Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith, have admittedly gone through several ups and downs in their marriage. But Pinkett Smith had to overcome the challenge of marrying Will Smith in the first place. For the actress, this type of relationship wasn’t something she envisioned for her life.
How Will Smith once fueled rumors that he was openly married to Jada Pinkett Smith
The discussion about Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s open marriage has been an interesting topic for years. Neither of them have ever come out and officially revealed if they were in an open relationship. However, they have given interviews that have certainly stimulated further speculation on the subject.
“Our perspective is that you don’t avoid the natural and you’re attracted to other people,” Smith once said Discover (via Singers’ Room).
At the time, Smith also shared that his marriage vows “didn’t say ‘give up everyone else.’ We said you’ll never hear I did anything after that. Because if that happens, the relationship is destroyed.”
It was claimed that the couple would discuss marital matters with each other outside of their relationship. If either of them wanted to find physical intimacy elsewhere, permission had to be given.
“‘Look, I need to have sex with someone,'” Smith claimed, they would say when it came down to it. “‘Well, I won’t do it if you don’t agree with it.'”
Jada Pinkett Smith believed the marriage almost killed her
Jada Pinkett didn’t think normal marriage was for her. That Gotham Star admitted she initially had trouble grappling with the possibility.
“I knew I wasn’t built for conventional marriage,” she once said red table Speak (via USA Today). “Even the word ‘wife’: It’s a golden cage, swallow the key. Even before I was married, I thought, ‘This is going to kill me.’ And he almost did!”
It wasn’t Smith specifically who gave her this take on marriage. Rather, it was the thought of marriage itself that bothered her.
“Will is my life partner and I couldn’t ask for a better one,” she continued. “I adore him, I never want people to think it was Will I didn’t want to marry – he and I spoke about it the other day. But I can assure you that some of the most powerful women in the world feel trapped and tied down because of the sacrifices they have to make to be in this position.”
Jada Pinkett Smith once admitted that “monogamy” could be challenging for her and her husband
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Whether or not the rumors held any merit, Pinkett Smith felt monogamy was something they needed to work on. Speaking to Women’s Health, Pinkett Smith opened up about some of the difficulties that marriage brought. She revealed that Smith’s fame, fortune and status in Hollywood made it difficult to sustain a conventional marriage at first.
“That he’s famous and rich and handsome and monogamous — that’s a big age [challenge] for both of us. Who said monogamy is easy? Will and I talk about it all the time,” she said.
However, because of their love for each other, they were ready to take on this challenge.
“But we love each other enough. I think women make a huge mistake when they think a man comes with that beautifully wrapped package, and what’s inside is pretty much the answer to all of their dreams,” she added. “That’s a lot of responsibility to put on someone and I think a lot of times we’re too scared to put that responsibility on ourselves. happiness is our responsibility; we can be as happy or as unhappy as we want.”
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