Celebrities Who Got Married As Teenagers

Bo Derek and John Derek

Actress Bo Derek caused quite the scandal when she got married at 18-years-old to someone 30 years her senior. According to Interview, Bo met her husband, director John Derek, when he cast her in his movie Fantasies when she was 16-years-old. Although he was married to actress Linda Evans at the time, he and Bo fell in love while filming in Greece. Bo ended up dropping out of high school so she could stay in Europe with him and avoid statutory rape laws, and when she was 18-years-old, her and John came back to California and got married. They ended up staying married until he died in 1998.

When speaking to Interview years later, Bo admitted to feeling “terrible” about the fact that John was married when they fell in love, saying she did the wrong thing and she will never forgive herself for it. But in another interview with Larry King, Bo said their marriage was “fantastic,” saying, “There were so many things going against it, first of all, 30 years age difference.” She added, “But 25 years later, it was obviously meant to be.”

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