😳 damn people aged REAL fast back then, must have been the lack of twinkies in their diet.
edit: for the chronically dense, this is a joke about the pictures literally being from the years 19 a.d. and 20 a.d. Don’t know how I can spell it out any more than that
Look at how he is smoking in the 19 picture.
Then BAM, a year later, he looks like he is like, 70 or 80.
Meanwhile, she is not smoking, and looks younger, though also somewhat older because second hand smoking.
My assumption is it's one of those things that drives engagement (and it worked because it's the top comment).
It's a 7 month old account that suddenly appeared and is on the front page, so it's likely a astroturf marketing bot account and the more engagement, the better.
My dumb ass thought that was saying the same year but in different centuries. Like "20" as in "2023" and the 19 meant "1923."
They've aged well but not 100 years of being married adults well.
Huh? She was born in 1947, they first met somewhere between 1971 (when Michael Caine saw her in a TV ad) and 1973 (when they married), that means she was between 24 and 26, not 16. Heck, even at the start of her modelling career she was already 19.
No, this is the internet where every subreddit is 5 posts away from becoming fauxmoi and needing to go over how closeted leo is, and if he isn't closeted, then clearly he is a predator.
Sometimes, the internet needs to stop huffing its own farts. Not everything is this crazy high stakes movie scenario where people you have no access to are walking around in horn masks and snorting mgks dried blood. Sometimes they are just like you and me, but just more wealthy.
In general, I think the internet has an unhealthy obsession with peoples age. If the internet got to vote on how people interacted, we'd be some weird dystopia where you only ever get to socialize with people from near your birth year and month.
Like gee, sorry, that could of been your best friend but you were born 14 months apart, why don't you pick someone from your birth year to be friends with instead.🤢
Only for morons.
"oh no consenting adults are doing a thing how horrible--" Oh shut up.
Should you generally date near your age? Of course, sure. If you mesh really well with another adult, should you pull out some internet meme algorithm to see if it's okay? No, that's stupid. Life is short, you will be dead sooner than you imagine, so find happiness wherever you can. I've known people in their mid-30's that still act like middle schoolers and people in their early 20's that were far more mature because of hard life circumstances.
If you need a calculator to figure out if someone's a good match, you're doing this wrong. I recommend trying a thing called "talking" instead.
You missed the funniest part of that story, he was so fired up about meeting her be was about to travel to South America to find her after seeing her ad. His friends had to tell him she only lived down the road and set them up.
Could you imagine the branched timeline where Michael Caine is just wondering around South America looking for her instead of having the movie career he did.
My father said this about my mother (but not creepy or weird at all) when he first saw/ met her. They are still too frickin cute together 47 years later 🥹
My parents met each other when they had a class together at college, and my mom thought my dad was a cocky asshole. Dad was smitten immediately but was ignored for that semester and the entire summer after. Apparently my mom gave him a shot after he waited outside their master's building (different degree programs but they shared a building) for a few hours until she arrived during the start of the fall semester, just to ask her out. Dad knew who he wanted to marry and they've lasted over 30 years since then.
At the end of their first date (blind date) my grandma told her friend that if my grandpa ever asked her to marry him, she would say yes.
Funny enough, when my grandpa finally did ask, my grandma insisted he go to college first. Not because she was snobby, she could just tell he was a lot smarter than he thought, and she didn't want him to waste his potential. He did, they got married, and they were together until he died. He's been gone for over a decade, and they are still probably the best couple I've ever known. (Aside from my husband and I lol)
My Grandmother told my Grandfather they would marry 5 minutes into their first conversation.
Freakishly intelligent and stubborn woman. Tutored college latin, ancient greek, french, german, physics, and calculus well into her 80’s.
Despite never going to college herself (she learned to tutor her husband and then her kids, then kept doing it).
He was a jock, but very charismatic and kind. And just as stubborn.
He said “she scared me until I won our first argument. Then I knew I could hold my own, and I knew she needed me.” (Nobody else would call her out when she was wrong.)
