Sometimes it's simply not meant to be, especially when you're living the famous lifestyle! These famous people were fooled into thinking they had found their happily ever after, only to find out they were getting a divorce while they were still quite young.
The past decade has been a frenzy for high-profile celebrity divorces, with Hollywood's finest golden pairs breaking the hearts of millions worldwide upon going their separate lives. This has caused a whirlwind of celebrity divorces in the public eye.
The breakup of these celeb's marriages generated attention from the media (as well as drawn-out legal fights) that continued for longer than the period of their weddings, providing plenty of material for gossip websites and publications. In several of these cases, the media attention continued for longer than the duration of the marriages themselves.
In addition to this, they were responsible for creating their very own pop-cultural lexicon, with terms such as "conscious uncoupling," TomKat, and Bennifer entering and leaving the vernacular, and the all-too-familiar phrase "irreconcilable differences" appearing in well almost every divorce petition.
Our list, which is by no means exhaustive, does include some of the most notable celebrity divorces that occurred during the decade and kept the entertainment section of news sites busy. It is ordered according to the date when the former couple first made public their decision to divorce, separate, or split up.
Take a look at these 15 famous people who got married and then divorced before they turned 25:
On the set of The Harrad Experiment in 1973, when she was just 14 years old, the star of Working Girl met Don Johnson, who would go on to become her first and third husband. At the moment, he was 22 years old. The duo had a passionate affair that resulted in a marriage that lasted for only six months in 1976 when she was only 18 years old. Even though the couple remarried and had another child together, they ended up divorcing for the second time in 1996.
This star of Teen Mom 2 tied the knot with Javi Marroquin, her one and only spouse when she was just 21 years old in 2013. The marriage ended shortly after Lowry experienced a miscarriage, even though the pair appeared to be very content together at first. When she was only 24 years old, the divorce was finalised after she filed for it after a period of three years had passed after the first event.
When Jane Levy, star of the television show Suburgatory, filed for divorce in 2013 from her husband, actor Jaime Freitas, no one even knew she was married. According to the documents filed for their divorce, the couple held a clandestine wedding in March 2011, when Levy was only 21 years old, and then parted seven months later in October 2011. In 2013, she filed for divorce, citing the inability to reconcile their disagreements.
When she was 21 years old, the Sopranos star started a romantic relationship with her manager Abraxas "A.J." DiScala, and a year later, in 2003, they got married. When they first met, she was 19 years old, and he was 29 years old. They were married for two years before they decided to split, and Sigler was only 25 years old when the divorce was finalised in 2006.
The wedding to Jenelle Evans' first husband, Courtland Rogers, took place while she was 20 years old, and the couple divorced not long after she turned 21. Just one month after their wedding, Evans filed charges of battery on an unborn child and three counts of assault on a female against Rogers. These charges were filed against Rogers. Evans filed these charges against Rogers. In June of 2014, the pair finally finalised their divorce.
During their time working together on the teen drama 'One Tree Hill,' Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray first became acquainted. They were putting on a performance as Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott, respectively.
Due to the fact that they were required to spend a significant amount of time working together, it was practically unavoidable that the two of them would eventually start a loving involvement with one another. When the couple started dating, the series was at the height of its popularity, so viewers were very interested in hearing about their relationship. In 2004, the couple shared the news that they had been engaged, and in 2005, they tied the knot and began their new lives together.
Despite this, the marriage did not last long because the pair divorced after only five months of being together. In her petition for marital annulment, Sophia Bush claimed her husband's fraudulent behaviour as the basis for their breakup. The judge's decision to refuse the plea to annul the marriage was quite unfortunate. Instead, he handed the couple a final divorce decree. Bush had only turned 23 years old when the divorce was finalised. Due to the fact that her ex-husband was still taking part in her on-screen love interest, it made her professional life a little bit awkward.
In the 1990s, when blond pop princesses with outgoing personalities were at the height of their popularity, Jessica Simpson was at the pinnacle of her career and celebrity. When you consider that there was also a trend in the charts at that time for boy bands, it is easy to see why Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey from '98 Degrees' felt like the ideal couple to each other. In 2002, the pair tied the knot, and nearly immediately afterwards, they were given their very own reality show, which was titled "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica."
