17 Famous Women Who Bucked Convention And Proposed To The Men They Loved

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During the 2020 lockdown, Sarah Snook and her champion person David Lawson "got stuck successful a location together, and [they] conscionable benignant of fell successful love." On Halloween, she popped the question.

Traditionally, successful heterosexual relationships, the grant of proposing falls to the man. However, to punctuation Schoolhouse Rock!, "Who says women can't propose?"

Pearl proposing to Mr. Morton arsenic the feline rubs against her leg

Here are 17 celebrated women who projected to their boyfriends:

1. Rita Ora projected to Taika Waititi successful 2022. She told the podcast Begin Again with Davine McCall, "I rented a edifice country successful Palm Springs. A truly bully fancy one, filled it up with balloons — heart-shaped balloons and a heart-shaped cake, due to the fact that I'm fundamentally doing what I would person wanted for mine. He walks into the room, and he's like, 'What the hell? Is it Valentine's Day?' I'm similar 'No!' ...Anyway, I get down connected 1 knee, and helium was conscionable like, 'What is happening?'"

She said that she worried, "Maybe helium doesn't privation it. Maybe it's good to conscionable beryllium successful a relationship. Which was good with me, too. But I conscionable wanted to fastener him down." However, Taika answered, "Absolutely. What the hell? Get up." They got joined that August.

2. After 4 years together, Pink proposed to motocross racer Carey Hart during the Pro 250 people finals. She wrote, "Will you wed me?" connected a pit committee and held it retired successful beforehand of him arsenic helium made his 3rd lap. At first, helium didn't stop, truthful she added, "Serious!" to her sign. The adjacent clip helium saw it, helium pulled implicit and accepted her proposal.

They got joined astatine the opening of 2006.

3. Jodie Turner-Smith projected to Joshua Jackson — who was really her archetypal crush. He told The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "She asked me. On New Year's Eve...we were successful Nicaragua. It was precise beautiful, incredibly romantic. We were walking down the beach, and she asked maine to wed her. There was similar a preamble, determination was a pb up to it... I did not know, but she was rather adamant. And she was right. This is the champion prime I ever made."

The mates got joined successful 2019, but Jodie filed for divorce successful 2023, citing "irreconcilable differences."

4. During the 2020 lockdown successful Melbourne, Sarah Snook and her best friend David Lawson "got stuck successful a location together, and [they] conscionable benignant of fell successful love." On Halloween, she popped the question. She told the Telegraph, "Nothing spooky, it conscionable turned retired that way."

Four months later, they got joined with lone "[her] housemates and the celebrant and a photographer, and a person and spouse who were [their] witnesses" successful attendance. The maturation of their narration from relationship to matrimony was unexpected. Sarah said, "It's inactive specified a daze and astonishment for america really, and we inactive get a footwear retired of it."

5. Kat Dennings and Andrew W.K. projected to each different simultaneously. On The Drew Barrymore Show, she said, "We had a peculiar infinitesimal that makes maine judge successful magic. We were doing kissing, and we had, like, a shared feeling. I felt this intense…thing that I was like, 'This is my person. This is it. I can't unrecorded without him. This is the antheral I'm expected to beryllium with.' And we looked astatine each other, and we some projected astatine the aforesaid time. Not planned. No genu down — I don't adjacent retrieve what happened aft that. We conscionable were similar 'Should we get married?' And 'Yes.' I conscionable burst into tears."

"It was, like, I ne'er thought I had it successful me, you know, due to the fact that I'm benignant of a toughie. But I did. I wept blessed tears. I felt this consciousness of alleviation that I've done it. I made it done the wilderness and recovered this unthinkable person, and yeah. No 1 believes me. But I guarantee you, that's what happened. I'm truthful gladsome I waited until I recovered the close person. Everybody goes done this nightmarish clip of beingness looking for a idiosyncratic — oregon not. Whatever floats your boat. But I consciousness precise lucky. He's the best," she said. They got joined successful 2023.

6. Britney Spears projected to Kevin Federline, but helium declined due to the fact that helium thought helium should beryllium the 1 to propose. Per Us Weekly, helium said, "It wasn’t similar a 'Will you wed me?' It wasn't that straightforward. The mode she said it was benignant of beating astir the bush. Still, I was taken by surprise. I thought the feline was expected to inquire the girl. So a mates of minutes went by, and past I asked her. I wasn't truly reasoning astir asking her close away, but I did without reservation. I'd known for a portion that she's The One."

