Celebs That Married Young

As the old adage goes, first comes love and then comes marriage, but for some of these famous celebrities, love and marriage came really early on in their lives. Afterward, for many of these celebs, divorce papers followed the short-lived nuptials, but fortunately for some, a select few on this list surpassed all the statistics and are still making their marriages work today. Find out which of your favorites celebrities married super young. Some celeb couples married as young as 14-years-old!

One of our favorite celebs did not have the best luck in her marriages early on. Most fans can remember a Chaotic time in Britney’s life when she was married to Kevin Federline, but few can recall the man she married first. Before Britney and K-Fed, it was really Britney and her childhood friend Jason Alexander. The two got married when Britney was 22-years-old. The short-lived marriage was annulled 55 hours later. Interestingly, Brit’s marriage to her childhood friend was also the same year that she married Kevin Federline.

Britney Spears’ younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears followed in her big sister’s footsteps when she decided to get married young. Before she got married, she first got pregnant at sixteen years old with her eighteen-year-old boyfriend, Casey Aldridge. They were engaged on and off until they officially broke off their relationship in 2010. Spears then moved to Nashville to start her country singing career. She found love again in 2011 with Jamie Watson and the couple married in 2014 when Spears was 23 years old.

Way before Demi Moore took the plunge with Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher, the actress went to the chapel with another man, Freddie Moore. The young couple got together while Freddie was still married to another woman. Once Freddie got divorced, he and Demi tied the knot in 1980 when Demi was just seventeen years old and Freddie was twenty-nine years old. While they were married, Demi started using Freddie’s last name as her stage name and it obviously caught on. Sadly, the marriage only lasted five years.

One of our favorite reality TV stars, Kim Kardashian, also got married at a fairly young age. Most people do not know that long before Kim married Kanye West and even longer before she married and divorced Kris Humphries, she first tied the knot with the music producer, Damon Thomas. Kardashian was 19 years old and madly in love when she eloped with Thomas. The young couple divorced in 2004 after four years of marriage. The break up was messy and Kardashian later said that Thomas was physically and emotionally abusive.

Jolie met her first husband while on the set of Hackers. He was a British actor named Jonny Lee Miller, and he stole her heart. She was twenty-one years old when they eventually wed after filming. The most shocking aspect of the wedding was what Jolie decided to wear on the very special occasion. The actress walked down the aisle sporting black rubber pants and a white T-shirt with the groom’s name written in her blood. The “romantic” gesture did not help the marriage last, and the couple divorced after four years together.

One of our favorite Disney stars also got married at a young age. The former Lizzie McGuire star was only twenty-two-years-old when she married hockey player Mike Comrie in 2010. The young lovers had their first child, Luca Cruz Comrie, two years after their wedding. Unfortunately, in 2014 the couple officially separated but continued to plan to co-parent their son together. In 2015, Duff was granted primary custody of their son, Luca. Both parties have moved on and Duff is happily working on her hit show, Younger. 

Olivia Wilde has been very open in recent years that her eight-year marriage to Italian prince Tao Ruspoli really helped her grow. The actress was only nineteen-years-old when she married the Italian filmmaker in an abandoned school bus. She revealed in an interview with Us Weekly that the relationship “stunted my growth. It was really no fault of my husband. It was me realizing that I had sort of arrested development. I knew the only way I was going to grow up was to learn to take care of myself.”

When Solange Knowles was just 17 years old she married her childhood sweetheart, 19-year-old Daniel Smith.  The young couple had their first son, Daniel Julez J. Smith, Jr. nine months after their wedding in 2004. Knowles has said that her son is “the greatest unplanned blessing.” Unfortunately, in 2007 the singer confirmed with Essence magazine that she and Smith divorced but plan to co-parent their child together. In 2014, Solange married again after she fell in love with Alan Ferguson, a music video director.

Milla Jovovich and Shawn Andrews had one of shortest-lived marriages on this list. It is easy to forget that these two Dazed and Confused stars got married quickly and got their marriage annulled even faster. Milla was only 16 years old when these star-crossed lovers decided to get hitched. The actress’s mother got the marriage annulled two months later. Jovovich married two more times after the brief escapade. Milla first married Luc Besson in 1997 and got divorced two years later. Now, she is happily married to Paul W.S. Anderson.

There was no way we could forget to include one of our favorite couples, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. Their love story played out on national television and stole all of our hearts. Everyone loved to watch Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey on MTV’s show Newlyweds. Simpson was only 22-year-old when they got hitched. Sadly, once the camera stopped rolling, the relationship ended. Fortunately, both have moved on since the breakup. Lachey is happily married to Vanessa Lachey and Simpson is loving life with her new husband, Eric Johnson.

