Women Married to Younger Men

A slide show history of the cougar phenom

2011-09-19T17:13:00.000-04:00

Click on the headline above to see "A Brief History of Cougars."

Guy spotted in cougar t-shirt

2010-09-09T14:21:00.001-04:00

Time Magazine's slide show: A brief history of cougars

2010-07-18T02:21:00.000-04:00

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1955844,00.html

Excellent slide show. Highly recommended! It has some historical facts that I didn't know about til now.

Cougar Barbie

2009-10-25T01:48:00.000-04:00

Cougar Barbie - 50th Anniversary - Watch more Funny Videos

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2009-08-14T02:32:00.001-04:00

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The Cougar, a Reality Show, Premieres on April 15th

2009-03-12T00:28:00.002-04:00

An eight-episode reality show called The Cougar premieres on April 15th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on TV Land PRIME. In it, Stacey Anderson, a 40-year-old realtor from Scottsdale, AZ , follows Anderson as she searches for love among 20 men in their twenties. The one-hour elimination dating series is executive produced by Mike Fleiss (”The Bachelor”) through his NEXT Entertainment production company in association with Warner Horizon Television and 15th

Marisa Tomei Dating Logan Marshall Green, 12 Years Younger

2009-02-02T01:41:00.003-05:00

Marisa Tomei at Golden Globe Awards, January 2009, with Logan Marshall Green

The 44-year-old actress has been dating the 32-year-old actor.

Lisa Loeb Marries a Cub 10 Years Younger

2009-02-02T01:22:00.003-05:00

Lisa Loeb, 40, the singer and songwriter, and Roey Hershkovitz, 30, the music coordinator on “Late Night with Conan O'Brien” were married Saturday evening, January 31, 2009 at Brasserie 8 ½, a restaurant in New York City. Rabbi Andy Bachman officiated.

Lisa had her own reality show on cable TV a few years ago called "Number One Single" in which she was looking for the right guy to marry.

The Perfect E-Card for A Cougar's Birthday!

2008-08-10T03:36:00.001-04:00

Finally an e-cards website got the great idea to create a birthday card to send to cougars!

His crush on a New Jersey teacher 15 years older than him

2008-07-13T14:53:00.002-04:00

Here is a letter from a man who had a crush on a history teacher named Lois Weiser (whose name later became Lois Wolf) at West Orange Mountain High School in New Jersey. The man asks to remain anonymous. He writes:

I not only loved her as a teacher, but also had the hots for her in a major way, the kind of crush adolescent boys have on mature women 5 or 10 years older. I imagined having a woman like her some day.

I think to me Miss Weiser represented my first taste of what a mature woman could be like, and I was just at the age when I was beginning to examine what it would be like to be a man having a real woman, rather than just a boy being attracted to girls.

My attraction to her was definitely physical, but had a very large intellectual and personality component to it. I wanted to be a man with a "full" personality and intellectual capability capable of being at ease with and confident around that kind of woman.

Much different than just the typical high school "hots" for teenage girls.

I have to say that the fantasy of making love to her animated me for many, many years after I left high school and had lost touch with my teenage years.

Xu Chaoqin and her 10-year-younger husband, Liu Guojiang

2008-07-10T23:31:00.009-04:00

An incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half a century.

The 70-year-old Chinese man, who hand-carved more than 6,000 stairs up a mountain for his 80-year-old wife, has passed away in the cave which has been the couple's home for the last 50 years.

More than 50 years ago, Liu Guojiang a 19-year-old boy, fell in love with a 29-year-old widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin.

In a twist worthy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, friends and relatives criticized the relationship because of the age difference and the fact that Xu already had children.

At that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman. To avoid the market gossip and the scorn of their communities, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing municipality.

In the beginning, life was harsh as hey had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives.

Xu felt that she had tied Liu down and repeatedly asked him, "Are you regretful?" Liu always replied, "As long as we are industrious, life will improve."

In the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for over 50 years, to hand-carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.

Half a century later, in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the forest and were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,000 hand-carved steps. Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, "My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day. He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother's convenience, although she doesn't go down the mountain that much."

The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years, returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms. So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife's hand even after he had passed away.

"You promised me you'll take care of me, you'll always be with me until the day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?"

Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband's black coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks. In 2006, their story became one of the top 10 love stories from China , collected by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the love ladder and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever.

Linda Hogan Dating Guy 29 Years Younger

2008-07-04T02:32:00.001-04:00

See our master list of couples for the photo and details!

Math 101

2008-06-18T20:58:00.002-04:00

Math 101

A husband wrote the following letter for his wife and left it on the
dining room table:

To My Dear Wife,

You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54
years old, can no longer satisfy I am very happy with you and I value
you as a good wife.

Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope that you will not wrongly
interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18 year
old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel.

Please don't be upset - I shall be home before midnight.

When the man came home late that night, he found the following letter
on the dining room table:

My Dear Husband,

I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about my being 54
years old.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also
54 years old.

As you know, I am a math teacher at our local college. I would like
to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the Hotel Fiesta with
Michael, one of my students, who is also the assistant tennis coach. He
is young, virile, and like your secretary, is 18 years old.

As a successful businessman who has an excellent knowledge of math, you
will understand that we are in the same situation, although with one
small difference:

18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18.
Therefore, I will not be home until sometime tomorrow.

Hear, Hear!

2008-05-08T13:58:00.001-04:00

One writer comes to the defense of cougars!

84-Year-Old Woman Is Acrobatic Dance Partner of 25-Year-Old Man

2008-05-08T01:41:00.001-04:00

Mariah Carey Marries Nick Cannon

2008-05-06T23:18:00.002-04:00

Singer Mariah Carey, 39, has married 27-year-old actor Nick Cannon.

Shannon Elizabeth, 34 and Derek Huff, 22

2008-04-22T20:03:00.001-04:00

TV Shows

2008-04-13T05:06:00.003-04:00

Desperate Housewives featured one storyline in which Eva Longoria's character, a married woman, had an affair with her younger gardener, and another in which a middle aged woman named Catherine becomes involved with a young guy named Tim.

The Cougar premieres on April 15th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on TV Land PRIME. It's a reality show in which 20 men in their 20s vie to be the man of a beautiful and accomplished 40 year old woman's dreams.

Ivana Trump marries BF who is 23 years younger

2008-04-13T04:42:00.004-04:00

On Saturday, April 12, 2008, Ivana Trump, age 59, married her boyfriend of six years, Rossano Rubicondi, a 36-year-old Italian entrepreneur. See main list of couples for details!

Giuliana Rancic Thinks It's Only Fair

2008-03-26T23:47:00.005-04:00

Chelsea Handler, on her E! Network show tonight, brought up the news item that Tampa has recently generated a flurry of women teachers having sex with younger students. Giuliana Rancic (co-host of E! News Daily), a guest on Chelsea's show, pointed out that men have been doing that for years. "More power to 'em," Giuliana said of the female teachers.

We say turnabout is fair play.

Arlene Dahl and her husband, Marc Rosen

2008-03-18T17:45:00.003-04:00

Actress Arlene Dahl's sixth husband, Marc Rosen, is decades younger than she is. They have been married since 1984--24 years and counting-- proving that the sixth time is the charm, and that a younger husband is the best! Arlene, the mother of handsome actor Lorenzo Lamas and grandmother of Shayne Lamas (who is on the Spring 2008 season of The Bachelor), was born in 1928. If you know when Marc was born, please let us know!

Dr. Aubrey de Grey and his wife

2008-01-10T01:30:00.002-05:00

Dr. Aubrey de Grey, who advocates living forever, is married to a woman 19 years older than him, who prefers him with a very long beard.

Donna Karan and Her Younger Boyfriend

2007-12-12T19:39:00.002-05:00

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12122007/gossip/pagesix/donna_cougar_684440.htm

Let's hope this relationship lasts! Donna Karan's raw foods lifestyle is working well for her!

Urban Cougar & Cub Club (tm)

2007-11-26T03:48:00.002-05:00

We're excited to come across a MySpace page for the Urban Cougar & Cub Club, a club which ought to have branches everywhere!

List of Novels

2007-09-18T17:30:00.002-04:00

In this section, we'll post the names of novels about women involved with younger men. Send us your suggestions and we'll add them!

