Hollywood’s Hottest Married Couples: From Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

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Hollywood's Hottest Married Couples: From Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

Making a Hollywood marriage work is tough, but many couples have offered fans a glimpse at their ability to have it all figured out. Since their marriage in 1994, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have continued to be open about their relationship ups and downs. The duo originally met in 1992 but did not start dating until the following year. At the time, Will was still married to Sheree Zampino and their divorce was finalized in 1995 after three years of marriage. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum previously reflected on how the circumstances allowed him and his now-wife to privately focus on their relationship. "My divorce from Sheree wasn't yet final, so Jada and I decided it would be prudent if we kept our relationship under wraps. (We were both pretty famous, and we felt it just wouldn't have been a great look.)," Will, who shares son Trey with his ex, wrote in his memoir in November 2021. "The blessed yet unintended consequence was that we spent every single moment together, just us. The first three or four months were as wild a romantic whirlwind as our bodies could have possibly handled." [jwplayer wDIIYzBc-zhNYySv2] After their nuptials, Will and Jada welcomed son Jaden in 1998 and daughter Willow in 2000. Over the years, the pair have gotten candid about the issues in their marriage that led to a separation in 2015. “I was done with your ass. I was done with you,” the rapper joked during an episode of Red Table Talk in July 2020, referring to their previous split. “Marriages have that, though. We decided that we were going to separate for a period of time, and you go figure out how to make yourself happy and I’ll try to figure out how to make myself happy. I really felt like we could be over.” At the time, the Girls Trip actress noted that she got into an “entanglement” with August Alsina while separated from her husband. Jada clarified that Will wasn't aware about the brief connection with Alsina but that they have since "really gotten to that new place of unconditional love." The Grammy award winner, for his part, later shared how communication allowed the twosome to have a resilient romance. "But the heart and soul of our union was then, and is still today, intense, luminescent conversation. Even to the writing of this very sentence, if Jada and I begin a conversation, it is a minimum two-hour endeavor. And it is not uncommon that we talk for five or six hours at a stretch," he recalled in his memoir. "Our joy of pondering and pursuing the mysteries of the universe, through the mirror of each other's experience, is unbridled ecstasy. Even in the depths of disagreement, there is nothing in this world that either of us more cherishes or enjoys than the opportunity to grow and learn from each other through passionate communication." Scroll down for more successful married Hollywood couples who have shared their secret to happiness: [podcast_block]

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George and Amal Clooney

George said goodbye to his longtime bachelor status after a mutual friend introduced him to Amal in 2013.

“I was like, ‘I’m never getting married. I’m not gonna have kids,’” the Oscar winner told GQ in November 2020. “‘I’m gonna work, I’ve got great friends, my life is full, I’m doing well.’ And I didn’t know how un-full it was until I met Amal.”

The duo exchanged vows in 2014 and welcomed twins Alexander and Ella in 2017.

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Emily Blunt and John Krasinski

The Office alum previously revealed that he experienced love at first sight when he met Blunt.

“It was one of those things where I wasn’t really looking for a relationship and I was thinking I’m going to take my time in L.A.,” Krasinski explained on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2011. “Then I met her and I was so nervous. I was like, ‘Oh God, I think I'm going to fall in love with her.’ As I shook her hand I went, ‘I like you.’ It’s one of those things where as soon as you meet someone you kind of know.”.

They married in 2010 and share daughters Hazel and Violet.

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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard

In February 2021, the Veronica Mars star offered insight when it came to making her marriage to Shepard work.

“We adore each other, we just try to always be honest about how marriage or companionship in any form is hard sometimes,” Bell wrote to a follower via Instagram at the time. “You can’t always be in control, or right, and it’s important to us that we lead with honestly of your 'perfect match' being a myth. You gotta work hard to love yourself, and love other humans. Xo.”

Bell and Shepard tied the knot in 2013. They are parents to daughters Delta and Lincoln.

