Is the couples curse at the Met Gala real? That’s the question the entire internet is asking after detecting the large number of broken hearts that the most fashionable event of the year left behind.
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After witnessing how our favorite celebrities dominated the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, a conspiracy theory emerged that, if true, would explain Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik’s divorce, or why Jennifer Lopez and her ex- Fiancé Alex Rodríguez never made it to the altar.
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What is the MET Gala curse all about?
This assumption emerged after several users on social media realized that there is a pattern that keeps repeating itself in all the couples who appear together on the MET Gala red carpet. And it is that, no matter how happy they may seem to the photographers and no matter how much they seem that everything in their relationship is going wonderfully, some time later they surprise us with a separation.
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Which couples broke up after going to the Met Gala together?
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott
Despite having two children in common (Stormi and Aire), this did not guarantee stability in the relationship of Kylie and Travis, who attended the MET Gala together not once, but twice, in 2018 and 2019.
kim kardashian and Pete Davidson
But if we talk about celebrities who were victims of the Met Gala curse, we can’t help but mention Kylie’s sister, Kim Kardashian, who seems to have not learned her lesson by taking her ex-husband Kanye West and later, her ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson. With both of them, she ended up separated sooner or later.
Grimes and Elon Musk
Tesla founder and the Canadian singer performed as a couple at the 2018 Met Gala. However, they separated a few months after the event, got back together and three years later, they formally ended the separation.
Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes
Someone who also didn’t understand that he couldn’t take his love interest to the MET Gala was the Canadian singer who attended the 2018 edition with Hailey Bieber and then with Camila Cabello in 2021.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez
The couple made their debut in the 2017 edition, however, the love didn’t last long and two years later they ended their marriage and relationship plans in 2021. JLo ended up canceling her engagement with Alex Rodríguez.
Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik
They both debuted as a couple on the 2016 Met Gala red carpet, making it the first and last time they would do so. Malik and Hadid, who share daughter Khai, now 4, were in an on-and-off relationship from 2015 to 2021.
Selena Gomez and The Weeknd
This former couple also attended the MET Gala, posed very affectionately and even shared a few kisses on camera, until five months later they ended their relationship.
They met at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in 2015, debuted as a couple in the 2017 edition and ended up separating.
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