Both Simpson sisters thought that marrying young was the way to go. The younger Simpson married the singer from Fall Out Boy when she was just twenty-three years old in 2008 with her father officiating. Two weeks after the ceremony, Simpson confirmed her pregnancy and gave birth six months later to they son, Bronx. Sadly, the marriage was unsuccessful and only lasted a little over 2 years. In court papers, Ashlee Simpson cited the split as “irreconcilable differences.” Simpson is now remarried to Evan Ross and has a second child with him.

Who would think that America’s Playboy was rushing to the altar at a young age? In 1949, the king of Playboy magazine got married for the first time at 23 years old to Mildred Williams, a Northwestern University student. After the wedding, the couple had a daughter and a son together before getting divorced in 1959. The famous playboy tied the knot two more times after Mildred and had a number of partners in between. He is currently married to Crystal Hefner (previously Harris), his third wife. Crystal was 26 and Hugh was 86 when they wed.

At 15 years old, there was much speculation that Aaliyah and R. Kelly got married illegally. The singer was too young to get married without her parent’s permission, so she lied about her age on the marriage license. Before Aaliyah’s death in 2001, both Aaliyah and R. Kelly did not comment much about their relationship. In later years, there were more allegations against R. Kelly regarding his relationship with underage girls and many people cite his relationship with Aaliyah as evidence of his inappropriate involvement.

As a hugely successful child actor, Macaulay Culkin had to grow up very quickly in the limelight, so it makes sense that he would marry very young too.  After Culkin retired from acting at 14 years old, he met and married Rachel Miner a couple years later. Culkin and Miner were seventeen years old when they tied the knot in 1998. The couple separated in 2000 and then divorced in 2002. Even though both Culkin and Miner never remarried, Culkin has been in a relationship with actress Jordan Lane Price since 2013.

Fame hit LeAnn Rimes fast and hard when she was very young. Then, the country singer fell madly in love with her backup dancer, Dean Sheremet. After they danced together for the first time, Rimes told InStyle Magazine, “This is the guy I want to marry.” LeAnn Rimes and Dean Sheremet got married the next year in 2002 when she was only 17 years old. The love lasted seven years until they decided to divorce after she fell in love with actor Eddie Cibrian. Rimes and Cibrian married in 2011 in a private ceremony.

Unfortunately, being a child star means that all of your relationship highs and lows are played out publicly. This was definitely the case for Drew Barrymore. She really wanted to get married at a young age, and after an unsuccessful engagement at the age of sixteen, she finally found and married Jeremy Thomas. He was a bar owner and she was 19 years old and blindly in love. Regrettably, the couple filed for divorce two months after the wedding ceremony.

When Christina Aguilera married music marketing executive Jordan Bratman in 2005, she was only 25 years old. The couple had been dating for two years prior to their engagement. They tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony at an estate in Napa County, California. A couple years later they had a son named Max. After some unhappy times, the couple decided to divorce. Aguilera told People magazine, “When you’re unhappy in a marriage, your children are the ones who suffer. That’s the last thing I wanted for my son.”

Famous actress and model Bo Derek had a surprisingly successful marriage to photographer John Derek despite the fact that she was 16 years old when they got married. The couple moved to Germany after they married and only returned to the United States after Bo turned eighteen years old. Sadly in 1998, John Derek suffered from heart failure and passed away leaving Bo a widow at forty-two-years-old. She now lives with her partner, John Corbett.

Uma Thurman has a habit of falling for the men she’s working with. Back in 1990 when Uma  Thurman was only 20 years old, she fell in love with Gary Oldman on the set of State of Grace. They decided to get married in 1990 but got divorced two short years later.  A couple years later she married Ethan Hawke after they met on the set of Gattaca but later on, she revealed that they only got married because she was pregnant. 

Remember the infamous couple from The Hills? They used to go by the name Speidi, and everyone loved to talk about their dysfunctional relationship that ended Heidi’s friendship with Lauren Conrad. Even though many fans doubted the legitimacy of their relationship, the fame mongers got married anyways. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt said “I do” in 2009 when Heidi was 23 years old. Montag filed for divorce shortly after but she later revealed that it was an action intended to help her career.

