These Interracial Celebrity Couples Inspire Diversity
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June is the perfect month to celebrate diversity and inclusion, especially through the lens of interracial celebrity couples. After all, Loving Day is June 12, marking the anniversary of the 1967 Supreme Court decision that struck down remaining state laws that stood in the way of mixed-race couples being together.
Luckily, a lot has changed since this momentous occasion. At that time, interracial marriages only made up 3 percent of new marriages in the U.S., but that number increased fivefold to 17 percent in 2015, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. Needless to say, the future of marriage will only continue to get more diverse. Here are some of our favorite interracial celebrity couples who celebrate and inspire diversity well beyond the month of June.
Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego
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Year Married: 2013
Children Together: 3
Actress Zoe Saldana and artist Marco Perego tied the knot in a secret wedding very soon after they started dating.
The best part? He took her last name.
On Marriage...
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"What was important for my mother is that we married somebody who still had dreams and aspirations — not what color or class they were from," Saldana told InStyle.
Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith
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Year Married: 2019
Children Together: 1
Having met at Usher’s 40th birthday party in late 2019, actor Joshua Jackson and model-actress Jodie Turner-Smith quickly hit it off.
It wasn’t long before the two wed in late 2019 and welcomed their first child later in 2020.
On Acceptance...
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Turner-Smith initially got harassed for dating Jackson, but Turner-Smith was not afraid to stand by her man.
“There was this wave of people who were upset that I was possibly married to a White man. In America, interracial dating or marriage is not something that is as accepted. Certain people feel strongly against it, in both communities. I felt it from the Black community. It is so complicated. I don’t want to give it too much energy," Turner-Smith told the Sunday Times. "I’m learning there are certain things I have to really keep for myself.”
Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery
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Year Married: 2007
Children Together: 3
We love this: Actress Ellen Pompeo met Chris Ivery at a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003. They were friends for the first six months of their relationship before they began dating, and the rest is history.
The two tied the knot at city hall in New York, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the officiant.
On People of Color...
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"People of color are magical, mystical, powerful, beautiful, spiritual, strong and excellent at what they do," Pompeo shared on Red Table Talk. "There's just so much power and talent. The Black experience is a powerful one, and I can see where that would be intimidating. It's so much easier to just celebrate it and just thank the universe for giving us people of color because it's a gift."
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen
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Year Married: 2013
Children Together: 3
This couple always likes to keep it real, especially when it comes to parenting. The two are known for sharing their hilarious experiences on social media. But the beginning of their love story was also quite real.
Having met shooting a music video in 2007, the two kept their relationship quite casual until getting engaged in 2011. Now, they’re parents to three adorable “monsters,” as Teigen jokingly calls them.
On Cultural Heritage...
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Legend believes that their interracial relationship has been a “blessing.”
“Chrissy’s dad is White, her mother is Thai, both my parents are Black and from Ohio, and we’ve definitely got an interesting cultural mix for my kids to kind of experience from all their grandparents and aunts and uncles, but I feel like it’s gone so well. I feel like they’re accepting of each other, they love each other, and we all learn from each other,” Legend told People.
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson
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Year Married: 2013
Children Together: 1
This power couple sure knows film. Lucas of “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” fame began dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chair of DreamWorks Animation, in 2006.
They have one daughter together who was born via surrogacy. Even with a 25-year age difference, the two appear stronger by each other's side.
On Inclusivity...
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The two founded the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art together, emphasizing diversity in comic art, filmmaking and narratives.
“I’m the person who I’d say is intensely focused on inclusion. Do we have diverse vendors, diversity in lawyers, any service we’re buying? Building a museum, we’re going to spend a lot of money, and I want to make sure lots of communities can benefit from that spend,” Hobson told the Los Angeles Times.
Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian
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Year Married: 2017
Children Together: 1
Tennis player Serena Williams met Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, on a Roman holiday in 2015 when the two were staying at the same hotel.
Their “Beauty and the Beast” wedding — yes, you read that right — was a star-studded affair, with Beyonce, Jay-Z and Eva Longoria in attendance.
