Wedding rings – the A list losers in love

It seems celebrities of a certain ilk tend to buy more wedding rings than usual. The A-list movie stars and musicians have notoriously short shelf lives when it comes to marriage. The list of celebs who took off their wedding rings faster than you can say ‘I do’ include Renee Zellweger, Britney Spears and Drew Barrymore. Perhaps the pressure to be perfect and to have a happily ever after story are too much pressure when the reality of married life hits home.
 

Whirlwind wedding rings

Whirlwind romances tend to result in the premature exchange of wedding rings as witnessed by Zellwegger’s fourth-month marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney. But the most famous of short-lived marriages was the union of Britney Spears and Jason Alexander. They wore their wedding rings for just 55 hours in January 2004, despite Alexander being a childhood friend of the star. The fact that the pair of them saw the whole thing as a joke that went too far speaks volumes. Alexander said the pair gave up their wedding rings and dissolved the marriage stating that the wedding was something ‘wild’ and ‘just for the hell of it’. It was just eight months later that Britney married dancer Kevin Federlin (now divorced).
 

The pressure of fame

Perhaps it’s the high profile nature of celebrity weddings that’s to blame. We all see the dress, wedding rings and glamour in the magazines, and as more celebrities are invited to the wedding the whole occasion becomes a massive press event. Lisa Marie Presley was married for six years before re-marrying to Michael Jackson, only to divorce 19 months later and go on to marry Nicolas Cage (although the wedding rings were put to rest after just 107 days of marriage with Presley saying, “It was a big mistake”.
 

Ditching wedding rings

Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and Elizabeth Taylor have also felt wedding rings slip on and off their fingers with alarming frequency. It seems the exchange of wedding rings, a spectacular wedding followed by a speedy divorce is de rigour for the celebrity set. So much so, that a mathematician has devised a formula to calculate the lifespan of a typical celeb marriage. The calculation states that the more famous a celebrity is, the shorter their marriage will be.

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