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Chrissy Teigen and John Legend

Although the model and the singer experienced sparks as soon as they met, Teigen admitted that she didn't rush their casual relationship into something more.

"I let him be himself for a while," the Cravings cookbook author told Cosmopolitan in 2014. "The worst thing you can do is try to lock someone like that down early on, then have them think, 'There's so much more out there. I played it cool for a long time.' Never once did I ask, 'What are we?' Marriage was never my goal because I've never been very traditional. I was just happy to be with him."

The pair got married in 2013. They later welcomed daughter Luna in April 2016 and son Miles in May 2018. Teigen lost her and Legend’s third child, a son they had planned to name Jack, in 2020.

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

After Lively and Reynolds turned their friendship into something more, the Gossip Girl alum opened up about the transition.

“I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life,” she told Marie Claire in July 2016. “That was the biggest thing for me. I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him.”

The couple wed in 2012 and now share three daughters, James, Inez and Betty.

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel

The singer and the 7th Heaven alum dated for five years before tying the knot in 2012. They welcomed sons Silas, in 2015 and Phineas, in 2020.

Biel previously revealed what makes her marriage to the performer work so well.

“We have similar values; we believe in loyalty, honesty. We like to have fun. We like a lot of the same things. Also, in the business, we’re all very career-oriented, and you have to be a little selfish," she told Marie Claire in 2017. "I understand that about my peers — about being focused and driven — and if you can find that and someone who shares the same values as you, it’s like: Score!”

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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves

Alves shared the key to her successful marriage with Us Weekly in 2018: “[We do] a lot of staying at home, cooking together or getting a hotel room that is 10 minutes away from the house.”

The Women of Today founder wed the Lincoln Lawyer actor in 2012, and they share three kids: Levi, Vida and Livingston.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star has been married to her I Know What You Did Last Summer castmate since 2002, so the couple obviously know how to make the most of married life.

“We treat each other with respect. We didn’t just get married because we thought the other was young and hot. I think that sort of crushes relationships a lot,” Prinze told Us in 2017. “We don’t feel fortunate as much as we feel disciplined in the work. Sacrifice is something that’s required in marriage.”

The couple have two children: Charlotte and Rocky.

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

The Sex and the City star, who has been married to Broderick since 1997, opened up about how spending time apart from the actor has reinforced their bond.

“I know this sounds nuts, but we have lives that allow us to be away and come back together,” Parker said on Girlboss Radio in 2018. “His work life takes him here, and mine takes me there. In some ways, I think that that’s been enormously beneficial because we have so much to share in a way.”

The pair have three kids: son James and twin daughters Tabitha and Marion.

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos

The talk show host, who got married to the Consuelos in 1996, admitted that she knew her now-husband was The One as soon as she saw him during his audition for the soap opera All My Children.

“I auditioned him. They’d been looking for this character for some time … They didn’t want a dark-haired guy, they wanted a Latino actor. So I had auditioned every Latino actor in the city and around the city and then California,” Ripa said during a SiriusXM interview in August 2018. “Then all of a sudden, Judy Blye Wilson, who was the casting director in All My Children, said, ‘I found him’ … [Judy] showed me his picture and … when I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes]. Like, I saw it. I [didn’t] believe in any of that and now I do because of that moment.”

The duo share sons Michael and Joaquin and daughter Lola.

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Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka

The How I Met Your Mother alum may not have married Burtka until 2014, but they were a couple long before, dating for 10 years before making things official. Their twins Gideon and Harper, who were born via surrogate, factored greatly into their decision to wed.

“I think when our kids got to the age where they were having reasonable conversations where they’re asking lots of ‘why’ questions, then it seemed [important] to be able to have a real clear-cut [identity] of who their daddy is — that he’s my husband, it was easier than partner or boyfriend,” Harris said on The View shortly after his nuptials.

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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

A reunion on set led to Hanks and Wilson giving in to their undeniable chemistry.