A friend writes us the following:

The girl in my Jane Porter book is about to take a surfing lesson with Kai the hottie surfer teacher who ultimately chooses her over the young 20-somethings. She appears to be 15 years his senior. The name of the book is FLIRTING WITH FORTY:

Euripides wrote Hippolytus about a married woman who had an affair with a much younger man:

Colette wrote Cheri about an aging beauty who had a deeply passionate affair with a playboy half her age:

Nancy Grace is Married to Younger Man & Expecting Twins

2007-06-27T12:08:00.002-04:00

Nancy, who is 47 or 48, married Atlanta Investment banker David E. Linch, who news reports say is 41, this past April. She and Linch met in Mercer College many years ago and stayed in touch over the years. When she was much younger, Nancy lost her first fiance through violent crime. She went on to become a prosecutor and TV news show anchor as a victim's rights advocate.

Here's a news story and video footage of Nancy showing off her belly:
http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah5880.shtml

List of Music

2006-11-04T18:50:00.002-05:00

Send us your suggestions for songs and albums about women involved with younger men and we'll add them here!

The following song description is from wikipedia.com. Although the original version of this song isn't relevant to the Women Married to Younger Men blog, there is a Korean version of this song that is. (See below!)

"Dragostea din tei" (pronounced /dra.gos.tea din tej/) is the most successful single by the Moldovan band O-Zone. The original version was sung by Dan Bălan, Arsenie Todiraş and Radu Sârbu. The single was first released in 2003 in Romania, where the group lived and produced at that time, and in the spring of 2004 in most other European countries. As of 2006, the song is still in the lower reaches of some Eastern European singles charts. It was written and produced by Dan Bălan (who wrote most of the group's songs), and was one of 2004's most successful summer hits, as well as one of the best selling singles of the year across Europe.

Although O-Zone's version was the most popular across Europe, several other versions of the song have been made. Hyun Young, a Korean model/actress/singer, released a Korean version called Nuna-eui Ggum (Sister's Dream). Like the Hebrew version, the song preserves the same “ma-ia-hii” and “nu mă, nu mă iei” choruses; however, while the “ma-ia-hii” does not carry any meaning but is merely used as a rhythmic interjection, the “nu mă iei” is approximated to nuna-eui, often pronounced nuna-e, which means Sister's. "Nuna" is also an affectionate title a Korean man calls a woman who is older than he is. The Korean version of the song is about a romance between a younger man and an older woman.

Maggie May (by Rod Stewart)

Young Men (by Marie-Lynn Hammond)

List of Movies

2006-09-25T02:00:00.004-04:00

If you've seen any of these movies, please leave a comment about how you liked them. I'll add them to the page itself. Thanks!

Here's a widget displaying a preview of some of the movies in our list. All of these movies plus some others are also listed below the widget.

Amazon.com Widgets

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

Afterglow

Alice and Martin

Book of Love

Chances Are

Class

Crush

The Good Girl

The Graduate

Hammers Over the Anvil

Harold and Maude

Hollywoodland

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

I Could Never Be Your Woman

In Praise of Older Women (En brazos de la mujer madura)

Late for Dinner

The Love Letter

Lovely and Amazing

Men Don't Leave

P.S.

Prime

Reckless

Reckless, the sequel

Something's Gotta Give

Tempo

White Palace

List of Marriages and Relationships

2006-09-25T01:30:00.019-04:00

Martha Raye, 34 years older than husband Mark Harris. She was 75, and he was 41 when they married on September 25, 1991. The marriage ended with her death on in 1994. This was her seventh marriage. Her shortest marriage lasted less than a year, and her longest lasted for 11 years.

Joan and Percy

Joan Collins, 32 years older than husband Percy Gibson. They married when she was 69 and he was 37. Here's Joan on women married to younger men: "More and more bright, intelligent, and attractive women are marrying and having relationships with men who are 10, 20, and even 30 years their junior. Many of them say they've never been happier, and I have to say, I agree."

Linda Hogan and Charlie Hill

Linda Hogan, 48 (the soon-to-be ex-wife of American Gladiator host Hulk Hogan), is 29 years older than her 19-year-old boyfriend Charlie Hill, who she has been dating for around six months.

Ayn Rand, 25 years older than Nathaniel Branden. They never married.

