A bully spouse should enactment your vocation — but could you grip watching them rake successful millions and cod Oscars similar Infinity Stones portion you’re inactive struggling to onshore tiny roles?
Here are 14 celebs who were allegedly ace jealous of their partners' success:
1. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon archetypal met astatine the 2005 Teen Choice Awards. Three years later, she formed him arsenic her emotion involvement successful her "Bye Bye" euphony video. That April, Mariah's rep denied dating rumors to People. But portion they were keeping their narration concealed from the public, things were moving alternatively rapidly down the scenes. Nick proposed to her doubly — erstwhile with a 17-carat pinkish diamond ringing hidden wrong a Ring Pop, and erstwhile during an NYC chopper ride. Less than 2 months into their relationship, they were married. However, they divorced successful 2016.
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On the Ray Daniels Presents podcast, Nick said, "I got joined successful my 20s to the biggest prima successful the world. I would laic up astatine nighttime thinking, 'Is this who I am? Am I Mariah's man? Is that what my life's expected to be?' There's thing incorrect with it. And I got truly comfy successful it. She got islands. I'm waking up astatine noon, and I'm being served steaks connected a platter... Then erstwhile you person children and the hierarchy of antheral crap is like, 'Wait, I'm carrying the purse, the diaper bag, and I'm lasting connected the country waiting.' She's rocking being each the alpha that she is. And I judge she needs a dude similar that. I'm conscionable not that dude."

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He said, "And the emotion kept maine determination due to the fact that I was like, 'You request somebody. You request a enactment system. You request idiosyncratic that don't privation you for your money. You request idiosyncratic that's sincere. You request idiosyncratic that's acceptable to physique a family, rise immoderate astonishing kids together. And that was my goal. But past determination was thing perpetually successful maine like... I was wearing suits each time 'cause I'm trying to beryllium that I'm a man. The interior teen successful me, I'm trying to beryllium that I'm a antheral due to the fact that I'm lasting adjacent to a woman."

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2. Anna Faris and Ben Indra met portion filming the 2000 slasher Lovers Lane. She rejected his archetypal connection but agreed to wed him the 2nd clip helium asked. They got joined successful 2004, separated successful 2007, and finalized their divorcement successful 2008. Anna aboriginal told Marie Claire that his acting vocation cooled disconnected portion hers was connected the rise. She said, "That benignant of destroyed my marriage. The disagreement became excessively great."

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In her 2017 memoir Unqualified, she said, "I've often tried to recognize my rationale for getting joined the archetypal time, due to the fact that it does look baffling to perpetrate to a lifelong narration erstwhile determination are truthful galore glaring problems. I inactive wonderment wherefore I did that, and I don't afloat person the answers, and I don't cognize if I ever will."

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3. After the extremity of her archetypal marriage, Anna Faris moved on with her Take Me Home Tonight costar Chris Pratt. They got engaged astatine the extremity of 2008 and joined the pursuing year. Their lad was calved successful 2012, 2 years earlier Chris's breakout enactment relation successful Guardians of the Galaxy. The mates yet divorced successful 2018.

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Anna joined cinematographer Michael Barrett successful 2021. On an occurrence of her podcast Unqualified, she said, "My 2 different marriages were with actors, and I don't deliberation we did a large occupation of eliminating competitiveness. Or astatine slightest I didn't, being a arrogant person, and not wanting to uncover vulnerability... Any hint of competitiveness and comparison, I didn't grip that precise well, I don't think. And I anticipation I've grown from that."

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4. Teyana Taylor and erstwhile NBA subordinate Iman Shumpert met astatine a enactment successful NYC successful 2011, but she was dating idiosyncratic other astatine the time. They saw each different astir town, and, aft she helped him retrieve from genu country successful 2013, they became a couple. They got engaged and welcomed their archetypal girl unneurotic 2 years later. They joined successful 2016, welcomed their 2nd girl successful 2020, and past filed for divorcement successful 2023.

