12 Famous Women Who Prove That You Can Easily Meet The Love of Your Life After Turning 40

Many famous women have been in relationships with several partners over the course of their life and found true happiness only after 40. However, it’s believed that women older than this age have only a 40% chance of getting married. After all, women after 40 look at men differently and know for sure what they want from the relationship, looking at the partner with sober eyes and not through rose-colored glasses.

Salma Hayek

In 2007, the actress informed everybody about her engagement to François-Henri Pinault. Soon the couple welcomed their daughter Valentina Paloma. Salma and François-Henri tied the knot in Paris on Valentine’s Day, 2009. At that time, Hayek was 42 years old. The actress revealed that the secret of their happy marriage lies in kindness. Hayek once said, “We’ve never said anything nasty to each other.”

Sofía Vergara

Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello met each other in May 2014 at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The actress was engaged to a different man at that moment. However, by June, Vergara was still not married and she started to date the handsome Manganiello.

6 months later, on Christmas Eve, Manganiello proposed to her. Vergara and Manganiello got married in November 2015. Vergara was 43 at that time.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Actress and director Sam Taylor-Johnson married the young actor, Aaron Johnson, when she was 45. Now the couple has a double surname, Taylor-Johnson. The husband is 23 years younger than his wife, but this doesn’t embarrass them at all. Moreover, Sam brought 2 daughters into the relationship.

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand and James Brolin first met on a blind date. Of course, they knew about each other but they had never met in person before. She was expecting to see a beardy mountain man but saw a guy with well-groomed hair and a clean-shaven face. She first passed him by but then told him, “Who screwed up your hair?”

Later, Brolin confessed to her that it was the very moment he fell in love with her. The couple tied the knot in 1998, and the singer was 56 at that time.

Joan Collins

Joan Collins married the Hollywood producer, Percy Gibson, at 68 despite the fact he was 31 years younger than her. The couple met each other in 2000 when the actress was appearing in a play for a theatre company that Gibson managed. They got married 2 years later and have been living happily for 20 years already.

Vanessa Williams

The former Miss America 1984 met the businessman, Jim Skrip, during her vacation in Egypt. At that moment, Williams was attracted to his T-shirt with the name of her mother’s hometown (Buffalo) on it. After having a conversation about their common roots, they decided to have lunch together and haven’t been apart since. When they got married in 2015, Vanessa Williams was 52.

Tina Turner

In 1986, Tina Turner met the German music executive, Erwin Bach, in the Düsseldorf airport. Bach came to meet the singer on behalf of her European record label (EMI). Seeing Erwin, Turner fell in love at first glance despite the fact he was 16 years younger than her.

Though they first had a friendly relationship, they started to date several months later. In July 2013, after 27 years of a romantic relationship, they got married in Switzerland on the banks of Lake Zurich in Küsnacht. The singer was 73 at that time.

Calista Flockhart

Calista Flockhart met her future husband, Harrison Ford, in January 2002 at the Golden Globe Awards, after which they started a romantic relationship. 8 years later, they got married. At that time, Flockhart was 45, and Ford was 67.

Humor is the secret to their strong love for one another. “Harrison and I laugh a lot, and humor is everything to me,” explained Flockhart, answering a question about how she and Harrison keep the spark in their union alive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

In 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow started to date producer Brad Falchuk, whom she met on set of the Glee series in 2010. The couple announced their relationship in April 2015, and their wedding ceremony took place in September 2018. The actress was 46 at that time. As Paltrow noted in one of her interviews, their relationship developed so romantically that it feels as if they are still in the honeymoon stage.

Julianne Moore

The actress started to date Bart Freundlich, the producer of The Myth of Fingerprints, which she starred in back in 1996. The couple had a son and a daughter during their relationship. But they didn’t get married until after, in 2003. Julianne Moore was 42 at that time.

Gabrielle Union

In 2007, Gabrielle Union met the NBA player Dwyane Wade at a Super Bowl party. After 4 months, rumors appeared, saying the NBA star was secretly dating Union. In 2010, they were photographed together, reinforcing the speculation that they were a couple, although they didn’t confirm anything publicly.

Only in January 2012 did Union and Wade open up their feelings and a possible marriage after having appeared together on the cover of a magazine. By the way, the wedding took place in 2014 when Union was almost 42.

Amy Adams

Amy Adams met her future husband in 2001 while both were attending acting classes. After seven years of engagement and the birth of their daughter, the couple happily tied the knot in 2015. At that time, Adams was 40. Amy once said about the wedding, “I avoided getting married for a really long time because I don’t like people looking at me.”

Do you know people who found their happiness after 40?