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When you picture your perfect partner, you probably think of someone who is your age—or at least in the same generation as you. But love doesn't always work that way, and some couples make it work despite a huge age gap. These May-December romances, as they're called, have faced their share of criticism, but they're still going strong.
Franziska KrugGetty Images Guy Ritchie and Jacqui AinsleyAge gap: 14 years
Guy met his second wife, model Jacqui Ainsley, through mutual friends at a London hotel and four years later the two are married with three children. The couple splits their time between their London apartment and a country home in Wiltshire.
Karwai TangGetty Images Alicia Vikander and Michael FassbenderAge gap: 11 years
Despite their age difference, Alicia and Michael were cast as husband and wife in the dramatic film, The Light Between Two Oceans (guess the casting director didn't think a decade was too much either). The two started dating after working together and got married in a secret ceremony in Spain in 2017.
J. MerrittGetty Images Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean MorganAge gap: 16 years
After 1o years in a committed relationship and two children together, Hilarie and Jeffrey got married in an intimate New York City ceremony in 2019. "There comes a point where you just don’t want to go another day by being inauthentic about it," Hilarie told People. The couple lives on a farm in upstate New York and have been together since 2009.
Jason Merritt/TERMGetty Images Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee FurnessAge gap: 13 years
Hugh met Deborra-Lee on the set of an Australian television show called Correlli in 1995 and almost instantly knew he would marry her. After both admitted they had crushes on one another, they started dating and a year later, they made it official.
David LivingstonGetty Images Julius Tennon and Viola DavisAge gap: 13 years
Viola, 54, wed her husband Julius, 65, in 2003, mere months after the actress prayed for love in her life. The couple has been married for 16 years and share an adopted daughter, Genesis.
Barry KingGetty Images Stephen Moyer and Anna PaquinAge gap: 13 years
For these True Blood costars, it really was ~eternal love~. Anna and Stephen began dating during their show’s first season in 2008 and got married two years later. They are now parents to twins Charlie and Poppy.
Kevork DjansezianGetty Images Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneresAge gap: 15 years
Ellen and Portia have been together since 2004 and said “I do” in 2008 after California’s same-sex marriage ban was lifted. Ellen told People, “It’s the first time that I’ve known in every cell of my being that I’m with somebody for the rest of my life.”
Neil MockfordGetty Images Rupert Murdoch and Jerry HallAge gap: 25 years
Rupert Murdoch, 88, and Jerry Hall, 63, caused a stir when they announced their engagement in 2016. The model and the media mogul married in London later that year, prompting Murdoch to tweet that he was “the luckiest AND happiest man in the world.”
Mike MarslandGetty Images Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyAge gap: 20 years
Jason and Rosie met while filming Transformers: Dark of the Moon together in 2010 and began dating the same year. The two have been engaged since 2016 and welcomed their son, Jack Oscar Statham, a year later.
Jamie McCarthyGetty Images Christian Slater and Brittany LopezAge gap: 18 years
After meeting on Florida’s Little Palm Island, Christian Slater and his wife, Brittany Lopez, tied the knot in a spontaneous ceremony at the Miami Courthouse in 2013 after a few years of dating. The couple was just getting their marriage certificate, and reportedly decided they couldn’t wait any longer to make it official.
Marco GarciaGetty Images Dennis Quaid and Laura SavoieAge gap: 39 years
Dennis Quaid made headlines when he proposed to 26-year-old PhD student Laura Savoie while on a press trip in Hawaii after just four months of dating. The actor told Extra: “She was actually taking a selfie of us, and I put the ring in front and said, ‘Will you marry me?’—and then she fell down.” You know, in typical millennial fashion. Quaid split from his girlfriend of three years, Santa Auzina, 32, in June.
Jon KopaloffGetty Images Chris Pratt and Katherine SchwarzeneggerAge gap: 10 years
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger announced their engagement in January 2019, after keeping a low profile at the beginning of their relationship. The couple were married in June in a private ceremony. Pratt divorced actress Anna Faris in 2018, but the two still coparent their son Jack.
Andrew H. WalkerGetty Images Megan Fox and Brian Austin GreenAge gap: 12 years
Brian and Megan have the set of Hope & Faith to thank for their meet-cute when she was 18 and he was 30. Since then, the couple has broken up and reconciled a few times, most recently calling off their 2015 divorce. They share two sons together.
Gregg DeGuireGetty Images Adam Levine and Behati PrinslooAge gap: 10 years
Maroon 5 frontman, Adam Levine, 40, and his Victoria's Secret model wife, Behati Prinsloo, 31, have been married since 2014 and welcomed two daughters, Dusty Rose and Gio Grace, in 2016 and 2018.
