Love is patient , love is kind, love is all the boring cliches we’ve been told and have regurgitated time and time again. But love is also weird, it’s eccentric, and it can be downright unconventional.
Nowhere do we see proof of this more than on the Hollywood red carpet. Have a look below and check out these 15 celebrities who are a part of unconventional relationships.
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Mo’Nique and Sidney Hicks
Mo’Nique and Sidney have been happily married since 2006. The couple has famously espoused that they have an open marriage, and recently have even created a podcast wherein they discuss the pros and cons of such a relationship.
Ethan Hawke and Ryan Hawke
Ethan and his wife Ryan started officially dating shortly after his divorce from Uma Thurman. Since then, Ethan has gone on to renounce monogamy entirely, arguing that human beings aren’t meant to have only one romantic partner.
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
At first glance, you could be forgiven for mistaking Sarah and Holland to be mother and daughter, as opposed to life partners. That’s probably because there are more than 32 years that separate the two of them.
Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden
Cameron Diaz is a former supermodel and A-list actress. Benji Madden is a pop-punk legend from the streets of Washington, D.C. I guess what they say is true — opposites really do attract in life and in love.
Amber Tamblyn and David Cross
You’ll probably recognize David from his time spent playing Tobias Funke on Arrested Development . His white beard certainly makes him look older than he really is, but all that aside — he’s still nearly 20 years Amber’s senior.
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean
Dolly has gone on records multiple times over the years confirming that she has an open relationship with her husband Carl Dean. Although according to Dolly, neither she nor Carl has ever had another sexual partner while married.
Tom Ford and Richard Buckley
Iconic fashion designer Tom Ford and writer Richard Buckley were together for more than 35 years, despite having a 13-year-age-difference. Sadly, Richard passed away in September of 2021 after battling complications brought on by cancer for more than 30 years.
Joel Madden and Nicole Richie
What do a former reality TV star and a pop-punk singer have in common? On the surface, not a whole lot. Yet despite the odds being stacked against them from the get-go, Joel and Nicole have been happily married for more than a decade.
Erika Jayne and Tom Girardi
Erika Jayne has been defending her marriage to Tom Girardi for more than 20 years — mostly due to the fact that he was more than 30 years older than she was. In the wake of a legal scandal, EJ finally decided to file for divorce.
Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter
Tim and Helena’s relationship was a lot less husband-and-wife and a lot more -artist-and-muse. During the course of their 13-year-long open relationship, Helena starred in a grand total of eight of Burton’s most acclaimed films .
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly
Megan told Lala Kent that MGK isn’t just her soulmate, but something that she calls a twin flame.
“Instead of a soul mate,” she explained, “a twin flame is actually where a soul has ascended into a high enough level that it can be split into two different bodies at the same time.”
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson
Kim Kardashian has gone from dating a professional NBA player, to arguably the most influential musical artist on the planet in Kanye West, and now to Pete Davidson . I’d say she has a type…I’m just not exactly sure what it is?
Nico Tortorella and Bethany Meyers
Bethany explained via Instagram that, “Most think we planned this and one day decided we would be multiple-love kind of people. We didn’t. It’s just the way our relationship developed over 12 years. We became polyamorous without ever really trying, and we let each other go so often .”
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have been confounding traditional relationship roles for decades. They’ve finally come to admit that they have an open relationship after word of Jada’s affair with rapper August Alsina began to circulate.
Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian
Clearly, the elite women of Hollywood have a thing for punk rockers with tattoos. Despite their very different worlds, Kourtney and the former drummer of Blink-182 appear happier than ever before and determined to make their relationship last.
