What comes to mind when you think of Catherine Zeta Jones? Is it the Spanish beauty full of wild beauty in "Zorro's Mask", or the beautiful and attractive female thief in "The Trap of Stealing Heaven"? As a world-recognized beauty actress, she not only has excellent beauty, but also performs exceptionally well on the big screen.
Catherine has won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. However, these are not the most famous aspects of her. She is most noted for marrying Michael Douglas, who is 25 years older than herself, and has been with him for 21 years knowing that the man has cheated on him in marriage.
So, what is the reason why a generation of British goddesses are willing to marry a wanderer? The goddess is faced with a chicken feather marriage, why not divorce?
Catherine was born in 1969 into an ordinary family in South Wales, England. At that time, my father ran a small candy factory, and my mother was a tailor.
In the early '80s, Lady Luck took care of their family and let her father win 3.74 million in a lottery ticket. Since then, the family has moved to the rich area, and Catherine has attended the dance school as she wished.
At the age of 12, she won the All England Junior Tap Dance championship with her love of dance and solid foundation. After that, she put all her mind into it, but she also delayed her studies.
At the age of 15, she dropped out of school before graduating from high school and went to London alone to join a touring troupe to continue her studies in dance.
In 1987, Catherine was again favored by Lady Luck. On the night of the cabaret "42nd Street", the lead actor and substitute No. 1 were absent, and the protagonist fell to Caitlin. This drama is about an ordinary girl suddenly becoming the lead actor, which is simply tailor-made for Catherine.
For the next two years, she was the first star of the show. Through this play, Catherine became a well-known stage star.
In 1990, she got another opportunity to play a sweet and simple village girl in the TV series "Mayflower". Audiences across the country fell in love with the girl who was on the TV screen, sometimes feminine and sometimes lively. As a result, Catherine became famous overnight and was well known to the people of the whole country.
When the show's male protagonist, David Jason, refused to sign a sequel to "Mayflower," catherine's era as a tv darling came to an end.
So Catherine came to the United States a week later.
Catherine's youthful and beautiful appearance soon won a chance to star. Although it was only a small role in the movie "Titanic", it also attracted the attention of American director Steven Spielberg.
So Catherine accepted the invitation to star in "The Mask of Zorro". According to foreign media reports, the big names who played with her at that time were Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.
Catherine, as a newcomer, not only did not shy away from the stage, but also got along with them very happily. At the same time, the dance she learned from childhood also helped her to complete the dancing scene beautifully. This newcomer girl's outstanding beauty, coupled with a solid dance foundation, became a hit in Hollywood and became a well-known actress in Hollywood.
Career is smooth sailing, and love is also happy.
This man was Michael Douglas. Because his father was also a famous actor, he attracted much attention from birth, and Mike lived up to expectations. After his father, he became the mainstay of the new generation in Hollywood.
In 1987, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor directly with a "Wall Street" and became a well-known film emperor.
Douglas is most talked about not his excellent acting skills, but his attitude towards feelings. Some foreign media have said that as long as it is the girl he sees, none of them can escape, including Catherine.
At the 1998 Deauville Film Festival, a mutual friend invited Catherine and Douglas to a private dinner. Douglas fell in love with Catherine, who had known her for less than three hours at the dinner, and Don suddenly said, "You know what? I want you to be the mother of my child."
Although this radical remark frightened Catherine. After that, she arrived at goodnight and hurried away.
What Catherine didn't know was that Douglas had already watched her masterpieces long before the dinner party and was deeply attracted to her. In order to win the hearts of the beauties as soon as possible, the emperor sent his assistant to inquire about the other party's schedule that night, and asked the host of the dinner party to arrange for them to sit together.
Therefore, all the encounters are just premeditated for a long time, and even if the other party is frightened, it is not a big deal for the shadow emperor who has passed through the leaves in the kaleidoscope. The emperor continued to arrange more encounters, and kept sending flowers, gifts and so on to each other.
Thus, a romantic and brilliant love story like a Hollywood-style film, dramatic but just right to open the curtain.
From March 1999 onwards they began dating frequently, and the relationship quickly warmed up.
Once, Catherine asked Douglas to show love in a Hollywood way, and he understood, and immediately bought a huge diamond ring for the beauty and was worn by the other party on the ring finger.
Soon, the two announced their marriage. On the day of the wedding, the couple held a feast known as the annual wedding at the prestigious Plaza Hotel in New York.
According to foreign media reports, the wedding cost 41.8 million yuan, and the dress cost 6.96 million.
The couple, who are 25 years apart, have also been reported by major media. Many netizens also shouted directly, it is almost unbelievable that a generation of goddesses actually chose to marry a famous flower heart. But these are not things worth caring about for the heroine.
At that time, she only knew to look at the 10-carat diamond ring and gorgeous wedding decoration in her hand, and take pictures happily in front of the camera. Since then, their love affair has been a front-page headline in the media.
Catherine thought that fairy tale love had all turned into bubbles after marriage.
Douglas had another marriage before the relationship. At that time, he also did everything in his power to marry the daughter of a diplomat back home. But after the birth of their children, Douglas's true face gradually emerged.
He was an alcoholic, touched contraband, cheated on multiple marriages, and what was even more unacceptable was that he even used his son as a shield in order not to look too ugly in public.
The eldest son's book writes that his father cheated frequently when he was seven years old and even took him to bars. Mike has never denied the fact of cheating, and at the same time shamelessly set a principle for himself. Definitely not in one city, cheating on two women at the same time.
After traveling back and forth between women, he fell in love with Catherine, and in order to win the beauty home, he did not hesitate to fight a divorce case with his ex-wife for 5 years.
Even a goddess like Catherine didn't make Douglas change his nature.
After the second marriage began, he still met the girl and talked sweetly, used various means to make the other party have a relationship with himself, and after playing tired, he would directly use the money to send the other party and look for the next target again.
Catherine's intolerance of her mercurial husband went from turning a blind eye to her final intolerance.
In 2010, douglas, who was already 66 years old, was once again photographed derailed, and the goddess was also pushed to the cusp of the storm, once falling into a low tide.
To her exhaustion, Douglas was also diagnosed with advanced throat cancer.
The doctor told her that the cancer was caused by a laryngeal tumor caused by the human papillomavirus.
In 2013, Douglas had declared that he had been abusing his words that had been infected with HPV for many years, disdainful of the past, unchangeable cheating habits, and her husband's various scandals made Caitlin feel insulted.
During that time, Douglas's ex-wife and Mike had another property dispute, and the eldest son in prison was overwhelmed by the prolonged sentence of selling illegal drugs to prisoners.
Catherine chose to live separately from her husband.
The two have been separated for less than a year, and it is not known whether the money is in place, or Douglas's sincere confession of mistakes and positive attitude of taking children to impress each other. In short, the two were reunited again.
After the reunion, Catherine even changed her attitude in the past, choosing to side with her husband when she was exposed to the scandal of cheating, and told the other party in a warning tone not to rub the heat of the couple again, and not to try to sabotage their marriage with unseemly means.
Today, the two have spent 21 years together.
Last October, they were still confessing to each other at INS for their 20th anniversary, but just as they did when they were in love.
Netizens still maintain an incomprehensible attitude towards the marriage of the couple, and have said that the goddess must be seduced by the other party's super means, so she will be willing to stay with a prodigal son until she is old.