David M. BenettGetty Images Heidi Klum and Tom KaulitzAge gap: 17 years
Heidi may have revealed her best anti-aging secret when she explained her thoughts on her and husband Tom Kaulitz’s 17-year age gap. “You have to just live a happy life without worrying too much about what people think because worrying is only going to give you more wrinkles,” Heidi told InStyle. The pair started dating in 2018, got engaged later that year, and made it official this summer.
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JB LacroixGetty Images Matt Bomer and Simon HallsAge gap: 13 years
Matt wed his publicist, Simon, in 2011. Now the two share three sons together. When asked about his secret to a happy marriage, Matt told Entertainment Tonight that the couple tries to take everything “one day at a time.”
Kevin MazurGetty Images Ian Somerhalder and Nikki ReedAge gap: 10 years
The Vampire Diaries and Twilight stars began dating in 2014. Maybe it was their vampire backgrounds that helped forge their bond, because a year later the two tied the knot. They’ve since welcomed a daughter, Bodhi Soleil, to their family.
Kevin MazurGetty Images Matthew McConaughey and Camila AlvesAge gap: 13 years
While Matthew and Camila tend to keep their relationship and family out of the limelight, it seems like everything is alright, alright, alright with their age difference. The couple met in 2006 and got married in 2012 and have three children together.
Kevin MazurGetty Images Jay-Z and BeyoncéAge gap: 12 years
Beyonce and Jay-Z started dating in 2001, but were tight-lipped about it until their first joint appearance at the 2004 VMAs. The couple got married in 2008 in a secret ceremony in their New York City apartment and welcomed their first child in 2012, as well as twins in 2017.
Kevin MazurGetty Images Blake Lively and Ryan ReynoldsAge gap: 11 years
Even though they met on the set of The Green Lantern in 2010, Ryan and Blake didn’t realize they had feelings for one another until a year later. The couple got married in 2012 and recently welcomed their third child.
Rob KimGetty Images Priyanka Chopra and Nick JonasAge gap: 10 years
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas got married in 2018 after a whirlwind romance. The singer, who is 10 years Priyanka’s junior, proposed after just two months of dating and they were married within the year. The couple first met at the 2017 Met Gala when they were both dressed by Ralph Lauren.
Kevork DjansezianGetty Images Lisa Bonet and Jason MomoaAge gap: 12 years
Jason Momoa told Esquire “anything is f*cking possible,” after he married his childhood crush, Lisa Bonet. The two were set up by a mutual friend in 2005 and, after YEARS of dating, tied the knot in 2017. The couple share two children together, Lola Iolani and Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha.
Getty Images Alec and Hilaria BaldwinAge gap: 26 Years
Alec Baldwin, 60, and Hilaria Baldwin, 34, may have gotten some side-eye when they started dating in 2011, but they’ve made it work despite their age gap. The couple got married just a year later in 2012, reports Us Weekly. Together they have four children.
Getty Images David Foster and Katharine McPheeAge gap: 34 years
At 34, Katharine is literally half her boyfriend’s age. The two played coy for a while, but Katharine admitted to ET in early May that they’re a couple.
Getty Images Harrison Ford and Calista FlockhartAge gap: 22 years
Harrison and Calista, who have been married since 2010, don’t seem to notice their age gap. “It doesn’t faze me. Sometimes I even say, ‘Wow, I keep forgetting that he’s 22 years older than me,’” Calista told Hello! Magazine. “It doesn’t factor into our relationship at all. I like the way he looks first thing in the morning. It’s not handsome, it’s more cute. He looks like a little boy."
Getty Images Sarah Paulson and Holland TaylorAge gap: 32 years
Sarah, 41, and Holland, 73, started dating in 2015 and went public the next year. "What I can say absolutely is that I am in love, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor,” Sarah told ET in 2016.
Getty Images Bruce Willis and Emma HemingAge gap: 23 years
Emma says on her website that she first met Bruce at their trainer’s gym in 2007, and the couple got married two years later despite their 23-year age gap. They have two daughters together.
Getty Images George Clooney and Amal ClooneyAge gap: 17 years
Beloved couple George and Amal Clooney have a pretty significant age gap between them. When the two met in 2013, “I thought she was beautiful, and I thought she was funny and obviously smart,” George told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview, and then joked that Amal “probably thought I was old."
The two were married in 2014, and welcomed twins Alexander and Ella later that year.
Getty Images David Cross and Amber TamblynAge gap: 19 years
David and Amber got married in 2012 when he was 48 and she was 29. The couple had a daughter in 2017. Amber told the New York Post that their first date involved biking over the Brooklyn Bridge, followed by wine and cheese while watching the sunset. “There’s nothing more romantic in the entire city than that. That’s how he got me!” she said.
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Age gap: 25 years
People were shocked when Catherine and Michael first started dating, mostly due to the fact that he’s 25 years older than her. But the couple has been married for 18 years. "I think understanding, listening, being friends, all helps," Catherine told ET of their successful marriage.