On Love…
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“All I tell Alexis is, ‘Well, you know, there’s such a difference between White people and Black people,’” Williams told Essence. “He always gets to hear about the injustices that happen that wouldn’t happen if I were White. It’s interesting. I never thought I would have married a White guy either, so it just goes to show you that love truly has no color, and it just really goes to show me the importance of what love is.”
Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon
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Year Married: 2007
Children Together: 0
Actor Kumail Nanjiani and writer Emily Gordon took the story of their romance to the big screen in the indie comedy, “The Big Sick.” Yes, only eight months into dating, Gordon was put in a medically induced coma that led to a rare auto-immune disease diagnosis.
She obviously recovered, and the two were wed at city hall in Chicago. She sometimes refers to Nanjiani as her “lion,” as he still encourages her to practice self-care in an effort to manage her disease.
On Relationship Challenges…
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Because “The Big Sick” addressed interracial relationship issues, Nanjiani received lots of feedback from viewers who had been in relationships that faced similar challenges and didn’t work out as a result.
“It's not as simple as ‘love conquers all,’” Nanjiani told The Hollywood Reporter in response to this kind of audience feedback. “The great challenge of our time is interacting with completely different people, who look at the world in a completely different way, and learning to live with and love them.”
George and Amal Clooney
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Year Married: 2014
Children Together: 2
When the Lebanese-British barrister started dating Hollywood's most eligible bachelor, she was the envy of women everywhere. The two met through a mutual friend in July 2013, became engaged one year later, and within three months, they wed in a multi-day affair in Italy.
Amal gave birth to the couple's fraternal twins in 2017.
On His Admiration for Her…
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"She’s someone that I enjoy spending every minute of the day with, and I’m very proud to be around, watching the things that she does I admire so greatly," Clooney told Marie Claire. "I’ve always been involved in things other than this business long before I was successful at it, but she’s been doing it kind of quietly and unheralded for a long, long period of time."
Chelsea Peretti and Jordan Peele
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Year Married: 2016
Children Together: 1
Comedian Chelsea Peretti and director Jordan Peele supposedly met over Twitter when Peele complimented a web series she did. They dated for three years before eloping to Big Sur, California, with their dog as the only witness.
On His In-Laws...
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While Peele’s “Get Out” movie certainly touched on interracial relationships, especially the idea of a Black man meeting his White girlfriend’s parents for the first time, he has nothing but nice things to say about Peretti’s folks.
“They’re pretty cultured people ... My in-laws are amazing people, very intelligent, very warm, very empathetic,” he told WBUR News.
Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher
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Year Engaged: 2018
Children Together: 2
Actor Eddie Murphy and model Paige Butcher are currently engaged after having dated since 2012. The actor has 10 children, two with Butcher, but he has only been married once before.
Needless to say, their blended family runs the gamut when it comes to age. His oldest is in his early 30s, while his youngest is still a toddler. Butcher is 18 years Murphy’s junior, but his young spirit and her old soul seem to match together perfectly.
On His Comedy…
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Murphy has always brought the issue of race into his comedy, even when advised not to. In fact, Rodney Dangerfield told him he didn’t know how far he would be able to go with the “dirty” and “edgy racial” stuff in his comedy act. Talk about bad advice!
“Sometimes, the best advice is just bad advice you have to prove wrong,” Murphy told W magazine.
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas
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Year Married: 2018
Children Together: 1
This couple got a lot of flack for their age difference — he’s 10 years her junior — as well as their very short courtship. They had only been dating a few months before Jonas rented out a Tiffany store to find the perfect ring with which to propose.
Short engagements are very typical in Indian culture, though, and the two embraced that culture wholeheartedly marrying in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Jodhpur, India, as well as participating in several prenuptial rituals. The four-day affair also included a Christian ceremony to incorporate Jonas’ faith as well.
On Jonas Embracing Hinduism…
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To celebrate their engagement, the couple gathered in Mumbai with their families to take the roka ceremony, which shows consent of the engagement by family and friends.
"Nick enjoyed the prayers during the puja," Madhu Chopra, Priyanka's mother, told Afterhrs for dna India. "It was a new thing for him, and he took it seriously. He followed what our panditji said and chanted the Sanskrit mantras accurately."
Wesley Snipes and Nakyung Park
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Year Married: 2003
Children Together: 4
Actor Wesley Snipes started dating Korean painter Nakyung “Nikki” Park in the late 1990s. The two tend to keep their personal life hush-hush as they raise their four children.
