Beyoncé & Jay-Z

The details of Jay-Z and Beyoncé‘s alleged (albeit temporary) split are murky because the Carters are notoriously private.

We know things were rocky between them at some point because it’s what tied together Lemonade (2016) and 4:44 (2017). They also addressed their issues on “LOVEHAPPY” on their 2018 joint album, EVERYTHING IS LOVE.

Hov rapped, “Y’all know how I met her, we broke up and got back together/ To get her back, I had to sweat her/ Y’all could make up with a bag, I had to change the weather (Uh)/ Move the whole family West, but it’s whatever.”

On the chorus, Bey continued to allude to how bad things were. “You did some things to me/ Boy, you do some things to me,” she sang before noting, “The ups and downs are worth it/ Long way to go, but we’re workin’/ We’re flawed, but we’re still perfect for each other.”

Since then, the two have maintained a united front with him being front row on both her RENAISSANCE and COWBOY CARTER world tours and even popping out for a performance or two.

Sterling K. Brown & Ryan Michelle Bathe

The veteran actors met while attending Stanford University. Bathe told Parade, “I saw his audition for ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ and I was riveted. I had never seen anybody so young do what he was doing. I was floored. And that’s my first memory of Sterling.”

They were on and off throughout college and officially broke up after graduating in 1998. According to Brown, they’d been apart for “three and a half years before we came back into each other’s lives.”

He spoke about how the work he put in to win her over on The Talk in 2017. “She was on the treadmill working out, and I had this epiphany, ‘I have to go tell this woman she’s the love of my life,’” he recalled. “I go to her apartment, I tell her, and she’s like, ‘Well, I’m working out right now,’ and I was like, ‘No, I can see that— I’ll just talk to you while you’re on the treadmill,’ and she said, ‘Well, I feel like going outside. So I’m gonna go on a run.’ So I’m like, dressed [in a suit], and she starts running through Koreatown, and I start running along with her. Brother had to work, but it was well worth it.”

They eloped in 2006 and now have two sons: Andrew and Amaré.

Ashanti & Nelly

Ashanti and Nelly are the current epitome of a successful “spin the block.“

The two met in 2003 and dated on and off for a decade. They reunited 20 years after first meeting, got married, and welcomed their first child together.

“Never in a million years did I think we would be here,” Ashanti said in an ET interview when gushing about Nelly’s proposal. “Ten years ago — maybe yes — but after our breakup, you know, I didn’t even think we’d ever have a conversation again.”

The singer confessed to having an honest chat with herself about her feelings for Nelly after the two reconnected in 2021, after the Fat Joe-Ja Rule VERZUZ. “I had to really, like, be real with myself, like, do I have feelings for him again? Like what’s going on? Because [the feelings] were out, you know what I mean. They were gone,” she explained, adding, “I was literally surprised that they were there.”

The two have discussed having more children as long as the rapper can hire a “professional chaser.”

Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade met in February 2007 at a Super Bowl party. Of that initial interaction, Union told Glamour in 2014, “When I met Dwyane, his résumé looked like ****: athlete, going through a divorce, nine years younger than me. None of that screamed, ‘Let’s have a lasting relationship.’”

They started dating in 2009, but didn’t go public with their relationship until 2010. They broke up in early 2013 due to “distance and scheduling.” During their break, he fathered a son, Xavier, with Basketball Wives star, Aja Metoyerin. By that December, Wade and Union were back together, and he proposed with the help of his children.

They tied the knot in August 2014. They welcomed their first child together, daughter Kaavia James, via surrogate in November 2018. Their marriage has had its ups and downs, with the couple describing their ninth year of marriage as “so hard.” Yet, for the recent anniversary, Union gushed, “This love feels like the best sleepover we get to call home.”

Ryan Destiny & Keith Powers

The blossoming Hollywood stars first met in 2015 at a Teen Vogue party. They didn’t go public with their ultra-private romance until 2019, though.

“I just remember us for a long time not wanting to go public with it,” said the Star actress to MadameNoire in 2020. “We were like, ‘We don’t really feel like having a lot of opinions thrown at us.’ One day, we just kinda wanted to post a picture with us, and it naturally happened, and we were like, ‘Okay, so we’re doing this.’”

In January 2022, a source confirmed to PEOPLE that Ryan and Keith had split up after four years together. The source explained, “They’re taking time to focus on themselves and their emerging careers but are remaining close friends.”

Fast forward to December 2024, Ryan described their split as a “bump in the road,” and she confirmed in February 2025 that they were back together. In October of the same year, the couple announced their engagement.

Keith told Essence that he’d been planning the proposal for 18 months and asked for her hand in marriage over an intimate candlelit dinner at a beachside hotel in California. “I never questioned God’s timing,” he explained.