“When we first looked at each other there was definitely a kind of, ‘Hey, this is the place!’ I felt that anyway,” Hanks told Entertainment Tonight in 2015. “I think the end result is that we got married for all the right reasons.”

The pair have been married since 1988 and have two sons together, Chet and Truman.

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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi

The talk show host and the Scandal actress have been married since 2008 after sharing an instant connection when they met in 2004.

“She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life, where I saw somebody and experienced all of those things you hear about in songs and read about in poetry. My knees were weak," De Rossi told The Advocate in 2016 about their bond.

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

The Footloose star and the Closer actress have been married since 1988, but their feelings haven’t changed.

“I’m incredibly lucky,” Sedgwick told Access Hollywood in January 2021. “There’s no secrets to this. I just got lucky really young at a time when I probably wasn’t that smart. I was married at 23 and I met him when I was 21. I was like, ‘This is The One, and I’ve got no question.’”

They share daughter Sosie and son Travis.

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Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy

The Shameless star believes his successful marriage to the Desperate Housewives alum, whom he wed in 1997, is a product of good fortune.

“I don’t look at it as an achievement, I look at it as a lifesaver,” he shared with Us in 2018. “I’m the luckiest guy, I won the lottery.”

Huffman and Macy have two daughters: Sofia and Georgia.

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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

After their 1996 nuptials, the musical power couple expanded their family with daughters Gracie, Maggie and Audrey.

McGraw and Hill took their relationship to the next level when they acted opposite each other in the Yellowstone prequel, 1883.

“We were in bed last night and talked for two hours because we got so caught up in the moment that we almost couldn’t even remember it,” he told Parade in December 2021. “I told her, ‘This is incredible. How many married couples ever get a chance to do what we’re doing right now?’”

Hill, for her part, added, “We’re together all the time. And I know no matter what happens, I’m his biggest cheerleader and he’s mine.”

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Beyoncé and Jay-Z

The couple, married since 2008, rarely share details about their relationship. After the Dreamgirls actress addressed the rapper's infidelity in her 2016 album Lemonade, Jay-Z opened up about fixing his marriage.

“That’s my soulmate. It’s the person I love,” he told CNN in January 2018. “And you can be in love with someone, you can love someone, and if you haven’t experienced love and you don’t understand it and you don’t have the tools to move forward, you’re going to have complications, period.”

The frequent collaborators are parents to Blue Ivy and twins Rumi and Sir.

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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones

After over 20 years of marriage, Douglas revealed how communication helped make his marriage work through ups and downs.

“It’s taken me a long time, but resentment is an easy thing to keep under the surface,” he told Us in September 2019, noting that it is crucial to “talk things out” with your partner. “I think most of the times it’s really good to get things out sooner than later.”

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Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin

"Lisa and I are of the same mind. When you get married, you get married," Hamlin exclusively told Us in 2019. "So we have a very functional relationship and we respect each other and listen to each other and admire each other and we let each other be. We’re not helicopter husband and wife."

The Mad Men alum, who shares daughters Delilah Belle and Amelia Gray with the reality star, also addressed how having different interests brought them closer together.

"I have no idea why opposites attract but we are completely and utterly opposite. But I love to cook and she doesn’t, so we all get fed as a result of that. I have no interest in pop culture and she does so whatever I know about pop culture I get from her." 

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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

Seven years after Pinkett Smith auditioned for the role of Smith's girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the couple swapped vows in a 1997 ceremony. They have two children together: actor Jaden and singer Willow.

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David Beckham and Victoria Beckham

“He’s my soulmate,” the Spice Girl said on the Today show in 2017. “We complement each other. He’s the most incredible husband, fantastic father. He inspires me every day, just seeing him with the children and how he treats me; it just works. We are lucky to have each other.”

The pair, who tied the knot in 1999, share four children: Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.

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Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen

“She’s a remarkable human being, so I’m just incredibly blessed,” the Cheers alum told Us in 2018.

This Hollywood couple, who tied the knot in 1995, have acted together in Gulliver's Travels, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Ink.