12 Celebrities Who Only Said “I Do” At 40 (or Even After), Proving That Love Knows No Age

People who marry later in life might be happier in the long run than those who marry early, says a study. In the world of entertainment, there are plenty of couples who put this theory to the test. We put together a list of famous names who found their soulmate at an older age and are proud of it.

George Clooney

Former notorious bachelor George Clooney quickly settled after meeting the beautiful and sophisticated Amal. They got married after less than a year of dating in September 2014. The actor was 52 years old at the time.

Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum met the guitar player of Tokio Hotel, Tom Kaulitz, in Germany. Their relationship became public after fans noticed Klum and Kaulitz kissing while filming a TV show. Tom proposed to Heidi on Christmas Eve in 2018, and in February of the next year, they secretly tied the knot. The model was 45 at that moment.

Heidi Klum is happy that she finally managed to find a soulmate who is as romantic as she is. “It’s the first time I feel like I really have a partner to do everything with,” Klum confessed.

Britney Spears

Spears and Sam Asghari had been together for years before finally making it official, after she turned 40, in June of 2022 at their shared home. This is the singer’s third marriage, who shares 2 children with her second husband, Kevin Federline.

Sofía Vergara

Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello met each other in May 2014 at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The actress was engaged to a different man at that moment. However, by June, Vergara was still not married and she started to date the handsome Manganiello.

6 months later, on Christmas Eve, Manganiello proposed to her. Vergara and Manganiello got married in November 2015. Vergara was 43 at that time.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Actress and director Sam Taylor-Johnson married the young actor, Aaron Johnson, when she was 45. Now the couple has a double surname, Taylor-Johnson. The husband is 23 years younger than his wife, but this doesn’t embarrass them at all. Moreover, Sam brought 2 daughters into the relationship.

Joan Collins

Joan Collins married the Hollywood producer, Percy Gibson, at 68 despite the fact he was 31 years younger than her. The couple met each other in 2000 when the actress was appearing in a play for a theatre company that Gibson managed. They got married 2 years later and have been living happily for 20 years already.

Barbra Streisand

One of the most renowned actresses in the world who received fame thanks to her many performances in classics such as Hello Dolly! and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever was for sure not in a hurry to get married. Her approach is great — after all, there’s no reason to think you should get married before 30 if you don’t want to. It was only in 1998 that she decided to say yes to James Brolin, who is a film and television actor as well as a producer and director. At the time, Streisand was 56 and Brolin was about to turn 58. Today, they’re still happily married.

Calista Flockhart

Calista Flockhart met her future husband, Harrison Ford, in January 2002 at the Golden Globe Awards, after which they started a romantic relationship. 8 years later, they got married. At that time, Flockhart was 45, and Ford was 67.

Humor is the secret to their strong love for one another. “Harrison and I laugh a lot, and humor is everything to me,” explained Flockhart, answering a question about how she and Harrison keep the spark in their union alive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

In 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow started to date producer Brad Falchuk, whom she met on set of the Glee series in 2010. The couple announced their relationship in April 2015, and their wedding ceremony took place in September 2018. The actress was 46 at that time. As Paltrow noted in one of her interviews, their relationship developed so romantically that it feels as if they are still in the honeymoon stage.

Julianne Moore

The actress started to date Bart Freundlich, the producer of The Myth of Fingerprints, which she starred in back in 1996. The couple had a son and a daughter during their relationship. But they didn’t get married until after, in 2003. Julianne Moore was 42 at that time.

Salma Hayek

In March 2007, when Salma Hayek was 40 years old, she announced that not only was she engaged, but that she was also pregnant. The lucky guy was none other than the French businessman, François-Henri Pinault. In 2009, the happy couple finally got married when she was 42 and he was 46. They have only had one daughter together, Valentina. However, Pinault already had 3 children from previous marriages that Hayek gets along really well with.

Gabrielle Union

In 2007, Gabrielle Union met the NBA player Dwyane Wade at a Super Bowl party. After 4 months, rumors appeared, saying the NBA star was secretly dating Union. In 2010, they were photographed together, reinforcing the speculation that they were a couple, although they didn’t confirm anything publicly.

Only in January 2012 did Union and Wade open up their feelings and a possible marriage after having appeared together on the cover of a magazine. By the way, the wedding took place in 2014 when Union was almost 42.

Dwayne ’The Rock’ Johnson

It took The Rock nearly 12 years to pop the question. The couple first met on the set of The Game Plan (2007) and started dating shortly after, but they got married in 2019 in Hawaii, when Johnson was 47 years-old.

Bonus: Jennifer Lopez

In April 2021, it became known that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had started to date again. Lopez publicly confirmed it 3 months later. Their fans hope that this time they’ll make it to the wedding. Now the actress and singer is 52, while Ben Affleck is 49.

Lopez and Affleck already had a relationship — from mid-2002 to the beginning of 2004. They got engaged in November 2002, but their wedding planned for September 14, 2003, was postponed 4 days prior to the event, as it attracted too much media attention. Years after, Lopez said that Affleck’s discomfort from reporters’ attention was one of the reasons for their breakup.

Do you know people who found their happiness after 40?