Celebrities Who Got Married As Teenagers

When it comes to relationships, celebrities are often known for moving really quickly — as in, going from dating to engaged to married in a matter of a few months. They definitely aren't afraid to take things to the next level! Sometimes, A-listers even do this when they're probably too young to be making those kinds of decisions — some even as young as when they're teenagers. You might think Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, who got married at 24 and 22-years-old, are young, but that's practically ancient compared to the age these young stars tied the knot. 

There are a lot of celebrities out there who took the leap into marriage when they weren't even old enough to legally drink alcohol or even vote yet. Sadly, most of these relationships ended in divorce and didn't make it past a few years, or, in some cases, a few months. Still, it's interesting to hear about these once-intense love stories and what the stars learned from them. Below are a few celebs who got married when they were just teenagers.

Demi Moore actually got her famous last name from her first marriage. According to Huffington Post, Demi married Freddy Moore in 1980, when she was just 17-years-old. He was 12 years older than her. The couple were only together for about four years before they divorced, which was the same time Demi started dating her St. Elmo's Fire co-star Emilio Estevez. Demi had been using his name as her stage name, and, as we all know, kept it after the divorce.

Although Demi hasn't spoken about the marriage publicly, Freddy opened up about their relationship to Australia's NW magazine in 2018, saying that the two started "hooking up" in 1979, when Demi was 16-years-old and still with her then boyfriend, Tom. He said, "I fell in love with her and as soon as she had me hooked, she dumped Tom and insisted I divorce my wife. I was so infatuated, I did it." 

In 1998, Macaulay Culkin married actress Rachel Miner when they were both just 17 years old. According to the New York Daily News, they met when they were students at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan, and had only been dating for a few months before deciding to get married. Before they could set a date, they both needed permission from their parents. In a statement, the couple said, "We're so happy and proud that we found each other at such a young age. We look forward to spending our lives together." According to Playbill, the two tied the knot on June 21, 1998 in a small ceremony in Connecticut. 

Unfortunately, the union didn't last long. After two years of marriage, Culkin and Miner announced they were separating. Culkin's spokesman confirmed the separation to Entertainment Tonight (via ABC News), saying, "It is very amicable and they remain best of friends." 

It's easy to forget that Kim Kardashian was married not once, but twice, before settling down with Kanye West. Before marrying Kris Humpheries, Kardashian eloped with music producer Damon Thomas in 2000 in Las Vegas, when she was just 19-years-old. They remained married for three years before getting a divorce. 

In 2010, The Daily Mail received exclusive copies of the celeb couple's divorce papers, filed in 2003. According to the court documents, Thomas was physically and verbally abusive towards Kardashian and would do things like slam her against the wall, throw her across the room, punch her in the face, and bully her. He supposedly gave her money to get liposuction and plastic surgery so she would be "perfect." In 2014, Thomas did a tell-all interview with In Touch Weekly, claiming Kardashian is a "fame whore" who "does harmful things in order to validate herself in the media," among many other things.

In a 2018 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians (via People), Kardashian revealed that she was on drugs when they got married, saying, "I got married on ecstasy. The first time." 

When Solange Knowles was 17-years-old, she married her high school sweetheart, football player Daniel Smith, who was 19, in the Bahamas with their family and close friends in attendance. When she was 18, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Julez J. Smith, Jr., and the family moved to Moscow, Idaho, where Smith was in college. In October 2007, Knowles confirmed in an interview with Essence that she and Smith had separated. Knowles later told Elle that relocating to Idaho was "one of the most bittersweet moments" of her life, saying she was isolated and "lonely." 

Knowles hasn't expressed regret about marrying and having a child at a young age. In an interview with Harper's Bazaar in 2014, she said, "In a lot of ways, emotionally and mentally, I feel far older than 27. Just going through a marriage and a divorce — which I essentially did by 21 — will give you an insane amount of perspective on life."

