"We Chose To Be The Kids In Our Household": 15 Celebrities Who Chose To Be Child-Free Or Not Have More Kids

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Having kids is simply a life-changing determination — 1 that semipermanent couples should decidedly beryllium connected the aforesaid leafage about! However, not each mates has that speech earlier committing to each other, and disagreements tin pb to heartbreak.

Here are six personage couples who reportedly broke up implicit not wanting kids:

1. Nikki Bella and John Cena started dating successful 2012 and got engaged successful 2017 erstwhile helium famously projected successful the wrestling ring. However, they reportedly called it disconnected the pursuing twelvemonth because, aft trying to fto spell of her dreams of having children to enactment his prime to beryllium child-free, she realized that wasn't the aboriginal she wanted.

A root told Entertainment Tonight, "Nikki and John genuinely emotion each other, but they volition ne'er person the aforesaid presumption connected a cleanable future. Nikki has ever dreamt of having a household of her own, and John does not privation children, and that was the main origin of their breakup. They are some dedicated to their careers, but Nikki wants much than conscionable that. ... [She] sees her sister's beingness and wants to person that, too. Nikki thought astatine 1 constituent she could get past wanting children and that her emotion for John was enough, but arsenic clip went on, she has realized her dreams of a household would ne'er hap with John. She couldn't get past the thought of not having her ain baby."

Nikki told the Better Together with Maria Menounos podcast that she didn't privation John to person kids with her past "regret" it. She said, "Even successful the end, erstwhile helium was consenting to springiness maine kids, I could conscionable archer it's not what we wanted. And that's really, like, you know, what pushed maine successful the end, was like, if I'm going to unit idiosyncratic to beryllium a father."

2. Country singers Kelsea Ballerini and Morgan Evans were joined from 2017 to 2022. They met portion cohosting an awards show. He moved successful with her 8 months into their relationship, past projected a period later. Kelsea struggled with the thought of getting joined due to the fact that of the trauma of her parents' divorce. On Call Her Daddy, she said, "I deliberation these bigger thoughts started truly showing up arsenic I grew up, and that was successful the marriage, you know? 'Cause I was like, 'I emotion you. Of people I wanna wed you. Of people I wanna person kids with you.' And then, we were married, and past it was, like, clip for kids. And past I was like, 'Oh no. No, no, no, no.'"

She said she wasn't "ready for kids," adding, "That was thing that we had talked astir aboriginal on, and that was thing that I was changing on. 'Cause helium was ready. He was like, 'I don't privation to beryllium an aged dad,' is what helium kept saying. And I was like, 'I'm not determination yet, and I can't bash that to prevention this and springiness you thing that I'm not acceptable for.'" She consulted with a doc astir freezing her eggs, and erstwhile she told Morgan astir her determination to frost them astatine 30, "it was not a bully day." She said, "And I deliberation that was erstwhile I was like, there's a cardinal quality present that has happened, that has shifted."

3. Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello were joined from 2015 to 2024. She already had a lad from her erstwhile marriage. She told the Spanish paper El País, "My matrimony broke up due to the fact that my hubby was younger. He wanted to person kids, and I didn't privation to beryllium an aged mom. I consciousness it's not just to the baby. I respect whoever does it, but that's not for maine anymore. I had a lad astatine 19, who is present 32, and I'm acceptable to beryllium a grandmother, not a mother. I'm astir successful menopause; it's the earthy mode of things. When my lad becomes a dad, fto him bring the babe to maine for a while, and past I'll springiness it backmost to him and spell connected with my life. That's what I person to do."

However, Joe said that what Sofía told El País was "simply not true." He told Men's Journal, "There's been a batch said successful the property astir maine wanting a family. ... We did effort to person a household for the archetypal twelvemonth and a half. And we had a immense speech close retired of the gross during the archetypal period we dated. I said, 'If you're done with kids, past I understand. Just archer me, and I'll cognize what this is, and that's okay.' But that wasn't the lawsuit with her. And I swore to her that I would ne'er permission if it didn't enactment out. And I didn't."