Ryan gushed to the outlet, “You imagine this moment in your head for so long, so when it actually happens, it almost feels out of body. But I think I was mostly present. In bliss, but present. Like, could not stop smiling.”

Eva Marcille & Michael Sterling

Eva Marcille and Michael Sterling sort of met because of Kevin Hart.

She explained on The Wendy Williams Show that she was in Atlanta filming and was wooed by a friend of hers who said she’d gift the model tickets to one of Hart’s comedy shows if she was her guest at a fundraiser for the Mayor’s Youth Scholarship Fund.

She described Sterling as a “shiny, new penny,” and after a few dates, they were both smitten with each other. They wed in October 2018 and had two sons together: Michael Jr. and Maverick. She has a daughter, Marley Rae, with ex Kevin McCall.

Marcille filed for divorce from Sterling in March 2023, claiming their marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

However, the couple “soft launched” their reconciliation this past July during ESSENCE Fest 2025. It’s not confirmed if they’ve gotten remarried, but the model-actress gushed on Instagram, “This is my baby! TIL death!”

Justin & Hailey Bieber

Justin Bieber and his now-wife, Hailey, had been denying rumors about their romantic relationship since 2014 before confirming their partnership after a kiss on New Year’s Eve in 2015. They had a very dramatic breakup in 2016, but reunited by June 2018 and wed that same year.

In 2020, Hailey gushed about their relationship in one of Justin’s docuseries. The Rhode founder stated, “He was the first person I ever had real feelings for. When things kind of went south for a little bit and we went our separate ways, I just knew that no matter what the outcome was going to be, he was going to be somebody that I loved for the rest of my life. No matter what, he was always going to hold a special place in my heart.”

They welcomed their first child, a son named Jack Blues, in August 2024.

Winnie Harlow & Kyle Kuzma

Winnie Harlow and Kyle Kuzma started dating in April 2020 and she even moved to Los Angeles to be with him. Following their first dating anniversary, they reportedly split, but got back together a few months later.

The couple remained solid after she jokingly swerved Usher’s serenade in July 2023 and Kuzma proposed as of February 2025.

Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were assumed to be endgame when they got married 20 years after first meeting.

They met in 2002 and got engaged that same year, but called things off by January 2004. They reunited romantically in 2021 and wed in July 2022 after a two-month engagement. Yet, by August 2024, he’d moved out of their shared home, and she filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. The split was finalized in January 2025.

Despite their once whirlwind romance, the two aren’t looking to get back together, but remain in a “really good place.” With these two, it seemed good until it wasn’t.

Cardi B & Offset

Cardi B and Offset had one of the rockiest relationships in Hip-Hop history.

The two first sparked romance rumors in early 2017 and secretly wed that September. Throughout their marriage, infidelity played a major factor in her filing for divorce more than once. After giving birth to their eldest daughter, Kulture, in July 2018, Cardi announced in December that she and Offset had separated. They’d worked things out by the top of 2019, but when she filed for divorce in September 2020, she blamed it on his cheating. The divorce was called off two months later, and the following year, they welcomed their son, Wave.

However, the rollercoaster came to an end in August 2024 when Cardi announced she was pregnant with their third child— daughter Blossom— and planned to divorce him for good. She’s now about to be a proud mother of four and is currently pregnant by her boyfriend, Stefon Diggs.

Her and Offset’s divorce isn’t finalized because, according to Cardi, he’s allegedly holding her “hostage financially.”

Miguel & Nazanin Mandi

Miguel and Nazanin Mandi were together for a decade before getting engaged in 2016. They wed in November 2018, but separated in September 2021.

They worked things out and reunited in February 2022. However, the rekindling was short-lived, and Nazanin filed for divorce that October.

Since their split, she has been thriving as a life coach and is pivoting into a new career as an actress. Meanwhile, he recently revealed that he welcomed a son with Margaret Zhang, the youngest editor-in-chief in Vogue history, in September 2024.

Jhené Aiko & Big Sean

Jhené Aiko and Big Sean first announced they were a couple in June 2016 after years of speculation and friendship. Over the past decade, she’s called him the “love of [her] life” and even tattooed his face. Their rollercoaster romance may not have always made sense to others, but it’s resulted in the birth of their son, Noah.

The two, however, have confirmed they aren’t married. In August 2024, Sean said on Charlamagne tha God’s Out Of Context podcast, “Just like any people who have dealt with love, we’ve had our ups and downs, you know what I’m saying? And I think it’s still finding the right navigation through it all.”

He is open to getting married, but admitted that “there’s a lot of work that needs to be done [on both sides]” while noting, “[Marriage] is something that I feel like has not been the main focus [of their relationship].”