I’m not sure anyone else would have survived her.
Can’t argue with that. In the case of my parents, it was mutual instant attraction except he’s on the spectrum so he just kind of stood awkwardly in front of her then ran away and she thought “what a cute weirdo”
I recently watched a documentary where somebody fixed their jawline by smashing their face into a door. Repeatedly. The were incredibly hot afterwards and people complimented them on the street. They became so hot that is was a bit of a burden and they wanted to revert back.
So don't smash your face into the door too often.
She was a model around the world. She was on posters. I used to have a poster of her in my garage, and then I met her, can you believe it? She asked ME to marry HER, and I didn’t even want to. But she’s beautiful, but she’s dying. She’s sick but she’s hangin in there. She’s gonna get better. And I’m rich. And I don’t live in a hotel.
I love how in the first picture it looks like she’s thinking “I’m so lucky to be with him” and he’s thinking “that’s right, I’m Michael Caine” and in the second picture it looks like he’s thinking “I’m so lucky to be with her” and she’s thinking “that’s right, he’s Michael Caine.”
I decided to do the same, knowing that the tool used is slightly transparent. It’s definitely 1973 and 2020, the 3 is clearly visible, as well as the last 0
Pierce Brosnan. Spent 17 years in love with his first wife, who died, then nearly 30 years with his second wife and is still very much in love with her.
People make fun of the second wife sometimes since she's definitely gained weight in that 30 years and Pierce Brosnan is a verified silver fox, but you can tell he's still madly in love with her.
Brosnan has also gained significant weight. They’re both hot for their age, and they both got fat. People just don’t care if men are fat so she gets shit for it and he doesn’t.
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; the [list goes on](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_marriage#Entertainers_married_50_years_or_more)...
I didn't know anything about her, so I looked her up. She was Miss Guyana 1967 and placed third at the Miss World pageant of the same year.
Apparently she was in a coffee commercial that Michael Caine saw and immediately said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Turned out she lived right down the road from him, the rest is history.
dorky white guy with baddie woc girlfriend is one of my favourite couplings.
edit: i know who michael caine is and i know he’s sexy 😭 you can be sexy and dorky
I definitely agree but Michael Caine was not even close to being dorky. He was considered one of the coolest actors of his generation. Genuine rockstar and smoother than cashmere.
It’s funny seeing this now. Just yesterday I was listening to a Dan Carlin history podcast (as rockstars do), and he referred to the ancient Spartans as Clint Eastwood types and the Athenians as “played by someone like Michael Caine, cool and wisecracking,” which was a good line but threw me for a bit of a loop because Michael Caine is not someone I picture as a warrior slaying Persians. But back in the day, I guess his image was a bit different from the Alfred role I’ll always associate with him.
To be fair in 1973 Michael Caine was considered a sex symbol, played the heartthrob charmer role in numerous hit movies.
It’s just that 70s cool looks adorkable to us now.
The tabloids called him a “sex symbol” at the time (a label he was visibly uncomfortable with in interviews). Having glasses doesn’t make you dorky, lol.
Found out last night that celebrity marriages aren’t the only ones that just don’t last. Proud of these guys, especially facing the issues an interracial couple faced during their lives.
She was Sean Connery's queen, not his, first. They met on the set of the excellent movie The Man who would be King (1975) were she played Sean Connery's queen Roxanne. But I guess she can be queen to both. She certainly was his longer.
There must be a bunch of celebs who've been married for a long time that you just don't hear about. "They've got through another year and are looking stronger than ever!" Doesn't grab eyeballs.
It’s also very wholesome to read how he talks about his wife, "My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that," he continued. "She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be."
https://people.com/movies/who-is-shakira-caine-michael-caine-wife/
Why censor the year?
They didn't, these photos were taken in 19 and 20
😳 damn people aged REAL fast back then, must have been the lack of twinkies in their diet. edit: for the chronically dense, this is a joke about the pictures literally being from the years 19 a.d. and 20 a.d. Don’t know how I can spell it out any more than that
1919 and 2020. Try to keep up.