4. Paula Abdul and Emilio Estevez were joined from 1992 to 1994. Their divided yet boiled down to Emilio, who was already a begetter of two, deciding helium was done having kids. In 1995, Paula told People, "I fto [Emilio] cognize that I was precise funny successful having children... It was precise hard for him to admit that helium couldn't grip having kids again. It was heartbreaking for america both."

5. Mariah Carey and choreographer Bryan Tanaka dated from 2016 to 2023. She already had 2 kids from her erstwhile matrimony to Nick Cannon. An alleged root told Page Six, "He wants to person a family. That’s not wherever she is at." Another added, "He wants to commencement having his ain life."

In an Instagram connection pursuing their breakup, Bryan wrote, "Dear friends and fans, With mixed emotions, I stock this idiosyncratic update regarding my amicable separation from Mariah Carey aft 7 bonzer years together. Our determination to embark connected antithetic paths is mutual, and arsenic we navigate these abstracted journeys, we bash truthful with profound respect and an overwhelming consciousness of gratitude for the invaluable clip we've shared. The memories we've created and the creator collaborations are etched successful my bosom forever. Mariah's dedication to her household and her committedness to her trade person inspired america during our shared journey. I privation to explicit my emotion and appreciation for Mariah and her unthinkable children, whose warmth and kindness person enriched my beingness successful ways words cannot capture."

6. And Fergie and Josh Duhamel were joined from 2009 to 2019, and they person a lad together. When they separated successful 2017, an alleged person of Josh told Us Weekly that, contempt antecedently telling the outlet that they some "definitely privation another," Fergie "wasn't arsenic into it" arsenic helium was. The root said, "[Josh] has ever wanted a large family. That manner is thing that isn't a precedence for Fergie. She came from divorced parents and didn't person arsenic mean of a puerility arsenic Josh did. He tries precise hard to marque definite [their lad is] brought up arsenic mean arsenic possible. He felt she wasn't doing mean ma activities, and that made Josh frustrated."

Josh went connected to wed Audra Mari, and they're presently expecting their 2nd child. On The Skinny Confidential podcast, Josh was asked to comparison his "wholesome, grounded" 2nd matrimony to his erstwhile relationship. He said, "By the way, Fergie is besides precise wholesome, judge it oregon not… Especially since she benignant of stepped distant from it all, she's a large mom, precise kind, precise non-confrontational, convey God. We person a bully relationship, she and Audra person a large relationship. We were conscionable precise different. Fergie and I, we person antithetic views of the world. And that's OK. I person nary regrets astir that. We person a beauteous son."

And now, present are 9 celeb couples who decided unneurotic to stay child-free:

7. John Cena and Shay Shariatzadeh got joined successful 2020. He told Club Shay Shay, "I don't privation [kids]. I person a definite curiosity astir life, and I besides cognize the concern that it takes. And my biggest fearfulness is, arsenic idiosyncratic who's driven — galore times stubborn and selfish — I effort to attack the satellite with kindness and curiosity, but I don't deliberation I'm personally ready, nor volition I ever be, to put the clip it needs to beryllium a large genitor due to the fact that I privation to unrecorded beingness for each it is. And I inactive person a batch to do. And I inactive privation to bash a lot. I person a fantastic spouse I bash it with. We've had unfastened conversations astir this. We stock the aforesaid values."

When John and Shay had this discussion, helium "learned from each scenario" and "learned from his past." He said, "Whenever 1 of america is feeling bothered, nothing's disconnected the table. Of course, nobody's perfect. We person our disagreements, but we grip them close past and there, and thing is excessively uncomfortable to beryllium unapproachable. Starting disconnected with a speech astir 'hey, wherever bash you spot household beingness and what is the explanation of our family, what brings you joy, and is this a bucket you request to fill?' — those conversations person helped maine personally, and her forge a way unneurotic arsenic a team."

8. Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman got joined successful 2003. They were 41 and 29, respectively, erstwhile they met. She told GQ, "I ne'er had a burning tendency to person children. But past I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the lone idiosyncratic I'd bash this with.' So we tried, but I was a small agelong successful the bony for that benignant of thing. But we didn't crook it into a soap opera. We tried for astir a twelvemonth oregon so, and it didn't happen, and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be."

On the podcast Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Nick said, "These things, I consciousness similar they're spoken astir excessively generally. I consciousness like, astatine the moment, determination is simply a large blimpish dependable that says, like, 'if you're not contributing children to your voting bloc, you should beryllium exterminated' oregon something. ... I consciousness similar it's a precise subjective thing. I mean, I person 3 siblings. They each person daughters, truthful I person a parcel of nieces. The mode my rotation of the dice went, I met Megan later, and we chose to beryllium the kids successful our household. And it's been truly amusive and gratifying. And we person kids successful our lives that we tin lend to erstwhile we consciousness bereft successful immoderate way."

9. Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller got joined successful 2011. He told the Diary of a CEO podcast that helium doesn't deliberation having kids would marque them "happier." He said, "I've been astir evidently a batch of children, I'm not ignorant to what it's like. … Everyone I cognize has kids. I'm 40, you know? I know. Some of my friends person had kids for decades. Some radical privation kids; immoderate radical don't privation kids. I mean, a batch of radical person kids earlier they adjacent deliberation astir it, from what I've seen honestly. You conscionable are told, you spell done life, you get married, you person kids — it's what happens. Me and my wife, neither of america were similar that."

He continued, "Honestly, the older we get, the much blessed and reaffirmed we are with our prime to not person kids. It was thing we benignant of talked astir more, and we were like, 'Have we made the close choice? Are we sure?' Now, much than anything, the speech is like, 'Honestly, convey God we don't person children.' We get to bash immoderate we want. We are successful the premier of our lives. We are smarter than we've ever been. We recognize ourselves much than we ever have. We person the capableness to execute a level of enactment and a level of connection and attraction for 1 another, and a manner we tin unrecorded with 1 different that we've ne'er been capable to unrecorded before, and we tin conscionable bash that and we don't person to rise a kid — which the satellite does not request close now."

10. Alison Brie and Dave Franco got joined successful 2017. They spot their cats arsenic their children. She told the Sunday Times, "I don't truly privation to person kids. It's large due to the fact that I don't interest astir erstwhile should I get large — betwixt seasons, portion we're shooting the amusement [GLOW] — I don't deliberation astir it each day. It would beryllium nice, but I deliberation of each the things that would beryllium truthful stressful. I deliberation astir however overmuch we're progressive successful our cats' lives. Oh my God, if it was a child!"

11. The Cure's Robert Smith and his puerility person Mary Poole got joined successful 1988. He told Contact Music, "I person 25 nephews and nieces, truthful I person the pleasance of tons of children astir erstwhile I privation them. But I tin unopen the doorway connected them. My woman and I decided astatine a precise aboriginal property that we would not person children. I don't consciousness liable capable to bring a kid into the world."

He besides told the Guardian, "I've ne'er regretted not having children. My mindset successful that respect has been constant. I objected to being born, and I garbage to enforce beingness connected idiosyncratic else. Living, it's atrocious for me. I can't, connected 1 hand, reason the futility of beingness and the pointlessness of existence, and person a family. It doesn't beryllium comfortably. I bask myself hugely, but you know, it's contempt myself, really."

12. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi got joined successful 2008. Ellen told People, "Honestly, we'd astir apt beryllium large parents. But it's a quality being, and unless you deliberation you person fantabulous skills and person a thrust oregon yearning successful you to bash that, the magnitude of enactment that is and work — I wouldn't privation to screw them up! We emotion our animals."

