7 celebrity couples who broke up before getting back together

Kate Middleton and Prince William recently celebrated a decade of love. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge acknowledged their 10th wedding anniversary on Instagram by sharing two new photos which were taken at Kensington Palace.

However, it wasn't always easy for the royals.

The college sweethearts began dating in 2003, but eventually broke up in 2017.

"We both were very young … we were sort of both finding ourselves as such and being different characters and stuff, it was very much trying to find our way and we were growing up, and so it was just sort of a bit of space and a bit of things like that and it worked out for the better,” Prince William said in an interview with the UK Press Association.

The two then got back together in 2010 and were engaged later that year. They are now parents to three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.

John Legend loves all of Chrissy Teigen.

Teigen and Legend met for the first time when the supermodel starred in his music video for "Stereo" in 2006. While Legend toured the country, the pair kept in touch via texts.

In 2016, Teigen told Cosmopolitan that early on in their relationship when she was on tour with him, he had gotten very sick.

"He was feeling really bummed and stressed out,” Teigen said. “He was like, 'I can't be in a relationship right now.’"

Teigen explained how the split lasted for only one day. The couple tired the knot in 2013 and have two children.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are seriously couple goals.

However, not everything is perfect due to the fact that the couple went through a tough time when they started seeing each other in 2007.

In an interview with Pop Sugar, Bell said her now-husband sat her down and told her that he couldn't be in a relationship and was dating other people.

"And then I, like, liquefied and fell to the ground, but I felt incredibly respected that he had the balls to tell me we weren't in the same place,” Bell said.

The two ended up getting back together after Shepard rekindled the relationship.

"He called me and he was like, 'I don't know what I was thinking. I was dating someone else but they're just not as interesting as you, and I don't know what I'm doing,' and he came back," Bell recalled.

The power couple got married in 2013 and share two daughters together.

Can you imagine being the future Mrs. Justin Bieber?

According to Brides, Hailey Baldwin met Bieber for the first time in 2009 and called it a very awkward meeting.

It wasn't until 2016 that the two became friends and started casually dating. However, things weren’t always easy for the couple as they had a messy split.

Bieber briefly dated on-again, off-again ex Selena Gomez before getting back together with Baldwin in 2018.

By July of that year, the singer proposed to Baldwin where they tied the knot in a courthouse that September. In 2019, the duo had a bigger wedding in South Carolina.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have been together for a long time.

The married couple met on “All My Children” where they were costars in 1995.

In an episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” Consuelos revealed how they broke up a year later. He said even though they cut ties, the costars have to appear together on “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee” to talk about “All My Children.”

“She wouldn’t talk to me, and that made me go crazy,” the actor said.

Consuelos revealed that he followed his ex to Central Park to fix things. A day later, the couple got married in Las Vegas.

Consuelos and Ripa have been married for two decades and share three children: Michael, Lola, and Joaquin.

Timberlake and Biel broke things off in 2011, four years after they began to date in 2007.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Timberlake opened up about the breakup.

“She is the single-handedly most significant person in my life,” Timberlake said. “In my 30 years, she is the most special person, OK? So I protect it, and until somebody shows me what would be more fulfilling at this point, that’s what I have to do.”

He continued, “I would rather not talk about her, because it’s hurtful for me.”

Things got much better for Timberlake as he rekindled his romance in October 2011. The couple got married in October 2012 and share two sons.

Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma are married.

In an interview with Vogue, Duff met Koa to work on her album “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” in 2015.

Duff said since working in a professional environment, there “wasn’t an instant spark.”

The couple appeared on the red carpet in 2017. According to E! News, it was reported that the couple broke up due to their “busy schedules.”

But Duff went on to get engaged to Koma in May 2019, where they both got married that December. The couple shares a daughter named Banks and are currently expecting another child.