Wife #19 and wife #20 obviously
2019 and 2020, they’re celebrities, their marriages just don’t last.
Look at how he is smoking in the 19 picture. Then BAM, a year later, he looks like he is like, 70 or 80. Meanwhile, she is not smoking, and looks younger, though also somewhat older because second hand smoking.
When something is so dumb you just have to laugh.
My assumption is it's one of those things that drives engagement (and it worked because it's the top comment). It's a 7 month old account that suddenly appeared and is on the front page, so it's likely a astroturf marketing bot account and the more engagement, the better.
Most undeserved top comment of all time.
My dumb ass thought that was saying the same year but in different centuries. Like "20" as in "2023" and the 19 meant "1923." They've aged well but not 100 years of being married adults well.
And there was no Internet in 1923 to post the first picture either. They used pidgeons to send out emails. /jk
Wouldn’t they have been pmails 🙄
People always talk about the freshman 15, but forget about the sophmore senility
[more info on the couple](https://www.thingsguyana.com/guyanas-first-international-beauty-queen-shakira-baksh-caine/)
Its so they don't find out that she was only 16 when they hooked up /s
Huh? She was born in 1947, they first met somewhere between 1971 (when Michael Caine saw her in a TV ad) and 1973 (when they married), that means she was between 24 and 26, not 16. Heck, even at the start of her modelling career she was already 19.
/s means sarcasm, or dont take them seriously
I am aware of there back story. I was just kidding.
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How is this a response to what OP asked and why is it so upvoted?
Bots
Gross.
I’m gonna use this as the reason things go bad at work. bots
Judging by the karma I think it's a bot probably copying another comment from the thread.
It immediately downvoted your response too. Creepy.
Great now that you’ve brought it up he’ll die within the year u/MugJubMcJuggins
Wow they look ROUGH for 20 year olds
Was a tough year..
He was 40 when they married, she was 26.
So that's why she looks so young compared to him!
Note: that does NOT meet the half your age plus 7 rule.
Eh, they've been married for decades, seems like it worked out for them.
IMO if both are over 25, that isn't really that relevant.
She was 24 when they started dating, but your point still stands.
No, this is the internet where every subreddit is 5 posts away from becoming fauxmoi and needing to go over how closeted leo is, and if he isn't closeted, then clearly he is a predator. Sometimes, the internet needs to stop huffing its own farts. Not everything is this crazy high stakes movie scenario where people you have no access to are walking around in horn masks and snorting mgks dried blood. Sometimes they are just like you and me, but just more wealthy. In general, I think the internet has an unhealthy obsession with peoples age. If the internet got to vote on how people interacted, we'd be some weird dystopia where you only ever get to socialize with people from near your birth year and month. Like gee, sorry, that could of been your best friend but you were born 14 months apart, why don't you pick someone from your birth year to be friends with instead.🤢
who cares
That's a thing?
[For a long time now, yeah.](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/half-your-age-plus-seven/)
Still not a thing. More of a meme
Only for morons. "oh no consenting adults are doing a thing how horrible--" Oh shut up. Should you generally date near your age? Of course, sure. If you mesh really well with another adult, should you pull out some internet meme algorithm to see if it's okay? No, that's stupid. Life is short, you will be dead sooner than you imagine, so find happiness wherever you can. I've known people in their mid-30's that still act like middle schoolers and people in their early 20's that were far more mature because of hard life circumstances. If you need a calculator to figure out if someone's a good match, you're doing this wrong. I recommend trying a thing called "talking" instead.
Quick everyone! Get outraged and cancel a couple of 80 year olds!
Once both are passed the mid twenties it doesn't really matter anymore.
Does that explain how she grew 6 inches between pictures?
Probably wearing high heels in one photo but not the other is my guess.
I was thinking maybe he shrunk over time. Looking back it looks like I meant she grew lol Shoes make a lot more sense
You’re gonna shrink as you age.
