Despite being from Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, Salma Hayek finds her roots in Lebanon! Her father, Sami, is Lebanese and her mother is Mexican, and the two met in Coatzacoalcos where Salma was born.
Salma married French fashion designer Francois-Henri Pinault in 2009 and the two have lived their Parisian fantasy ever since!
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake have been in an on again, off again, relationship for over 11 years! The two first met at a birthday party Justin was throwing for one of his friends. In an interview with Hollywood Foreign Press, Justin recalled how Jessica played hard to get when asked on a date saying, "I had to be pretty persistent in order to get her to say yes.”
In 2007 the couple made their relationship public news, but shortly after in 2011 they broke it off. That didn’t last long however, because in the same year they reignited their relationship and got engaged the same year! Since, the two welcomed a beautiful son named Silas Randall and have been inseparable.
While they’re both Latino, Benjamin Bratt is actually Peruvian, and Talisa is Puerto Rican! The two actors have been married since 2002. The two met 10 years before, in a casting audition for Blood in Blood Out.
Nowadays, these two are busy raising their kids Mateo and Sophia!
America Ferrera, also known as Ugly Betty and Amy from Superstore, has been married to her husband Ryan Piers Williams for over 8 years! The two started dating right before her career took off causing doubts on the health of their relationship.
Thankfully, they stuck it out and the two made it official in 2011! They now have two sweet kids, the first a son named Sebastian and in 2020 welcomed home a baby girl named Lucia!
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren met in 2004 on the set of Fantastic Four, and the rest is history! After four years of dating, the two made it official in 2008 - a month before having their first child, Honor.
Two kiddos and 16 years later, they are still very much in love and find time in between parenting and busy schedules to keep their romance alive. In an Instagram post, Cash talks about his love for Jessica saying, “I still get butterflies in my stomach around you. I still wake up in the middle of the night and smile because you're next to me. I still laugh at your jokes."
You may know Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy, and her husband Chris Ivery a popular black music producer. The two have been married since 2007 and have 3 lovely kiddos together.
Ellen received a lot of criticism for rejecting to participate in an on-screen love interest with Isiah Washington’s character on the show. In an interview with the NY Post Ellen said “Shonda really wanted to put a black man in the mix. I didn’t think they were really going to put an interracial couple on the show, and I didn’t want him. It was too close to home.”
Mark and Kelly met on the set of All My Children in 1995, but the actress already knew she wanted to marry Consuelos before they ever met. She told Sirius XM’s Lunch with Bruce, “I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before my eyes.”
25 years and three children later, the couple are still going strong and Kelly still refers to Mark as her best friend.
The pioneers. If interracial marriage was ever controversial, it was never more controversial than when abolitionist Frederick Douglas married fellow abolitionist Helen Pitts. In 1882, it was definitely frowned upon to mix the races at all.
Despite the fact that Helen had been raised by an entire family of abolitionists, her father still disowned her and cut her out of his will for marrying a black man. They remained married until Douglas’s death in 1895.
We’re pretty sure Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are our favorite Hollywood couple! The two are a dynamic duo in raising their two kiddos and show us the true meaning of family. Their relationship started in 2006 during a shoot for John’s music video “Stereo” the two fell in love during that shoot and the rest was history!
Recently, the couple sadly lost their third child at birth and both took a break from the public eye. We truly wish them all the best and are proud of their public conversation around situations like these!
SNL star Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson have been married for over 16 years! News about the couple is few and far between, however, they have four lovely kids together and seem to live a very content life.
In 2017, Paul released the Oscar-nominated film The Phantom Thread, a gritty and honest portrayal of love and growth between two ambitious people. Paul revealed in many interviews that this film took lots of inspiration from his own long-standing relationship with Maya. You really couldn’t ask for two more down-to-earth people!
This romance started in romantic Italy at a dinner party hosted by Clooney himself. Amal was visiting Italy and connected with Clooney through a mutual friend who set them up. Apparently, George’s parents were the first to meet Amal and were charmed by her charisma and beautiful looks.
The two clicked at dinner and their fates were sealed. They kept in contact afterwards and friendship quickly turned romantic. George revealed in an interview with THC, “We were writing each other, emailing, talking, mostly about what was going on in each other’s lives, and over a period of time it became clear we were more than just friends.”
He was a starving artist, and she was a budding actress. These two were star-crossed lovers at first glance and they just couldn’t help but fall head-over-heels in love! Zoe told Marie Claire in 2014 "I met my husband; I wasn't going to try it out and see if it works. No, I felt it. I went with the feeling.”
The two married in 2013 and now have three lovely boys. The couple are raising their boys in a gender-neutral household and showing them that gender doesn’t define you!
David Bowie and Iman were introduced to each other at a dinner party and apparently it was love at first sight for Bowie. He told Hello! Magazine in 2000 that, “That she would be my wife, in my head, was a done deal.”
They had one child together in the year 2000, and spent a total of 24 years together before Bowie tragically lost his battle with liver cancer.