While Snipes hasn’t been cast in many movies lately, likely due to some run-ins with the law involving tax evasion, his wife has always stood by his side.
On Working in Hollywood…
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Snipes became especially known for his role in the “Blade” series and acted in a ton of films throughout the ’90s. While some believe he peaked too early, he also highlighted the very real struggles for Black actors in Hollywood during that time.
"The movie industry right off the bat is geared for White actors," Snipes told Jae-Ha Kim at The Chicago Sun-Times in 1991. "When screenwriters write material, they write with White actors in mind, unless they're Black writers like Spike [Lee]. The only roles available to minorities then are specifically designated as for an African American man or an Asian woman or whatever. That's the nature of this business, but it really fascinates me that so many films can be made with no non-White people in them!"
Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault
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Year Married: 2009
Children Together: 1
Venice, Italy, was the spot where actress Salma Hayak first met French fashion mogul François-Henri Pinault in spring 2006, but she won’t share any more of the details. “It’s such a romantic, amazing story, but it is mine. I don’t want to vulgarize it by making it into a story to make myself interesting,” she told Town and Country magazine.
The actress gave birth to their only child in 2007 at the age of 41.
On Marrying a Billionaire…
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Having dealt with a lot of judgment throughout her career, she doesn’t take any criticism of her marriage personally.
“A lot of people are very shocked that I married who I married. And some people are even intimidated now by me. They can’t believe this Mexican ended up in the life that she has, and they’re uncomfortable around me,” she told Town and Country. “It’s hard to understand who I am for them. And maybe it’s the wrong thing, but to study human behavior is what attracts me to acting most. And I find I don’t judge it — I just observe it.”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
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Year Married: 2018
Children Together: 2
This interracial couple needs no introduction. The relationship between Meghan Markle and Prince Harry has very much been in the spotlight ever since they were set up on a date in 2016.
A very public wedding in 2018 and the birth of their son the following year make them one of the most-talked-about biracial celebrity couples in history.
On the Press Coverage of Her...
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When the couple first started dating, Prince Harry wrote a rare official statement from Kensington Palace that slammed the press coverage of Meghan and the fact that she is mixed race.
“It is not right that a few months into a relationship with him that Ms. Markle should be subjected to such a storm. He knows commentators will say this is ‘the price she has to pay’ and that ‘this is all part of the game.’ He strongly disagrees. This is not a game — it is her life and his," the statement said.
James Blake and Jameela Jamil
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Year They Began Dating: 2015
Children Together: 0
Musician James Blake and “The Good Place” actress Jameela Jamil started dating in 2015.
The couple is very low-key about their relationship, but Blake has said that a lot of his album, “Assume Form,” was written about when they first started dating (in a good way).
On Being Photoshopped…
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Jamil is very vocal about body positivity so much so that she insists magazines not edit pictures of her.
"When I get Photoshopped by magazines, people change the shape of my nose to make my nose look less ethnic. They don't tell me and it's really offensive,” she told BBC News. "I don't feel flattered when a magazine creates this 'flawless' version of me. I feel really offended because that's no longer my face. I've got a tiny Caucasian nose, my skin has been lightened, my pores have been removed and my stretch marks have been removed.”
Dwayne Johnson and Lauren Hashian
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Year Married: 2019
Children Together: 2
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is certainly a jack of all trades. He’s a fourth-generation wrestler, a former American football player and one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
He began dating Lauren Hashian in 2006 while he was filming “The Game Plan.” Thirteen years and two children later, the two were married in 2019 in Hawaii.
On Being Mixed Race...
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Johnson is of both Black and Samoan ancestry. As a descendant of Samoan chiefs, he has tattoos on his arms to honor that heritage, but he identifies with both races equally, at least that’s what he said when he cleared up a debate on Twitter about what race he was “booked as” when he wrestled.
“I identify as exactly what I am — both. Equally proud. Black/Samoan. And my friend, let me expand your thoughts a bit here. I transcended race in wrestling, so there was no 'booked that way,'” he wrote.
Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova
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Year They Started Dating: 2001
Children Together: 3
The “King of Latin Pop” and former Russian professional tennis player first met on the set of his “Escape” music video almost 20 years ago. The two are rather famously not married and keep their romance pretty private — except when it comes to their children.
Proud parents to three kids, the two share lots of photos of their little ones on social media.
On Getting Married...
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They have both said that marriage really isn't important to them, even though there are often rumors swirling that they are married or getting divorced.
“I’ve never really thought [it] would make a difference. Maybe it’s because I come from divorced parents, but I don’t think you love someone more because of a piece of paper,” Iglesias told Parade magazine. “Nowadays, it’s not taboo to have kids and not be married. What makes a difference is that you’re a good parent, period.”
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
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Year Married: 1996
Children Together: 3
The two played on-screen love interests in the soap opera, “All My Children,” and quickly fell in love. In fact, they eloped to Vegas not long after they started dating.
Almost 25 years later, and the couple is still going strong, with three children in tow. Consuelos is even a regular guest co-host on Ripa’s “Live With Kelly and Ryan” talkshow.
On the Secret to a Good Marriage…
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"You’re going to fight, you’re going to have disagreements. Relationships, marriages are not sprints, it’s a marathon," Ripa said on “Live With Kelly and Ryan.” “There’s going to be like, mile 24, when you’re like, 'I quit.' But you just have to push through. Just push through."
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves
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Year Married: 2012
Children Together: 3
American Actor Matthew McConaughey and Brazilian-American model and designer Camila Alves began dating in 2006. And they met how lots of couples meet: at a bar.
But Alves didn’t know who he was at first because he had a long beard and was wearing a big hat. Luckily for him, she quickly realized her mistake, and they spent all night speaking to each other in Spanish and Portuguese.
On Philanthropy…
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Together, the two started the Just Keep Livin’ Foundation, designed to give high school students the tools they need to lead active lives and make positive choices for their futures.
“High school's the last place you can catch somebody and get them on the right track, before they no longer have to listen to a teacher or parent," McConaughey told E! "If they're screwing up in high school and do some of the same stuff after they graduate, they may go to jail — or worse."
Matt Damon and Luciana Bozan Barroso
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Year Married: 2005
Children Together: 4
And here we have another Matt who met his wife in a bar. Argentine Luciana Bozan Barroso was bartending when the famous actor asked her out. He was in Miami filming “Stuck on You,” and the two have been pretty inseparable ever since.
They're one of the famous examples of a celebrity finding love outside of Hollywood. When they met, Barroso had a daughter, who Damon now considers his own. They married in a private civil ceremony in 2005 and have since had three more children.
On Their Two-Week Rule...
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"I'm not away for more than two weeks. I think you need to be with the person you love as much as possible. My wife is my soulmate. I don't like being apart from her," Damon told HuffPost.
Justin and Keisha Chambers
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Year Married: 1993
Children Together: 5
The "Grey's Anatomy" star was with his wife, Keisha, long before he made it big on ABC's medical drama.
Back in the early '90s, Keisha was working as a model agency booker while Justin was working on an ad campaign for Calvin Klein, and the rest is history.
On Being a Family Man in Hollywood...
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"'Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world," Justin has been quoted saying.
Wanda and Alex Sykes
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Year Married: 2008
Children Together: 2
Wanda Sykes came out later in life in 2008 at a same-sex marriage rally in Las Vegas. This was one month after she had already married her wife.
The two became parents in April 2009 when Alex gave birth to fraternal twins, Oliva and Lucas.
On Same-Sex Marriage...
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Wanda has been very outspoken about her support for same-sex marriage and was upset when California voters banned it by passing Prop 8.
"Maybe they just hear the word 'sex' and they're like, 'Look at those same-sex people, all they're doing is just having sex all the time, that's all they're doing. I bet their lives are 90 percent sex and 10 percent parades.' That's it. Sex and floats," Sykes joked on the Today show.
"Maybe they think [same-sex marriage] ... is going to be mandatory. 'I don't want a same-sex marriage.' Fine, you don't have to have one — it's not going to be mandatory!"
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
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Year Married: 2008
Children Together: 3
Actress Jessica Alba and film producer Cash Warren met in 2004 on the set of "Fantastic Four." Alba famously found out about her family lineage on "Finding Your Roots," which can be traced back to the ancient Maya civilization. Warren, son of African American actor Michael Warren, is also biracial.