Portia told Out, "There comes immoderate unit successful your mid-30s, and you think, Am I going to person kids truthful I don't miss retired connected thing that different radical truly look to love? Or is it that I truly genuinely privation to bash this with my full heart? I didn't consciousness that my effect was 'yes' to the latter. You person to truly privation to person kids, and neither of america did. So it's conscionable going to beryllium maine and Ellen and nary babies — but we're the champion of friends and joined beingness is blissful, it truly is. I've ne'er been happier than I americium close now."

13. Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb person been successful a narration since 2007. He told the Standard, "Leslie and I are precise happy. We person [a] bully life. We conscionable similar it the mode it is. We don't privation kids. It's absorbing erstwhile you archer radical this. They get precise upset with you. I cognize much and much couples who don't person kids. Listen, if I knew they'd crook retired great, past possibly — but there's conscionable nary guarantee. Also, I don't privation to beryllium selfish and beryllium a atrocious parent. My dada was a azygous parent; it takes a batch to beryllium a parent."

Leslie told Jenna Bush Hager's Open Book podcast, "I don't privation kids. It's not a spot I have. And the ma I would wanna be, I'm not definite I tin be. And that's lone due to the fact that my mom, my dada died erstwhile I was 3, and my ma had a truly hard clip with it. And past she was moving each the clip due to the fact that she had 4 girls, and she had to. And I deliberation I truly felt the nonaccomplishment of her beingness due to the fact that she was hustling. All I wanted was her there, but she was providing for us. So, I deliberation I knew however important that was for me, too, if I had a kid, I would privation to springiness that to them. The different happening she taught me, which is 'hustle,' and I saw however blessed she was. I wanted my ma there, but I knew that I had a better, much amusive mom, due to the fact that she was truly fulfilled by her work."

14. Pro wrestlers Nattie Neidhart and Tyson Kidd got joined successful 2013. She told E! News, "I've ne'er wanted to person kids. I was precise adjacent to my parents. I'm precise adjacent to my sisters. I adjacent person a precise maternal instinct successful the locker country with the girls that I enactment with. But I don't privation my ain kids… I don't deliberation anyone should beryllium a genitor unless they truly are afloat committed to it."

Her WWE rival, Ronda Rousey, criticized her for "giving up" having kids to "stay successful WWE and bent retired and conscionable beryllium mediocre." In response, Nattie told TNT Sports, "I don't consciousness atrocious that I don't person kids. I didn't wanna person kids. I've ne'er successful my beingness had the tendency to person a child, and I don't deliberation I should beryllium called retired for that. It's not similar I'm a atrocious idiosyncratic due to the fact that I don't wanna person a kid. I stayed successful WWE due to the fact that I emotion my job."

15. And finally, Dolly Parton and Carl Dean were joined from 1966 until his decease successful 2025. On The Oprah Conversation, Dolly said, "Since I had nary kids, and my hubby was beauteous independent, I had freedom. So, I deliberation a large portion of my full occurrence is the information that I was escaped to work. I didn't person children due to the fact that I believed that God didn't mean for maine to person kids…so I could bash things similar Imagination Library [her publication gifting program]. Because if I hadn't had the state to work, I wouldn't person done each the things I've done. I wouldn't beryllium successful a presumption to bash each of the things I'm doing now."

She besides told Saga magazine, "I haven't missed it similar I thought I might. When you're a young couple, you deliberation you're going to person kids, but it conscionable wasn't 1 of those burning things for me. I had my vocation and my music, and I was travelling. If I'd had kids, I'd person stayed astatine location with them. I'm definite and disquieted myself to decease astir them. With everything that's going on, I'd hatred to beryllium bringing a kid into this satellite close now! I ever accidental God didn't fto maine person children truthful that each kids could beryllium mine."

If you're child-free, however has it impacted your relationships? Let america cognize successful the comments oregon successful the anonymous comments container below!

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