Who said love can’t last in the limelight? Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. and more celebrity couples prove relationships can work in Hollywood.
The I Know What You Did Last Summer costars, for example, have one of the most solid marriages in the industry. “There’s no keys. There’s no rules. There’s nothing like that. I don’t believe in false expectations,” Prinze Jr. exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2020. “I just believe in knowing who you are when you start a relationship. And if you don’t, then that relationship probably isn’t going to work.”
The She’s All That star elaborated on his and Gellar’s efforts to define themselves beyond their careers, which led to their thriving romance.
“For Sarah and I, we’re very private people. We try to make each other laugh, and we both kind of knew who we were,” he noted. “Hollywood’s a crazy business ‘cause there’s very few locals here. … And we can pick you out of a crowd. It’s like a lion seeing the weak gazelle. So, when you come out here, and you don’t know who you are, this business will define you and it will put its fingerprints all over you. It wants to do that. It needs to do that. And if you do know who you are, then you can kind of control your own destiny much more easily.”
Prinze Jr. added: “The same rule applies in a relationship. If you don’t know who you are when you get in that relationship, odds are the other person is going to have a big hand in defining what kind of person you’re going to be. Or, and worse, if you pretend to be someone else, that’s a lie you’ve got to live forever if you want that relationship to work out forever. So, knowing yourself is sort of the key to doing it.”
As for Lively and Reynolds, a source exclusively told Us in December 2020 that they are “more committed to their marriage” than ever.
“Blake and Ryan are two extremely proud and private people and keeping their relationship low-key and off radar is what’s worked so well for them over the years,” the insider said. “Away from the cameras, people may find it surprising to hear they’re just a regular couple who love to hang out and do the normal things together without making a song and dance about it all.”
Scroll through the gallery below to see some of Hollywood’s hottest celebrity couples who prove that love is not dead!
After his failed marriages to Randy Danson and Casey Coates and a headline-making relationship with Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson found The One in his Pontiac Moon costar Mary Steenburgen. The Cheers alum and the Melvin and Howard actress married in 1995. While they never had children together, Ted is the stepfather of Lilly and Charlie McDowell, and Steenburgen is the stepmother of Kate and Alexis Danson. “She’s a remarkable human being, so I’m just incredibly blessed,” the actor exclusively told Us in 2018 of his wife.
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Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz fell in love after being introduced by the Good Charlotte guitarist's sister-in-law, Nicole Richie, and subsequently tied the knot in 2015. (Richie married Joel Madden in 2010.) The pair have gushed over each other repeatedly since. Diaz told Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM show in 2016 that none of her famous exes compare to her husband, while Benji always posts touching tributes to the retired actress for her birthday. After struggling with fertility, the couple welcomed daughter Raddix via surrogate on December 30, 2019.
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Can you say #RelationshipGoals? Chrissy Teigen and John Legend had a seriously sweet love story leading up to their eventual nuptials in 2013. They met on the set of Legend’s “Stereo” music video in 2007, but the singer admitted that it wasn’t love at first sight for him. “I’m more cautious than that,” he told Los Angeles Confidential magazine in November 2014. “For me, I’m the kind of person who needs to grow into that feeling. It was probably a couple of years in when I could already see us being together forever.” They share daughter Luna and son Miles.
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When life gives you lemons! Beyoncé and Jay-Z have proved that their love is holding strong even if it’s not always #flawless. The lovebirds started dating in 2002 and tied the knot in 2008. They share daughter Blue Ivy and twins Rumi and Sir.
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George Clooney was the perennial playboy of Hollywood before he met Amal Clooney. But the couple fast-tracked their relationship; they started dating in late 2013, got engaged in 2014 and married later that year. They share twins Ella and Alexander.
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Life in the public eye isn’t easy, but Prince William and Duchess Kate do it with grace and class. The pair, who met as classmates at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, were friends before they were lovers; the duo decided to try their hand at a romance and became inseparable, save for a short breakup in 2007. Now the couple are rock-steady after tying the knot in 2011 and welcoming three little ones to their brood: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
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Still crazy about each other! Jessica Simpson and former NFL player Eric Johnson met in 2010 and wasted no time sharing their PDA with the world. The duo got engaged nine months later and exchanged vows in 2014. They have three children together, daughters Maxwell and Birdie and son Ace.
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From costars to co-captains of life. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were first introduced to the world as onscreen couple Jackie Burkhart and Michael Kelso on the hit series That ‘70s Show in the early 2000s. After the show ended in 2006, the pair stayed friends as they each dated different people. In 2012, they reconnected on a romantic level and quietly wed in 2015. The duo share daughter Wyatt and son Dimitri.
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A match made in teen movie heaven! Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. met on the set of 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, and they were friends first before a romance sparked between them. They got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. They share two children: daughter Charlotte and son Rocky.
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Besties with a twist. Blake Lively told Marie Claire in 2016 that she knew Ryan Reynolds was The One because she “knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. … I could like him as much as I loved him.” The pair got hitched in 2012 and are parents of three daughters: James, Inez and Betty.
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They’re standing the test of time! Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have one of Hollywood’s longest-lasting marriages (the former costars wed in 1997) — despite battling plenty of divorce rumors along the way. In 2015, Pinkett Smith told radio host Howard Stern that “at the end of the day, right, I’m not here to be anybody’s watcher. I’m not [Will’s] watcher. He’s a grown man.”
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Arguably Britain’s hottest married couple, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's love story is one for the books. According to the former Spice Girl, she knew it was love the first time she laid eyes on David at a bar in 1997. They married in Ireland two years later and are parents of sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz as well as daughter Harper.
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Say what you will of their self-promotional antics, but no one is a bigger fan of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West than Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. The headline-making pair wed in an over-the-top wedding in Italy in 2014 and have gone on to welcome four kids: daughters North and Chicago and sons Saint and Psalm.
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Hard to imagine that Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s first date was at a shooting range. According to the actor, he didn’t think it would lead to their relationship and eventual marriage either. “On our first date, I decided, ‘I’m gonna really hit the gas and bring her to a gun range,’” he told Conan O’Brien in 2012. “I think that I was so sure that I would never end up with her … that I was like, ‘You know what, I’m gonna blow it right away and then that way you don’t feel bad.’” The pair married in 2010 and share two daughters, Hazel and Violet.
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