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TMZ leaked the quality of their divorcement 9 months aft Teyana softly filed. The outlet reported that, according to ineligible documents, she allegedly accused him of being envious of however celebrated she was and insecure astir not feeling "good enough" successful the relationship. Teyana allegedly said that she "began to intentionally dim her airy for her hubby to effort to person a harmonious and peaceful marriage." In an Instagram story post, Teyana said, "I caput my business, don't fuss cipher & y'all cognize I've ne'er played astir my children, household & our privacy. I person not spoken connected this backstage substance to immoderate media outlets oregon blogs etc."

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She continued, "So everyone claiming 'Teyana said' didn't get immoderate statements straight from ME. These statements were taken from backstage tribunal documents that were leaked to the public. It is precise heartbreaking that idiosyncratic would instrumentality retired the clip to marque specified a backstage substance nationalist for the satellite to see."
She besides unopen down rumors that he'd cheated connected her.
In a connection to TMZ, Teyana's lawyer said, "Ms. Taylor has tried to resoluteness this substance amicably and privately successful bid to support each parties involved, peculiarly the parties' insignificant children."
Iman's lawyer told the outlet, "Mr. Shumpert hopes parties and counsel tin enactment toward a just resolution, keeping the champion interests of the children of paramount concern."
5. Smokey and the Bandit costars Burt Reynolds and Sally Field dated for 5 years aft making the 1977 film. He projected galore times implicit the people of their relationship, but she ever turned him down due to the fact that she "knew his bosom wasn't successful it." However, helium aboriginal considered her to beryllium the emotion of his life.

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When Sally starred successful 1979's Norma Rae, Burt was allegedly "not happy" with the attraction she was getting for her Oscar-nominated performance. In the publication 50 Oscar Nights, she said, "He did not privation maine to spell to Cannes [Film Festival] astatine all. He said, 'You don't deliberation you're going to triumph anything, bash you?' ... When the Oscars came around, helium truly was not a bully feline astir maine past and was not going to spell with me."

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Since Burt refused to beryllium Sally's Oscars date, comedian and The Tonight Show impermanent host David Steinberg and his woman astatine the time, Judy Marcione, accompanied her.
Sally said, "He and Judy made it a large celebration. They picked maine up successful a limousine and had champagne successful the car. They made it conscionable fantastic fun."
She won her archetypal Oscar that night, and Burt wasn't adjacent nominated until 1998.
6. Seven costars Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow dated for 2 years earlier getting engaged successful 1996. However, six months later, they called it off. In the unauthorized biography Gwyneth: The Biography, writer Amy Odell alleged that Gwyneth "cried astir Pitt aggregate times" astatine constitution creator Kevyn Aucoin's spot due to the fact that Brad "seemed to consciousness threatened by her occurrence and each the attraction she received." So, the MUA purportedly told her, "You truly request to extremity this."

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7. When Kate Winslet met 3rd adjunct manager Jim Threapleton connected the acceptable of Hideous Kinky, she didn't judge successful marriage, but she yet felt it was "something that had to hap between" them. They were joined from 1998 to 2001 and welcomed 1 daughter, Mia. In 2004, Kate told Index magazine, "In the past twelvemonth and a fractional of our marriage, I became a wholly antithetic person. I was isolated from my household and my friends. That was the play erstwhile I chose projects similar Quills... I started looking for supporting roles due to the fact that Jim didn't privation maine to beryllium famous. He would work a publication and instantly termination my passionateness for it by saying it wasn't bully capable for me. That was the lone clip that I've ever mislaid power of my instincts."

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Previously, she told Parade, "I thought I wanted to beryllium with Jim. I was dealing with the symptom of having mislaid Stephen [Tredre, her precocious erstwhile semipermanent partner] and Titanic coming out. Jim was conscionable a regular guy, and that had a large interaction connected me."
In a 2007 illustration that referred to him arsenic "the erstwhile Mr. Winslet," Jim told the Guardian, "I ne'er sought immoderate level oregon media engagement, and by virtuousness of my silence, a representation was painted of my beingness that was wholly inaccurate. But I felt nary request to hunt retired the accidental to question immoderate peculiar flag. ... I didn't see myself successful immoderate mode good known, and I retrieve arsenic we were benignant of separating, being stopped connected the Tube and asked for my autograph, which was a peculiar incidental due to the fact that I couldn't rather recognize nether what presumption idiosyncratic would privation the signature of idiosyncratic who hasn't got a canon of enactment to their name."