Being mixed race is something that Alba has brought into the mainstream, even starting her own beauty line to offer makeup to women of color.
On Being Mixed Race...
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Alba believes that being mixed race was a major obstacle for her in getting leading roles.
"They couldn't figure out my ethnicity," Alba told PopSugar. "I would always go out for 'exotic.' They were like, 'You're not Latin enough to play a Latina, and you're not Caucasian enough to play the leading lady, so you're going to be the exotic one.' Whatever that was."
She added that this adversity only made her "more determined to be a leading lady to show that girls can look like me, and we can be leading ladies."
Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson
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Year They Began Dating: 2001
Children Together: 4
Actress Maya Rudolph and film director Paul Thomas Anderson are one of Hollywood's most famous unwed celebrity couples, having been together for almost 20 years.
However, Rudolph often refers to him as her husband, especially since they have four children together.
On Her Hair...
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Rudolph's mother was African American and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish, and being mixed race led her to play characters of several ethnicities. She oftentimes wrote her own material, creating characters who had no clear ethnicity.
“I just never felt like that was the first place to go, to define myself by race,” she told The New York Times. “Now, the difference is not everybody else believes that you can play those things, but if you’re writing it, who gives a [expletive]?”
America Ferrara and Ryan Piers Williams
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Year Married: 2011
Children Together: 2
Born in Los Angeles to Honduran parents, America Ferrera was the first Latina woman to win Best Actress at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2007 and has been in the Hollywood spotlight ever since.
She and her husband have been together ever since he cast her in a student film at the University of Southern California. Now, 20 years and two kids later, the couple is known for being politically active.
On 'Sounding' Latina...
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Ferrara's story about her first audition tells everything about what it was like for her when she started out in Hollywood as a Latina actress.
"I was this little, brown, chubby, valley girl, who spoke like a valley girl," Ferrera explained to People. "I walked in, did my audition [and] the casting director looked at me, and she was like, 'That's great. Can you do that again but, this time, sound more Latina?'"
Ferrara's response? "I am Latina, and this is what I sound like."
Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song
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Year They Began Dating: 2017
Children Together: 2
Actors Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song met on the set of "Changeland" and have been officially together since July 2017.
The interracial couple welcomed a baby boy, Dakota, on April 5, 2021, followed by a second baby in early 2023.
On Not Being Asian Enough...
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Song often speaks out about her Asian heritage, with several "Stop Asian Hate" posts throughout her Instagram feed. But even she has been deemed "not enough" by Hollywood. She told Teen Vogue that she wasn't even allowed to audition for the movie, "Crazy Rich Asians."
"Their reasoning behind that, what they said was that my image was basically not Asian enough, in not so many words. It broke my heart,” she explained.
Joel Madden and Nicole Richie
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Year Married: 2010
Children Together: 2
Nicole Richie has English, Mexican and African American heritage and was legally adopted by singer Lionel Richie at the age of 9. She was a popular socialite and TV star alongside Paris Hilton throughout the 2000s and seemed to make a lot of tabloid headlines.
But she seemingly got her act together once she started dating musician Joel Madden, and the rest is history.
On Bircial Hair...
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Richie has been outspoken about the work it takes to make her hair look the way she wants, even telling US Magazine, “I’m mixed, and it’s work to do my hair, so I learned how to do it well myself.
"I have naturally curly hair, so ‘natural’ beach waves are not so natural for me. I like to braid my hair at night and then let it out the next day. And I also curl my hair with a flatiron.”
Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig
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Year They Began Dating: 2015
Children Together: 1
Actress Rashida Jones is the daughter of famous Black record producer Quincy Jones and the late actress Peggy Lipton. She started dating Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig in 2015, and the couple welcomed a son in 2018.
While the couple is notoriously private, they have been seen out at the occasional NBA game.
On What It Means to Be Biracial...
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"I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way, that's their issue. I'm happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial because, guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me," Jones told Women's Health.
Eve and Maximillion Cooper
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Year Married: 2014
Children Together: 1
Eve started dating British millionaire Maximillion Cooper in 2010, and he was one of the first white people she had ever dated seriously.
