Silent But Strong 20 Celebrity Couples That Keep Their Relationship On The Down Low

Thanks to tabloid magazines, paparazzi, and social media, the general public has access to a generous portion of celebrities' lives these days. We know details and information that the public didn't have access to 20 years ago. However, to a certain extent, celebrities can control what parts of their lives the public sees and just how much of it they're aware of.

Just like they can let us into their world and show us what is going on in their personal lives, they can also shut the public out, which is completely fine too! Many people are quick to develop a sense of entitlement when it comes to the details of a celebrity's private life. And while most celebrities do often share most of their lives with their fans and followers, there are a few who choose not to let others have such a deep look into their worlds, especially when it comes to their relationships.

Love and dating are hard enough as it is. Now, imagine adding a few million people's unwarranted commentary and questions, trying to figure something you have barely made sense of yourself. Sounds pretty suffocating, doesn't it?

Well, there are a handful of celebrity couples who have avoided that mess altogether by simply keeping the intimate details of their romantic relationships off-limits to the public. If you want to know who those celebrity couples are, keep on reading.

20 Gigi Hadid And Zayn Malik

Rumors of the now uber-famous celebrity power couple started way back in 2015 when Hadid and Malik were spotted leaving an AMA's after party together. Only a few months later, the couple ignited more rumors when they were photographed leaving The Nice Guy restaurant together holding hands. But, it was in January of 2016 when Malik released his music video for his debut single "PILLOWTALK" (which starred he and Hadid portraying a romantic relationship) that confirmed that they were indeed a couple.

Hadid and Malik do post about each other from time to time on their social media accounts, are photographed in public together, and briefly comment on their relationship when asked by the media.

But given their immensely popular social status, they don't publicize their relationship to the extent one would expect them to. They have managed to keep their relationship as private as they can for two individuals as successful and famous as they are.

19 Margot Robbie And Tom Ackerley

In an interview with Elle, Robbie explained that she and her now-husband Ackerley met shooting The Wolf of Wall Street when Robbie had first moved to London. She and four others, including Ackerley, moved into a three bedroom flat in Clapham, London. Over time, the pair fell for one another and eventually married in Robbie's native Australia in December 2016.

Even at the beginning of their relationship, they kept things between themselves as much as possible, something that they have carried with them when it comes to the prying eyes of the rest of the world. While Ackerley is not very active in the public eye and has never publicly spoken about their relationship, he does occasionally post a picture of the two of them on his Instagram page. Robbie does also share photos of herself and Ackerly on her Instagram and has briefly spoken about her relationship.

18 Ruth Kearney And Theo James

James and Kearney have been together for so long that no one can really remember when they began dating. However, this couple is so private that even they didn't even bother to address the press when their relationship was seemingly threatened by James' and actress Shailene Woodley's on- and off-screen chemistry in the Divergent movie franchise. For the duration of the movies, which collectively took place from 2014 to 2016, James and Woodley were the subjects of countless dating rumors while he was supposedly still dating Kearney.

However, all those years of rumors were put to rest when Kearney and James finally wed in a private ceremony in Italy in August of 2018.

Though the couple did not announce their marriage nor confirm it, Kearney was spotted in a white dress with James sporting a ring on his wedding finger.

17 Kylie Jenner And Travis Scott

It seems that Jenner's relationship with her newborn daughter Stormi Webster is more publicized than her relationship with her child's father Travis Scott is. Contrary to the natural tendencies of the Kardashian-Jenner clan to share and post every detail about every aspect of their lives, Jenner's relationship with Scott is one area of her life that she holds back on.

Up until Jenner gave birth to their child, there was no confirmation that Jenner was officially with Scott. While this likely has to do with the fact that Kylie kept every sign of her pregnancy private, some fans did speculate that Jenner was pregnant and that Scott was the father. After the reveal of their daughter, the couple has made some public appearances together, with the 2018 MET Gala being their first joint red carpet. Since then, they have not been afraid to be seen out together, but they continue to keep the inner workings of their relationship private.

16 Hailee Steinfeld And Niall Horan

Steinfeld and Horan have seemingly been friends for a while, but it came as a sort of a surprise when dating rumors began to swirl as their friendship became more and more publicized. In February of 2018, they were spotted together at a Backstreet Boys concert, which only added more fuel to the rumors of their dating fire.

It was a video was taken of Steinfeld and Horan kissing at a restaurant in the Bahamas in April of 2018, as well as photographs of them kissing in Los Angeles in August of that same year, that provided fans with an unofficial confirmation of the state of their relationship.

However, it was neither Steinfeld nor Horan who officially confirmed their relationship, but their mutual friend Shawn Mendes. Mendes accidentally revealed to Access that the two were dating when he commented: “I thought this was common knowledge!”

