Grimes and Elon Musk secretly welcomed a second baby together recently, all while the world thought their relationship was somewhat over.
The billionaire Tesla mogul confirmed that he had ‘semi-separated’ from the singer late last year, but they remained on ‘great terms’ after going public in 2018.
In a sit-down chat with Vanity Fair, however, Grimes – real name Claire Elise Boucher – gave an update on the status of their romance.
When asked if she and the businessman are still together, the singer replied: ‘Yes. No. What do you mean by “together”?’
The couple join a gang of celebrities with unconventional relationships, revealing: ‘There’s no real word for it. I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid.
‘We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time. We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.’
Grimes was then asked if the two are happy, replying without hesitation: ‘Yeah, this is the best it’s ever been. We just need to be free.’
She added that they have ‘always wanted at least three or four’ children, which comes after the shocking news that they now share a daughter, whose nickname is Y.
This different style of romance isn’t uncommon in Hollywood, with the likes of Will Smith and Helena Bonham Carter also opting for non-traditional relationships.
It’s all the range now to either live separately to your partner, or have a more relaxed approach to marriage, so let’s take a look at who Grimes and Elon are joining in this club.
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean
Country music icon Dolly Parton have been together for almost 60 years and married for a whopping 55.
Carl has stayed out of the spotlight, but their relationship remains one of the industry’s most successful.
The Jolene singer revealed that the two have a form of open relationship, but they do not have sex with other people.
In Dolly on Dolly, Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton, she said: ‘Men are my weakness. Short, fat, bald or skinny – I’ve had crushes on some very unusual men but Carl knows I’ll always come home and I’m not having sex with these people – I’m just flirting and having fun.
‘He’s not jealous and I’m not jealous of him. He knows I flirt. He flirts too.’
She confirmed: ‘Yes, it’s an open relationship, but not sexually and I would kill him if I thought he was doing that. He would shoot me too. At the end of the day, we love each other madly.’
Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith
Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith have made headlines with their relationship confessions.
There has been speculation that the stars have an open marriage, with Jada confirming last year that she had a ‘romantic entanglement’ with musician August Alsina during a period of separation, which the Men in Black star knew about.
The actor confirmed his wife isn’t the only person to hook up with other people, confirming to GQ that they made a decision to ‘rework’ their relationship in 2011.
He said ‘Jada never believed in conventional marriage’ and she ‘had family members that had an unconventional relationship.’
‘We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way. And marriage for us can’t be a prison. And I don’t suggest our road for anybody,’ he said.
‘But, the experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love.’
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton got together in 2001 and share two children.
However, they did not live together, with Tim buying the house next to Helena’s instead, where they lived happily as neighbours in London.
Their homes were joined, but they kept things separate, with the actress joking to the Telegraph that her house ‘looks like something out of Beatrix Potter, but if you go over to his house, you’re in a totally different place. He’s got slime balls and dead Oompa-Loompas lying around, and skeletons and weird alien lights.’
Helena clarified that the two just wanted their own space and she ‘did not have room to house children’ in her ‘cottage.’
‘What was Tim’s house is basically the family house and I kept my bedroom and my kitchen,’ she said.
The couple went their separate ways romantically in 2014 but still live next door to one another.
RuPaul and Georges LeBar
The Drag Race icon and boyfriend Georges LeBar married in 2017, 20 years after meeting.
RuPaul confirmed to Vanity Fair that they were in an open marriage, but they are still very much in love.
‘The hoax is that monogamy is actually something that can actually happen,’ he told the publication.
‘I wouldn’t want to put restraints on the person that I love the most on this planet. I wouldn’t do that to someone I love, my very best friend.
‘If you get something happening that you cannot resist, and that’s gonna make you happy, go for it. Because the truth is, I know in my heart of hearts, like I’ve never known anything before, that man loves me more than anything else in this world.’
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