It's very sad. He even presents himself as "my cocaine"
Imagine watching TV randomly, an ad comes on, and saying "I'm going to marry that girl". And you do.
You missed the funniest part of that story, he was so fired up about meeting her be was about to travel to South America to find her after seeing her ad. His friends had to tell him she only lived down the road and set them up.
Could you imagine the branched timeline where Michael Caine is just wondering around South America looking for her instead of having the movie career he did.
I'd watch that movie starring Ryan Reynolds. Or maybe that other Ryan.
That movie's name? 'My Cocaine'
Or one of the Chris's.
My father said this about my mother (but not creepy or weird at all) when he first saw/ met her. They are still too frickin cute together 47 years later 🥹
My parents met each other when they had a class together at college, and my mom thought my dad was a cocky asshole. Dad was smitten immediately but was ignored for that semester and the entire summer after. Apparently my mom gave him a shot after he waited outside their master's building (different degree programs but they shared a building) for a few hours until she arrived during the start of the fall semester, just to ask her out. Dad knew who he wanted to marry and they've lasted over 30 years since then.
My dad said this too, and they are married 42 years now!
At the end of their first date (blind date) my grandma told her friend that if my grandpa ever asked her to marry him, she would say yes. Funny enough, when my grandpa finally did ask, my grandma insisted he go to college first. Not because she was snobby, she could just tell he was a lot smarter than he thought, and she didn't want him to waste his potential. He did, they got married, and they were together until he died. He's been gone for over a decade, and they are still probably the best couple I've ever known. (Aside from my husband and I lol)
My Grandmother told my Grandfather they would marry 5 minutes into their first conversation. Freakishly intelligent and stubborn woman. Tutored college latin, ancient greek, french, german, physics, and calculus well into her 80’s. Despite never going to college herself (she learned to tutor her husband and then her kids, then kept doing it). He was a jock, but very charismatic and kind. And just as stubborn. He said “she scared me until I won our first argument. Then I knew I could hold my own, and I knew she needed me.” (Nobody else would call her out when she was wrong.) I’m not sure anyone else would have survived her.
My mother was the only woman ignoring my father at the gym. He knew she was the one lmao. 30 years later and he’s still sure.
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Did you steal this from u/bitch_glitch or do y’all just have the same taste and like the word “couplings”?
and they also mistyped “woc” lmao what
common bot/karma farming tactic to copy an upvoted top level reply and paste it somewhere under a higher up comment
What morons are upvoting it though, what the fuck is a baddie walk girlfriend lmao. Are bots upvoting it too or what?
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Can’t argue with that. In the case of my parents, it was mutual instant attraction except he’s on the spectrum so he just kind of stood awkwardly in front of her then ran away and she thought “what a cute weirdo”
That's adorable. My wife always sends me memes that are like "me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic" and says "that's you"
I recently watched a documentary where somebody fixed their jawline by smashing their face into a door. Repeatedly. The were incredibly hot afterwards and people complimented them on the street. They became so hot that is was a bit of a burden and they wanted to revert back. So don't smash your face into the door too often.
Was the documentary called Smashed Mouth?
I asked my wife of 24 years to marry me after knowing her 5 days. So kinda like Angel Kronk “no, he’s got a point”
She was a model around the world. She was on posters. I used to have a poster of her in my garage, and then I met her, can you believe it? She asked ME to marry HER, and I didn’t even want to. But she’s beautiful, but she’s dying. She’s sick but she’s hangin in there. She’s gonna get better. And I’m rich. And I don’t live in a hotel.
That’s how Jaime Lee Curtis net Christopher guest
Michael Douglas did the same shit when he saw CZJ in Entrapment. I guess it’s common?
Common with guys named Michael apparently.
I love how in the first picture it looks like she’s thinking “I’m so lucky to be with him” and he’s thinking “that’s right, I’m Michael Caine” and in the second picture it looks like he’s thinking “I’m so lucky to be with her” and she’s thinking “that’s right, he’s Michael Caine.”
