These 15 Celebrities Got Married as Teenagers & This Is How Long Their Marriages Lasted

Olivia Wilde

Long before meeting Jason Sudeikis or Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde tied the knot with Italian-American filmmaker and photographer Tao Ruspoli in 2003, Hollywood Life reports. At the time, the House alum was 19 years old while Ruspoli, who’s the son of Italian aristocrat Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, was 28. 

In 2011, eight years into their marriage, Wilde filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences.” A few months later, their divorce was finalized. 

“I really had a sense that I had stunted my growth,” the actress-turned-director told Lifetime’s The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet shortly after their split, per Hollywood Life. “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 the f-ck up was to learn to take care of myself.”

Cher

In another major age-gap couple, Cher and the late Sonny Bono tied the knot when the singer was 18 and he was 29 years old. The former pair, who wed in 1964, went on to welcome a child together, Chaz, in 1969. 

Cher and Sonny later split in 1974 with the “Believe” singer citing “involuntary servitude,” People reports.  

“He didn’t want me to grow up or have any freedom. I wasn’t allowed to do anything except work. We worked more than we lived,” she once told Parade, adding that Sonny was a major “womanizer” throughout their marriage. “The truth is, I’m not so sure we should’ve ever been husband and wife,” she added. 

LeAnn Rimes

Singer LeAnn Rimes also married young when she tied the knot with fellow actor Dean Sheremet when she was 19 and Sheremet was 21. The pair, who got married in 2002, divorced after nine years in 2009 after Rimes reportedly cheated with her now-husband Eddie Cibrian.

“That passion for our marriage wasn’t there,” Sheremet admitted to Nat’s Next Adventure in 2015, per Entertainment Tonight. “The person that I needed to be, the person I should have been, I wasn’t. I wasn’t the person she came home to and unloaded on. And, then, of course, I was thinking, I haven’t done what I’ve wanted to do in over eight years.” 

Kim Kardashian

While many of Kim Kardashian’s relationships, like with Kanye West, Pete Davidson, or Kris Humphries are largely talked-about already, many of her fans might not know the Skims founder was also a teen bride. Back in 2000, Kardashian eloped and said “I do” for the very first time to music producer Damon Thomas when she was just 19 years old, per Cosmopolitan. 

Three years later, Thomas filed for divorce. In the divorce proceedings, Kardashian accused Thomas of being abusive and controlling. “Damon decided what we would do and when we would do it,” she stated in the documents, per Daily Mail. “He was very much the ‘King of the castle.'”

Drew Barrymore

In one of the shortest marriages in this gallery, Drew Barrymore married bar owner Jeremy Thomas when she was just 19 years old in 1994. Two months into their marriage, however, they got divorced. 

Demi Moore

In one of the biggest age gaps in this list, Demi Moore got her iconic name following her first marriage to Freddy Moore. At the time, Demi was 17 years old while Freddy was 30. The former pair, who tied the knot in 1980, got divorced five years later. 

In her tell-all memoir, Inside Out, the actress opened up about their union, and how she cheated on Freddy on the night before saying “I do.” “I couldn’t face the fact that I was getting married to distract myself from grieving the death of my father,” she wrote, per Daily Mail. “Because I felt there was no room to question what I’d already put in motion. I couldn’t get out of the marriage, but I could sabotage.”

Macaulay Culkin & Rachel Miner

When they were just 17 years old, actors Rachel Miner and Macaulay Culkin tied the knot in 1998 and became husband and wife, Us Weekly reports. Unsurprisingly, however, their young love didn’t last and they separated in 2000 and finalized their divorce two years later. 

Milla Jovovich

In another two-month-long marriage, Milla Jovovich briefly married her Dazed and Confused co-star Shawn Andrews. Two months into their marriage, they got their union annulled. At the time, Jovovich was 16 while Andrews was 21, per Pop Sugar. 

Melanie Griffith

Back in 1976, an 18-year-old Melanie Griffith fled to Vegas and married fellow actor Don Johnson (who was eight years her senior). Six months later, per InStyle, the two got divorced. 

Many years later, however, in 1989, Griffith and Johnson reconnected and got married for a second time. “There was always this connection. I can’t explain it,” Griffith told People, per InStyle. “It’s almost like soulmates, and it always was. I didn’t want it to be like that sometimes, and sometimes I wanted not to love him. But maybe it was karma, and you have to go through all that to get to where we are now. Now it’s different. It’s like it was in the very beginning, but there is so much more.”

In 1994, after welcoming their first child together, the now equally famous Dakota Johnson, the pair got divorced a second time. 

Solange Knowles

In 2004, Beyoncé’s little sister Solange Knowles married her high school sweetheart, Daniel Smith, when she was just 17 years old. The pair went on to welcomed their first son, Daniel Julez J. Smith Jr., before divorcing in 2007. 

Janet Jackson

In another brief marriage, singers Janet Jackson and James DeBarge wed in 1984 when Jackson was 19 and DeBarge was 21. A year later, the pair got their marriage annulled after DeBarge’s struggles with drugs strained their marriage. 

“I cared so much for him, and I saw the good in him as well, and I just wanted that to take precedence as opposed to this ugliness, because I knew that he needed help,” Jackson said in her docuseries, per Business Insider. “But I wasn’t the help that he needed.”

Courtney Stodden

For many, Courtney Stodden is known for being a teenage bride. The model and TV personality wed actor Doug Hutchison in 2011 when they was 17 years old and he was 51. 

The pair, who took over headlines at the time, stayed together for years before officially calling it quits in 2020. 

Looking back at their relationship, Stodden has reflected on their power imbalance and questionable age difference. “He was extremely emotionally abusive to me,” they said in the Call Her Daddy podcast, per Page Six. “At times physical, but mostly emotionally abusive, because I think that’s the ultimate power a groomer has over a child, is that emotional abuse and control.”

Aaliyah

When she was just 15 years old, Aaliyah illegally married fellow singer R. Kelly in August 1994. At the time, Kelly was 27 years old. 

A year later, the late singer’s parents annulled the marriage claiming they lied on the marriage certificate by saying she was 18 years old, per Vulture. Aaliyah’s parents then agreed to sign an NDA and to avoid legal action if Kelly sold them the rights to his first three albums. 

Marilyn Monroe

Prior to becoming one of the world’s biggest sex symbols, Marilyn Monroe tied the knot with her first husband, police officer James Dougherty, in 1942. At the time, Monroe was 16 while Dougherty was 21. The two eventually got divorced four years later in 1946, per Us Weekly. 

Elizabeth Taylor

Speaking of Old Hollywood starlets, Elizabeth Taylor also said “I do” at a very young age. In May 1950, an 18-year-old Taylor wed hotel heir Conrad ‘Nickie’ Hilton when he was 24. 

Eight months later, however, their marriage came crumbling down. Hilton “became sullen, angry and abusive, physically and mentally,” Taylor wrote in her 1988 memoir Elizabeth Takes Off, per People. 

The pair got divorced in January 1951.