Celebrities that Waited Until Marriage

Every week I always watch this talk show called The Real and one of the hosts is Tamera Mowry- Housley. She was on a show called Sister Sister on Disney Channel back when I was in Elementary school and I’ve always been a huge fan. On a lot of the episodes of The Real she talks about how she stayed a virgin until she was 28 and felt guilty after having sex with her now husband, Adam Housley, out of wedlock. After they had sex the first time they decided to wait until they were officially married to have sex again. This made me curious to know what other celebrities waited until marriage. So below I compiled a list of celebrities that either kept their virginity until marriage or famous couples that decided to recommit when they got in serious relationships.

Adriana Lima (Victoria Secret model) Despite dating several other high profile celebrities it was important for Lima to save herself for marriage. At the age of 27 she married her former husband Marko Jaric who previously played for the NBA.

Jessica Simpson (musician, designer, and actress) Simpson vowed to save herself for marriage publicly and did so before her first marriage to singer Nick Lachey in 2002.

  

Julianne Hough (dancer and actress) Hough grew up in a traditional Mormon household with the idea of saving herself for marriage being very emphasized. In the beginning of her career she had several interviews where she expressed her views on saving her virginity until after she was married. It isn't confirmed if she still lives by this choice or if she has changed her mind.

Grey’s Anatomy star Sarah Drew (actress) plays a character on the show named April Keppener who is a devout Christian that saved herself for marriage. Interestingly enough Drew actually lived out this same decision in her own life and married her current husband Peter Lanfer in 2002.

Carrie Underwood (musician) The dedicated Christian waited until she found her husband Mike Fisher and got married in 2010.

Heidi Montag (former reality TV star) Even though she lived on the party scene in Beverly Hills Montag still preserved her virginity until marrying her husband Spencer Pratt.

Lisa Kudrow, (actress) The beloved Friends star stayed true to herself and waited until she married her husband at age 31 before having sex.

Tina Fey (actress and comedian)  Fey was abstinent until marrying her husband when she was 24 years old.

 Lolo Jones (Olympic athlete) Professional athlete Lolo Jones is currently single and has described abstaining from sex as harder than training for the Olympics! 

Ciara (musician) and her boyfriend Russel Wilson, (Sea Hawks football player) are practicing celibacy in their relationship. Although Ciara was not practicing celibacy in other relationships prior to Wilson they decided mutually that in order to get to know each other and have a meaningful relationship they wanted to keep sex/physical things out of it.

Mariah Carey (musician) and Nick Cannon (producer, comedian, and actor) chose to save their first time having sex together until after their wedding to consummate their marriage. Even though they unfortunately divorced after 6 years.

  

Movie producer, actor, and Pastor Devon Franklin committed to celibacy for 10 years before meeting his wife, actress Meagan Good. 

     Good decided to become abstinent after experiencing many hard relationships in the past. After re-committing to save herself for marriage the Lord revealed to Good that Franklin would be her husband and eventually they dated. 
        Leading up to marriage they were both very intentional and kept God first in their relationship. They fasted together, prayed together and eventually got married in 2012.

Hopefully this post was interesting! Definitely let me know in the comments section below if you hear about anymore of your favorite celebs that were abstinent!

XOXO Pure Jess

For more reasons to wait check out my blog post Why Shouldn't I Just Have Sex?

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