Celeb Couples Who Go To Extremes To Avoid The Limelight

It may not seem like Beyonce and Jay Z are especially private people, because they're so often seen at awards shows and other special events. But Jay Z rarely gives interviews, and Beyonce has gone to great lengths to try to control what concert photos of her the media runs. So despite their high visibility, their image is tightly controlled. That control apparently manifested itself in some highly questionable security procedures being put in place at Lennox Hill Hospital in NYC when it was time for Blue Ivy, their daughter, to arrive. Obviously, the family gave scant info on the very personal event, but since Beyonce delivered in a public hospital, certain details couldn't be kept under wraps.

According to The New York Times, several other people who happened to be patients in the maternity ward at Lennox Hill Hospital had some unpleasant anecdotes about sharing the floor with hip-hop's royal couple. Another delivering mother, Rozz Nash-Coulon, alleged that she observed taped-over security cameras, covered windows, and bodyguards blocking certain areas of the ward. A father, Edgar Ramirez, backed that up by claiming he couldn't access the neonatal unit for three hours, and that he was told by a guard, "the floor is on lockdown." Of course, Bey and Jay denied any special treatment, and the hospital stated, "The security plan was designed not to limit access to patient care areas," but come on. Are we supposed to believe there was a chance some lowly "normal" was going to snap a shot of Beyonce shuffling up and down the hallway and breathing through contractions while Jay Z desperately tried to remember that Lamaze class? Give us a break.

Margot Robbie came out of nowhere with her fiery performance as Leonardo DiCaprio's wife in The Wolf of Wall Street. Since then, she's become a bona fide star with top billing in movies like Focus opposite Will Smith and the DC blockbuster, Suicide Squad. But she didn't exactly embrace the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle that goes along with such fame. In fact, as of six months before her wedding, she and her boyfriend, assistant director Tom Ackerley, lived in an apartment in London with four other roommates, so it would seem that just privacy in general didn't seem like much of a concern for the couple, right? Think again.

In December of 2016, Robbie and Ackerley got married in Robbie's home country of Australia in a wedding so secretive they didn't even tell wedding guests the location. According to News.com.au, the small gathering of 50 attendees were "asked to assemble at different locations from Byron Bay to the Gold Coast, where they were collected by buses and escorted to the venue." They also had to forfeit their cell phones and cameras, so there would be no chance for leaks via social media or an unscrupulous sale to the tabloids. Geez, were they getting married or doing a table read for the new Star Wars movie? Luckily, Margot was apparently allowed to bring her phone which captured this classy shot that the blushing bride shared a few weeks later on Instagram.

Despite his viral status as the internet's boyfriend and favorite meme, Ryan Gosling is notoriously private off-camera. The same goes for his long-time girlfriend and fellow actor, Eva Mendes, who once famously told New York Magazine (via Vulture) that she wished the tabloids would "blur the faces of their dogs, Hugo (hers) and George (his), in photos, like British papers do to kids' faces." Alrighty. So when it came to the birth of their daughters, they kicked the privacy precautions into hyperdrive.

When Mendes was pregnant with their first daughter, Esmerelda Amada, in 2014, nobody knew about it until she was seven months along, which is an amazing feat considering not only is she one of the most recognizable actresses, but she also lives in L.A. aka Paparazzi Central. Apparently that two months of exposure was even too much, because daughter number two, Amada Lee — yes, her first name is her sister's middle name — arrived in complete secrecy. There was speculation a few weeks ahead of her arrival, but even TMZ didn't get the official scoop until two weeks after the birth. They achieved this with some crafty, spy-level planning that mostly included Mendes just skipping a bunch of red carpets and wearing big clothes. Okay, so it wasn't exactly Mission: Impossible - Secret Baby or anything, but still pretty impressive, right?.

Kerry Washington's privacy game is so on point that almost no one even knew she and pro footballer, Nnamdi Asomugha, were even dating when they got married. E! News actually thought they had a breaking story with the news they were officially together, only to have to turn right around and update the story a few hours later to say that they'd actually gotten married in secret several weeks before.

It shouldn't come as a shock that Washington kept mum about her man. She's spoken out many times on how important her privacy is to her. And in a rare, but indirect address of rumors that her marriage was in trouble at a SXSW panel (via Us Weekly), Washington opened up just enough to swat them away. She said, "If I don't talk about my personal life, it means I don't talk about my personal life," she explained. "That means not only did I not tell you when I was getting married, it also means if somebody has rumors about what's going on in my marriage, I don't refute them, because I don't talk about my personal life." Boom. No spin even needed. It's a good thing Olivia Pope's clientele doesn't have that kind of iron-willed image control or else she'd be out of a job.