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These Celebrity Couples Prove That Love Isn’t Dead — Yet
Dear Hollywood: please be careful with our hearts!
By
Meghan McKenna
Date April 3, 2018
Hollywood couples tend to last no more than a couple years at best, but even so, every time one of our happily-ever-after prospects parts ways, we start believing in love a little bit less. This past year has been particularly rough for power couples: everyone from Jennifer and Justin, Zayn and Gigi, and Chris and Anna have publicly announced their split.
And then, in an announcement not even Page Six could have anticipated, Step Up sweethearts Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan shared that they have “lovingly chosen to separate” after nine years of marriage. The pair maintains that “there are no secrets nor salacious events at the root of our decision —just two best-friends realizing it’s time to take some space and help each other live the most joyous, fulfilled lives as possible.”
That’s a sweet statement and all, but isn’t it a little selfish for Hollywood to keep breaking our hearts like this? These celebs put their picture perfect relationships on display for public ogling, get us to emotionally invest in their partnership — only to later shatter our souls. We live for the A-listers who post PDA pics on social media, show affection on the red carpet and gush about each other on late night talk shows. We need mega-famous, ultra-beautiful but totally down-to-earth people who are absolutely smitten with each other to show us what real romance is.
Or maybe we don’t. In a recent interview with Health magazine, Dewan Tatum was eager to retire the “perfect couple” label. “I despise the word ‘perfect,'” she said. “We’ve always had the same values. But we’re not perfect! Are you kidding? We fight like other couples, we disagree about things, we have days where we don’t really like each other.”
Dewan Tatum is right: love is hard, even when you’re rich and really good-looking. But amidst the Hollywood madness, some celebrity power couples are still managing to make things work. Which ones will last? Looking at timelines and meet-cute quotes, we predict these ten dynamic duos are in it till the end.
Celebrity Power Couples
Emily Blunt & John Krasinski
Together Since: 2008
Cutest Quote: “I’m living a lottery ticket life. My wife is my hero in every single way. Truly, every single day I’m blown away by her, so I’m always looking to her for inspiration,” Krasinski told the U.S. Today show.
Celebrity Power Couples
David & Victoria Beckham
Together Since: 1997
Cutest Quote: “Completely love at first sight. He told me he went home and wrote my [telephone] number on so many other things in case he lost it,” Victoria Beckham told Elle Magazine.
Celebrity Power Couples
Jay-Z & Beyonce
Together Since: 2002
Cutest Quote: “Sometimes love can come and pass you by / While you’re busy making plans / Suddenly hits you, and then you realize / It’s out of your hands / Baby, you’ve got to understand / You are my heaven on earth / You are my last, my first.” – Beyonce, “Ave Maria”
Celebrity Power Couples
Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds
Together Since: 2011
Cutest Quote: “There’s no major decision that I make without him. The best part is when we turn off our phones and just talk and hang out. He’s my best, best friend. What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing”, Blake told Marie Claire.
Celebrity Power Couples
Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi
Together Since: 2004
Cutest Quote: “We don’t really need to make it work. We just found the right person. It’s corny, but she’s my soul mate. She’s my everything to me and I don’t know what I’d do without her,” Wllwn told E! News.
Celebrity Power Couples
Will & Jada Pinkett Smith
Together Since: 1995
Cutest Quote: “I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn’t see in myself at the time and he saw a diamond in a rough and he kind of picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m going to make you shine, girl!'” Jada told CNN.
Celebrity Power Couples
Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn
Together Since: 1983
Cutest Quote: “He is a fascinating, brilliant, complex, mad man,” Hawn said on NBC’s Megyn Kelly TODAY. “Sexy, sexual, which I think is very important, by the way. Often times, the grass can look really greener on the other side, but it never did to me.”
Celebrity Power Couples
Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell
Together Since: 2007
Cutest Quote: “During the first year of our relationship, after I already knew him to be my Prince Charming,Dax would casually go into the details of say, a story about what had happened on spring break in high school or college, and I was aghast that who that person was, who made those decisions, was the person I was looking at now,” Bell said in an interview with Vulture.
Celebrity Power Couples
Chrissy Teigen & John Legend
Together Since: 2006
Cutest Quote: Chrissy told Wendy Williams about their first meeting, “I pretended not to care. We did the music video [for “Stereo” in 2006], we were together for 12 hours… This was eight years ago. We spend this entire day together—me in my underwear, him in a full suit. I went to go say goodbye to him, to his hotel, and I didn’t ever say goodbye that night…”
Celebrity Power Couples
Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis
Together Since: 2012
Cutest Quote: “I did a movie called Friends With Benefits and he did a movie called No Strings Attached, and if we would’ve just paid attention to how those movies turned out, we would’ve known we can’t go into a relationship this way, and yet we did exactly as both those movies foretold,” Kunis said on The Late Late Show With James Corden.
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And then, in an announcement not even Page Six could have anticipated, Step Up sweethearts Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan shared that they have “lovingly chosen to separate” after nine years of marriage. The pair maintains that "there are no secrets nor salacious events at the root of our decision —just two best-friends realizing it’s time to take some space and help each other live the most joyous, fulfilled lives as possible."
That's a sweet statement and all, but isn't it a little selfish for Hollywood to keep breaking our hearts like this? These celebs put their picture perfect relationships on display for public ogling, get us to emotionally invest in their partnership — only to later shatter our souls. We live for the A-listers who post PDA pics on social media, show affection on the red carpet and gush about each other on late night talk shows. We need mega-famous, ultra-beautiful but totally down-to-earth people who are absolutely smitten with each other to show us what real romance is.
Or maybe we don’t. In a recent interview with Health magazine, Dewan Tatum was eager to retire the "perfect couple" label. "I despise the word 'perfect,'" she said. "We've always had the same values. But we're not perfect! Are you kidding? We fight like other couples, we disagree about things, we have days where we don't really like each other."
Dewan Tatum is right: love is hard, even when you're rich and really good-looking. But amidst the Hollywood madness, some celebrity power couples are still managing to make things work. Which ones will last? Looking at timelines and meet-cute quotes, we predict these ten dynamic duos are in it till the end.
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