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17 Celebrity Couples Whose Relationships Have Withstood The Test of Time
Celebrity breakups are a hot gossip topic for tabloids, which is why it's easy to forget that there are some stars who have stayed together through thick and thin. These celebrities have been with their significant others for years, despite the Hollywood standard capping the lifespan of their peers' relationships. Click through to read about which stars kept their love intact against all odds.
Meryl Streep
The Into the Woods actress keeps her love life mostly private.
Don Gummer
Streep has been married to sculptor Gummer since 1978. The couple has four children together, including actresses Mamie and Grace Gummer.
Will Smith
The former Fresh Prince met his now-wife on set of his ’90s sitcom.
Jada Smith
Will met Jada in 1995 when she auditioning for a part on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She didn’t get the role, but did start dating the show’s star, and the couple wed two years later in 1997.
Elton John
The “Rocket Man” singer has a special man in his life.
David Furnish
How do the partners since 1993 keep their love strong? According to John, they send each other a card every Saturday. The couple officially wed in 2014.
Amy Adams
The American Hustle actress isn’t planning on walking down the aisle anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean her relationship isn’t super solid.
Darren Le Gallo
Adams and actor Le Gallo have a daughter, Ava, together, and got engaged in 2008 after being together for nearly six years. Though they’ve been together for nearly 12 years, they aren’t in a rush to move things forward right away, and are happy staying fiancees rather than husband and wife.
Kyra Sedgwick
The Closer actress is so in love with her actor hubby.
Kevin Bacon
The two TV stars may have been married for over 25 years, but Sedgwick admits that she gets the “flutters” whenever her husband walks into the room. Too cute!
Michelle Pfieffer
The Hairspray actress met her husband on a group bowling date.
David E. Kelley
After hitting it off on a group date with friends, the Ally McBeal creator and his actress wife dated for a few years before marrying in 1993. They have two children together.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The Veep actress is married to her college sweetheart!
Brad Hall
Hall ran the Northwestern University improv troupe that his future wife was the only female member of. Saturday Night Live producers hired the couple for the show in 1982, and five years later, they walked down the aisle.
Tom Hanks
The Forrest Gump actor has been married to his wife for over 25 years now.
Rita Wilson
Hanks and Girls actress Wilson wed in 1988. The couple has two children together and recently shot down tabloid rumors of a split, saying that they’re just as solid as ever.
William H. Macy
The Shameless actor has been married to his actress wife since 1997.
Felicity Huffman
Huffman told the Huffington Post that the key to keeping their love alive is allowing one another time to discuss their feelings — they each give each other 15 minutes to communicate to the other without interruption.
Jamie Lee Curtis
The Freaky Friday actress walked down the aisle with her now-husband in 1984 and never looked back.
Christopher Guest
Curtis and her filmmaker husband adopted two children together.
Keith Richards
Who says rockstars can’t find true love?
Patti Hansen
The Rolling Stones guitarist wed his supermodel wife in 1983. Richards chronicles their relationship in his memoir Life.
Ozzy Osbourne
The Black Sabbath rocker married his now-wife in 1982.
Sharon Osbourne
The couple gave the world an inside look at their marriage and family life with their reality show The Osbournes.
Goldie Hawn
Though Hawn never married her longtime partner, they’re still going strong today.
Kurt Russell
Russell and Hawn have been together since 1983 and co-starred in the 1987 film Overboard.
Sarah Jessica Parker
It looks like Carrie Bradshaw’s romanticism wasn’t lost on Parker.
Matthew Broderick
The Sex and the City star wed the former Ferris Bueller in 1997. The couple has three children together, including a set of twins. Broderick has stated that their relationship secret is staying “close friends” as well as husband and wife.
Michael J. Fox
The Back to the Future star has a lot of history with his wife.
Tracy Pollan
The actors met while working on Family Ties and and began dating while filming Bright Lights, Big City together in 1987. They married in 1988 and have stuck together through the hard times, including Fox’s Parkinson’s diagnosis.
John Travolta
The Savages star and his wife are the real deal.
Kelly Preston
The couple has been together for almost 23 years and married in 1991. They stuck by one another after suffering the tragic loss of their son in 2009.
Oprah Winfrey
The media mogul has a very important man in her life, but keeps their relationship mostly hidden from the press.
Stedman Graham
Winfrey and Graham have been together since 1986 and even got engaged in 1992, but decided not to marry. That doesn’t mean they’re not each other’s biggest supporters. Winfrey told ABC: “I do not know of another man on this planet… who could have lived this life with such dignity, with such grace and such respect and humility in it. And still hold his own and be his own.”