Three months aft their narration began, they had a astonishment wedding astatine their tiny engagement party. Britney told People, "I conscionable thought it would beryllium excessively overmuch if we had done it erstwhile we were expected to. It became this immense thing, and I was like, 'What are we waiting for? We cognize this is the existent thing, wherefore not conscionable bash it now?' That's wherefore I wanted to sneak and bash it our small way." However, she filed for divorcement successful 2006.

7. Judge Judy (aka Judy Sheindlin) projected to Jerry Sheindlin due to the fact that she was frustrated with his deficiency of commitment. She told Dujour, "I did suggest to him. I said to him, 'Where is this narration going?' And helium tried to weasel retired of it, with his, 'Well, you know, wherefore bash we person to get married?' Whatever. He yet capitulated. I told him to prime a date. He picked Flag Day."

They got joined successful 1978, but they divorced aft her father's decease successful 1990. In the publication What Makes a Marriage Last, Judy said, "I said, 'I've been taking attraction of you for 12 years, present it's your crook to instrumentality attraction of me.' And helium was wholly unaccustomed to that role. I wasn't asking for thing unreasonable, and helium wasn't being unreasonable saying that helium truly didn't cognize however to bash that. He was 55 and had lived a definite mode each his life. He couldn't adjacent conceptualize taking implicit that role. He conscionable couldn't." She told Jerry, "Unless you change, we can't enactment together."

Jerry said, "I missed her beingness the precise archetypal week that we were separated. It was the archetypal clip successful years that we didn't get to spot each different each azygous day. It was specified a unusual experience." However, a twelvemonth later, helium asked her to dinner, and they got backmost together.

They got remarried successful 1991, and Jerry projected the 2nd clip around. He said, "I picked her up from enactment astatine household tribunal 1 day, and we were walking done downtown Manhattan. Suddenly I said to her, 'This is silly. I'm uncomfortable being with you each the clip and not being joined to you. Let's get joined again.' She said, 'Well, however are we going to bash that?' I said, 'The clerk's bureau is close up the street. We tin spell successful and get a license…'"

8. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard some projected to each other. Initially, helium didn't judge successful marriage, but helium asked her to wed him successful 2009 due to the fact that helium knew however important it was to her. Dax told People, "Ultimately, I was like, 'Well, I'm doing it due to the fact that my spouse wants that. Forget the contented oregon past of matrimony arsenic a concept, you knowing I was doing thing that I didn't privation to bash due to the fact that I loved you was a large motion for you."

They decided to clasp disconnected connected getting joined until same-sex matrimony was legalized successful California. Kristen told PrideSource, "What are we gonna do? Have a enactment and beryllium like, 'Look astatine america celebrating this happening you can't do?' That's fucking putrid. Like, 90 percent of our friends are gay!" In June 2013, the Supreme Court deemed the Defense of Marriage Act to beryllium unconstitutional. So, Kristen tweeted, "@daxshepard1 volition you wed me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove." Dax tweeted, "DOMA is dead. Prop 8 is dead. Now let's bring my big, cheery matrimony to @IMKristenBell to Life!!!!"

Jimmy Kimmel talented the mates a pillow to celebrate. Kristen told Oprah Daily, "It's embroidered with my tweet asking my husband, Dax Shepard, to wed me, arsenic good arsenic his tweet saying yes. We'd waited to get joined due to the fact that fractional our friends are gay, and we didn't deliberation it was due to person a wedding until they could, too. The greeting DOMA was squashed successful the Supreme Court, I projected connected Twitter." The mates tied the knot successful October 2013.

9. Olympic skier Lindsay Vonn and NHL subordinate P.K. Subban besides projected to each other. In August 2019, helium asked her to wed him with an emerald ring. He told Vogue, "I got the ringing and said, 'You cognize what? I'm conscionable going to bash it [at] home.' Everything benignant of came unneurotic connected that day. Everyone says the stars aligned — well, it was really a afloat moon. I was disquieted due to the fact that I knew she would privation to beryllium dressed up and not successful her pajamas, and it conscionable truthful happened she had a concern meeting, truthful she was afloat dressed up."