Vivienne and her husband, Andreas

Vivienne Westwood, 25 years older than her husband, Andreas Kronthaler. She was 52 when she married her 27-year-old groom in secret in 1992. He had been a fashion student when they met five years before, and she was reportedly so impressed by his design skills that she hired him on the spot.

Ivana and Rossano

Ivana Zelnicek Winklemayr Trump Mazzuchelli, age 59, 23 years older than Rossano Rubicondi, her husband, an Italian entrepreneur. They got married on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at a million dollar wedding at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida after a six year courtship.

The wedding–Ivana's fourth–was said to include 25 bridesmaids, a 12 foot-tall cake carved from chocolate by German pastry chefs and a 25-piece orchestra flown in from Paris.

Among the 300 guests were Ivana's ex-husband Donald Trump and his 37-year-old third wife, Melania; Ivana and Donald's three children; singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka; Janice Combs, mother of music mogul P. Diddy; actress Brigitte Neilsen, the ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone; David Koch, the seventh-richest man in the United States; Kathy and Rick Hilton, the parents of Paris; and sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

Ivana announced in December 2008 that she and her new husband were splitting up. "Rossano wants to live in Miami and work in Milan," Trump said. "But, I am a New Yorker and my family, friends and businesses are here. As the beautiful song says, `Que sera sera!'"

Barbara and Naveen

Barbara Hershey, 21 years older than Naveen Andrews. Living together in committed relationship as of 2006.

Mary Kay and Vili

Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau, 21 years older than husband Vili Fualaau. Teacher Mary Kay was convicted and served seven years in prison for "second-degree child rape" of her then 13-year-old student. She was released in 2004 and married Fualaau in May 2005. They have two daughters. She also has four children from her previous marriage.

Norma Shearer, 20 years older than her second husband, Sun Valley ski instructor Martin Arrouge, who she married in 1942 after being widowed in 1936 by her first husband, producer Irving Thalberg. Norma and Martin were married for 41 years until she died in 1983.

Elizabeth Taylor, 20 years older than husband Larry Fortensky. They married in October 1991 and divorced five years later.

María Félix, 20 years older than and Antoine Tzapoff. She was a Mexican diva, he is a French plastic artist. She died in 2002.

Arlene Dahl and husband Marc Rosen

Arlene Dahl, 19 years older than her husband, Marc Rosen. Marc is her sixth husband, and they have been married since 1984. Arlene, an actress, was born in 1928 and Marc, a producer, was born in 1947.

Francesca Annis, 18 years older than Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes had been married to "ER" star Alex Kingston at the time he met Francesca, while Annis had three children with photographer Patrick Wiseman. They met when she played his mother in a London stage production of Hamlet. They decided to separate after Ralph allegedly had an affair with a young singer in February 2006.

Dinah Shore, 20 years older than Burt Reynolds. Dinah was one of the most popular singers in the US in the 1940s and 1950s and eventually had her own TV show. She had a long relationship with Burt.

Mary Tyler Moore and Robert Levine

Mary Tyler Moore, 18 years older than husband Dr. Robert Levine.

Anna Gordy, 18 years older than husband Marvin Gaye. They divorced in 1978.

Diana Hyland 18 years older than John Travolta. They were together for a year until she died in his arms at the age of 41.

Cher, 17 years older than Rob Camiletti. Their relationship broke up and didn't result in marriage.

Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin (center)

Ruth Gordon, 16 years older than husband Garson Kanin.

Estelle Parsons, 16 years older than husband Peter Zimroth. They adopted a son in 1983.

Geena Davis and Reza Jarrahy

Geena Davis, 15 years older than her husband, Dr. Reza Jarrahy. They have three children.

Demi Moore, 15 years older than her husband, Ashton Kutcher. They married in 2005. She has three daughters from her previous marriage.

Mira Sorvino and Christopher Backus

Mira Sorvino, 14 years older than her husband, Christopher Backus. They married in 2002, and she had a child a few months later.

Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak

Jennifer Tilly, 14 years older than her boyfriend, Phil Laak. They met at a charity poker tournament in 2003. Jennifer, an actress, was born in Sept. 1958. Phil was born in September 1972. They both win poker tournaments.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon

Mariah Carey, 12 years older than husband, Nick Cannon. The singer married the actor in May 2008.

