Celebrity couples who have unconventional marriage rules

Some Hollywood fairytales have a twist.

While many celebrities and their significant others cohabitate in the traditional sense, some A-listers have embraced newer relationship arrangements.

Case in point — Jada Pinkett Smith. The actress recently revealed that she has no plans to divorce husband Will Smith despite the pair living separately for the past seven years.

According to Pinkett Smith, 52, the couple had been struggling with their tumultuous marriage and were simply “exhausted with trying” by 2016.

“I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” she told the “Today” show’s Hoda Kotb, 59, in an exclusive interview that aired on Oct. 13.

“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through whatever,” she continued. “And I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”

Pinkett Smith and the Oscar winner are not the only famous couple to go against the lifestyle expectations for romantic partners.

Joining the couple are several other high-profile pairings, including Helena Bonham Carter and ex Tim Burton, Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Brad Falchuk and more.

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Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

It should come as no surprise, given recent headlines, that Pinkett Smith and the “I Am Legend” star, 55, have had a rocky marriage.

Talking with People shortly after the promo for her “Today” show, Pinkett Smith revealed that she and Smith had “been doing some really heavy-duty work together.

“We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us,” she told the outlet, adding that they are “still figuring it out.”

Pinkett Smith also revealed that she did not sign a prenup when she wed the “Bad Boys” star in 1997.

“No matter what, we’re going to figure it out and that’s why we don’t need a prenup, because I’m making a promise that divorce won’t be necessary, that we will figure this out,” Pinkett Smith explained.

Pinkett Smith told Parade that she and Smith made a promise to never call it quits during a “very real moment” for the two of them, in which they recognized that there would be “tough times in this journey.”

Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she and her hubby, television producer Brad Falchuk, didn’t live under the same roof until a year into their marriage.

“Oh, all my married friends say that the way we live sounds ideal, and we shouldn’t change a thing,” Paltrow, 51, gushed to the Sunday Times in 2019, adding that her “intimacy teacher” expressed approval for this arrangement.

In 2020, the “Shakespeare in Love” actress and Falchuk, 52, finally moved into the same home.

“I thought it was really interesting how resonant that was for people,” Paltrow told Harper’s Bazaar. “One of my best friends was like, ‘That is my dream. Don’t ever move in.’”

The “Iron Man” actress and Falchuk were trying to ease their children into becoming a blended family before they moved in together.

“I think, really, because we each have two teenage children whom we love very much, but we were just trying to be mindful and give them a little space and not move too quickly,” Paltrow said while appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in 2019.

“But now, we’re merged, and it’s great,” the Goop founder added.

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter met while filming the 2001 remake “Planet of the Apes” and were together from 2001 to 2014.

They never shared a home during their 13-year relationship, but did three connected homes to provide their children, Billy and Nell, with a middle area of sorts.

“He always visits,” the “Sweeney Todd” star said of Burton to the Guardian in 2010. “Which is really touching. He’s always coming over.”

She added: “The houses are joined. We have a throughway. Journalists think there’s an underground tunnel, gothic. It’s ­actually quite above ground, lots of light.”

Bonham Carter noted that their sleeping styles played a role in the decision to have three homes while they were together.

“There’s a snoring issue … I talk, he snores,” the “Fight Club” star said. “The other thing is, he’s an insomniac, so he needs to watch television to get to sleep. I need silence.”

According to Harper’s Bazaar, Bonham Carter said she felt like she went through a divorce when the pair split in 2014.

“I went through a very painful divorce,” Bonham Carter said. “It was a long-lasting thing. That’s the other thing, it’s not that finite. It never ends. Even if you divorce somebody, it’s a kind of marriage if you have children with them. The relationship has to change.”

She added: “It’s a very complicated thing how to share the children.”

Carson Daly and Siri Daly

“Today” show co-host Carson Daly and his wife, Siri, have been sleeping in separate beds after getting “sleep divorced” in 2019.

According to Daly, 50, the split happened after Siri, 42, became pregnant with the couple’s fourth child.

“We’re both pretty good-sized humans and it just wasn’t really working when she was in her third trimester, and I also have sleep apnea, which is very sexy for the ladies out there, I’m sure,” the “Voice” host joked in June 2020. “She couldn’t get comfortable, so we were like a commercial you would see, kicking each other and just not sleeping.

“We woke up and we just shook hands like, ‘I love you, but it’s time to sleep divorce. It’ll be the best thing for all of us,’” he told People.

This arrangement has stayed the same following their child’s birth.

“I’m purposely not sleeping, obviously, with [Siri] and Goldie, because I don’t want to wake them up at 3 o’clock in the morning,” Daly explained. “We’re still sleep divorced, but for discernibly different reasons. I don’t know if we’ll ever sleep together again.”

Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick, Travis Barker

Try “keeping up” with this head spinner.

Now-exes Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick began sleeping in different beds after Kardashian, 44, started allowing kids Mason and Penelope to sleep with her and Disick, 40.

“With two kids in my bed, Scott had begun sleeping in the guest room,” Kardashian wrote on her site  Poosh in 2018. “So I made an effort to try and get Reign to sleep in his crib.” 

According to the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star, she “actually spent the first two months sleeping in a bed in his room” as she was up at night nursing.

Following her split from Disick in 2015 and her 2022 marriage to Blink-182’s Travis Barker, the reality star revealed that she and Barker, 47, are currently living in different houses.

“We have our routines within our house,” Kardashian said on the “Not Skinny but Not Fat” podcast. “Like, when the kids are at their dad’s house, I stay at his house, and there are still nights when we’ll stay at each other’s houses in between. But I get up at six in the morning, and I carpool every morning, and then I go straight to his house and have matcha.”

The reality star and the musician, who were “figuring out how to blend our households and our kids,” revealed in June 2023 that they were expecting their first child together, a baby boy.

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal

Reflecting the tumultuous relationship between late actress Farrah Fawcett and actor Ryan O’Neal, it was revealed in O’Neal’s 2012 book, “Both of Us: My Life With Farrah,” that both he and Fawcett, who died in 2009 at the age of 62, slept separately.

“There is this thin, impenetrable veil between us,” O’Neal, 82, wrote. “We’re professional and considerate to each other on the set; cool, almost aloof at home.”

The text continues: “She accuses me of being bored and angry. Maybe she’s right. Sometimes our love just doesn’t make up the differences.”

According to the “What’s Up, Doc?” star, the pair decided to sleep in separate bedrooms after their son, Redmond, got in the habit of sleeping in his parent’s bed.

O’Neal said their son had “strong legs like his mother” and he would “burrow into the bed, decide he didn’t have enough room, and then start pushing with all his might, until I had no other choice but to sleep on the floor or in the other room.”

Despite Redmond eventually outgrowing the stunt, the damage was done.

“Farrah and I had grown used to our privacy and it stuck, and even when we traveled after that, we’d often get adjoining rooms,” O’Neal continued. “I always thought of our arrangement as terribly mature of us. Now I wish I could have back every one of those nights we slept in separate beds.”