Four months later, Lindsay popped the question herself. On Instagram, she said, "Merry Christmas and blessed holidays everyone!! On our 2 twelvemonth day I returned the favour and asked PK to wed me... and helium said yes ☺️. We speech astir equality but actions talk louder than words. Men should get engagement rings excessively and this is what PK deserves. Can't hold to wed you babe."

She besides told Entertainment Tonight, "I was like, 'Well, I person an engagement ringing but you don't, truthful not everybody knows we're engaged.' And I deliberation it should beryllium like, truly equal.' We were going to springiness each different rings, truthful I conscionable benignant of made a happening astir it. But I ne'er knew it was going to beryllium that large of a deal... I conscionable wanted to bash thing that was for us, and peculiar for us." However, they called off their engagement a twelvemonth later.

10. Haley Lu Richardson projected to Brett Dier, her fellow of 7 years, successful 2018. She told Busy Tonight, "I asked him to wed me. Neither of america are, like, brainsick romanticist people, truthful thing was planned. He was sitting determination eating a pizza, and helium was telling maine a gag that Shia LaBeouf had said successful an interview, and helium was, like, pretending to beryllium Shia LaBeouf explaining this joke, and for immoderate reason, I conscionable chopped him disconnected and was like, 'Wanna wed me?'"

She besides told Cosmopolitan, "Here's the thing. I didn't hole astatine all. I had nary thought erstwhile I woke up that greeting that I was going to inquire idiosyncratic to wed maine that day. I was wholly successful the moment, and this gut feeling came up and coerced maine to inquire him to wed me, and I did. And helium said yes. I consciousness similar the instrumentality to that was conscionable not reasoning astir it astatine each earlier it happened. I conscionable benignant of did it. We were astatine this outdoor portion promenade eating pizza erstwhile it happened."

"When we were crying and having this truly astonishing infinitesimal that I'll ne'er forget, crying and holding each different and saying, 'Oh my gosh, we're going to get married. We're going to beryllium unneurotic forever.' We were like, 'We're gonna person to bash thing astir it,' due to the fact that we didn't person immoderate rings. So we went implicit to this bush and got these twigs and each knelt down 1 astatine a clip and tied these twigs astir our ringing fingers. We person them saved successful a small baggie. My engagement ringing now, it's custom-made. It's a truly elemental ring, but it's engraved similar a twig. It was conscionable the champion time ever. It's the champion my bosom has ever felt. I ne'er knew my bosom could consciousness that good," she said.

However, successful a 2022 Instagram story post, Haley shared, "Hey guys. This is maine and Brett. We really separated 2 years ago. But beingness goes connected and we are some existing and doing beauteous good turns out. We shared a profoundly peculiar chunk of our lives together. I'm truthful gladsome to person had the past couples years to heal and turn without the net knowing but we kinda wanted to stock it determination connected now. [sic]"

11. Fashion decorator Diane von Furstenberg popped the question to her longtime spouse Barry Diller successful 2001. She told O magazine, "One year, I didn't cognize what to springiness him for his birthday. And I called him and said, 'You know, if you want, for your birthday, I'll wed you.' And helium said, 'Let maine spot if I tin put it.' It's what helium ever says, and helium ever arranges it. A week later, we joined astatine City Hall, and helium gave maine — this is truthful Barry — helium gave maine 26 wedding rings, for the 26 years we had not been married."

12. Four months into their relationship, Billie Piper reportedly projected to British presenter Chris Evans successful 2001. Later that year, they got joined successful Las Vegas. At the time, she was 18, and helium was 35.

The mates separated successful 2004, past their divorcement was finalized successful 2007. However, Billie looked backmost connected their matrimony fondly. In 2022, she told the Guardian, "Loved it. Loved that time. Learned truthful much. Really needed it aft the experiences that I'd had, starring up to that point. And I felt similar I'd really recovered a existent friend. I conjecture gathering idiosyncratic who had experienced [fame] for 20 years, astatine that level, it was precise nurturing. And besides precise drunken, which I needed. I had a batch of amusive during those years."

13. Three months into their relationship, Jenna Bush Hager spontaneously projected to Henry Hager. On TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, she said, "I asked Henry to wed me. He said no, and past helium asked maine 5 years aboriginal … I might've had a Christmas cocktail, and we were dancing, and I said, 'This is it. I cognize it. Let's conscionable get married. What are we waiting for?' He smiled, and helium was like, 'I'm brainsick astir you, but you're young.'"

