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Here’s how females are flipping the script by proposing to their partners


Fabiana Buontempo
Senior Writer
JULY 21, 2021 2:58 PM EDT

As the times change, women’s roles in whether the workplace or romantic relationships are certainly evolving. When it comes to wedding proposals, tradition is that the male partner is usually the one to get down on one knee to pop the question. However, nowadays women are changing the proposal game and asking the questions themselves.

To feel empowered, here are some famous females who decided to flip the script and propose to their partners instead of waiting for it to be done.

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Pink and Carey Hart

During one of his races in 2005, the singer asked the motorcross racer to marry her with a pit board and he said yes.

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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard

Bell waited for the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage before she asked Shepard via Twitter to marry her.

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Jodie Turner Smith and Joshua Jackson

Jackson recently revealed to Jimmy Fallon that Smith was the one who popped the question. “She asked me on New Year‘s Eve. We’re in Nicaragua, it’s very beautiful, incredibly romantic, we’re walking down the beach and she asked me to marry her,” he recalled.

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Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager

After only three months of dating, Bush Hager asked her now husband to marry her. Since they were young, Hager turned down her request and ended up popping the question to her a few years later.

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Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller

Furstenberg turned down several proposals from Diller before one day seeing an older couple made them realize they both wanted it and the designer said to Diller she would marry him for his birthday.

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Judge Judy and Jerry Sheindlin

Being the strong woman she is, Judy proposed to Jerry. “I said to him, ‘Where is this relationship going?’ And he tried to weasel out of it, with his, ‘Well, you know, why do we have to get married?’ Whatever. He finally capitulated. I told him to pick a date. He picked Flag Day,” she said in an interview with DuJour.

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Jennifer Hudson and David Otunga

First, Otunga popped the question to Hudson and then on his birthday she did the same with a five-carat ring.

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Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding

Out of her eight marriages the only time Taylor proposed was to British actor, Michael Wilding in the early ‘50s.