12 female celebrities who proposed to their male partners, from Succession star Sarah Snook and former Olympian Lindsey Vonn, to Britney Spears and Pink

Oct 29 , 2021

Pink, Britney Spears and The Good Place star Kristen Bell all once proposed. Photos: @hartluck/Instagram, AFP

Sarah Snook – currently starring in HBO’s Succession – quietly wed comedian Dave Lawson after they spent lockdown together in Melbourne

Gretchen Rossi asked Slade Smiley to marry her on a Real Housewives episode while Haley Lu Richardson popped the question to Brett Dier in the middle of a TV talk show

Getting down on one knee to propose marriage – with a massive, glittering rock at the ready, of course – is a tradition that’s still going strong today. But it’s not always the men who are stepping up – or kneeling down – as this list proves. While many A-list
brides are opting for colour over typical white dresses, others are taking matters
into their own hands and defying outmoded conventions by popping the question
first.

Meet 12 female celebrities who proposed to their male partners ...

Elizabeth Taylor

Out of Elizabeth Taylor’s eight marriages, she proposed once, to Michael Wilding.

Taylor proposed to Wilding, a British actor, while working on a film in England in 1952. They had two children together before divorcing in 1957.

Judy Sheindlin, aka Judge Judy

Judy Sheindlin, better known as the no-nonsense Judge Judy, proposed to her husband Jerry Sheindlin.

Sheindlin had been married once for 12 years before she met her now-husband in a bar. When he continued to express ambivalence about the importance of getting married, she asked him to marry her herself.

“I did propose to him,” Sheindlin told DuJour in 2013. “I said to him, ‘Where is this relationship going?’ And he tried to weasel out of it, with his, ‘Well, you know, why do we have to get married?’ Whatever. He finally capitulated. I told him to pick a date. He picked Flag Day.”