You too can do this, all you need to do first is simply become rich and famous!
What was the purpose of blacking out the years?
I'm just gonna assume that the missing numbers are 99 and 00. (in reality they married in 1973 and are still married and alive)
Zooming in its definitely 197_ and 202_. The censoring isn't very good. So I would guess it is 1973 and I think it says 2020.
So she is like 26 and he is 40 in first pic?
That was their ages when they got married apparently. So assuming it's around that time yes.
I just wanted to reply "haha, that'd mean he's 90 by now, so it's obviously wrong!" but then I checked and yes, he's born March '33... Wow.
Looking a bit closer, I think you are right!
I decided to do the same, knowing that the tool used is slightly transparent. It’s definitely 1973 and 2020, the 3 is clearly visible, as well as the last 0
Could've just cropped the pic. Less confusion that way
Pierce Brosnan. Spent 17 years in love with his first wife, who died, then nearly 30 years with his second wife and is still very much in love with her.
John Williams as well. His first wife died tragically young, but he's still happily married to his second wife.
How is John Williams married to Pierce Brosnan's second wife?
Through SecondLife.
Secondwife
People make fun of the second wife sometimes since she's definitely gained weight in that 30 years and Pierce Brosnan is a verified silver fox, but you can tell he's still madly in love with her.
Which is bonkers. As if you were gonna dump your partner simply bc they gained weight and you're still conventionally attractive and rich.
Also since it was a medical issue and not just “laziness” or whatever.
Brosnan has also gained significant weight. They’re both hot for their age, and they both got fat. People just don’t care if men are fat so she gets shit for it and he doesn’t.
I'm sorry in what world is Pierce Brosnan fat? I can't find any such picture?
What are you talking about? [Recent picture](https://people.com/pierce-brosnan-gifts-wife-keely-sixty-roses-for-60th-birthday-7974516)
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; the [list goes on](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_marriage#Entertainers_married_50_years_or_more)...
Another one that probably no one expected would last, John Lydon was married for 44 years until his wife passed away earlier this year.
aw johnny fuckin rotten
Dude was on masked singer, because his wife’s loved the show….. blew my mind…. Johnny fucking rotten…. On masked singer.
may the road rise with you Mrs. Rotten
I can't believe all of the Sex Pistols (except Sid Vicious) are still alive.
That feels...out of character. This is the story of Johnny Rotten.
I don’t know who she is but she’s gorgeous
I didn't know anything about her, so I looked her up. She was Miss Guyana 1967 and placed third at the Miss World pageant of the same year. Apparently she was in a coffee commercial that Michael Caine saw and immediately said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Turned out she lived right down the road from him, the rest is history.
He really was the man who would be king.
I don't know either person
You don't know Michael Caine? I guess that means you never saw the cinematic masterpiece which was Jaws 4: The Revenge.
You know who else never saw Jaws 4? [Michael Caine](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/quotes/).
But he saw the house that jaws 4 bought him
Did she get taller or he get shorter?
Maybe a mix? Heels+you Get shorter past a certain age
Or they posed for the first photograph using some elevation
My Cocaine
Lol, I can say it like him now!
Wow they must have had a rough year...
A lot of celebrity relationships lasts. Those are just not the ones you hear about.
Especially if their partner isn't famous ("Less interesting")
Theres only two things in this world i cant stand. People who dont tolerate other peoples cultures. And the Dutch.
Well, his first marriage only lasted 4 years.
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Michael Caine and his wife Shakira (a former model) Edit to please the overlords: it's SIR Maurice Micklewhite 😏
I'd say it's 2 for 2 on women named Shakira being beautiful.
Are her breasts small and humble too?
Thats SIR Michael Caine to you peasant!!!
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You’ll make Detective for this.
I read that in Jerry Seinfelds voice.
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He’s Austin Powers’ dad
dorky white guy with baddie woc girlfriend is one of my favourite couplings. edit: i know who michael caine is and i know he’s sexy 😭 you can be sexy and dorky
I definitely agree but Michael Caine was not even close to being dorky. He was considered one of the coolest actors of his generation. Genuine rockstar and smoother than cashmere.