Because their marriage was beneficial to both of their careers, it was also beneficial to both of their financial situations. But the persistent prying into the young couple's personal lives was too much for them to handle, and the relationship began to show signs of strain almost immediately as a result.
At the young age of 26, Jessica Simpson filed for divorce from her spouse in 2005. At the time, she had been married for just three years. Simpson was forced to give up $12 million to her ex-husband due to the divorce, and she has subsequently stated that entering into the marriage was the most significant financial error that she has ever made.
Alexa Vega is perhaps most recognised for her performance as Carmen Cortez in the films based on the Spy Kids franchise. Nevertheless, she is also famous for her appearances on 'Dancing with the Stars with her husband, Carlos Pena, when they won the competition.
Because it was so obvious to everyone watching that this pair is over heels in love with one another, it might come as a shock to learn that Vega has been married and divorced before. Before she wed Carlos PenaVega, the actress from Spy Kids, she was previously wed to the producer Sean Covel for a short period of time. Back in 2010, when she was just 21 years old, and he was 34, they tied the knot. After another two years had passed, the actress revealed on Twitter that she and Covel had officially parted ways.
Vega first became acquainted with Sean Covel when she was in her early twenties. Even though he was 13 years older than she was, she managed to fall in love with him even though he was a film producer. They wed not long after she was 22 years old but before she turned 23. After only two years, Vega asked for a divorce and cited the couple's inability to resolve their differences as the reason for the dissolution of their marriage. Because of this, Vega got a divorce well before she became 24 years old.
Solange Knowles is an artist in her own right, having worked as a singer, songwriter, actress, and model. However, she is probably best recognised for becoming the younger sister of Beyonce Knowles and for being a member of the girl group Destiny's Child. Her wedding to Alan Ferguson, a director of music videos, took place in 2014 and was well covered by the media. On the other hand, this was not Knowles' first time going down the aisle.
She tied the knot for the first time when she was only 17 years old. Daniel Smith, who was only 19 when they wed in 2004, was her first husband. They tied the knot. Within the same calendar year, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Julez J. Smith. Even though the couple divorced in 2007, they continue to share parental responsibilities for their son. Solange Knowles had stated that she does not have any regrets over the birth of her son, even though she married and divorced at an age when the majority of her peers were still in school. However, she does acknowledge that she is fortunate to have her kid.
It is common knowledge that Uma Thurman married actor Ethan Hawke during the height of her successful acting career when she was younger. Despite that, this was not her first time getting married.
Gary Oldman, successful in the acting, directing, and music industries, was her previous husband. When they were both working on the movie "State of Grace" in 1990, when Thurman was only 20 years old, and Oldman was 32, the couple first met. They quickly realised they were meant for each other and tied the knot the same year. After only a couple of years of marriage, they concluded that it was a grave error in judgement, and in 19—when Uma Thurman was 22—they divorced.
Angelina Jolie has received a significant amount of media attention in recent years due to the dissolution of her marriage to Brad Pitt and the difficulties she experienced in her relationships with other people, particularly Brad Pitt. However, it's not the first time she has been forced to deal with the loss of a romance while the world is seeing it. In 1995, she worked on the set of "Hackers," when she first met Johnny Lee Miller, and their relationship quickly developed into love. The next year, they tied the knot, with Jolie being 21 years old.
After only one year, the couple decided to live apart from one another, but they did not legally divorce until 1999. She had just turned 24 years old when her first marriage ended in divorce, but she didn't waste any time moving on. In 2000, she met her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, and they wed that same year in Las Vegas. In 2002, the pair adopted a son, but they made the unexpected decision to part ways only three years later.
Angelina Jolie was already a single mother for the second time by the time the divorce was finalised in 2003 when she was only 28 years old. In 2005, she developed a relationship with Brad Pitt, and the two of them quickly became known as "Brangelina" by the media and the general public. It was well knowledge that Pitt and Jolie were Hollywood's power couple.
They have six children: three through adoption and three from their own biological families. The pair tied the knot in 2014. However, they ended the 12-year relationship and divorced the following year in 2016.