Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa have been blissfully joined at the hip after meeting through mutual
friends in 2004, and this gorgeous Hollywood couple has been snagging gossip headlines
ever since.
It's the secrecy surrounding their nuptials and their unorthodox lifestyle that really
raises eyebrows.
Here are some of the not-so-usual things about the couple's relationship.
A fanboy crush
Fans of The Cosby Show remember Lisa Bonet as the eccentric and free-spirited fan favorite,
Denise Huxtable.
And Bonet's future husband was one of many viewers who fell in love with her on the small
screen.
Momoa told James Corden that he had his eye on Bonet since he was 8 years old, saying,
"I saw her on the TV and I was like, 'Mommy, I want that one.'
I was like, 'I'm going to stalk you for the rest of my life, and I'm going to get you.'"
Momoa finally came clean about his stalker past after he and Bonet had their second child.
But the fact that their relationship has lasted longer than most Hollywood romances seems
proof enough that Bonet finds it all totally endearing.
Even a caveman can do it
To truly "get" this relationship, we have to look back to its inception in 2004, when
Bonet and her friends hit up a jazz club in Los Angeles, and Momoa was there with his
buddies.
He told James Corden it was like "fireworks" when they first met, saying,
"She was like…
I'm Lisa… and I turn around to my friend and was like (scream)"
They then stopped at a café, where Momoa ate a bowl of grits while Bonet ordered a
Guinness, which just so happens to be Momoa's favorite beer of all time.
Bonet recalled to Porter magazine,
"In that moment, love came and it came big.
[...] He basically picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, caveman style!"
A super secret marriage
Momoa has frequently referred to Bonet as his "wife" in various interviews, which led
many to believe the couple walked down the aisle in 2007.
But when a source claimed the couple wed in November 2017, fans felt duped.
The source told Us Weekly,
"Apparently they weren't officially married until then!
They said they 'made it official.'"
"Do you feel like newlyweds again?"
"Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
If I wasn't on camera right now, I would tell you."
As to why they pretended to be married for so long, it appears that they considered themselves
committed without having legalized their union.
Momoa said of their actual wedding:
"I've been married to my wife for 12 years.
It was just a gathering of our families and celebrating our love."
Luddite lovers
Momoa and Bonet are nonconformists who shun the modern electronics that most of us can't
live without.
In a 2014 interview with Essence, Bonet admitted that she had never even been on Facebook,
saying,
"It's just not on my radar."
The couple and their two children are also TV-free, and Bonet tries her best to remain
as "media-free" as possible.
Even though she and Momoa are huge fans of SNL and watch episodes on their computer,
Bonet believes that keeping her children from being glued to the tube helps to "cultivate"
their imaginations.
Hanging with Lenny like it's NBD
The media thrives on messy celebrity divorces, but Bonet revealed to Porter magazine that
she still has a tight bond with her ex-husband, Lenny Kravitz, who's also the father of her
eldest daughter, Zoë Kravitz.
She says,
"It's fantastic.
It's full-on family love."
She's even ditched Momoa a few times to hit the red carpet alongside Lenny, like at the
2015 Met Gala.
In a feature for Oprah's Master Class, Lenny said,
"We're one big, happy family.
It's beautiful and it just shows you what can be done."
Zoë even detailed their intertwined family dynamics, telling Ocean Drive magazine,
"My dad and [Momoa] get along really well […] As long as everyone can be in the same
room together, and have love for each other, it's totally healthy."
'Drunk' tattoos
Momoa sports some pretty impressive ink — and even shares a matching tattoo with Bonet and
her daughter, Zoë, according to Hollywood.com.
Essence reported the inked phrase is French for:
"Be always drunk."
To make this whole tattoo situation even more strange, another unidentified man who's chummy
with the star has the same tatt, as well!
Love and Hollywood
Momoa refused to watch his wife's love scenes on Ray Donovan, telling Entertainment Tonight
Canada,
"You know what the hard thing is?
I just don't really wanna see certain things […] I love her, it's our job, but I gotta
(separate it)."
He even admitted that he didn't want her to see his Game of Thrones love scenes, either.
He said,
"We were supposed to go to the premiere for the first two episodes, I was like […] 'Nah,
we're not going.'
She was like, 'You're not gonna stop me from watching it."
Bonet eventually watched Season 1, and Momoa revealed:
"She was just so proud, she stayed up all night, watched the whole thing, and was obsessed!"
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