Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas's Relationship Timeline
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Fast forward to the present day, and Douglas and Zeta-Jones have been married for years with two kids — a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Carys — despite a few bumps along the way. Their love has endured for decades, overcoming obstacles like a 25-year age difference, a cancer diagnosis, and a brief split in 2013, making them one of the most steady couples in Hollywood. “True love takes work,” Douglas famously once said.
Here, take a complete look back at Michael and Catherine's longtime romance.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Before and After
Catherine Zeta-Jones became very popular after the release of the film “The Mask of Zorro”. She was repeatedly recognized as the most beautiful woman on the planet. At the age of 34, she won an Oscar. And at 50, she could well have the title of the most luxurious actress of the age.
How does she manage to maintain youth and beauty?
April 2003: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones welcome a baby girl
Zeta-Jones and Douglas welcomed their second child together, daughter Carys Zeta Douglas, on Easter Sunday in 2003 in New Jersey, near the couple's Manhattan home.
Catherine Zeta-Jones Posts Sexy Bikini Pictures From Her Mexican Vacation Because She’s ‘Pissed’ With Paparazzi
Revenge is a dish best served…on a beach in Mexico! Catherine Zeta-Jones got her own back on photographers who snapped her in her swimwear, by posting some sizzling bikini pictures of her own.
The Welsh beauty wasn’t happy that paparazzi had captured her and her hubby, Michael Douglas, 72, on their romantic vacation, so she took matters into her own hands.