Celebrity divorces seem to occur at a rate faster than those of us mere mortals. Why this is remains unclear. What’s cooking in Hollywood that makes so many people want to tie the knot before barely learning their partner’s last name? It happens so often that you may have forgotten about a few A-list unions that were super-duper short-lived.
We all know about Jennifer Garner‘s marriage to Ben Affleck, but did you know she was also married to Scandal heartthrob Scott Foley once upon a time? Or how about Kim Kardashian‘s first marriage, which, nope, wasn’t to Kris Humphries? Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett? Yes, that’s a thing that happened. See also: Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson and Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray. The list goes on.
Check out these 18 short-lived celebrity marriages that quickly became celebrity divorces you probably forgot all about.