Pitt’s the one who misplaced his head for Paltrow on the set of 1995’s Se7en. They have been the mid-90s couple, from the highest of her slip costume to the ends of his frosted suggestions. Accepting the Greatest Supporting Actor Golden Globe for 12 Monkeys in 1996, Brad thanked Gwyneth, his “angel, the love of my life,” and he proposed that December. They even had matching haircuts at one level.
“I take the institution extremely seriously. There are no divorces in my family either—and in his either, so this is not something—we’ve been together for quite some time, so this is not a rash decision,” Gwyneth convincingly told Entertainment Tonight about their engagement. However in June 1997, they broke up.
“When two people aren’t supposed to be together, they’re not supposed to be together,” a defiant Paltrow mentioned in 1998. Quick-forward to 2015, when she informed Howard Stern, “I was such a kid, I was 22 when we met. It’s taken me until 40 to get my head out of my ass. You can’t make that decision when you’re 22 years old… I wasn’t ready, and he was too good for me.”
Furthermore, her dad, Bruce Paltrow, was “devastated” after they broke up. “My father loved him like a son.” Finally, Paltrow mentioned, “I definitely fell in love with him. He was so gorgeous and sweet. I mean, he was Brad Pitt!”
