackson: That's The Way Love Goes In Marriage
Janet Jackson’s latest relationship caused a little controversy. Janet married Wissam Al Mana in 2012, but in early 2017 at the age of 50, Janet welcomed her first child which made headlines. Sadly she ended her marriage to Wissam soon after welcoming their son, in April 2017 she called it quits with her longtime love. The couple couldn’t quite figure out a compromise of their lifestyle. "Janet and Wissam don't see eye to eye on many things," an insider told E! News: "One of the many divorcing factors was their religious beliefs. Wissam and Janet did not feel that they were on the same page when it came to this and the way they wanted their child to get raised. Janet is more of a free spirit than Wissam. Cultural difference and backgrounds played a major role."
Janet has always been very private when it comes to her relationships and marriages.
When she was just a teen she married singer James DeBarge in September 1984 before getting an annulled in 1985. In the early 1990s, she married dancer/songwriter/director Rene Elizondo Jr. but it wasn’t until the duo split in 1999 that people learned they were even married in the first place. Who says you can’t keep secrets in Hollywood.
9 Eva Longoria’s Time As A Desperate Housewife
It’s hard to remember that Eva Longoria is even married some days. She married her latest husband, José Antonio Bastón in 2016 and they are expecting their first child together. "So the wedding was just a beautiful party to celebrate with everyone, but marriage-wise we just are still floating from three years of being together . . . Our wedding didn't change our relationship," Eva said, according to PopSugar, after her wedding.
But Eva has said ‘I Do’ before. She was married to soap opera actor, Tyler Christopher, from 2002 to 2004 and she was also married to the basketball player, Tony Parker, from 2007 to 2011. But she has no regrets from the latter marriage. She said, according to NY Daily News: “I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced. So many people want me to hate him, want me to destroy him. But I don’t, I wish nothing but the best for him. I want him to be happy. He’s not a bad person. I do believe in forgiving and forgetting.”
She added, “A really good friend of mine said, ‘Hold onto the love and not the loss.’ There was a reason why we got married, there was a reason why we fell in love, there was a reason why we were together seven years. I just choose to hold onto that.” It a good way to look at a negative thing.
8 Pamela Anderson Wed Four Times
Pamela Anderson has been married four times, but she married the same guy twice. Pamela goes back and forth on marriage. Back in 2015, Pamela said she would never marry again after four failed marriages. "Marriage is hard. I'm not doing it anymore. I've done it enough," she said, according to ET Online. She started her journey with first husband, Tommy Lee in 1995 and it lasted until 1998, and they welcomed two sons during those tumultuous few years.
She then married Kid Rock, from 2006 to 2007, but she never talked to him again after the divorce.
"When he was with me, he didn't hunt. I don't think he was very Republican, but now he is. Oh well," she told The Hollywood Reporter. Then she married Rick Salomon twice. The first time in 2007 and they annulled the marriage in 2008. They tried marriage once again in 2014 and called it off again in 2015. But Pamela may surprise us all and get married again. "I do want to get married again in my lifetime. But I have been married a lot," she said, according to E! Online. Pamela has recently been romantically involved with soccer star Adil Rami. So we might just see Pam get married again.
7 Demi Moore’s Three Weddings
Demi Moore has been dazzling audiences since her gut-wrenching performance in Ghost, but her marriages haven’t been as successful as her romantic film. Demi’s last name actually comes from her first husband, musician, Freddy Moore from 1980 to 1985 Then she married Bruce Willis from 1987 to 2000. They share three daughters, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah. And then she married Ashton Kutcher from 2005 until 2013.
Ashton opened up on the end of his marriage to the actress amid infidelity rumors. “Right after I got divorced, I went to the mountains for a week by myself. I did no food, no drink — just water and tea. I took all my computers away, my phone, my everything. I was there by myself, so there was no talking. I just had a notepad, a pen and water and tea — for a week,” he said, according to Us Magazine.
He later wrote a letter to everyone he had hurt in the past. “I wrote down every single relationship that I had where I felt like there was some grudge or some anything, regret, anything. And I wrote letters to every single person, and on day seven, I typed them all out and then sent them.” He later started a relationship with his That 70s Show co-star, Mila Kunis and they have since welcomed two children.
6 Marilyn Monroe: The Seven Year Itch Of Marriage
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Baker) will forever be 36, after her untimely passing in the year 1962. But she still managed to get married three times by then.
Marilyn married James Doherty in 1942 when she was just 16. The marriage lasted until 1946. She said she was bored of marriage at the time, according to NY Daily News: "My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom," she said, according to the NY Daily News.
She later married baseball player, Joe DiMaggio, in 1954 and would divorce him the next year, after just nine months together due to ‘ conflict of careers.’ The duo would reunite again after her last marriage to Arthur Miller.
It's been reported that DiMaggio sent flowers to her grave weekly for two decades after Marilyn passed on.
In 1956 she married writer Arthur Miller but that relationship would not last and ended in 1961 amid infidelity rumors, he reportedly left Marilyn for a photographer he met on the set of "The Misfits" a movie they both worked on. Marilyn led a troubled life until the end with possible addiction issues, but she still remains a sultry symbol from the 1950’s to this day.
