Most people at some point in their lives have a crush on a celebrity. A few lucky ones actually get to not only meet them, end up marrying them. For some it may be years or even decades down the road for the chance meeting to happen, but when it does it's fireworks all the way. Though, like most celebrity marriages, several on our list did not last for one reason or another. It's still pretty cool that these fans got to marry their celeb crushes.
Whether they met during an autograph signing, a mutual friend, or by serving drinks to their celeb spouses, the people on this list prove that your life can change from unknown to tabloid spotlight overnight. Some of the fans on our list are celebrities in their own right that were fans of another celebrity before they met and were married.
While most people go throughout their entire life without ever even meeting their favorite celebrities - let alone spending the rest of their lives with them, this list proves that celebs don't only hook up with other celebrities. Here are 7 celebrities that married fans.
7. MATT DAMON - LUCIANA BARROSO
Matt Damon only has eyes for his wife of more than a decade, Luciana Barroso. The Martian star met Barroso, then a bartender, while he was living in Miami and filming the 2003 film, Stuck on You.
Luciana is from the city of Salta, Argentina. Damon pursued her, and the pair eventually married in 2005. Barroso and Damon have three children together, and one daughter from a previous marriage of Luciana. Twelve years and they’re still going strong. The lovely couple spends a lot of time with their besties, Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky in Australia. In fact, they plan to purchase the property next door to the Hemsworth's.
6. PATRICK DEMPSEY - JILLIAN FINK
Jillian Fink could barely hide her excitement upon finding out one of her favorite actors from the '80s, Patrick Dempsey, had booked an appointment with her to cut his hair in 1994.
"I was shocked," she recalled of that day at the Delux hair salon. "But at the same time, I was happy because he was so cute."
She also mentioned that she was "always flirting" with the Grey's Anatomy star, a tactic that paid off. They got hitched in 1999 and welcomed three kids — Tallula, Darby, and Sullivan. Despite a brief separation in 2015, the couple reconciled and are now more in love than ever.
5. NICOLAS CAGE - ALICE KIM
In 2004 aspiring actress Alice Kim was just 19 years old, she was working at a Los Angeles restaurant Le Prive, when one of her favorite actors, Nicolas Cage, came in for a bite to eat. Despite their age difference — Cage was roughly 20 years her senior — the waitress and Oscar-winner connected and soon began dating.
Nicolas Cage was previously married to Patricia Arquette and Lisa Marie Presley. Maybe he was ready to be with someone outside of the Hollywood limelight.
In an interview with People Magazine, Cage said of Alice, "I don't want to say [I am] happy because that's too fragile a word, but I'm definitely content, and I'm hopeful about the future."
Cage and Kim were married in 2004, and had one son together, named Kal-El, before separating in 2016.
4. STEVE HARVEY - MARJORIE BRIDGES
When Steve Harvey cracked a joke during a 1990 comedy set at a Memphis comedy club about marrying a woman in the audience one day, he never realized it would actually come true. He began dating Marjorie Bridges-Woods shortly after calling her out at this show, but they broke up because of the stress long distance put on their relationship.
After reconnecting with her later in life, he made good on his promise when they finally married in 2007. Together the pair has seven children, Harvey has three from his first marriage, a son from his second marriage, and now three stepchildren from previous marriages of Bridges.
3. FERGIE - JOSH DUHAMEL
Josh Duhamel and Fergie were married for eight years before splitting in September 2017, but regardless of their breakup their origin story is pretty damn cute. Josh had been a longtime fan of the Black Eyed Peas singer and convinced the show he was on at the time, Las Vegas, to write the band into an episode so he could finally meet her.
When they did come face to face for the first time, he got totally flustered and could only think to say "You're hot." Thankfully Fergie was into it, and they later welcomed a son, Axl.
2. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG - ADRIENNE NESSER
Green Day’s front man, and occasional Broadway star, Billie Joe Armstrong has a passion for music, and for his wife of 25 years, Adrienne Nesser. And while many musicians wind up romancing models or other celebrities, Armstrong met his completely not-famous wife the old-fashioned way: backstage at a concert in Minneapolis, where the band was performing.
Nesser was a huge fan of the band and was lucky enough to marry her music idol. Though Armstrong called the wedding an “impulsive” move, he credits his long-term relationship with helping him navigate the chaotic aspects of life on the road. Today, Armstrong and Nesser have two children.
1. JOHN TRAVOLTA - KELLY PRESTON
As a young Kelly Preston made her way out of a movie theater, she saw something that would change her life forever.
"I did have sort of a flash. I came out of a film, saw the poster for Grease and I knew I'd be with him," she told Starpulse.
"I just knew. I was about 16 years old. I really knew it and it turned into, 'I'm going to marry that man,' and so he likes to tease me that I walked out and said, 'I'm going to marry that man,' and then did, ultimately."
Her premonition came true in 1991 when they really did tie the knot, after meeting in 1987 on the set of The Experts. They are parents to daughter Ella and sons Benjamin and Jett, who tragically passed away in 2009.