When do you think is the right age to get married? We’ve all got strong opinions about that question — and today we’re exploring both sides of the coin. Specifically, we’re gonna take a look at some celebs who got married young, and others who waited until later in life.
Let’s start off with the celebs who got married young:
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Sophie Turner was 23 when she married Joe Jonas, who was 29 at the time.
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Justin and Hailey Bieber were 24 and 21 when they got married.
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Avril Lavigne married fellow Canadian singer Deryck Whibley in the 2000s — and they were 21 and 26.
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We all remember when Britney Spears and her backup dancer Kevin Federline got married. Brit was 22, while Kevin was 26.
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Timothy Olyphant was only 23 when he married his wife, Alexis Knief, back in 1991.
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After meeting on set of Days of Thunder, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise got married at 23 and 28 years old.
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David and Victoria Beckham were 23 and 24 respectively when they tied the knot.
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Janet Jackson and James DeBarge got married when they were 18 and 21 — although you could say it wasn’t a “real” marriage, since it was annulled the year after.
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Macaulay Culkin was once married to fellow actress Rachel Miner. They were both 18 at the time.
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Singer Taylor Hanson got married to model Natalie Bryant when he was 19 and she was 18.
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LeAnn Rimes and Dean Sheremet were married for most of the 2000s — and they were only 18 and 20 at the time.
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Marilyn Monroe married her first of three husbands in 1942, when she was 16. Said husband, James Dougherty, was 21.
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Jodie Sweetin and police officer Shaun Holguin were both in their early 20s when they got married in 2002.
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Few have forgotten about Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison’s marriage — Courtney was 16, while Doug was 51.
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Solange Knowles was only 17 when she and football player Daniel Smith tied the knot.
And now, for the flipside! Here are some celebrities who got married later in life:
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After a seven-year engagement, Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo were both 40 years old when they got married in 2020.
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Although they were in a civil partnership for many years beforehand, Elton John and David Furnish only got married when they were 67 and 52, respectively.
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Cameron Diaz was 42 when she got married to her husband, musician Benji Madden. He was 35 at the time.
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Barbra Streisand and James Brolin were 56 and 58 when they tied the knot, after meeting two years earlier.
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Julianne Moore was 42 years old when she got married to director Bart Freundlich. He was 33.
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Lauren Hashian had been together for more than ten years before finally getting married in 2019! They were 47 and 34.
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Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart got married at 67 and 45, eight years after they began dating.
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Actors Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet got married when they were 38 and 49.
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Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are a power couple for the ages — but I bet you didn’t know that they only got married at ages 41 and 39.
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Jessica Chastain got married to her husband, Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, who works in fashion, in 2017 — she was 40 and he was 34.
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John Stamos married actress Caitlin McHugh in 2018, after they met on set of Law & Order: SVU. He was 54, while she was 31.
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Ten years after she and Brad Pitt got divorced, Jennifer Aniston was 46 when she married Justin Theroux, who was 43.
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RuPaul had been dating rancher Georges LeBar for a whopping 23 years before they tied the knot at ages 56 and 44.
Know any other celebrities who got married at a super young age? Or anyone who waited until they were older? Tell me in the comments below!