We never know when cupid’s arrow strike us! It could be in the midst of busy broadway, on a metro ride, in the middle of a heavy rain, or anywhere. And when it strikes, then there is no looking back, right? We all often hear surprising romance stories such as an 85-year old man marrying and 80-year old woman, an affair between 70-year old lady and a 30-year old man, a 20-year old girl in love with a 60-year old man and so on. It feels weird, but on second thought, that’s how strange LOVE is! Love indeed seems blind!
Can you imagine a world without love? How rude and brutal it would be! It is only love that keeps our world moving on. But does everyone find the love they are looking for? Many people do not. It would seem that if you are beautiful and wealthy, it should be easy to find a man who loves you. But believe you me, there are plenty of attractive celebs out there who are still single, and that too single moms! They had romantic partners, so what happened? Did love happen? Why didn’t it last? Is it really that hard to find true love?
I think finding love is not that difficult. But maintaining a relationship is not that easy. Let’s take a look at some single moms who have been through multiple failed relationships or marriages and is currently unhitched. And then at a few others who seemed to have jumped into marriages a little too quick – will they last? Have they found true love? Let’s find out:
15. Halle Berry
Halle Berry the American actress is not only an enchanting beauty but also a proven actress. She had won the prestigious Academy award for best actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster’s Ball (2001). As of 2018, she is the only black woman who have won this award. After two rocky marriages she got solace in the French Canadian model Gabriel Aubry. In this relationship Berry became the mother of cute Nahla in 2008.
But in 2010 itself the couple parted their ways followed by a highly publicized custody battle for Nahla. By then Berry was involved with the French actor Olivier Martinez. In that relation she gave birth to her son in 2013 and unfortunately in 2015 they announced their separation. In short, though married thrice and was involved in a couple of relationships, Halle Berry is a single mother of two children who is bravely going ahead! (source: wiki)
14. Britney Spears
Pop icon Britney Spears has two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James. We all remember them as little toddlers, but they are both pre-teens now. Sean is 12 years of age, while Jayden is 11 years of age. How fast time flies!
Britney’s ex-husband, Kevin Federline is the father of her older son and the back up dancer hubby is the father of her second child too. Since both are born in a gap of one year, are easily mistaken to be Irish twins. Britney has suffered a breakdown in 2007 but her joy over being a mom is what keeps her moving.
She keeps her boys largely out of the spotlight, but the proud mom can’t help herself from sharing photos and videos of preteens on Instagram every once in a while. Single mom is happy and always try to spend quality time with her sons. (source: lifeandstylemag.com)
13. Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes is widely known as the ex-wife of the hollywood throb Tom Cruise and the mother of their only daughter together, Suri Cruise. Though they are not together, Suri is the only biological child they both have.
Before Tom Katie had her share of relationships but once Tom entered her life she was under love spell. They got engaged within seven weeks of dating and on the first anniversary of their dating they became the parents of Suri. After a five and a half years of marriage, Holmes filed for a divorce fearing the intimidation of church of Scientology in which Tom had deep belief. She also feared whether Tom would abduct Suri.
In an interview with Town and Country magazine, she had revealed, “My child is the most important person to me, and her upbringing is paramount to my work right now. It’s very important to me that I’m present and she has a stable, innocent childhood. I feel so blessed to do what I do, but there’s nothing in the world better than watching your child succeed.” Well said, Katie! (source: abcnews.com)
12. Michelle Williams
Michelle williams is a brave single mother to her daughter Matilda Heather. This young mother takes care of her daughter even after the death of her husband the hollywood actor Heath Ledger. He was found dead by an accidental overdose of drugs in January 2008 after his separation from michelle after a three years marriage. Soon Michelle and Matilda became subjects of media interest.
