It’s time to end patriarchy A man doesn’t have to be the one who pops the question — and there are many female stars who have taken control and proposed to their significant others.
Dax ShepardOriginally proposed to Kristen BellIn 2009, the couple decided to wait until marriage equality was legalized in the United States before they got married. The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was legal in June 2013. Good PlaceAlum asked the former ParenthoodStar to marry her via twitter
“.@daxshepard1 Will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove,” she tweeted at the time, to which he responded, “@IMKristenBell F—k Yes!!!!!!!!!!!”
The couple, who had been together for many years, tied the knot in a Beverly Hills courthouse suite later that year. The ceremony was called “The Ceremony”. ChipsCostars welcomed daughters Delta and Lincoln in 2013 and 2014.
The fourth episode is available on Britney Spears‘ 2005 series, Britney and Kevin: ChaoticThe pop star revealed that she proposed to him. Kevin Federline when they were on a flight to New York City to film her “Outrageous” music video. The dancer said that he “didn’t expect it” even though he had an idea of where their relationship was heading.
“I was like, ‘No, no. It’s not supposed to be that way. I’m supposed to propose and do the whole, get on one knee and beg and plead,’” he recalled. “So, she was like, ‘Alright, you gotta ask me then.’”
Spears added, “He did, right then and there.”
They were married in 2004 and had two sons, Jayden (2006) and Sean Preston (2005). They split in 2007.
After P.K. SubbanIt was suggested to Lindsey VonnIn August 2019, she decided that she would return the beloved ring months later. “I was like, ‘Well, I have an engagement ring, but you don’t. So, not everybody knows we’re engaged.’ And I think it should be like, really equal,” she recalled while cohosting Entertainment TonightIn December 2020. “We were going to give each other rings, so I just kind of made a thing about it.”
The former alpine ski racer added, “But I never knew it was going to be that big of a deal … I just wanted to do something that was for us, and special for us.”
After three years of being together, the athletes decided to end their relationship and split.
Returned in 2019 Haley Lu RichardsonShe spoke out about her spontaneous proposal to him Brett DierWhile eating pizza in a mall food court “I didn’t prepare at all. I had no idea when I woke up that morning that I was going to ask someone to marry me that day,” she told CosmopolitanAt the time. “I was totally in the moment and this gut feeling came up and coerced me to ask him to marry me and I did. He said yes. It was the ability to not think about it before it happened that made it possible. I just kind of did it.”
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