The eldest Jonas Brother, Kevin married his current wife at the young age of 22 years old. The cutest part was that Joe and Nick Jonas were Kevin’s best men. The sweet couple met while their families were vacationing in the Bahamas in 2007.  Pretty soon after the wedding, the couple starred in their own reality TV show called Married to Jonas. The show lasted for two seasons until the couple decided to keep their lives more private. The Jonas’ have two daughterstogether named Alena and Valentina.

Reese Witherspoon married her Cruel Intentions co-star Ryan Phillipe at the tender age of 23. They first when she was 21 at her birthday party in 1997. The couple had two children together named Ava and Deacon. Sadly, in 2006, the couple decided to separate but agreed on joint physical custody of their children. The couple says they continue to co-parent despite the fact that they are no longer together. Witherspoon is now remarried to Jim Toth, a talent agent.

The lesser-known Hilton sister decided to get married at the young age of 21 in a wild Vegas wedding. The socialite/model wed Todd Meister at 2:30 am at the Vegas Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Even though Meister was her childhood friend and business partner, the marriage was not out of love and commitment. After the ceremony, the marriage was quickly annulled three months later. Both Hilton and Meister admitted that they were married “on a whim.”

Fame hit Avril Lavigne when she was at the young and tender age of 15 years old, so it makes sense that she would grow up fast and get married early. At 19, she married Deryck Whibley, her lead guitarist that she had been dating for two years. Unfortunately, the marriage didn’t last and the couple got divorced in 2010. Afterward, the “Sk8r Boi” singer released a statement that said, “I am grateful for our time together, and I am grateful and blessed for our remaining friendship.”

The former Spy Kids actress walked down the aisle twice before the age of twenty-five. Her first marriage was to Sean Covel in 2010 when she was 22 years old. Two years later she made an announcement on Twitter that the couple was divorcing although it is unknown why. Then in 2014, Vega married her second husband, Big Time Rush singer Carlos Pena, Jr. We are happy to report that the couple in still happily married with one son named Ocean King PenaVega.

Way before her most recent marriage to Wissam Al Mana and her marriage to Rene Elizondo, Jr. in 1991, Jackson was first married to James DeBarge. At just 18 years old, Janet married the infamous R&B Soul singer DeBarges in 1984. The wedding was very private and the marriage did not last long and was annulled shortly after. Interestingly, just after Jackson announced her most recent pregnancy this past year, he ex-husband DeBarges announced on ET that he has a secret daughter with the pop star. Jackson has denied commenting on this claim.

Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean beat all the odds when they married at just 22 years old. They are still married today and celebrating 50 years of marriage together! They choose to keep their relationship very private. Dean rarely accompanies Parton to any public events and does not attend most of her shows. Still, Dolly has assured the public that they are very happy together and that Dean is quite the romantic. Sometimes he likes to write poems for her. How adorable is that?

Even though Victoria and David Beckham were pretty young when they tied the knot, they have still proved that when it’s right, it can work. Naturally, the wedding attracted a ton of media attention but most news sources were kept away to keep the ceremony private. The famous Spice Girl was only 25 years old when they got married, but the couple could not be happier. Posh and Becks have been married for 18 years and have four beautiful children together.

Kate Hudson has only been married once in her life, but she was pretty young when she decided to tie the knot. The Almost Famous actress was twenty-one years old when she married Chris Robinson, the frontman of The Black Crowes. The couple wed in Aspen, Colorado in 2000. A couple years later, the couple had a healthy baby boy named Ryder Russell Robinson. Unfortunately, the relationship did not last much longer and the couple decided to separate and then divorce in 2006.

Who can forget the adorable brother boy band, Hanson? Everyone and their mother was completely smitten with boy band member, Taylor Hanson. Sadly, he was taken off the market very quickly. Once he fell in love with Natalie Bryant, he decided to get hitched even though he was only 19 years old. Something must be working well because Taylor and Natalie are still married to this day and have five adorable children together. Evidence of the cutest family can be found below.

We found another beautiful couple that won the golden ticket of lasting marriages. Chemistry sparked for Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prinze, Jr. while they were both filming I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997. Interestingly, the couple did not start dating for until 2000. By 2001 they were engaged and by 2002, the couple was married. Despite the fact that they were both in their early twenties and both very famous, the relationship has lasted. Today, they appear to be happy and have two adorable children together.

Country music singer Loretta Lynn was basically still a child when she married her husband, Oliver Vanetta Lynn. The couple tied the knot when she was only 15 years old and he was 21! They were married after knowing each other for only one month before. They ended up having six children together. Unfortunately, over the 50 years they were married, they had a very rocky relationship. Oliver frequently cheated on Loretta. Loretta even admitted her marriage was “one of the hardest love stories.”

