Despite her enviable qualities - great clothes, great hair, riches, fame, talent, scarily photogenic face and killer body - Halle Berry is just as unlucky in love as the rest of us.
The actress, who is currently in a custody battle for her daughter with ex Gabriel Aubry, says she regrets some choices she made when she was younger: “I wish I had known then that I was not the marrying kind. It would have saved me a lot of time, heartache and grief over the years.”
She’s not exaggerating – if anyone knows heartache and break ups, it’s this lady. Her first marriage was to a baseball player named David Justice and lasted five years. She then married Eric Benet in 2001, but split with him when she discovered he’d cheated on her – he must’ve gone temporarily mad to think that was a good idea. She got together with Gabriel Aubry in 2005, and they had Nahla together. They split up last year, and she is now seeing Kylie’s ex, French actor Olivier Martinez.
She told The Sun: “I made all the wrong choices when it came to love. I have been an idiot. But, now, it is like a gift to myself - seeing more clearly and making better decisions.”
But why so unlucky in lurve, Halle? You’re a pretty girl, you’ve got a nice smile, you make good money…but, according to her, her love life was affected from the moment her father left her family (when she was only four years old, the poor thing). Ms Berry blames her father’s absence from her life for her bad experiences with men.
“One thing was unavoidable. My father left us when I was young and that did affect my life. If I had a good father in my life, growing up, then I do not think I would have made the mistakes I made. I would not have been lost in love.I would have had a good role model and known what to look for. As it is, I had to find out about marriage from the men I've married. I have done it twice and I am not going to do it again. The traditional form of marriage is not for me.”
Do you think Halle should give up on marriage? Or is there still hope for her and Olivier to tie the knot?