These celebrity couples prove that age is just a number when it comes to love. Some loving pairings may have a few years between them but, despite the expected criticism, they are still very much in love. All these famous people have found their perfect match in partners more than 10 years older than them...

In 2014, famed bachelor George Clooney, then 52, announced his engagement to international human rights lawyer, then 35-year-old Amal Alamuddin. A 17-year age gap. The couple officially tied the knot just a year after they met in September of 2014 with a beautiful Venetian wedding, and welcomed two children, twins Ella and Alexander, in June of 2017.

After meeting on the set of 'Green Lantern' early in 2010, when Lively was just 22, she and Reynolds started dating in 2011 and were married in September of 2012. Today, Ryan, 45, and Blake, 34, are proud parents to three daughters, after welcoming their third child in August, and their age gap is a less publicized part of their relationship as they are often seen as couple goals.

The power couple first started dating back in 2001, when Jay-Z was 32 years old, and Beyoncé was only 20. A 12-year gap between them. They later tied the knot in a secret wedding on April 4, 2008, and gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter in 2012. In 2017, Beyoncé completely broke the internet with an Instagram post announcing that the family of three were to be joined by twins. The couple soon welcomed babies Rumi and Sir in June of that year.

After two months of dating, Chopra, 39, and Jonas, 29, became engaged in July 2018. The couple then held a lavish wedding in December of that year, complete with two ceremonies and multiple celebrations in India. The 10 years between them has never been an issue with a source close to Nick previously telling PEOPLE: "The age difference is not a big deal to them whatsoever, if anything it makes Priyanka even more attractive to him.”

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi started dating back in 2004, and their relationship moved swiftly. By 2005, the couple were sharing a home in Los Angeles and Ellen told PEOPLE: "It's the first time that I've known in every cell of my being that I'm with somebody for the rest of my life." They were married in 2008, after same-sex marriage was legalized in their home-state of California and have been together ever since. At 63, Ellen is 15 years older than Portia, 48.

In late October 2021, 41-year-old Kim Kardashian started getting close romantically to 28-year-old Pete Davidson. Within days of the first sighting of them holding hands at an amusement park they'd gone on a few more dates. The ‘Saturday Night Live’ comedian spent his 28th birthday in November with the reality TV star at her momager Kris Jenner’s Palm Springs, California, vacation home.

On January 4, 2021, photos of Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles holding hands at his agent's wedding days earlier hit the internet, confirming speculation that the pair are a couple. Harry, 27, is said to be besotted with 37-year-old Olivia, and the former One Direction star has a history of dating older women. His rumored past cougar conquests include, Victoria's Secret model Erin Foster, Nicole Scherzinger and late British TV presenter Caroline Flack.

Nicolas Cage was 56 when he went public with girlfriend Riko Shibata in February 2020. A few weeks later, The Sun reported that Riko was 30 years the actor's junior and three years younger than his eldest son, Weston. Nicolas- who is on his fifth marriage- was 57 when he married a 26-year-old Riko at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas in February 2021.

Lionel Richie and Lisa Parigi have a four-decade age difference as he's in his early 70s, she's in her early 30s. The pair have been dating since 2014, but their romance has gone under the radar for years. In February 2021, fans on social media suddenly became aware of the age gap. As the public voiced its collective opinion, Lisa wrote on Instagram: “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. You don't have to prove anything to anyone you're good the way you are.”

Heidi Klum is 16 years older than her third husband Tom Kaulitz. In 2018, the model gushed about her then-boyfriend to InStyle: “My boyfriend is many years younger than me, and lots of people are questioning that and asking about it, that's really the only time when age seems to be shoved in my face and I have to give an answer for it. You have to just live a happy life without worrying too much about what people think because worrying is only going to give you more wrinkles." The model mogul and the German rocker tied the knot in 2019 when he was 29 and she was 45.