Henry proposed to Jenna connected apical of a upland successful 2007, and they tied the knot the pursuing year.

14. Elizabeth Taylor proposed to her 2nd husband, Michael Wilding, and chose her diamond-studded sapphire engagement ringing herself.

They had an intimate wedding successful London successful 1952, and past they divided successful 1957.

15. In 2022, The Bachelorette Season 14 prima Becca Kufrin projected to Thomas Jacobs, whom she met connected Bachelor successful Paradise. On Instagram, she said, "In the eventual crippled twist…HE SAID YES! We've been keeping this concealed conscionable betwixt america and adjacent household & friends for a portion but we're truthful excited to outcry it from the rooftops! I yet recovered my chauffeur for beingness and the 1 who makes my bosom grin each azygous day. I can't hold to bash it each with you Tommy, acknowledgment for making maine the happiest gal alive. I emotion you to the satellite & backmost ♥️."

In his ain Instagram post, Thomas shared, "The eventual UNO reverse paper / powerfulness move. You keeping maine connected my toes for a beingness has a large ringing to it. Cheers to everlastingly Boops #Fiance."

Some radical criticized Becca for her decision. On the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, she said, "We've received truthful overmuch emotion from people, but I've besides seen comments wherever radical are like, 'She's desperate.' 'I would ne'er let a pistillate to suggest to the man.' 'I would ne'er bash this.' And it's like, cool, that's you. But wherefore does it, arsenic a female, marque maine hopeless to privation to [propose] to somebody? If Thomas successful a week were to bash the nonstop aforesaid thing, nary 1 says he's desperate. It doesn't marque consciousness to me. The logic's not there."

Likewise, connected Off the Vine, Thomas said, "Having a ringing connected your digit arsenic a male, erstwhile your spouse proposes to you arsenic a pistillate — you conscionable consciousness similar a atrocious bitch... That is the biggest compliment. That she wants to necktie maine down? That she projected to me? Like, what? Am I a trophy hubby now? Do I locomotion different? Do I speech different? Do I deterioration a monocle? Where bash I spell from here?" Five months later, Thomas projected to Becca, and they got married successful 2023.

16. The Bachelorette Season 21 prima Jenn Tran made franchise past arsenic the archetypal pistillate pb to propose to her last pick. Stopping Devin Strader from popping the question, she asked him to wed her. However, connected the "After the Final Rose" episode, she said that helium began "pulling away" aft filming ended. She said, "We near Hawaii engaged. I thought I recovered the idiosyncratic I wanted to walk the remainder of my beingness with. As soon arsenic we near Hawaii, things were different... I was confused, I didn't recognize due to the fact that we had conscionable near truthful happy. He fundamentally said helium didn't emotion maine anymore and didn't consciousness the aforesaid was... He was checked out. It wasn't what helium wanted anymore."

Jenn proposes to Devin with a metallic ringing wrong a seashell

She said helium ended their engagement successful a 15-minute telephone telephone a period earlier the unrecorded finale episodes. The amusement aired the connection segment, contempt Jenn softly asking, "Do I person a choice?" As it played, a unrecorded camera broadcast her affectional absorption with Devin close beside her. Many fans criticized the web for the "cruel" decision.

17. And finally, The Real Housewives of Orange County formed subordinate Grechen Rossi didn't person immoderate compelling storylines for Season 8 — until she decided to suggest to Slade Smiley, her fellow of 4 years, via song. However, she denied that she lone did it for the show. In a Season 8 clip, she said, "Absolutely, 100 percent no. I wasn't gonna bash thing conscionable for TV. I wasn't gonna bash thing conscionable to marque money."

Slade and Gretchen connected a rooftop, her opening a ringing box

Gretchen and Slade person been engaged since 2013. On the podcast Scheananigans with Scheana Shay, she said, "Honestly, it's truly conscionable been the timing of everything... Life conscionable got truthful busy. And past I started trying to person a baby, and that was truthful overmuch wealth conscionable doing the full IVF happening and each that for 4 and a fractional years. And past aft we had the baby, we were conscionable engaged being parents... I'm not the benignant of miss that's like, 'Let's spell down to the courthouse and get married.' I privation the wedding...I privation to person much of the large hoopla."

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