Celebrities Who Married The Same Person Twice

"Until death do us part" — It's perhaps the most famous line from traditional marriage vows, and yet, for most Hollywood marriages anyway, that seems to be the exception to the rule. Most stars are lucky to make it to their 10 year anniversary, leaving Tinseltown to be known for its barrage of quickie marriages and even more dramatic divorces. But a few of Hollywood's most influential stars didn't let their divorce decrees stop them from finding love again — and they didn't have to look too far to find their next mate. They simply fell back in love with someone they had already married and divorced in the past!  

For some of these stars, their marriage re-dos have panned out quite nicely, while others haven't been so lucky. They either ran into the same issues that split them up the first time around, or, sadly, they were separated by death. Pamela Anderson, Marie Osmond, and Eminem remarried their exes, and they aren't the only ones who decided to walk down the aisle with an ex-spouse. Here are the stories of love, divorce, and reconciliation from celebrities who've married the same person twice.

Just ignore the fact that Marshall "Eminem" Mathers viciously rapped about killing his baby mama, Kim Scott, on multiple songs. Their dysfunctional romance compelled them to get married in June 1999 — four years after the birth of their daughter, Hailie Scott Mathers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, their marriage was short-lived. According to Billboard, the duo separated in August 2000 after Eminem allegedly used "a gun to pistol-whip a man he said he saw kissing his wife outside a nightclub." Ouch.

By December 2000, they patched things up, only for Scott to turn around and file for divorce in March 2001. But nothing could keep these crazy love birds away from one another. The childhood sweethearts got remarried in January 2006, according to People, in what the rapper's rep described as "a small, private ceremony at Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester, Mich."

But as Em's mentor would say, "Hold up, waiiiit!" Before the reunited lovers could send out thank you cards for their wedding gifts, and less than three months after saying "I do," Eminem filed for divorce, People reported. "There was a lot of sadness about why this didn't work out. They've been together for 17 years," Scott's attorney told People when the divorce was finalized eight months later. "They're life-long friends, lovers, have been husband and wife, they're raising children together... It's not the end and it's not over between them."

Oh goodness. Does this mean wedding number three is in the making?

At the height of his career, professional badass and martial arts guru Jean Claude Van Damme had a major problem. According to a 1992 People profile, the actor confessed that his "one weakness is women." And he wasn't lying. Though he was married at the time to former bodybuilder Gladys Portugues, rumors emerged that the Kickboxer star was engaging in an affair with aspiring actress, Darcy LaPier (who was also married at the time). Portugues told People the rumors were "irritating," while adding, "but I know what we have together. I'm too strong to let it get to me."

Whether or not Van Damme and La Pier had an affair, Van Damme's marriage to Portugues ended in a "messy" split that same year, according to E! News, and — Surprise! — The Bloodsport star would then go on to marry LaPier in 1994, according to Hello! Magazine. The couple had one child together, but they divorced in 1997, and guess who Van Damme ran right back to? Portugues, of course!

He and Portugues reconciled and got remarried in June 1999, according to Hello! It would be the actor's fifth marriage with his fourth bride. Thankfully, as of this writing, their love is still alive, well, and kicking butt... Van Damme style.

10-year-old actress Natalie Wood was walking down the hallway at 20th Century Fox studio when 18-year-old Robert Wagner caught her eye. "I turned to my mother and said, 'I'm going to marry him,'" Wood told People in a 1976 issue. And guess what? Wood was right. The West Side Story star and her handsome beau tied the knot in 1957. However, with the press hounding their every move, their marriage would end five years later, though they "never stopped loving" each other, Wood told People. 

They both would move on, marry other people, and have children. Years later, in 1970, they were both attending the same Hollywood party. Woods was six months pregnant by her then-husband, Richard Gregson, and Wagner, married but separated from his wife, Marion Marshall, attended the party alone. Their fated meeting at that party spiraled into months of conversations between the two of them. "We talked about what had happened to our marriages. He had become a man instead of a boy. But we had to have those years apart," Woods said.

They ditched their marriages, decided to remarry each other in January 1972, and had a daughter together. However, their rekindled romance was cut short when Woods died during a boat trip in 1981 at the age of 43. 

Television personality Larry King is known for his love life — which is more like a revolving door, if you ask us. He has walked down the aisle eight different times with seven different women, including his third wife, former Playboy bunny Alene Akins, who he married once in 1961 and again in 1967.

The couple had one child together, their daughter Chaia, and King even adopted Atkins' son, Andy, from a previous marriage, People reported. And long after their second divorce was finalized in 1972, King had nothing but good things to say about the woman he divorced, remarried, and divorced again.

When it was announced that Akins had died in February 2017, King took to his Twitter to pen a heartfelt and sweet note to his two-time ex-wife. "So very saddened over the passing of Alene Akins, who died peacefully with our children Chaia and Andy by her side. She was a grand lady," his sentimental tweet read.