Their secret? She says they have a lot of open conversations with one another about race as well as with Eve's four stepchildren with Cooper in a way that she's described as "a beautiful thing."
On Uncomfortable Conversations About Race...
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Eve shared her thoughts on some of the conversations she's had with her husband about race on "The Talk." She said, "He doesn't know my life through my eyes. All he can do is try to understand and try to ask the questions, and he wants to understand, and that's what the nation — that's what the world — has to do.
"It's gonna be uncomfortable. Yeah, it's going to be uncomfortable! But we have to be OK with being uncomfortable so that we can get to a solution."
Alfre Woodard and Roderick Spencer
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Year Married: 1983
Children Together: 2
Actress Alfre Woodard and her husband, writer Roderick Spencer, have been together for several decades, which means they've seen how the country has changed (or not changed) in regard to race.
On Racial Injustice...
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Woodard famously spoke up for Colin Kaepernick when the NFL star was getting criticized for kneeling during the national anthem. In an interview with People Now, she said, "As a mom, when you’re actually afraid for your son to be on the streets because he might get mistaken for somebody else. In 2016, as far as we all have come and how we live, shame on you if you don’t raise your voice and say, ‘I’m drawing attention to this.’
“The fact that people want to vilify somebody for taking an avenue that has been fought for and bleed for us to be able to live and speak our minds as Americans, that’s ridiculous.”
Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus
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Year Married: 1976
Children Together: 2
Actor Sidney Poitier and his wife, Joanna Shimkus, were together for more than 40 years before his death in early 2022.
Poitier was the first Black male to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1963 and overcame several racial struggles in Hollywood.
On Being Himself...
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Even when Poitier won the Academy Award, he spoke out with concerns that the award was simply the film industry congratulating itself for having him as a token.
"I never had an occasion to question color; therefore, I only saw myself as what I was … a human being," he has been quoted saying.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
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Year Married: 2014
Children Together: 4
You either love them or hate them, but Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were the interracial couple before divorcing in 2021.
That's because their grand romantic gestures were the stuff of dreams. Who can forget West’s Valentine’s Day surprise with a live performance by Kenny G and a room filled with roses?
On Interracial Relationships…
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West was not Kardashian’s first interracial relationship, though. In fact, it was Michael Jackson’s nephew, TJ, who earned that title. But she learned a lot about race from that first romance.
“[My dad] explained to me that he’s had a lot of interracial friends, and it might not be the easiest relationship. He said I should prepare myself for people to say things to me. . . ” Kardashian told Rolling Stone. "When I was in high school, I’d get magazines and see interracial couples and think, ‘They are so cute.’ I’ve always been attracted to a certain kind of look.”
Zoe Kravitz and Karl Glusman
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Year Married: 2019
Children Together: 0
Actress Zoe Kravitz is the product of several interracial marriages, starting with the marriage between her grandmother, Black actress Roxie Roker of “The Jeffersons,” and Sy Kravitz — both of whom are parents to Lenny Kravitz, Zoe’s father. (Roker was also the first Black woman to portray an interracial marriage on American TV.)
Kravitz was also in an interracial relationship with her husband Karl Glusman before the two split for good in 2021.
On Black Culture…
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"I’m so in love with my culture and so proud to be Black ... My dad especially has always been very connected to his history, and it’s important to him that I understand where I come from,” Kravitz told the Huffington Post.
Jason Momoa & Lisa Bonet
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Year Married: 2017
Children Together: 2
Of course, Zoe Kravitz’s mother is none other than actress Lisa Bonet, who was also a product of her parents’ interracial marriage.
Bonet began dating actor Jason Momoa in 2005 after meeting at a New York jazz club, but his love for her started when he was 8 years old and would watch her starring on “The Cosby Show.” Unfortunately, the two announced their split in early 2022.
On What She Represented…
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While her daughter, Zoe Kravitz, has quickly earned her place in the spotlight, Bonet wasn’t similarly embraced by audiences.
“The world wasn’t ready for what I represented, the merging of these two races,” Bonet told Net-A-Porter. “I didn’t always feel welcome — in my mom’s family, in my school. So, I sheltered myself by always withholding a bit because I didn’t always feel safe.”