Marriage is a pious institution, which demands a lot of understanding and trust between the partners. As the world is moving ahead, so is the marriageable age of an individual. According to a recent study, most women are getting married at the age of 26 years and their partners being slightly older than them. It has been noticed that people getting married at a very early age, are most likely to get divorced. There was a time when many of the celebrities tied the knot before completing 20 and faced such consequences. Let us take a look at some of the celebrities who got married before they completed 20.
1. Demi Moore
Demi Moore is an american actress and well known for some of her great piece of art like Ghost, A few Good Men, Indecent Proposal. Demi moore got her current surname because of her first husband, singer-songwriter Freddy Moore. She was born as Demi Gene Guynes. She was only 17, when she got married to Freddy moore, who was 30 then; in the year 1980. After five years of courtship, the two separated ways and amicably got divorced. She then got married to actor Bruce Willis and gave birth to three daughters.She is currently married to actor Ashton Kutcher since 2005.
2. Bo Derek
Bo Derek got her famous name, from her late husband john Derek.She was born as Mary cathleen Collins, in california. She was 18, when she got married to 30-year-old John, in the year 1976. John started dating Bo when she was 16 and to avoid the US statutory rape laws they moved to Germany, till the time she turned 18. They were happily married, until John passed away in 1998. Since 2002, she has been involved with actor john Corbett.
3. Milla Jovovich
Milla jovovich was 16, when she married her Dazed and confused co-star, 21 year old shawn Andrews in 1992.This marriage only lasted for a couple of months and at last annulled. Currently she is married to writer and director Paul W S Anderson since 2009.
4. Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde got married at the age of 19 to Tao Ruspoli, Who was the son of an italian prince and almost 10 years older than her, in 2003. Their marriage was a secret ceremony, on a bus in virginia. After staying together for 8 years, they finally announced a divorce in February 2011.
5. Solange Knowles
Solange Knowles married her high school sweetheart Daniel Smith at the age of 17, in the year february 2004. later in October of that year she gave birth to their son daniel Jr. In 2007 she admitted in an interview that they have split.
6. LeAnn Rimes
Leann Rimes when 19 when she married her backup dancer Dean Sheremet in 2002 in Texas. They got divorced in 2010 and soon after that Leann married Eddie Cibrian.
7. Drew Barrymore
At the age of 16, Drew got engaged to Leland Hawyward in 1991. In 1993, she called off her engagement to Leland as well as the one with Jamie Walters. Still in 1994, she managed to get married before the age of 20 to the Welsh bartender Jeremy Thomas. Their marriage lasted only two months. After that Drew married comedian actor Tom Green in 2001 and got divorced in 2002.
8. Melanie Griffith
Melanie was only 14, when she started dating her mother’s 22-year-old co-star Don johnson, she worked as an extra in that movie called The Harrad Experiment. She got married in 1976 when she was 18, but later got divorced after six months. Then again they got back in 1989, she got pregnant and married him again for the second time. They stayed together until 1996 and finally got divorced.
9. Macaulay Culkin
The childhood actor, Macaulay Culkin got married to the famous actor Rachael Minerin in 1998, when he was just 17. Finally they separated in 2000 and got divorced in 2002. Later he started dating Mila Kunis and since then both of them have been together.
10. Courtney Stodden
Courtney Stodden is an aspiring country singer and is famous as a teen bride at the age of 17. She got married to 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchinson earlier this year with her parents’ consent and is concentrating on gaining reality TV stardom.