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14 Famous Women Who Proposed To Their Male Partners

As times change, the role of women in the workplace or romantic relationships is now evolving. But, when it comes to marriage proposals, the male partner is always the one who gets down on one knee to ask the question.
However, some famous women have recently changed their roles. They sometimes decide to flip the script and proposed to their male partners. Anyway, no one decides who should be the one to pop the question. So let's go ahead, ladies, and you can do it. Still, our gentlemen also deserve it. It’s so interesting that the one who says “yes, I do” is sometimes a man instead of a woman. Some typical examples are retired Olympic alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, who proposed to her fiance PK Subban, and Elizabeth Wilding, who popped the question to Michael Wilding. Kristen Bell is also worth mentioning. She asked Dax Shepard to marry her via Twitter as if they proved themself to be the most romantic couple in the world.
Below are 14 female celebrities who proposed to their male partners. Scrolling down and enjoy!

#1 Becca Kufrin asked fellow "Bachelor In Paradise" star Thomas Jacobs to marry her in May.

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Kufrin and Jacobs, who appeared on season seven of "Bachelor In Paradise," declared their engagement on Instagram. "In the ultimate plot twist…HE SAID YES!" Kufrin wrote the photo's captions when popping champagne."The ultimate UNO reverse card/power move," Jacobs added  " You keeping me on my toes for a lifetime has a great ring to it. Cheers to forever Boops."

#2 In 2013, Gretchen Rossi proposed to Slade Smiley on an episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

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Rossi kneed down to ask Smiley to marry her. He replied yes immediately. "With this ring, I expect you'll say yes, and I hope you'll marry me, and I hope we'll have a wonderful, fabulous, maybe not perfect, but happy life together," she revealed.Although they wear wedding rings and call each other husband and wife, the duo has not tied the knot yet. In addition, they welcomed a daughter, Skylar, in July 2019.

#3 Elizabeth Taylor has eight marriages, once proposed to Michael Wilding.

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Taylor proposed to Wilding, a British actor when she was working on a film in England in 1952. They shared two children before splitting up in 1957.

#4 Kristen Bell popped the question to Dax Shepard on Twitter in 2013.

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Bell and Shepard didn't want to get married until the pair had the right to marry. When the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, which legalized their marriage in California, Bell raised the question in a tweet. ".@daxshepard1 will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove," she wrote.His reply? "F*** yes!!!!!!!!!!!"

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

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Sheindlin had tied the knot once for 12 years before meeting her now-husband in a bar. When he expressed hesitation about the importance of marriage, she asked him to marry herself."I did propose to him," Sheindlin said to DuJour in 2013. "I said to him, “Where is this relationship going?” And he tries to avoid it, with “Well, why do we have to get married?” Whatever. He finally relented. She told him to pick a date. He picked Flag Day.

#6 Actress Haley Lu Richardson and actor Brett Dier were together for seven years before Richardson raised the question.

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While talking with Busy Philipps on "Busy Tonight" in 2019, Richardson said that she had asked Dier to marry her. "I just asked," she said. "Neither of us is, like, crazy romantic people so nothing was planned. He was sitting there eating a pizza and he was telling me a joke that Shia LaBeouf had said in an interview, and he was, like, pretending to be Shia LaBeouf explaining this joke and for some reason, I just cut him off and was like, 'Wanna marry me?'"

#7 The fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg proposed to Barry Diller, and they've tied the knot since 2001.

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Von Furstenberg turned Diller's proposals down several times before she agreed. "One year I didn't know what to offer him for his birthday, and I phoned him to say, 'You know, if you want, for your birthday I'll marry you,' she said to O Magazine in 2014. Finally, he replied, "Let me see if I can arrange it."

#8 Joshua Jackson appeared on "The Tonight Show," and revealed that his wife Jodie Turner-Smith had proposed to him in Nicaragua.

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In July 2021, the "Dawson's Creek" actor showed up on "The Tonight Show" and said to the host Jimmy Fallon about "the best choice [he] ever made."
"She asked me, yeah, on New Year's Eve," Jackson said of Turner-Smith's proposal. "We were in Nicaragua. It was very beautiful, incredibly romantic. We were walking down the beach, and she asked me to marry her. There was, like, a preamble. There was a lead-up to it … I did not know, but she was quite adamant, and she was right."In April 2020,  Turner-Smith gave birth to their daughter.

#9 Britney Spears asked Kevin Federline to marry her in 2004.

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The couple was flying from Ireland to New York when Spears proposed, she told People magazine in 2004. "All of a sudden I said, 'What if you want to get married?' And, I kind of went from there to ask him if he would marry me," she said.Sadly, Spears and Federline divorced three years later, in 2007.

#10 Lindsey Vonn proposed to P.K. Subban on Christmas in 2019.

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The duo had already announced their engagement in August 2019 when Subban popped the question to Vonn. But Vonn said that she liked Subban to have a ring too."Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!!" Vonn wrote on Twitter. "On our 2nd anniversary, in a 'non-traditional' move, I asked PK to marry me and he said, Yes! Women aren't the only ones who should get engagement rings #MerryChristmas #equality"
In December 2020, they split up after their wedding was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

#11 On "The Drew Barrymore Show," Kat Dennings revealed that she and her fiancé, musician Andrew W.K., asked the question at the same time.

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Dennings informed her engagement to W.K. (whose legal name is Andrew Wilkes-Krier) on Instagram in May 2021."Don't mind if I do," she captioned a photo of her engagement ring.Dennings said to Barrymore in a February appearance on "The Drew Barrymore Show" that their mutual proposal was "a special moment that makes me believe in magic."
"We were doing kissing, and we had, like, a shared feeling," she said. "I felt this intense … thing, like, “This is my person. This is it. I can't live without him. This is the man I'm supposed to be with.” And we looked at each other, and we both proposed at the same time."

#12 In 2005, Pink proposed to motocross racer, Carey Hart,  when he was racing in the Pro 250 class finals.

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As Hart started his third lap around the track, Pink held up a pit board that read, "Will You Marry Me?" When he didn't pull over, she was "serious!"
But Carey didn’t turn the singer's proposal down, and they tied the knot in Costa Rica, in 2006. They share two children.

#13 "Succession" star Sarah Snook proposed and married privately to comedian Dave Lawson

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Sarah Snook proposed and married privately to comedian Dave Lawson after a longtime friend. They lived together during the pandemic."At the beginning of the pandemic last year, I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates, and we fell in love," Snook told Vogue Australia in October 2021. "We've been friends since 2014, lived together, traveled together, always excited to see each other, but platonic. We've just never been single at the same time. I proposed and we got married in February in my backyard."
The duo wed with Succession co-star Ashley Zukerman in attendance as an observer.

#14 Jennifer Hudson asked David Otunga to marry her in 2009.

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Otunga proposed to Hudson on her birthday, so she reciprocated his birthday favor with a five-carat ring. They split up after ten years together in 2017.
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