Shutting down the patriarchy! A man doesn’t have to be the one who pops the question — and there are many female stars who have taken control and proposed to their significant others.
Dax Shepard originally proposed to Kristen Bell in 2009, but the pair chose to wait on getting married until marriage equality existed in the U.S. When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in June 2013, the Good Place alum asked the former Parenthood star to marry her via Twitter.
“.@daxshepard1 will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove,” she tweeted at the time, to which he responded, “@IMKristenBell F—k Yes!!!!!!!!!!!”
The longtime pair tied the knot in a Beverly Hills courthouse room later that year. The Chips costars welcomed daughters Lincoln in 2013 and Delta in 2014.
In the fourth episode of Britney Spears‘ 2005 series, Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, the pop star revealed that she popped the question to Kevin Federline when they were on a flight to New York City to film her “Outrageous” music video. The dancer said that he “didn’t expect it” even though he had an idea of where their relationship was heading.
“I was like, ‘No, no. It’s not supposed to be that way. I’m supposed to propose and do the whole, get on one knee and beg and plead,’” he recalled. “So, she was like, ‘Alright, you gotta ask me then.’”
Spears added, “He did, right then and there.”
The twosome tied the knot in 2004 and welcomed two sons: Sean Preston in 2005 and Jayden in 2006. They divorced in 2007.
After P.K. Subban proposed to Lindsey Vonn in August 2019, she decided to return the favorite months later. “I was like, ‘Well, I have an engagement ring, but you don’t. So, not everybody knows we’re engaged.’ And I think it should be like, really equal,” she recalled while cohosting Entertainment Tonight in December 2020. “We were going to give each other rings, so I just kind of made a thing about it.”
The former alpine ski racer added, “But I never knew it was going to be that big of a deal … I just wanted to do something that was for us, and special for us.”
The athletes ultimately pumped the brakes on their romance later that month, splitting after three years together.
Back in 2019, Haley Lu Richardson opened up about her unrehearsed proposal to Brett Dier in a mall food court while eating pizza. “I didn’t prepare at all. I had no idea when I woke up that morning that I was going to ask someone to marry me that day,” she told Cosmopolitan at the time. “I was totally in the moment and this gut feeling came up and coerced me to ask him to marry me and I did. And he said yes. I feel like the trick to that was just not thinking about it at all before it happened. I just kind of did it.”
Scroll down to see all the badass female stars who chose to ask their male partners to marry them.
The Bachelor in Paradise alums announced their engagement in May 2022, with the Bachelor season 22 winner revealing that she was the one who popped the question. "In the ultimate plot twist...HE SAID YES!" she shared via Instagram. For his part, Jacobs called Kufrin's proposal "the ultimate UNO reverse card / power move." Erica Jones Photography/@ericajonesphotography
The Succession star secretly married “one of her best mates” amid the coronavirus pandemic. She revealed in an October 2021 interview with Vogue Australia that she was the one who asked the big question. “We’ve been friends since 2014, lived together, traveled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic,” the Australian actress told the magazine of her new comedian husband who is also an Aussie. “We’ve just never been single at the same time.” She continued, “I proposed and we got married in February in my backyard." Her Succession costar — and fellow countryman — Ash Zukerman acted as a witness to the Brooklyn ceremony. Gregory Pace/Shutterstock
"She asked me, yeah! On New Year's Eve. We were in Nicaragua. It was very beautiful, incredibly romantic. We were walking down the beach, and she asked me to marry her," Jackson revealed during a July 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "There was, like, a preamble. There was a lead-up to it. ... I did not know [it was coming], but she was quite adamant, and she was right. This is the best choice I ever made." Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Though they split after two years of marriage, the “Toxic” singer was the one who initially asked the question while they were on a flight to New York City. Federline said no before asking her to marry him minutes later. The pair finalized their divorce in 2007. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
While the WWE wrestler proposed to Hudson on her birthday in 2009, the Cats star returned the favor five months later on his birthday. The twosome, who welcomed son David Jr. the same year they got engaged, called it quits in 2017. Gregory Pace/Shutterstock
The Veronica Mars alum proposed to the “Armchair Expert” podcaster in 2013 after he initially popped the question in 2009. Same-sex marriage was made legal across the U.S., and the twosome celebrated the milestone by tying the knot in a courthouse. Jim Smeal/Shutterstock
The Edge of Seventeen star asked the Jane the Virgin actor to marry her while they were eating pizza at the mall. They marked the sweet moment by giving each other rings they made out of twigs from a nearby bush. “We were like, ‘We’re gonna have to do something about it,’ because we didn’t have any rings,” the Five Feet Apart actress recalled to Cosmopolitan in 2019. “So, we went over to this bush and got these twigs and each knelt down one at a time and tied these twigs around our ring fingers. We have them saved in a little baggie.” Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
The former first daughter proposed to the businessman five years before he went on to pop the question in 2007. “He said no,” she said on Today with Hoda & Jenna in February 2020. “After three months of dating — I might’ve had a Christmas cocktail — and we were dancing, and I said, ‘This is it, I know it, let’s just get married, what are we waiting for?’ He smiled and was like, ‘I’m crazy about you, but you’re young.’” Gregory Pace/BEI/Shutterstock
The “So What” singer popped the question to her love in 2005 as he competed in the Pro 250 class finals in Mammoth, California. She held up a sign during the third lap that read, “Will you marry me? I’m serious!” They tied the knot the following year and went on to welcome two kids: daughter Willow in 2011 and son Jameson in 2016. Broadimage/Shutterstock
The Judge Judy star opened up about her proposal to her husband Jerry, who she wed in 1991 for the second time after they were married from 1977 to 1990. “I did propose to him. I said to him, ‘Where is this relationship going?’ And he tried to weasel out of it, with his, ‘Well, you know, why do we have to get married?’ Whatever,” she told DuJour in 2013. “He finally capitulated. I told him to pick a date. He picked Flag Day.” Greg Allen/Shutterstock
The fashion designer rejected several proposals from the Fox Broadcasting Company founder, but she eventually chose to pop the question herself. They have been married since 2001. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
The Minnesota native proposed to the ice hockey star in December 2019, just months after his original proposal. They called it quits in December 2020. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
The Real Housewives of Orange County alum asked Smiley to marry her during a 2013 episode of the Bravo hit. While they have yet to walk down the aisle, the couple welcomed a child together in 2019 and celebrated their 11th anniversary in 2020. Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
The Cleopatra actress had been married eight times before passing away in 2011 at 79 years old. Out of her many marriages, she only proposed once during her courtship to the Stage Fright actor. The pair, who share sons Michael Jr. and Christopher, wed in 1952 and divorced in 1957. Nat Dallinger/Kobal/Shutterstock
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