Teenage dreams come true Thomas RhettAnd Lauren Akins, Stephen CurryAnd Ayesha CurryCelebrities were more likely to be first linked in high school.
Akins was a country music star who met Akins in grade school in Georgia. They were best friends by sixth grade. Fast forward to highschool, and they fell in love.
“I always got the feeling that he still liked me the way he liked me way back at church camp in the sixth grade, but I also felt like he gave mixed signals about what he wanted to do about it,” Akins wrote about their high school romance in her in 2020 memoir, Live in love
Although their relationship was difficult as teenagers, they rekindled their relationship after college and were married in October 2012.
“We dated once when we were 15, and it didn’t work out. We dated for like six months,” Rhett told Taste of CountryBefore their nuptials. “We remained best friends even after we broke up. We dated for five years. When I heard that she had ended her other relationship … I moved in for the kill. We kissed, and that was it.”
Stephen and Ayesha are another famous couple who were bonded by their faith as teenagers.
“I wasn’t allowed to date in high school,” Ayesha told Parents MagazineAbout meeting the future NBA star when she turned 14. “We always laugh that we were both focused on God.”
The athlete added, “I always had my eye on her, but I got a little shaken, for sure.”
After many years of friendship, the couple began to date in their 20s.
“I was 23; she was 22. But I knew I had found the right woman and I wanted to start a life with her,” Stephen said.
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