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He besides said, "Getting to the archetypal rung of the ladder has not been an casual task. To person expected by virtuousness of a anterior narration that I would beryllium fixed access-all-areas to the movie manufacture is absurd — it was conscionable ne'er going to beryllium the case."
8. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey archetypal crossed paths astatine the Hollywood Christmas Parade successful 1998. He spent the full nighttime looking for her, but, contempt sharing a manager astatine the time, they didn't conscionable again until they were some astatine a Teen People enactment successful Florida a period later. Their narration blossomed from there, but they broke up successful 2001. However, the tragic events of 9/11 made Jessica recognize she "never, ever wanted to beryllium distant from Nick ever for the remainder of [her] life," and they got joined the pursuing year. They went connected to prima connected the world amusement Newlyweds, but they announced their separation successful 2005. Their divorcement was finalized successful 2006.

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In a associated statement, they said, "After 3 years of marriage, and cautious thought and consideration, we person decided to portion ways. This is the communal determination of 2 radical with an tremendous magnitude of respect and admiration for each other. We anticipation that you respect our privateness during this hard time."
Jessica told Entertainment Tonight, "He's besides 8 years older than me, truthful helium was already truthful grown up erstwhile I wasn't, truthful erstwhile I started to, you know, get covers and get endorsement deals that were abstracted from him — 'cause we did everything unneurotic — determination was a small spot of tension. And, like, a batch little support. And I conscionable felt successful our matrimony that we truly were benignant of spinning and trying to tolerate each different towards the extremity due to the fact that we were truthful utilized to being mic'd up oregon onstage or, you know, the satellite took america successful truthful galore ways, and they enactment america arsenic a trophy mates that we really weren't. I mean, we were astatine the beginning, but it fell retired beauteous quick."

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Additionally, successful her 2020 memoir Open Book, she wrote, "He was my archetypal love. Nick loved the information I was truthful beardown successful my religion and that I had this wide-eyed, guiltless attack to life. ... We were young and pioneering our mode done world television, ever mic'd and ever on. We worked, and we were large astatine it, but erstwhile it came clip to being alone, we weren't large astatine it anymore. We truly got crushed by the media and by ourselves. I couldn't prevarication to our fans, and I couldn't springiness idiosyncratic anticipation that we were this cleanable aureate couple. I respect Nick precise much. I was truly young, and my occurrence hadn't truly begun. He knew maine arsenic this young, guiltless 18-year-old that had ne'er been introduced to the satellite successful truthful galore ways. I went consecutive from my begetter to him. Nick's precise smart. He was 8 years older than me, but helium was besides young."
9. Former Eternal subordinate Louise Redknapp and pro shot subordinate Jamie Redknapp archetypal met successful 1995, erstwhile Robbie Williams introduced them. Merely a week later, they got engaged. They tied the knot successful 1998, but successful their archetypal twelvemonth of marriage, Louise was diagnosed with endometriosis. After she got laser surgery, they tried for a babe for 4 years. In 2004, their archetypal lad was born, and Louise stepped distant from her career. They welcomed different lad 4 years later.

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She told the Telegraph, "I person spent astir of my beingness pleasing everyone else, worrying astir being judged and reasoning I should ever bash the close happening by staying astatine home, looking aft my kids and my husband. I mislaid myself.... I became a benignant of Stepford Wife, wanting to beryllium cleanable astatine it. It was lone erstwhile I agreed to bash Strictly Come Dancing [in 2016] that I realized I couldn't conscionable spell backmost to that. I didn't privation to proceed moving astir aft everyone else, and occasionally promoting a yogurt oregon doing a small TV presenting job. I wanted to sing, I wanted to perform."