Just like her big sister Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle also got married very young. She was only 20 years old when she married Bill Gatzimos. He was her high-school sweetheart and they were madly in love. They are still together and have two children and a grandson together. Although Bill often likes to stay out of the public eye, she had said that he is her greatest supporter. In an interview with Grand magazine, she said that they were both very “hands-on parents.”

Susan Sarandon was only 21-years-old when she married her first husband Chris Sarandon. They met while they were both in college at The Catholic University of America. Sadly, they got divorced in 1979, but Susan still keeps his last name as her stage name. After they were together, Susan was involved with director Louis Malle and musician David Bowie! Finally, she settled down again in 1988 with Tim Robbins, who she met while filming Bull Durham.

Professor Albus Dumbledore…we mean Sir Michael Gambon also got married very young. The actor was only 22 years old when he married Anna Miller. Interestingly, Gambon was not working as an actor when they first got married. Back in the day, Gambon was a qualified engineer, but a couple years he decided to try his hand at acting. The couple was married until 1999 and then a year later he got together with Phillipa Hart who he is still with to this day.

Emmy Award winner Betty White has had a lot of experience in the marriage department. She has been married three times throughout her long and successful acting career. Her first marriage was to Dick Barker in 1945 when she was just 23 years old. He was a handsome U.S. Army Air Corps pilot, but the marriage was very short lived. They got divorced in the same year that they said their vows! She married again in 1947 to Lane Allen and divorced him two years later. In 1963, the actress remarried Allen Ludden until he died in 1981.

The glamorous and talented actress Kate Winslet also tied the knot in her early twenties. She was just 23 years old when she married Jim Threapleton in 1998. The couple did not last long and divorced after a couple years of marriage in 2001. Winslet then tried her hand at marriage again in 2003 to Sam Mendes. This time lasted a little longer and the couple stayed together for eight years. Hopefully the third times a charm for Winslet. In 2012, she married Ned Rocknroll and so far, things are looking up.

Kevin Hart was only 22 years old when he married his first wife Torrei Hart.  Since the split in 2011, Kevin has been open about the reasons for his breakup with his first wife. While on Chelsea Handler, Hart admitted, “I’m not ashamed to say it, guys. I got married at the age of 22. I was still all over the place. I didn’t really understand the definition of marriage. I wasn’t ready for it, so I take responsibility. I can say I messed my first marriage up. I’m man enough to say that.”

Way before his days with Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise married Mimi Rogers. He was only 25 years old when they said their vows. Both were in show business and fell in love. Unfortunately, the love did not last and the couple divorced after just three years together. Still, Cruise did get a lot out of his first marriage. We can all thank Mimi for being the person that introduced Scientology to Cruise. Like Cruise, Mimi has also moved on a remarried.

Famous model Anna Nicole Smith was married at the young age of 18. Her first marriage was to Bill Wayne Smith in 1985. The couple lasted a few years and got divorced in 1993. Smith met her second husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, while she was still married. Smith was 26 years old when she married Marshall, who was 89 years old at the time. That relationship was highly publicized because of the couple’s age difference. Their relationship ended after Marshall died a year later.

Just like his daughter, Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight married young. At 24 years old, the actor married actress Lauri Peters in 1962. The couple met while they were both in the Broadway production of The Sound of Music. Sadly, they divorced after five years together. He found love a second time in 1971 and married another actress named Marcheline Bertrand. They had two children together, James Haven and Angelina Jolie, before divorcing in 1980. Voight never married again afterward.

Before his tumultuous relationship with Amber Heard, Johnny Depp was married at the young age of 20 years old. In 1983, he married makeup artist Lori Anne Allison. The couple only stayed married for two years. Depp has had many highly publicized relationships. Before he remarried again to model Amber Heard, Depp was engaged to three other women. First, he was engaged to Jennifer Grey and then Sherilyn Fenn. Then in 1990, he proposed to his Edward Scissorhands co-star, Winona Ryder.

Michelle Pfeiffer met her first husband, Peter Horton, in an acting class. They began dating and quickly got married when Pfeiffer was 23 years old. Their marriage only lasted seven years. Both agreed that the marriage did not work because both were so devoted to their careers rather than their marriage. Fortunately, the actress found love again after she was set up on a blind date with television writer and producer David E. Kelley. The couple married in 1993 and are still together today!