Jason and Lisa have been together for over 15 years now! On the Late Show with James Corden, Jason told us all how he fell for Lisa at only eight years old saying: “Ever since I was 8 years old and I saw her on TV, I was like ’Mommy, I want that one. I’m gonna stalk you for the rest of my life and I’m gonna get you.’”
After a year of dating, in 2007 the two welcomed their first child together Lola and in 2008 their second Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeh! Lisa’s first daughter, Zoë, comes from her previous relationship with Lenny Kravitz. The family finally made it official through a secret wedding in 2017 after 12 years of dating!
Arguably two of the biggest celebs of the 2000’s, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden started dating in 2006! The two made it official on December 11th, 2010 making 2020 their 10th year of marriage together.
Two kids later, Nicole and Joel have had a beautiful relationship over the last 14 years. They’ve supported each other through thick and thin and showed us all what true love is about.
There’s more to this rapper-model relationship, in fact, Ice-T and Coco show us all that love knows no bounds, crossing both a 20 year age gap and racial barrier.
Despite the constant criticisms and judgment, these two have been in love since they first laid eyes on each other. It all started with a cheesy pick-up line!
We all know this real-life fairytale by heart by now. Prince Harry actually did what we’ve all dreamt about since we were girls—actually married an American commoner.
But what he never expected was that her race would play into their relationship, or the coverage of it. In an official statement, Prince Harry addressed the press coverage, and the “outright racism of social media trolls and web article comments.”
Director and comedian Jordan Peele and comedian Chelsea Peretti apparently met over Twitter! He complimented her on one of her projects and three years later they had eloped to California. Although he did produce and direct the film, Get Out, he has nothing but the nicest of things to say about his real-life in-laws.
The two were married in 2016, welcomed son Beaumont in 2017, and show no signs of stopping or slowing down their marriage any time soon.
After his highly publicized and dramatic break-up with Twilight lover Kristen Stewart, Robert rebounded in a brief three-year relationship with FKA Twigs, a successful musician.
Unfortunately, the two came under intense scrutiny from the internet trolls out there, criticizing the two’s relationship based on their race! The pressure of balancing their relationship with busy schedules and rude internet bullies sadly lead to their breakup in 2017. Such a shame!
These two tennis pros both made names for themselves through their athletics but have also found success in marriage since 2001. Steffi is of German descent, and Andre has Iranian ancestors.
The two married after Andre had a failed marriage with Brooke Shields, and a struggle with drug addiction.
John Lennon famously met Yoko at her 1966 London gallery opening, and they connected instantly. Less than three years later, on March 20, 1969, the two got married and made music history.
The couple had a son together, Sean Lennon, born in 1975. We're sure this couple would still be happily married to this day, had John's life not been tragically cut short in 1980.
Wanda Sykes is probably one of the most iconic voices in comedy, and since her relationship with Alex she’s used that voice to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights. The two lovebirds met on a ferry ride to the gay resort Fire Island in New York.
Wanda talks about the moment she knew Alex was the one for her, recounting how Alex was talking to a baby during the ferry ride. In an interview with The Guardian, Wanda said “Something really said to me – like audibly – "Wow, that’s what you need, Wanda.”
Talk about inspirational. In a time when racial tensions were at their highest, and more than a decade before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of interracial marriage, Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt defied conventions and got married anyway.
Although the marriage only lasted eight years, it was still an inspirational form of defiance of social norms. Also, it resulted in three beautiful children—their bioligical daughter Tracey, and their two adopted sons, Mark and Jeff.
Pearl Bailey was a famous actress and singer, and Louie Bellson was a famous jazz drummer, composer, and band leader who fell in love after just four days of courtship.
They were married for a total of 38 years until Bailey’s death in 1990.
Married since 1997, Gabrielle Reece and Laird Hamilton were a match made on the beach! She’s a volleyball pro and he’s a surfer dude, and they both enjoy an active life with their three kids living between Malibu and Kauai.
Gabrielle’s father was from Trinidad, and unfortunately died in a plane crash when she was only five years old, and her mother is a Briton. Laird is from Greek descent!
Alfre Woodard, award winning actress, has been married and in love with her husband, writer Roderick Spencer for more than 36 years.
The two were introduced by her acting teacher and they have been inseparable ever since.
Talk about love at first sight. When Michael Caine saw the former Miss Guyana in a coffee commercial in 1971, he was prepared to fly to Columbia, if need be, to meet her. Luckily, he found out that she actually lived close by and he got her number and asked her out.
The two have been married since January of 1973, and have one daughter together.
George Takei and Brad Altman are inspiring because they entered into their marriage before it was truly accepted by society. In George Takei’s mind, they made progress either way. In an interview with Variety in 2015, he said, “And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That’s wonderful because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal."
The couple had been together for 21 years before their controversial marriage was even celebrated in 2008, and they've been blissfully happy ever since.
