Who’s Been Married Most: Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, or Elizabeth Taylor?
Regarding celebrity romances, specific names come to mind as repeat offenders in a constant quest for lasting love. However, as Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck, she may now be in a category of women whose yearning for a happily ever after leads them to marry again and again. Who’s had more husbands: Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, or Elizabeth Taylor?
Kim Kardashian was married 3 times
Kim Kardashian comes in third place when it comes to tying the knot. She has been married three times.
She married Damon Thomas in 2000 at the age of just 19. At the time, Thomas was a decade her senior. Kardashian’s marriage to Thomas lasted four years.
Then, in 2010, Kardashian began dating basketball player Kris Humphries. They married in August 2011 in a lavish ceremony filmed for the family’s E! television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians titled “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding.” Just 72 days later, she filed for divorce.
Her third marriage was to Kanye West. She wed the music mogul and rapper in a lavish ceremony in Italy 2014. They welcomed four children together, North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm, before calling it quits in 2020.
Jennifer Lopez married 4 times but was engaged 6 times
Jennifer Lopez put a ring on it more times than she walked down the aisle. She bested Kim Kardashian by one marriage so far.
Her four walks down the aisle began with waiter Ojani Noa. The two met at a Cuban restaurant in Miami. Lopez and Noa married in 1997 and divorced in January 1998, after 11 months of marriage.
Lopez met her second husband, choreographer and dancer Cris Judd, on the set of her “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” music video, which he directed. They married in September 2001 and filed for divorce in July 2002. It was Lopez’s second marriage that lasted less than a year.
Ben Affleck was the next man to propose to Lopez in 2002. They met one year earlier on the set of the romantic comedy Gigli. He gifted her a 6.1-carat pink diamond from Harry Winston, but their wedding never took place. In 2003, they postponed their wedding indefinitely due to the media frenzy surrounding their nuptials.
Months after ending her first engagement to Affleck, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony in a secret ceremony in June 2004. They welcomed twins Max and Emme in 2008 and divorced in 2011.
Lopez had other flings that didn’t result in engagements, including Casper Smart, but met her match with legendary baseball player Alex Rodriguez. They announced their engagement in 2019 but postponed their wedding due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. By April 2021, they split.
Finally, in 2021, Lopez reconnected with Ben Affleck. They became engaged for the second time and married in 2022. Lopez filed for divorce in August 2024.
Elizabeth Taylor wed a staggering 8 times
If there was ever a person who loved being in love, it was legendary screen star Elizabeth Taylor. She was wed a whopping eight times throughout her lifetime.
Taylor first married Conrad “Nicky” Hilton in 1950; their marriage lasted one year. Two years later, she married Michael Wilding. That marriage lasted five years and ended because of her rumored romance with film producer Michael Todd.
Taylor subsequently married Todd in 1957. The couple was deeply in love, but sadly, Taylor became a widow when Todd died in a plane crash one year after their wedding. One year later, Taylor married actor Eddie Fisher, Todd’s best friend. Fisher and Taylor remained married until 1964 when Taylor met actor Richard Burton and had an affair outside of her marriage.
Richard Burton married Taylor just nine days after her divorce from Fisher was finalized. The couple met on the set of Cleopatra. They wed in 1964, and Burton gifted her a 69-carat Cartier ring. The couple divorced in 1974.
But in a blink and you’ll miss it moment, Burton and Taylor reunited. They remarried in 1975 and divorced nine months later. In 1976, Taylor married husband number seven, Virginia Senator John Warren. They would split in 1982.
Taylor’s eighth and final marriage was to Larry Fortensky, whom she met at the Betty Ford Center. They tied the knot at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in 1991. The couple divorced five years later in 1996. Taylor died in 2011.
Therefore, Elizabeth Taylor is the winner in the high-profile marriage department. However, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez have many years of love ahead of them, so who knows how their romantic futures will play out?
