Celebrity Couples Who Are High School Sweethearts

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Celebrity Couples Who Are High School Sweethearts

Teenage dream comes true! Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins, Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry and more celebrity couples were first linked in high school. The country music star met Akins when they were in grade school in Georgia. By sixth grade, the twosome were best friends. Fast forward to high school and things turned romantic between them. “I always got the feeling that he still liked me the way he liked me way back at church camp in the sixth grade, but I also felt like he gave mixed signals about what he wanted to do about it,” Akins wrote about their high school romance in her in 2020 memoir, Live in Love. While their relationship hit a roadblock when they were teenagers, they got back together after college and tied the knot in October 2012. "We dated once when we were 15, and it didn’t work out. We dated for like six months,” Rhett told Taste of Country ahead of their nuptials. “We remained best friends even after we broke up. We both dated other people for like five years. When I heard that she had ended her other relationship … I moved in for the kill. We kissed, and that was it.” Stephen and Ayesha are another celebrity couple who bonded through their faith as teens. [jwplayer 0x6dr7Se-l3ahXupL] “I wasn't allowed to date in high school,” Ayesha told Parents Magazine about meeting the future NBA star when she was 14. “We always laugh that we were both focused on God.” The athlete added, “I always had my eye on her, but I got a little shaken, for sure.” After years as friends, the twosome started dating in their early 20s. “I was 23; she was 22. But I knew I had found the right woman and I wanted to start a life with her,” Stephen said. Scroll through for more high school sweethearts:

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Aaron Judge and Samantha Bracksieck

The New York Yankees slugger and Bracksieck reportedly went their separate ways in 2010 after dating on and off throughout high school, and they rekindled their romance nearly a decade later. The pair tied the knot in Hawaii in December 2021.

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Witney Carson and Carson McAllister

The Dancing With the Stars pro started dating McAllister when the pair were seniors in high school. They tied the knot in their home state of Utah in January 2016 after a three-month engagement. The couple welcomed their first child in January 2021, Kevin Leo, whom they named after McAllister’s late father, Kevin McAllister.

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Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins

The twosome, who wed in 2012, are parents of three daughters: Willa Gray (born 2015), Ada James (2017) and Lennon Love (2020).

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Stephen and Ayesha Curry

The duo exchanged vows in 2011 and went on to welcome daughter Riley in 2012, daughter Ryan in 2015 and son Canon in 2018.

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Clayton Kershaw and Ellen Melson

The pitcher met his future wife as a freshman in high school in Texas and got engaged when they were 21.

“Ellen and I started dating our freshman year of high school. I think for us we were just more of friends, and then started dating. It kind of stayed that way through high school,” he told Risen Magazine. “I would say we got closer when she went to college and I started playing professionally. We both kind of figured out stuff on our own. I think that really helped our relationship now. As for when she became The One? I really don’t know. I guess somewhere late in high school, or early college.”

The twosome, who wed in December 2010, share daughter Cali Ann (born in 2015) and son Charley (2016).

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Heather Morris and Taylor Hubbell

The former Glee star married her high school sweetheart in May 2015. They are parents of sons Elijah (born 2013) and Owen (2016).

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LeBron James and Savannah Brinson

The basketball asked out Brinson, who went to his rival high school in Ohio, when she was 16. After he was drafted as the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft in 2003, Brinson, who was still in high school, learned she was pregnant.

“Savannah was with me shooting in the gym when I [had] absolutely nothing,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. “She was down when I was at my high school, no cameras, no lights. And she was there with me. You wouldn't be talking to me right now if it weren't for her.”

The couple share Bronny (born 2004), Bryce (2007) and Zhuri (2014) and exchanged vows in September 2013.

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Bono and Ali Hewson

"We were teenagers, we went to the same school, high school. It just so happens it was this afternoon I walked her to her bus — isn't that mad?" the musician recalled to Extra in 2016.

The duo, who got married in 1982, are the parents of four kids: Jordan (born 1989), Eve (1991), Elijah (1999) and John (2001).

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Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley

The rocker met his future wife at their Sayreville, New Jersey, high school and they eloped in Las Vegas in 1989. They are the parents of Stephanie (born 1993), Jesse (1995), Jacob (2002) and Romeo (2004).

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Kendrick Lamar and Whitney Alford

The rapper met and started dating Alford while attending Centennial High School in Compton, California.

“I wouldn’t even call her my girl,” he told Billboard in 2015 before he popped the question. “That’s my best friend. I don’t even like the term that society has put in the world as far as being a companion — she’s somebody I can tell my fears to.”

Us broke the news in July 2019 that the engaged duo welcomed their first child.

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Jeff Daniels and Kathleen Treado

The actor married his high school sweetheart Kathleen in 1979. They are the parents of sons Ben (born 1984) and Lucas (1987) and daughter Nellie (1990).

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Snoop Dogg and Shante Broadus

While the musician married his teenage love in 1997, they briefly called it quits in 2004, even filing for divorce.

“It was up to me to try to put it back together because I'm the one who said I didn't want to be a part of it no more … It's hard now to this day,” he told Larry King after they reconciled. “There's a lot of roller coaster to a relationship. You know, we've been together for 17 or 18 years. We've been married for 10 years, but, at the same time, it's like, you know, some people in life are chosen for you. And I feel like we're chosen for each other."

The duo — who share sons Corde (born 1994), Cordell (1997) and Julian (1998) and daughter Cori (1999) — renewed their vows in 2008.