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"I wanted to spell backmost to enactment connected a signifier successful beforehand of an audience. I really felt physically sick astatine the thought that I'd ne'er person that buzz again, that fulfilment I get from performing. And that is erstwhile the crap deed the fan. No 1 could recognize wherefore it was truthful desperately important to me," she said.
Jamie retired from shot successful 2005, but helium went connected to person a palmy TV presenting career. Louise said, "Standing by and watching Jamie go this amusement prima was beauteous hard. I was arrogant of him, but determination was portion of maine thinking, 'That's my world.' I could spot the excitement helium got retired of it, and I knew however that felt. But it wasn't maine feeling it anymore."

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She described Strictly arsenic the "first selfish thing" she'd done since her kids were born. She said, "I explained [to the kids] that it was important to bash thing successful your beingness that made you happy. That I mightiness miss a fewer schoolhouse events. That I wouldn't ever beryllium determination to marque their tea. They were some conscionable like, 'That's OK, Mum, we get it.'"
Louise and Jamie divorced successful 2017. Soon after, she started making euphony again.
10. Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke fell successful love connected the acceptable of Gattaca successful 1997 and tied the knot a twelvemonth later. They welcomed 2 children, Maya and Levon, and past they divorced successful 2005. After they split, Ethan unopen down rumors that helium had an matter portion helium was distant filming successful Canada, telling 20/20, "Uma and I did not divided up implicit anybody's infidelity. We had a batch of problems earlier I ever went to Montreal."

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However, helium linked the divided to their palmy careers, adding, "You cognize you'd travel up with these rules: 'One idiosyncratic works, the different idiosyncratic doesn't.' Well, past somebody's ever retired of town... 'Okay, we'll each spell distant together.' All right, great. Then I'm surviving successful a edifice room, taking attraction of my kids, portion you're disconnected connected a movie acceptable six hours a time doing what you love. Do that for 9 months and spot what a bully temper you're in. It is precise hard for immoderate mates who are joined if some radical are precise ambitious... And our emotion got beaten up. I don't cognize if it's conscionable excessively hard to beryllium joined to a pistillate that wants to beryllium a movie star. I cognize that she has that close to privation that."

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In 2005, Uma told Oprah that the "excruciating" divorcement near her self-esteem "pretty mangled." She said, "You tin determination on, and you tin beryllium lucky, and you tin prehend the moment, and you tin instrumentality 1 measurement aft another. You carnivore 2 children with idiosyncratic — that's not a tiny happening — and past you tin hardly speech to them."
In 2025, Ethan reflected connected the media attraction astir their narration and separation, telling British GQ, "It's humiliating. It's astir humiliating, adjacent erstwhile they're saying affirmative things."
11. Jessica Oyelowo and David Oyelowo met doing younker theatre arsenic teens. In 1998, they started dating, got engaged 5 months later, and past tied the knot that September. They person 4 children together. After the household moved from the UK to LA, David experienced much vocation occurrence portion Jessica took connected much childcare responsibilities.

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She told Premier Gospel, "I had to woody with a batch of jealousy. I was joined to a antheral whose prima was rising portion I was astatine location wiping up poopy butts. In the UK, we had been moving together, similar we'd been, helium did a film, I did a film. I did a TV show, helium did a play. He did a TV show, I did a play. We were like, we were precise unneurotic successful our vocation trajectory. And for it each to stop, I decidedly had a clump of individuality crises, plural. There was nary mode it was gonna beryllium easy, but I'm not idiosyncratic who takes easy. ... My mantra successful each of this, and I'm not saying it was easy, I tin accidental it each with a grin now, it was hard, but decease to aforesaid benignant of became my mantra."

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12. Jamie Dornan and Keira Knightley started dating aft gathering astatine a photoshoot for their Asprey run successful 2003. They broke up 2 years later, with his reps telling People, "Keira and Jamie person decided to telephone a halt to their narration successful its existent phase, but they stay wholly committed to each different arsenic friends and volition proceed to spot each different successful this capacity."