Susan Sarandon, 12 years older than her longtime partner, Tim Robbins. They have two children together. She announced in late 2009 that they had separated in the summer of 2009 after 23 years together. There were then rumors that she had a new boyfriend, Jonathan Bricklin, age 31, 32 years younger than her. She's an investor in Bricklin's Manhattan ping pong Bar. She denied the rumors.

Julianne and Bart

Julianne Moore, 11 years older than her third husband, Bart Freundlich. They have two children together.

Naomi Watts, 11 years older than Heath Ledger. Their relationship did not lead to marriage.

Lisa and Roey

Lisa Loeb, 10 years older than Roey Hershkovitz. Lisa, 40, a singer and songwriter, and her husband, age 30, the music coordinator on “Late Night with Conan O'Brien”were married Saturday evening, January 31, 2009 at Brasserie 8 ½, a restaurant in New York City. Rabbi Andy Bachman officiated. Lisa had her own reality show on cable TV a few years earlier, called "Number One Single," in which she was looking for the right guy to marry.

George Reeves and Toni Mannix

Toni Mannix, 10 years older than George Reeves. Both were married to other people when they began their long affair. Controversy still surrounds the cause of George's death, as portrayed in the 2006 movie Hollywoodland.

Madonna, 10 years older than her husband, Guy Ritchie. They have a son together, Rocco, and also her daughter, Lola, from a previous relationship. And they adopted a young boy from Africa named David Banda. They divorced in January 2009.

Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqin

Xu Chaoqin and her 10-year-younger husband, Liu Guojiang. (See details under "news items.")

Halle Berry, 9 years older than boyfriend Gabriel Aubrey. She met Aubry, 31, while shooting a Versace ad in November 2005. " The twice-divorced actress said in March 2007: "After my last relationship [with actor Michael Ealy] broke up I was feeling like, well, it wasn't that I didn't want to be in a relationship, it's just that I thought it would be okay to be on my own. But he was disarmingly sweet and caring and different. In the past I've been attracted to big personalities. Gabriel was shy. He hardly talked to me at first." But that just made him more appealing. "I had to work at this a little," she says. "It wasn't a slam dunk; it wasn't the guy just showering affection on me. It made it more interesting. We were equally matched – put it that way."

Sheryl Crow, 9 years older than Lance Armstrong. They were engaged but broke up before getting married.

Cameron and Justin

Cameron Diaz, 9 years older than Justin Timberlake. They split up in 2007 after dating for more than four years.

Vanessa Redgrave, 9 years older than Timothy Dalton. The relationship did not lead to marriage.

Linda Evans, 8 years older than Yanni, who she dated for 9 years until they broke up.

Anne Hathaway, 8 years older than William Shakespeare. They married when she was 26 and he was 18.

Nancy Grace, 7 years older than Atlanta Investment banker David E. Linch, who news reports say is 41. She and Linch met in Mercer College many years ago and stayed in touch over the years. When she was much younger, Nancy lost her first fiance through violent crime. She went on to become a prosecutor and TV news show anchor as a victim's rights advocate. Nancy and David for married in April 2007 and Nancy gave birth to twins in late 2007. Their names are John and Lucy.

Yoko Ono, 7 years older than John Lennon. They were married and had one son, Sean. The marriage ended when John was murdered.

Gloria Steinem and David Bale

Gloria Steinem, 7 years older than husband, David Bale. Gloria, a writer and a spearhead of the feminist movement, married him in the year 2000, when she was 66; she had never been married before. The marriage ended with David's death on Dec. 30, 2003. Gloria, the co-founder of Ms. magazine, said about David in a press statement, "He had the greatest heart of anyone I've ever known."

Eva Longoria, 7 years older than Tony Parker. They met in 2004 and have been an item since. Eva told People Magazine, "There's no way in the world I would rather be single." "I've said the only reason Tony and I are going to stay together forever is because we're too lazy to look for someone else." Their European wedding is set for July 7, 2007.

Owen and Sheryl

Sheryl Crow, 6 years older than Owen Wilson. They dated for two years and then broke up.

Lucille Ball, 6 years older than Desi Arnaz. They married in 1940 and divorced on May 4, 1960. They had two children, Lucie and Desi, Jr.

Janet Jackson, 6 years older than her long-term boyfriend Jermaine Dupri.

Tom Cruise, 6 years younger than his then-wife, Mimi Rogers.