By Neia Balao
2:00pm PDT, Aug 24, 2022
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We love it when celebrities go against convention! Join Wonderwall.com as we take a look at some of the female stars who've gone against tradition and proposed to their significant others… First up? Britney Spears! The iconic pop star proposed to dancer (and future ex-husband) Kevin Federline on her private plane in July 2004. "All of a sudden I said, 'What if you want to get married?' And I kind of went from there to asking him if he would marry me," she told People magazine. Kevin added, "And I said no. I was taken by surprise. I thought the guy was supposed to ask the girl. So a couple of minutes went by, and I asked her." K-Fed, Britney still did it first!
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Kristen Bell not only proposed to longtime love Dax Shepard — she did it via Twitter! In June 2013, the "Veronica Mars" star wrote, "@daxshepard1 will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove." Dax initially proposed in 2009, but the pair waited to wed until same-sex marriage was legalized in California. Kristen re-proposed and the rest is history!
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"Queen & Slim" actress Jodie Turner-Smith proposed to Joshua Jackson on New Year's Eve in 2018 while they were vacationing in Nicaragua. "We were walking down the beach, and she asked me to marry her. There was, like, a preamble. There was a lead-up to it," he recalled on "The Tonight Show." He continued, "I did not know, but she was quite adamant, and she was right. This is the best choice I ever made." They secretly tied the knot in December 2019, but not before the "Dawson's Creek" star proposed to Jodie too.
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Judge Judy Sheindlin was proactive when it came to making things official with husband Jerry Sheindlin again. Judy and Jerry have been wed to one another twice — they divorced in 1990 and remarried the following year. Judy's the one who popped the question the second time they decided to tie the knot. "I did propose to him. I said to him, 'Where is this relationship going?' And he tried to weasel out of it with his, 'Well, you know, why do we have to get married?' Whatever," she explained to DuJour.
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According to her obituary in The Guardian, "Cleopatra" star Elizabeth Taylor — who was married eight times — proposed to one of her husbands, actor Matthew Wilding, who was 20 years her senior. She reportedly asked him to be her husband while she was filming "Ivanhoe" in England. Unfortunately, their union wasn't built to last — they were married for five years from 1952 to 1957, though they did welcomed two sons together.
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A match made in "Bachelor in Paradise" heaven! Former "The Bachelorette" star Becca Kufrin didn't find lasting love during her season of the series — but she did find her perfect match on the beach! Becca met Thomas Jacobs, who previously appeared on the 17th season of "The Bachelorette" featuring Katie Thurston, during the seventh season of "Bachelor in Paradise" in 2021. Rather than wait for Thomas to propose, Becca took matters into her own hands — she popped the question in June 2022. "Having a ring on your finger as a male, when your partner proposes to you as a female — you just feel like a bad b****," Thomas revealed while chatting with Kaitlyn Bristowe for her "Off the Vine" podcast.
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Pink and Carey Hart have been married for a long time. And who proposed? That was the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who popped the question in 2005 while the motocross legend was competing in the Pro 250 Class Finals. According to Popsugar, during the third lap of the race, the "So What" singer held up a sign that read, "Will you marry me?" After it failed to elicit a response, Pink added "Serious" to the sign — and Carey said yes!
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From friends to lovers! "Succession" actress Sarah Snook met her husband, Dave Lawson, back in 2014, but they didn't begin dating until 2020. They married in 2021 after she asked him to marry her. "We've been friends since 2014, lived together, traveled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic. We've just never been single at the time," she told Vogue Australia. "I proposed, and we got married in February in my backyard." Cute!
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"The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Gretchen Rossi proposed to longtime partner Slade Smiley in 2013 on an episode of the hit reality series. They both got down on one knee to solidify their engagement! While they've yet to tie the knot, they both wear wedding rings to show their commitment to one another. "I wear a ring like he's my husband. He wears a ring. We call each other husband and wife. It's just, we don't have a legal paper that says it," Gretchen, who welcomed a daughter with Slade in 2019, told Us Weekly.
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Kat Dennings and rock star Andrew W.K. proposed to one another in 2021… at the same time! "We had a special moment that makes me believe in magic," the Marvel actress recalled during an appearance on "The Drew Barrymore Show." She continued, "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 live without him. This is the man I'm supposed to be with.' And we looked at each other, and we both proposed at the same time."
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Retired Olympic alpine skier Lindsey Vonn proposed to NHL star PK Subban during the holiday season in 2019. "Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!! On our 2 year anniversary, in a 'non traditional' move, I asked PK to marry me and he said, Yes! Women aren't the only ones who should get engagement rings!" she wrote on Twitter. Unfortunately, they didn't make it to the altar — they ended their coupledom in December 2020.
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"Five Feet Apart" actress Haley Lu Richardson proposed to her longtime beau, Brett Dier, in 2019. They began dating in 2012. "I didn't prepare at all," she told Cosmopolitan. "I had no idea when I woke up that morning that I was going to ask someone to marry me that day. I was totally in the moment and this gut feeling came up and coerced me to ask him to marry me and I did."
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We love just how nonchalant Diane von Furstenberg was when she proposed to husband Barry Diller. "One year I didn't know what to give him for his birthday," the famed designer told O, The Oprah Magazine. "And I called him and said, 'You know, if you want, for your birthday I'll marry you.' And he said, 'Let me see if I can arrange it.'" They wed in 2001.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor wasn't afraid of bucking tradition! The actress, who died in 1986, was rumored to have proposed to all nine of her husbands including her eccentric widower, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt.
