I assumed that they married last year. I guess I ma behind the times.

Yeah, she is gorgeous and a style icon. she is like a classic pretty while scarlet johansson is a sexy beautiful. i love them both!

I think GossipCop can make this a 10 since their jeweler who is also a good friend of Natalie’s husband has confirmed they are wedding bands via a press release.

@Sup – Benjamin Millipied is a principal dancer with the New York ballet company – the most prestigious in the U.S. I would hardly call him a social climber but rather a very successful man in his own right. Being married to Natalie is not exactly getting him more dancing gigs.

@CourtneyLPuzzo – where are you getting your statistics from? I haven’t seen any stats that show Hollywood marriages to be any shorter than the U.S. population at large (that has a 50% divorce rate). I thought Natalie’s performance was brilliant in Black Swan and she’s been an actor for a very long time (has been in movies since she was around 10 years old). Your critique is of the script, not Natalie’s performance – you do get there’s a difference, don’t you?

I think Natalie is one of the most inspiring actors working today. She really is the total package. She actually was a finalist during high school of a national science competition and got into Harvard on merit, not because she was famous. She took time off from acting to concentrate on her studies because as she put it “she’d rather be smart than famous”. She also is fluent in multiple languages. She is a philanthropist, has a very strong work ethic, and has kept her life very grounded considering she grew up as a child actor. She managed the transition into adult roles beautifully and manages to keep herself relevant without constantly trying to make headlines. She is someone we should all look to as an example of how we should live our lives.

I always find the extreme praise of Ms. Portman (or of any other high-profile celebrity, for that matter) to be exaggerative and generally unsubstantiated by anything other than what can be found through controlled media outlets.
I know for a fact (construe that however you like) that merit was not the main reason Portman was accepted into Harvard. She was not a top student during the four years she spent there, either. She enjoyed college life as a typical college student would, and the few accounts she has shared of how she never smoked or drank in college are lies she likely told to preserve her public image. She did well enough in high school to be able to apply to Harvard; but ultimately, she was admitted because of her celebrity. This isn’t an uncommon practice for the admissions departments of elite schools; being able to claim a well-known public figure as an alumna or an alumnus is free and effective advertising for the school itself.
Portman speaks two languages fluently: Hebrew and English. This is not atypical for people who grow up in households with parents (or, in her case, a parent) who are first-generation American immigrants.
I know nothing of her philanthropy, but if she does engage in genuine charity work, I commend her for that. She seems grounded enough to stay away from the kind of trouble that would land her on the front pages of tabloid magazines, and for that, too, I can give her credit.
I wish Ms. Portman, her fiance/husband, and their child continued happiness. However, I’m irked whenever I see something like this: “She is someone we should all look to as an example of how we should live our lives.”
To a great extent, Ms. Portman is (and has been from the start of her career) a construed public image to most who perceive her, just like the majority of other big-name personalities in the media. She is the person she and her management would like the public to believe she is.
If you seek inspiration, then look to the real people around you: mothers, fathers, siblings, relatives, teachers, mentors, etc. Chances are, they won’t be shrouded in a fog of celebrity myth that is only perpetuated by fabrication and exaggeration.

Chances are, they won’t be shrouded in a fog of celebrity myth that is only perpetuated by fabrication and exaggeration.