If Heidi Klum and Seal couldn’t survive, what chance was there for TomKat? In April 2005, Tom Cruise, then 42, confirmed he was dating 26-year-old Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes in Italy, where Cruise was receiving a lifetime achievement award. Cruise told reporters that Holmes was an “extraordinary woman” and later grabbed the TV camera with both hands and said “do you see the smile on my face?” It was the beginning of some action-packed months for the couple: in May, Cruise famously jumped on a couch on Oprah, declaring “I love this woman”; then in June, he proposed by the Eiffel Tower; and in October, Holmes announced she was pregnant with their first—and only—child. After a brief scandal over whether their daughter, Suri, really existed—they hid her from the public for the first few months of her life—they were married at a castle in Italy in November 2006. But after five years together, filled with his public redemption and near-weekly mentions in the tabloids , in June 2012 they announced they would be divorcing.

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