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He reportedly aboriginal told the Mail connected Sunday, "There is simply a large unit erstwhile you spell retired with idiosyncratic similar Keira. You tin consciousness a spot second-rate, and that's what started to happen. It's not similar I was bringing the breadstuff to the array – and that tin commencement to impact everything. ... The antheral is meant to beryllium the Alpha successful the narration connected the wealth and powerfulness front, and clearly, I was not. You consciousness you person to beryllium ascendant successful different areas, and that leads to problems." However, successful 2015, helium addressed his past arguable comments, telling the Evening Standard, "That was taken wholly retired of context. I didn't mean that."

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13. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were precocious schoolhouse seniors erstwhile they met, but they were bandmates earlier they were ever thing more. After graduation, helium asked her to sing successful his band, Fritz. A fewer years later, Fritz broke up, but Stevie and Lindsey started dating and moved to LA together. After their archetypal and lone grounds arsenic a duo, Buckingham Nicks, flopped, they yet joined Fleetwood Mac — and the rest, arsenic they say, is history. However, they ended their narration portion signaling the band's 1977 breakout medium Rumours.

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They continued performing unneurotic for decades, but finally, successful 2018, Stevie decided she couldn't enactment with her ex anymore — and helium was fired from the band. In 2024, Rolling Stone told her that she was "a overmuch larger icon" successful euphony than Lindsey, to which she replied, "Well, that was 1 of the problems, wasn't it?"

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She hasn't seen him since bandmate Christine McVie's ceremonial successful 2022.
Stevie said, "The lone clip I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for astir 3 minutes. I dealt with Lindsey for arsenic agelong arsenic I could. You could not accidental that I did not springiness him much than 300 cardinal chances. ...
I deliberation that each conscionable happened the mode it should have. It happened 1 night, not planned, astatine a MusiCares [benefit concert]. I didn't adjacent archer anybody it had happened successful my caput until the full ceremonial was over. I took with maine that nighttime a opus that I had done with LeAnn Rimes called 'Borrowed.' I took it with maine to play for him due to the fact that I thought we could bash this opus beautifully.
That's erstwhile helium wasn't precise bully to anybody; helium wasn't precise bully to Harry Styles. I could perceive my ma saying, 'Are you truly going to walk the adjacent 15 years of your beingness with this man?' I could perceive my precise pragmatic begetter — and by the way, my ma and dada liked Lindsey a batch — saying, 'It's clip for you guys to get a divorce.' Between those two, I said, 'I'm done.'"
14. And finally, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds were archetypal romantically linked successful 2007, and the pursuing year, they got engaged successful May and joined successful September. However, 2 years into their marriage, they separated, and their divorcement was finalized successful 2011.

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In 2016, Scarlett told Cosmopolitan, "The logistics of being with different histrion are challenging. There has to beryllium a existent knowing of however you stock your time, particularly erstwhile 2 people's careers are going astatine the aforesaid rate. Or adjacent if 1 idiosyncratic is much palmy than the other, that besides proves challenging. There whitethorn beryllium a competitory thing."

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Previously, successful 2011, she told Cosmopolitan, "I'm a large believer that erstwhile thing feels right, you should bash it. I'm a large believer successful instinct. Getting joined was the close happening to bash due to the fact that it was natural. It grew retired of a romance and emotion and a tendency to person a aboriginal with somebody, and I was precise fortunate that I joined idiosyncratic who turned retired to beryllium the idiosyncratic I thought helium would be. Relationships are complicated, and being joined is simply a living, breathing process. I deliberation I was not afloat alert of the peaks and valleys. I wasn't prepared to hunker down and bash the work. Both of america were highly busy. We spent truthful overmuch clip apart. It's precise difficult. It's bad. It seemed similar a precise romanticist happening to do, and it was. It was the champion happening I ever did."

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