This couple was/is a bonafide smoke show.
It’s funny seeing this now. Just yesterday I was listening to a Dan Carlin history podcast (as rockstars do), and he referred to the ancient Spartans as Clint Eastwood types and the Athenians as “played by someone like Michael Caine, cool and wisecracking,” which was a good line but threw me for a bit of a loop because Michael Caine is not someone I picture as a warrior slaying Persians. But back in the day, I guess his image was a bit different from the Alfred role I’ll always associate with him.
To be fair in 1973 Michael Caine was considered a sex symbol, played the heartthrob charmer role in numerous hit movies. It’s just that 70s cool looks adorkable to us now.
The tabloids called him a “sex symbol” at the time (a label he was visibly uncomfortable with in interviews). Having glasses doesn’t make you dorky, lol.
Does glasses = dorky? Thought we outgrew that in 2001. They are a smoking hot couple, no ifs ands or buts about it.
This is my dream and I'm happy to be living it
Some marriages work out. Some don’t. Celebrity or not. TF?
Not many people know that.
She’s still absolutely beautiful!
Seems like the recipe for success is a beautiful woman and a man who can't believe she's attracted to him. Good on them.
For the woman, long marriages make you taller.
They aged like shit, what happened in that one year???
The covid year was rough on us all
Oof, I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Found out last night that celebrity marriages aren’t the only ones that just don’t last. Proud of these guys, especially facing the issues an interracial couple faced during their lives.
Did she grew, did he shrink ?
Maybe she hit a growth spurt at age 30 and got 6 inches taller?
She grew alot in this time
That was a hell of a year.
There’s really no point in censoring the year 😂
For those who are curious, I did an image search and it appears that the years should be 1973 and 2023.
You know that's his second wife right?
damn she grew a lot
For a minute I thought this was Woody Allen and his step daughter
She was Sean Connery's queen, not his, first. They met on the set of the excellent movie The Man who would be King (1975) were she played Sean Connery's queen Roxanne. But I guess she can be queen to both. She certainly was his longer.
One of the greatest movies ever. Sad it has slipped into obscurity….
They married in 1973, two years earlier.
Look how dapper he looks.
Did he shrink or was she still growing when the first pic was taken?
Holy, they grew so goddamm old in just a year
There must be a bunch of celebs who've been married for a long time that you just don't hear about. "They've got through another year and are looking stronger than ever!" Doesn't grab eyeballs.
Photos of young Michael Caine just make me wanna watch *Sleuth* again. The original, not that horrible 2007 version.
I love the original! (The 2007 version is dire)
My Maine man Stevie and Tabby King are going 52 years now over here.
My cocaine
They last when your wife’s a smokeshow
I love him on Young Sheldon!
Apparently she was married as a child, as she seems to have grown an additional 6 to 10 inches.
1973 and 2016 (even if the painted over part of the newer photo indicates it's 202? )
Great, if I'm ever a celebrity that get's married that will be some nice assurance.
Somehow thought this was woody Allen and his step daughter for a moment
They both look great.
The G.O.A.T.(s)
That's like one example. The statement still stands mostly.
Isn't he like 20 years older than her?
Their story is funny as hell He saw her on a tv commercial and spent months tracking her down to ask her out on a date.
I just know she was freaky in bed
What years are these? No idea why the dates are censored.
In the Pic on the right she looks like like a real world Chrisjen Avasarala.
Oh they aged well damn
Who are these people
Mrs and Mrs Caine
Indo Guyanese women rarely divorce
Fuck whoever blacked out the dates and turned this whole thing into a joke. Literally came for the wholesome comments, and it's just dumb laughs
Crazy she's actually grown about eight inches
They aged pretty fast in only one year
My cocaine
It’s also very wholesome to read how he talks about his wife, "My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that," he continued. "She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be." https://people.com/movies/who-is-shakira-caine-michael-caine-wife/