In an interview she had opened up saying, “In all honesty, for pretty much everything else, I feel like I’m a believer in not fighting circumstances, accepting where you are and where you’ve been,” when discussing Ledger’s death. Though Ledger is no more both mother and daughter are trying to do well in their lives. (source: nydailynews.com)
11. Padma Lakshmi
An Indian by birth and a true american by life – that is Padma Lakshmi. Her modeling career began at the age of 21 and she has said that she was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan, and New York and also the first one to admit that she was a novelty. She was even able to pay off her college loans by working as a model and actress. She has had only one marriage in her life and that was to the renowned writer Salman Rushdie who has dedicated his novel ‘Fury’ to her.
After the separation from Rushdie, Lakshmi entered in two simultaneous relationships, one with venture capitalist Adam Dell and the other with the multi millionaire Teddy Forstmann. Though the biological father of her daughter Krishna Thea is Adam, she had given the freedom and right of her child’s father to Forstmann.
Forstmann had passed away at the age of 71 due to his illness and it seems Padma still misses him. “I miss him, I love him, he was my lover’ she broke down in tears over Teddy Forstmann at an interview, but she is going strong.(source: dailymail.co.uk)
10. Madonna
Madonna, the queen of pope has been single throughout, you can say in spite of her long list of boyfriends and relationships. Madonna who was born in 1958 had a successful musical career. She has been the dream and continue to live her life.
She has one biological daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, now 22, who she had with Carlos Leon the paralympic athlete. She also is the mother of Rocco Ritchie, 18, who she had with ex-husband Guy Ritchie the English film maker. Madonna had adopted four of her children from Malawi – David Banda in 2006 and Mercy James in 2009, and twins Esther and Stella Mwale in 2017.
Though Madonna has short flings and affairs in between, she is a brave single mother of her two biological and four adopted children. Great heart, indeed!(source:thesun.co.uk)
9. Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver is a successful and celebrated actress as well as an established singer. She has been romantically linked with several of her co-stars, including Matt Damon and John Cusack. She got engaged to marry Josh Brolin, but they broke up suddenly in 2001 before the wedding. Her private life was not that public but in 2008 she disclosed in an interview that she was expecting her first child.
On September 5, 2008, she became the mother of her cute little baby boy Henry Story Driver. She kept mum about the name of the baby’s father for about three years. Later she told the British publication ‘The Observer’ that it is a writer from her former TV series, The Riches. She had previously kept his identity quiet out of respect for his privacy. Good luck lady, you are brave enough to rare a child single handedly. Spirited one! (source: hollywoodreporter.com)
8. Sheryl Crow
A tumult and high profile romantic relationships and hookups – is what Sheryl Crow’s relationship history is all about. She had musician Eric Clapton, actor Owen Wilson, cyclist Lance Armstrong etc. She had announced her engagement with Armstrong but separated ways in a couple of months.
She has been diagnosed with breast cancer and meningioma at different periods of her life, but none of these health conditions could stop her from adopting two boys. Crow announced on her website that she had adopted a two-week-old boy named Wyatt Steven Crow in 2007. In June 2010 she adopted the second boy named Levi James Crow. This brave single mother is living peacefully and happily with her boys in Tennessee. (source:wiki)
7. January Jones
The American actress and model January Jones is extremely private. Almost two three years paparazzi had their tongues out wagging around to get a clue about her son’s father, but no chance! The top secret continues that way. She has been linked up with several names down these years but media has no idea about the paternity of Xander, the son of January Jones.
It has been reported that she had told The Edit that ‘I don’t have room for anything else, so I don’t know how I would have done it with a partner. I knew I would be raising my son alone. It was something I went in to knowingly, I was prepared mentally – and I was excited about it.’
So that is it – she doesn’t need anyone to help her raise her boy.
6. Mary-Louise Parker
Mary Louise Parker, the American actress and model has had many short lived and long term relationships in her life. The actor Billy Crudup whom she dated for almost five years left her while she was seven months pregnant with their son, William Atticus Parker, born in 2004. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Parker only to break up within months. Later she adopted a baby girl, Caroline Aberash Parker, from Ethiopia.
