Celebrities Jealous Of Their Partners' Success

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A good partner should support your career — but could you handle watching them rake in millions and collect Oscars like Infinity Stones while you’re still struggling to land small roles?

Here are 14 celebs who were allegedly super jealous of their partners' success:

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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon first met at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards. Three years later, she cast him as her love interest in her "Bye Bye" music video. That April, Mariah's rep denied dating rumors to People. But while they were keeping their relationship secret from the public, things were moving rather quickly behind the scenes. Nick proposed to her twice — once with a 17-carat pink diamond ring hidden inside a Ring Pop, and once during an NYC helicopter ride. Less than two months into their relationship, they were married. However, they divorced in 2016.

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On the Ray Daniels Presents podcast, Nick said, "I got married in my 20s to the biggest star in the world. I would lay up at night thinking, 'Is this who I am? Am I Mariah's man? Is that what my life's supposed to be?' There's nothing wrong with it. And I got really comfortable in it. She got islands. I'm waking up at noon, and I'm being served steaks on a platter... Then when you have children and the hierarchy of man shit is like, 'Wait, I'm carrying the purse, the diaper bag, and I'm standing on the corner waiting.' She's rocking being all the alpha that she is. And I believe she needs a dude like that. I'm just not that dude."

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He said, "And the love kept me there because I was like, 'You need somebody. You need a support system. You need somebody that don't want you for your money. You need somebody that's sincere. You need somebody that's ready to build a family, raise some amazing kids together. And that was my goal. But then there was something constantly in me like... I was wearing suits every day 'cause I'm trying to prove that I'm a man. The inner adolescent in me, I'm trying to prove that I'm a man because I'm standing next to a woman."

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Anna Faris and Ben Indra met while filming the 2000 slasher Lovers Lane. She rejected his first proposal but agreed to marry him the second time he asked. They got married in 2004, separated in 2007, and finalized their divorce in 2008. Anna later told Marie Claire that his acting career cooled off while hers was on the rise. She said, "That kind of destroyed my marriage. The divide became too great."

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In her 2017 memoir Unqualified, she said, "I've often tried to understand my rationale for getting married the first time, because it does seem baffling to commit to a lifelong relationship when there are so many glaring problems. I still wonder why I did that, and I don't fully have the answers, and I don't know if I ever will."

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After the end of her first marriage, Anna Faris moved on with her Take Me Home Tonight costar Chris Pratt. They got engaged at the end of 2008 and married the following year. Their son was born in 2012, two years before Chris's breakout action role in Guardians of the Galaxy. The couple ultimately divorced in 2018.

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Anna married cinematographer Michael Barrett in 2021. On an episode of her podcast Unqualified, she said, "My two other marriages were with actors, and I don't think we did a great job of eliminating competitiveness. Or at least I didn't, being a proud person, and not wanting to reveal vulnerability... Any hint of competitiveness and comparison, I didn't handle that very well, I don't think. And I hope I've grown from that."

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Teyana Taylor and former NBA player Iman Shumpert met at a party in NYC in 2011, but she was dating someone else at the time. They saw each other around town, and, after she helped him recover from knee surgery in 2013, they became a couple. They got engaged and welcomed their first daughter together two years later. They married in 2016, welcomed their second daughter in 2020, and then filed for divorce in 2023.

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TMZ leaked the news of their divorce nine months after Teyana quietly filed. The outlet reported that, according to legal documents, she allegedly accused him of being envious of how famous she was and insecure about not feeling "good enough" in the relationship. Teyana allegedly said that she "began to intentionally dim her light for her husband to try to have a harmonious and peaceful marriage." In an Instagram story post, Teyana said, "I mind my business, don't bother nobody & y'all know I've never played about my children, family & our privacy. I have not spoken on this private matter to any media outlets or blogs etc."

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