Actress Bo Derek caused quite the scandal when she got married at 18-years-old to someone 30 years her senior. According to Interview, Bo met her husband, director John Derek, when he cast her in his movie Fantasies when she was 16-years-old. Although he was married to actress Linda Evans at the time, he and Bo fell in love while filming in Greece. Bo ended up dropping out of high school so she could stay in Europe with him and avoid statutory rape laws, and when she was 18-years-old, her and John came back to California and got married. They ended up staying married until he died in 1998. 

When speaking to Interview years later, Bo admitted to feeling "terrible" about the fact that John was married when they fell in love, saying she did the wrong thing and she will never forgive herself for it. But in another interview with Larry King, Bo said their marriage was "fantastic," saying, "There were so many things going against it, first of all, 30 years age difference." She added, "But 25 years later, it was obviously meant to be." 

Actress Milla Jovovich was only 16-years-old when she married her Dazed and Confused co-star Shawn Andrews. In an interview with Mashable, the director, Richard Linklater, said that Jovovich and Andrews were married for about a month, saying, "I think Milla's mother annulled it because her daughter was like 16." 

In a 2011 interview with The Daily Mail, Jovovich said she "ran off to Vegas" to marry Andrews as a teen "to prove a point to my mum." She also said she wanted a bank card, explaining, "I was a big girl as far as I was concerned and I wanted to establish myself as an adult, as I was working like one and being treated like one by everyone else. It wasn't about being in love, but when you're 16 you have to take three rights to make a left." However, in an interview with Maxim, actor Jason London, who was also in Dazed and Confused, said Andrews was never interested in interacting "with really anyone except Milla Jovovich." 

Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson have a long history that began when they met on the set of The Harrad Experiment when Griffith was 14-years-old and Johnson was 22. They wed when Griffith was 18, but the marriage only lasted six months before they got divorced, and their problems were attributed to their drug and alcohol addictions. Griffith later told The Hollywood Reporter, "I thought he was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen." Her mother, Tippi Hedren, told the publication she was in "sheer panic" about Griffith falling for an older man. 

Nearly ten years after getting divorced, Griffith and Johnson ended up getting back together. In 1989, they remarried, and four months later, they had a daughter, actress Dakota Johnson. The two ended up separating in March 1994, reconciling later that year, then separating again in May 1995 before divorcing in 1996. In a 2018 interview with InStyle, Griffith said she doesn't think marriage is "relevant for anyone anymore." 

LeAnn Rimes and Dean Sheremet got married in 2002, when she was 19-years-old. The two were together for a little more than seven years when they announced they were separating. The news of their separation followed many rumors about Rimes having an affair with Eddie Cibrian, and came right after Cibrian's wife, Brandi Glanville, said she and the actor were getting a divorce. 

Sheremet spoke about their split in an episode of Personal Space (via Bravo), saying that while the divorce was devastating for him, it was also "the biggest growth" of his life. He said, "You know, we got married, I was 21 and she was 19, so it's like I think about that, and it's like I wasn't even thinking about getting engaged at that time or married. You don't even know anything about yourself. That's not to discredit, you know, we were in love, and it was right at the time." Rimes later wrote a song about cheating on Sheremet called "What Have I Done," and once told Katie Couric, "I've carried a lot of guilt for a long time, I think." 

In 2003, when Olivia Wilde was 18 years old, she eloped with Tao Ruspoli, an Italian prince whose family owns Rome's Palazzo Ruspoli, according to People. The two spent eight years together as a married couple before they officially divorced in the spring of 2011. Shortly after the divorce, Wilde admitted that leaving someone she had spent her 20s with was difficult, but she didn't regret the choice she made to marry young. She told Marie Claire, "Our deal from the beginning was, 'We're crazy to do this, but we're doing it because we're in love and it makes us happy.'" 

She also spoke about the divorce during an episode of The Conversation with Amanda De Cadenet, saying that she tried redecorating their entire home to avoid ending the relationship. Once she realized it was over, she said she felt "the most terrified I've ever been." She added, "The day I knew I had to ask for a divorce was the worst day of my life."