As per nytimes.com, Ms. Parker isn’t sure she will ever find a new partner and seems unconcerned. She is unnaturally beautiful, pale and intense and is happy with her children, her neighbors and her goats upstate, where she has a weekend home, and with Mrs. Roosevelt (her pet dog).
5. Meg Ryan
Former America’s Sweetheart Ryan has been largely single since splitting from ex-boyfriend, Proof Of Life co-star Russell Crowe after a brief romance in 2000. This relationship bloomed as she was ending her marriage to Dennis Quaid, father of her 18-year-old son Jack Quaid. The marriage with Quaid was called to quit in view of her affair with Crowe. But in an interview she had revealed that Quaid has been cheating on her for along time.
She had told InStyle magazine: ‘It was very painful. I am not a victim. I was there. I was in that marriage for a really long time.’ She also insisted that it was not because Crowe her marriage ended. She also confessed that she had to hurt him at the end since she was not ready to take up a serious relationship soon after a 10 year long marriage with Quaid. Ryan has since adopted a daughter Daisy from China in 2006. She is a happy single mother of her two children.
4. Edie Falco
Edie Falco is an American television, film, and stage actress, famous for playing Diane in Oz and Carmela Soprano in The Sopranos. She is also the title character Nurse Jackie in the Showtime show. According to marriedbiography.com, she has never married.She adopted a son, Anderson, in 2005 and a daughter, Macy, in 2008.
In an interview with the DailyBeast she has said, ”If the main centerpiece of all of this is supposed to be love then I am living in a deluge of it — the friendships that I have that are, on average, 30 years old, my family, my children. . . My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They’ve never seen an argument. There’s never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with, because my parents did end up divorcing.” This explains it all- why she chose to be happy single mother who wants to live her life in her own way!
3. Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock is a fan favorite, no doubt. She is the one who manages to give a ‘girl next door feeling’! Though she had rumored relationships with famous actors such as Tate Donovan, Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling it was the motorcycle builder Jesse James who became her spouse. They got married in 2005. When a scandal arose where many women alleged to have had affairs with James, he responded to it by a public apology to Bullock. This finally resulted in their divorce.
Bullock and James were in the process of adopting a son while their marriage was about to sink. Though her marriage failed she went on to adopt the baby. She adopted one baby daughter too. Now, Sandra Bullock has proved the world that she is not only an Oscar winner but also a successful single mother!
2. Kate Moss
Is it difficult for celebs to stay in a relationship? We do get this doubt at a closer look of Kate Moss’ private life. She is a successful English model and business woman. Lila Grace Moss-Hack who was born in 2002 is her daughter with Jefferson Hack, with whom she was in a relationship in the early 2000s.
Pete Doherty was her fiance for just a couple of months. Jamie Hince, guitarist of The Kills and Moss were in marital bliss for almost four years before their split in 2015 and settled their divorce out of court in 2016. Kate has had long and short flings throughout these years, but she is a single mother to her daughter. (source:wiki)
1. Kate Gosselin
Kate Gosselin is an American TV personality who was shot to fame just because of her kids. Kate and her husband Jon Gosselin were married in 1999. She gave birth to twin girls, Cara and Madelyn through fertility treatment. Since she was suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome after further treatments, Gosselin became pregnant again, and on May 10, 2004,she gave birth to sextuplets: sons Aaden, Collin, and Joel, and daughters Alexis, Hannah, and Leah.
The Gosselins were featured in the NBC reality TV show Home Delivery when their home was renovated to accommodate the large family. Discovery Health featured them in “Surviving Sextuplets and Twins” and a year later another show “Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later”. Discovery Health then started a reality series “Jon & Kate Plus 8”, which documented their lives. The family got remuneration for being the part of the show.
Unfortunately in 2009 John & Kate parted their ways. After a serious custody battle she won the primary custody of her eight kids. Now as the older twins are going to college and they don’t want their mom to end up as an old maid. Kate is soon going to be featured in a reality series: “Kate plus Date” (Source: people.com)
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