Woody Allen has had quite a scandalous love life. It all started out when he married at the young age 21 when he tied the knot with Harlene Susan Rosen. The couple divorced after four years together. Allen then married and divorced Louise Lasser in a three-year marriage. Then in 1997, he married Soon-Yo Previn.  The relationship was highly publicized because she was the adopted daughter of his previous partner, Mia Farrow. Also, he was 62 and she was 27 when they tied the knot.

Whoopi Goldberg was only 18 years old when she married Alvin Martin. Goldberg and Martin had one daughter together, Alexandrea Martin. The couple stayed together for six short years until they divorced. Goldberg was married and divorced two more times afterward. The actress does not plan on marrying again. Goldberg shared, “Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people.” Marriage is not for everyone.

Diane Lane had a very difficult childhood and a tumultuous relationship with her parents. The actress did many adult things from a young age so it makes sense that she would marry young too. First, she was emancipated from her father at the young age 15. By 23 years old, she was married to Christopher Lambert. The couple stayed together until 1994. Ten years later, Lane married again after she fell in love with Josh Brolin. Unfortunately, they divorced in 2013.

When Megan Fox was just 18 years old, she met her future husband, Brian Austin Green while they were both on the set of Hope & Faith. Despite their 13-year age difference, they decided to get marriedin a private ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui, Hawaii in 2010. The marriage only lasted five years until the couple decided to divorce in 2015. Then in a major plot twist, the couple got back together in 2016 and Fox got pregnant with their third child.

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds got married when Johansson was 24 years old. Their short-lived marriage only lasted a mere 14 months. At least the ex-couple decided to end the relationship in the most kind-hearted way. They even released a statement that said, “We entered into our relationship with love, and it’s with love and kindness we leave it.” We can all rejoice that there is no bad blood between these two good looking stars. And as we all know. Reynolds has moved on happily with Blake Lively who he now has two children with.

The Sopranos actress wed A.J. Discala at the young age of twenty-two after she fell madly in love. Discala was Sigler’s manager when she was 19 years old, but the couple did not get together romantically for another few years. Their marriage only lasted two years. Since her divorce with DiSala, the actress has remarried and moved on. In 2016, she married baseball player Cutter Dykstra in Palm Springs, California. The happy couple has one beautiful son together named Beau Kyle Dykstra.

Unfortunately for Katy Perry and Russell Brand, their very public marriage and breakup played out all over the media outlets. The pop star and actor quickly fell in love and everyone watched the marriage unravel. They met on Get Him to the Greek, and started dating after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. After 14 months of marriage, Russell sent her a text message asking for a divorce. Later on Russell shared the reasons for the breakup on Howard Stern, “this isn’t really working out … I was really, really in love with her, but it was difficult to see each other … it mostly didn’t work for practical reasons.”According , they have not spoken to each other since.

Remember Taran Noah Smith, the youngest son on the popular sitcom Home Improvement. Well, interestingly, at the young age of 17, Taran married Heidi Van Pelt who was 33 years old at the time! Van Pelt had an interesting career after she formed a California-based non-dairy cheese manufacturing business. Naturally, the marriage caused a lot of controversy because of the couple’s huge age difference. The marriage lasted from 2001 until 2007 when they filed for divorce.

Courtney Stodden received tons of attention from the media after she married 50-year-old actor Doug Hutchinson. The reason for the media frenzy was due to the fact that the young actress and model was only 16 years old at the time that the couple tied the knot! The couple was featured in a slew of reality TV shows like Couples Therapy and Celebrity Big Brother. In 2016, Stodden announced that she was expecting a baby with Hutchinson, but sadly she miscarried shortly after. In January 2017, the couple announced that they would be separating.

Back in the day when Marilyn Monroe was known as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was a ward of the state. To avoid going back to an orphanage, she was married off to police officer James Dougherty at the age of 16. Later on, when Monroe was a star, she described her first marriage and said, “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.”

Every One Tree Hill fan had their dreams come true when Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray got together. The actress was only 23 years old when they tied the knot. The stars of One Tree Hill got engaged in 2004 and married in April 2005 in Santa Monica, California. The marriage only lasted a brief five months and Bush tried to get the marriage annulled citing fraud, but it was denied and she was granted a divorce. Bush was torn apart and put out a statement that said, “It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic – another joke marriage.”

It was a huge surprise to many when Melanie Griffith started dating Don Johnson at just 14 years old. Johnson was twenty-two-years-old at the time that the couple began seeing each other. They waited a few more years until Griffth was 18 years old to formally get married.  The marriage was short-lived and only lasted a few months. In a strange twist of events, years later Griffith and Johnson got back together and nine months later Dakota Johnson came into the world.