When it comes to the various ways in which celebrity couples offer up public displays of affection, the ante was raised yet again when Kim Kardashian was spotted over the weekend wearing earrings with the initials of rumored boyfriend Kanye West.
But Kim is hardly the first star to wear her heart on her sleeve (or in her ear). Let’s take a look back at five other unique celeb PDAs:
Tattoos
No matter how well De Beers has ingrained their slogan “A diamond is forever” into our brains, nothing says “I love you forever (hopefully)” like getting a tattoo of your lover’s initials, name and/or face. There are so many examples of celebrity couples who have expressed their love via this method that we could write a separate story. The couples who immediately come to mind are Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, who both got their first-ever ink in celebration of their marriage. Other examples: Tori Spelling‘s hubby Dean McDermott has his wife’s face and décolletage on his shoulder, Marc Anthony had Jennifer on the inside of his wrist before their split, and David and Victoria Beckham.
Blood Bonds
Before there was Brangelina, there was the eyebrow-raising romance and eventual marriage between Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton. In addition to getting relationship-inspired tattoos to celebrate their love, Jolie surprised everyone by adorning her neck with an amulet that reportedly contained a few drops of Thornton’s blood.
Music Videos
If you’re a musician and in need of a love interest for your music video, why not invite your real-life love to make an appearance in said clip? In addition to several warm fuzzy stories that involve couples meeting on the sets of their music vids (Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley, Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova), there are plenty who have featured their boyfriends and girlfriends. Jennifer Lopez is the leading example, first with Ben Affleck‘s cameo in “Jenny From the Block” and most recently with new love Casper Smart in “Dance Again.”
Social Media
The advent of Twitter has brought the world a lot of things — over-sharing chief among them. We’ve become privy to the inner-workings of celebrity couples, thanks to their back-and-forth interaction on the social-networking site. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher basically kicked things off by frequently tweeting cute musings back and forth. They are survived by Khloé and Lamar Odom, Carey Hart and Pink, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden and Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey (again with the PDA!).
Nail Art
Before their very public breakup last year, Katy Perry took the whole PDA-by-body-art trend to another level when she showed up on the white carpet at the 2010 VMAs with then-husband Russell Brand’s face printed onto her fingernails. The gesture was in part due to the fact that Brand wasn’t able to attend the awards show that year, along with a tribute factor celebrating the couple’s initial introduction at the awards show in 2009.
Where do Kim’s Kanye earrings rank among celeb PDAs? Let us know what we missed in the comments!
