Female Celebs Who Left Their Men For Women

#1 Anne Heche

Actress Anne Heche had been happily dating Steve Martin for over 2 years before she met Ellen deGeneres and fell madly in love. The pair were the talk of Tinseltown for almost 4 years before they had a nasty breakup that Ellen blames on the fame.

#2 Switching Lanes

The couple 2000 split went down in celebrity infamy when Heche went crazy and knocked on a stranger's door, made herself at home, and started talking about a spaceship coming to the strangers house to pick her up to take her to Heaven. She eventually returned to earth and landed back in the straight lane, marrying a cameraman. That relationship ended after she met her 'Men In Trees' co-star James Tupper. They married and have a son together

#3 Ellen DeGeneres & Portia De Rossi

Ellen, meanwhile, went on to find true love in the form of actress Portia deRossi. Before she married Ellen DeGeneres in 2008, Portia de Rossi was married to a man and had embarked on several relationships with men. In her best-selling book, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia reveals how she married the brother of a film producer to get a green card to stay in America. She admits she was actually attracted to women but did not want to hurt her career until she met and fell in love with Ellen and married her 4 years later.

#4 Cynthia Nixon

Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon lived with her partner Danny Mozes for close to 16 years and had two children together before calling it quits in 2003. The tabloids were quick to catch on to the news that Nixon had a secret girlfriend, her now wife, education activist Christine Marinoni.

#5 Sex And The Activist

Nixon later told the Daily News that she thinks everyone is bisexual. "If anybody, prior to my meeting and falling in love with Christine, had asked me about what I think about sexuality, I would have said I think we're all bisexual. But I had that point of view without ever having felt attracted to a woman. I had never met a woman I was attracted to [before Christine]," she added. "And maybe if I'd met her when I was 20, I would have fallen in love and only dated women. But maybe if I'd met her at 20, I wouldn't have responded at all. Who knows?"

#6 Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller in 1995 when they filmed Hackers (1996). The pair tied the knot, with Jolie reportedly wearing black leather hotpants and a T-shirt with his name emblazoned on it in blood for the ceremony. She has always been on the weird side. She really had tails wagging when she filed for divorce from Miller just a year later when she met Japanese model Jenny Shimizu on the set of Foxfire. pursued a full-fledged on-again-off-again relationship with Shimizu, telling Girlfriends magazine that she "fell in love" with her co-star "the first second."

#7 Still In Love With First Girl Crush

Of course, Jolie went on to have numerous relationships with men, including a failed but publicly tumultuous marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and then a slip in on Brad Pitt who was already married to Jennifer Aniston. However, according to People Magazine, the recent split between Pitt and Jolie has more to do with her sexual preferences than anything else. Jolie is reportedly seeing Shimizu though she has been married for many years to socialite Michelle Harper.

#8 Wanda Sykes

Comedian Wanda Sykes was married to Dave Hall from 1991 to 1998. After their split, she came out to her parents, which didn't go well. "I said, 'Mom, let me just explain something to you. You know I'm living with so-and-so, I just want you to know that we're not just roommatesShe's my girlfriend,'" she told the UK's Express. "She was like, 'What do you mean?' I was like, 'Mom, come on, you have to have known thisI just want to make sure we're clear on this.' She just fell apart, fell apart and ended up not coming out here for my surgery because she was just that, 'I'm done with you.'" When Sykes married Alex Niedbalski in 2008, her parents didn't attend, but they're reportedly on better terms now.

#9 Amber Heard

Girls everywhere are thrilled that Johnny Depp is single again, but he is reportedly very distraught over losing Amber Heard to a woman. Their marriage went down in flames, and rumors suggest that Heard's bisexuality may have played a role in the extremely messy and often disturbing breakup. Things got weird when Heard moved photographer Tillett Wright into the couple's guest house. During the marriage, the couple had numerous public arguments over Heard's infidelities. She is reported to have had ditched Depp for model Marie de Villepin and was still shacking up with ex-girlfriend Tasya van Ree while they were together.

#10 Kristen Stewart

Stewart had an actual fairytale romance with on-screen love interest from the Twilight series, Robert Pattinson. After the saga was over, the romance ended as well and Stewart decided to write a new chapter for her life. This time, she added a few extra female characters to the storyline. She began dating her former assistant, Alicia Cargile but the on again, off again, on again relationship was so rocky that Stewart began dating French actress Soko and has been linked with a dozen or more brief lesbian partners in the last five years. She recently told a magazine that she has opened up her options and is so much happier.

#11 Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan dated a slew of Hollywood men and even made a list that was published of all her famous conquests in Hollywood that was published in several tabloids a few years back. But then she met disc jockey Samantha Ronson and dumped the man she was madly in love with, British TV personality Calum Best. Samantha and Lindsey had a very public, circus-like relationship that was explosive and 'toxic'. While Lohan insists she was never gay or bisexual, she has had several relationships with other gals, including Courtenay Semel, the daughter of Yahoo CEO Terry Semel that's been on again and off again for 10 years. She is currently in a relationship with a Russian business heir, Egor Tarabasov.

#12 Meredith Baxter

Meredith Baxter was married to three different men before she came clean not just with her partners and the public, but with herself about her sexuality. Her husbands, Robert Lewis Bush, David Birney, and Michael Blodgett were all chosen by Baxter because she felt totally incompatible with all three of them. She told Matt Lauer on Today that she did it deliberately so that she could find a reason to call it quits. In 2000 she met now-wife Nancy Locke and they have been publicly out of the closet, and activists for gay rights for many years.

#13 Billie Jean King

Tennis legend Billie Jean King was married to sports promoter Larry King (not to be confused with the infamous TV talk show host of the same name) for 21 years. The pair married in 1965, but lesbian rumors began to circulate about Billie Jean around 1980 when her former secretary, Marilyn Barnett, sued her and her husband for unlawfully evicting her from their Malibu residence after the affair ended. They divorced in 1987 but remained friends, and King came out of the closet officially in 2000. She lives with longtime partner and fellow tennis pro Ilana Kloss.

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