5 Marc Anthony: My Baby You, Not About Marriage
Marc Anthony hasn’t had much luck in the marriage department, but he still manages to marry the most beautiful women. Marc has been married three times, just like his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez. Marc’s first wife was actually with a former Miss. Universe. Marc married Dayanara Torres in 2000 and called it all off in 2004 to marry his second wife, Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer and Marc lasted about a decade. They divorced in 2014 and share twins, Max and Emme together. Marc gave marriage another try with a model, Shannon de Lima.
And it appears Marc was too busy for that marriage, one insider told People: “Marc is so busy with his career, touring and recording that he distances himself from his relationships without even knowing it. Even with his wife in tow, she can feel like he is on another planet.” The insider added, “Marc likes to have a woman at home but he also likes to live like a bachelor. This doesn’t work for very long.”
Marc’s fan will always remember his marriage to Jennifer most, especially since they continue to be friendly exes. “When we sing together, when they see us together, knowing our history, it brings a certain nostalgia. They know we care about each other and still love each other. We have two kids together and they love to see that things are good between us, ”Jennifer said, according to E!
4 Shannen Doherty Not Charmed By Marriage
Shannen Doherty hasn’t had the best of luck on the sets of her TV shows. The child actress would go on to land parts on Little House on the Prairie before hitting it big with cult classic Heathers. In 1990 she landed her biggest role to date as Brenda Walsh on 90210. It was here that her on-set troubles would begin along with her other troubles like her first marriage in 1993 to 18-year-old, Ashley Hamilton, the son of actor, George Hamilton and it did not go well. Before a year of marriage, the duo decided to split.
Shannen would wait almost a decade to get married again.
Shannon would go on to marry Rick Salomon on a whim after just knowing each other two days, Yes, he’s also showed up on this list before with Pamela Anderson. The marriage was annulled after nine months. "I've had some bad relationships and two failed marriages," she said, according to E!. "It's like, 'Why did I pick these men?' I guess it was about what I thought I could do to help them. But, in truth, I was only hurting myself." Shannen is currently married to the photographer, Kurt Iswarienko since 2011.
3 Melanie Griffith: The Wedding Artist
Melanie Griffith has walked the aisle a few times. She recently split with Antonio Banderas after almost twenty years of marriage. Melanie was married to the Desperado star from 1996 until 2015. According to E Online: "I think part of the reason my marriage to Antonio fell apart was because I was stuck; nobody else is to blame. It's just that I personally got stuck and I won't let that happen again, I want to enjoy life, I want to do whatever I want to do.”
But she keeps to herself mostly now: "I'm shy with men now, very reticent. I haven't met anyone in the almost two years Antonio and I have been divorced. No, I don't go on dates, nobody has asked me on a date. I go out with my girlfriends,” she said, according to E!
Melanie was just a teen when she married her first love, Don Johnson in 1976. They would get divorced just 6 months later in July 1976. She went on to marry Steven Bauer from 1981 until 1989. She later circled back to Don Johnson and married him in 1989 before splitting up again in 1996. The same year she married Antonio Banderas. Melanie is currently single.
2 Elizabeth Taylor Queen Of Marriage
Elizabeth Taylor out married everyone on this list. The late actress has married a total of 8 times to 7 different men. She also remarried one of her husbands. "I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too — for being married so many times," Elizabeth said once, according to The Telegraph.
Elizabeth has a long list of men she’s married, but the first was a Hilton — when she was just 18 years old.
Liz married socialite Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr in 1950 but of course, the marriage didn’t last. Shen then married actor Michael Wilding in 1952 until 1957.
She married film producer Mike Todd in 1957, but he passed the following year in 1958. She then married actor/singer, Eddie Fisher after an affair with him. Liz was friends with his then-wife, Debbie Reynolds. They were married from 1959 until 1964. She attempted to defend the relationship by saying, "Eddie is not in love with Debbie and never has been...You can’t break up a happy marriage. Debbie and Eddie’s has never been, " she said, according to Instyle.
She then married actor Richard Burton after an affair while married to Eddie Fisher. They were together from 1964 until 1974 when they divorced only to remarry in 1975 and divorce again in 1976. Elizabeth then married politician John Warner from 1976 until 1982 and for her final marriage, she chooses construction worker Larry Fortensky. They were married five years from 1991 until 1996 when she then decided to hang up her wedding dresses.
1 Christie Brinkley’s Covergirl Weddings
Christie Brinkley will always be an uptown girl and she’s got a few marriages to under her belt. Christie has been married four times. First to French artist, Jean-François Allaux from 1973 until 1981. She later married singer Billy Joel and they welcomed daughter Alexa Ray Joel during the marriage in 1985. They were married from 1985 until 1994.
"Well, I've had a lot of practice. You know what it was, we had Alexa [Ray Joel] together and we knew that was going to bind us together for life so we wanted to make our divorce work. Of course as you're going through it, you know, you can get a little bit raw, but you cannot find him saying a bad word about me or me saying a bad word about him, no matter what happens," Christie said about her friendship with ex-husband, Billy Joel, after their divorce, according to E!.
She then married, real estate developer Richard Taubman in 1994 and they split in 1995. She later married architect Peter Halsey Cook in 1996 but they split in 2008 amid rumors of infidelity. Christie was most recently linked to musician John Mellencamp, but they have since split. Christie might be single right now.
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