Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's Relationship: A Look Back

While most celebrity couplessaythey want to stay out of the spotlight, Chris Martin andGwyneth Paltrowactually meant it. During their 12-year relationship, the pair never gave a joint interview or walked the red carpet together.

While most celebrity couples say they want to stay out of the spotlight, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow actually meant it. During their 12-year relationship, the pair never gave a joint interview or walked the red carpet together. 

The rare moments when Martin and the goop lifestyle guru spoke about each other, it was always in an honest and favorable light, like the time Martin praised the Shakespeare in Love star in 2011. 

"From being a loser to going out with an Oscar winner? It's a giant leap," he told CBS News Sunday Morning, adding, "Let's face it. It's like winning the lottery." 

After meeting in 2002, they eloped and welcomed two children before filing for divorce in 2014. Paltrow opened up about their challenges, admitting marriage was hard work, in a 2013 interview with Self. Though they're no longer romantically involved, their familial ties have remained intact (Paltrow has likened the Coldplay frontman to her brother, and the exes are co-parenting goals).

Here's a look back at Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's relationship.

October 2002: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow first meet

Some may call it destiny; others might consider it the power of manifestation. Either way, Paltrow and Martin ironically met after he had already told thousands of fans she was his girlfriend at a Coldplay concert in 2002.

"It's funny because people had started writing that we were going out, and we had never even met," Paltrow reportedly said, per Just Jared, in 2013. "And then he was in Los Angeles doing a concert, and an actress that he had a crush on was supposed to come to the concert. When she didn't show up, he was so annoyed that he said, 'Oh, this is for my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow.'"

She continued, "Then people were saying, 'What's going on?' I was like, 'I've never met this guy, I've no idea!' And because of that, because people were writing about it, we ended up meeting at a concert, and there you go. So, thank you! Because they had written so much in the press, his assistant came to my seat at the concert. They said, 'This is so crazy, but will you come back and say hello afterwards?' And that was it."

February 23, 2003: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are first spotted together

A few months after their initial encounter, the pair were seen going for a stroll together in New York City. That May, they would put on some serious PDA during their vacation in Kauai, Hawaii.

Getty Images

December 2003: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are expecting and secretly elope

Within a year of their first meeting, Paltrow was pregnant with the couple's first child, and days after, they were famously photographed outside the doctor's office celebrating the news.

Later that December, the parents-to-be became husband and wife, eloping in a secret ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, a source told People.

May 14, 2004: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow welcome their first child together

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin welcomed a baby girl, Apple Blyth Alison, in May 2004, reported People.

April 8, 2006: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow become parents for a second time

Nearly two years later, in April 2006, they expanded their family with the birth of their son, Moses, named after the eponymous Coldplay song, according to People.

2009: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow address why they keep relationship private

Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for J/P Haitian Relief Organization

"It doesn't behoove us to be a public couple," Paltrow reportedly told Elle UK in 2009. "[Chris] certainly doesn't want that. We've never ever walked down a red carpet together, and we never will." 

That same year, Martin echoed Paltrow's point further. 

"If you talk about your family life, then the amount of people who hang around outside your house triples the next week," he said during an interview with 60 Minutes. "Because then you become a necessary story in those magazines. So the aim is to make yourself not necessary."

March 25, 2014: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow announce separation

In 2014, Martin and Paltrow split, or as she iconically coined their separation, "consciously uncoupling." 

Paltrow shared the news in a blog post on goop's website, which ended up crashing the site.

"It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," Paltrow wrote. "We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much, we will remain separate."

She continued, "We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways, we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents, first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children, and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time."

"We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner," she added. 

Paltrow officially filed for divorce from Martin in April 2015, and the ex-spouses reached a settlement, according to People.

July 14, 2016: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow finalize divorce

In addition to rebranding breakups, Paltrow and Martin wrote the handbook on how to be a modern-day divorced couple. Since their "conscious uncoupling" in 2014, the pair have remained on good terms.

At one point, they lived across the street from each other, went on vacations as a family, and celebrated holidays together — all while hanging out with each other's significant others. Paltrow has even spent time with Martin's girlfriend, actress Dakota Johnsonwithout her ex-husband.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qrrSrbClnV6YvK5705urZpuYp7a0ecyaqa2hnmK0uMXNnquhZaCWubW%2BzrBkq52clsGqu82sn6KoXWuEdX6Qbmw%3D

 Share!