15 Dakota Fanning And Henry Frye

Fanning has always been adamant about living her life as normally as possible, which explains why she prefers to keep her love life and her relationships under wraps. Fanning has done a pretty good job at keeping her relationship with Frye on the down low, because no one really knew when exactly the pair began dating. However, it is assumed that their relationship began in late 2017.

The fact that Frye doesn't seem to have any type of social media makes it much easier to maintain the privacy of their relationship. While Fanning does have an Instagram account, she rarely posts about Frye. They also don't often attend events together but do appear in public together at times.

14 Lady Gaga And Christian Carino

It seemed like just yesterday that Gaga was still engaged to her now ex-fiancé, actor Taylor Kinney. But the past is in the past, and Gaga is now engaged to talent agent Carino. The pair began their relationship in February of 2017 when Carino accompanied Gaga to her monumental performance at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show.

But Gaga never confirmed her relationship with Carino until she referred to him as her fiancé during her speech at the Elle Women in Hollywood Event in October of 2018.

Earlier on in the year, there were rumors of the pair's engagement, but never a confirmation until Gaga admitted it herself. After Gaga's very public split from Kinney, we're not surprised that she opted to keep her relationship with Carino as private as possible.

13 Emma Roberts And Evan Peters

Roberts and Peters are known to have one of the most complex relationship histories of breakups and makeups. Their relationship began in 2012 when they met on the set of their movie Adult World. They got engaged shortly after in late 2013. The couple underwent two very public breakups: one in June 2015 as well as May of 2016. However, the pair reconciled and got back together in September of 2016.

Ever since their reconciliation, Roberts and Peters have been quietly dating with much more privacy in comparison to the earlier years of their relationship. Though they do acknowledge their relationship publicly, they almost never document their relationship on social media and are hardly ever in the public eye.

12 Irina Shayk And Bradley Cooper

Speculations about Shayk and Cooper's relationship began in 2015 when they were spotted out together on many occasions. But it was in May of 2015 when the couple had been caught kissing in London, England that their relationship was unofficially confirmed. Shayk and Cooper made their red carpet debut as a couple in March of 2016 at a Paris Fashion Week party. In November of 2016, Shayk walked the Victoria's Secret Fashion show while pregnant, and it was later confirmed that she was expecting a child with Cooper.

Since the birth of their daughter Leah De Seine Shayk Cooper, the pair has been extremely private with their relationship as well as their family life.

Aside from being occasionally photographed together while out in public, Shayk and Cooper have not made too many appearances together, the exception being when they walked the 2018 MET Gala red carpet together.

11 Emily Ratajkowsi And Sebastian Bear-McClard

Not much is known about the origins of Ratajkowski and Bear-McClard's relationship as Ratajkowski was linked to her former boyfriend and music producer Jeff Magid only months before their wedding. Ratajkowski kept her relationship so private that she quite literally shocked the public when she revealed on her Instagram account that she had gotten married in an extremely intimate ceremony at City Hall in Los Angeles.

The public knew virtually no details of Ratajkowski and Bear-McClard's wedding until Ratajkowski appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and divulged a few details. Aside from that, they occasionally post about one another on their social media accounts and do get spotted out in public, but other than that they keep their relationship under wraps.

10 Jennifer Lawrence And Cooke Maroney

After her relationship with director Darren Aronofsky ended, Lawrence began dating art director Maroney. Despite Lawrence's candid demeanor and outgoing personality, she has kept her relationship with Maroney very private thus far.

Despite the pair being photographed out and about in New York City together, Lawrence has not acknowledged nor commented on her relationship with Maroney in any way.

Lawrence does not have any form of social media, except for Facebook, which she uses to keep her fans updated. So it would be difficult for her to share photos of she and Maroney even if she wanted to. Regardless, Lawrence is very private when it comes to her personal relationships and family life, so she probably won't be mentioning her relationship with Maroney for a while.

9 Sunrise Coigney And Mark Ruffalo

According to The Guardian, Ruffalo remembers that he first met Coigney on the street when he was still just a struggling actor. Though he didn't have much going for him at the time, Coigney managed to stick by Ruffalo and now the couple has been married for nearly 20 years and are the parents to three children; Keen, Bella Noche, and Odette.

Coigney and Ruffalo do not go out of their way to keep their relationship excessively private but have naturally gone that route. While Coigney does have an Instagram account, it is a private page. Ruffalo's account is followed by almost 8 million people, however, most of his content is related to his political views, activism, and promotion for his films and projects. Though he does manage to slip in an image of Coigney from time to time.

8 Camila Morrone And Leonardo Di Caprio

After Di Caprio's infamous history of dating a string of high profile models, it seems that he has reached the end of that line when he became romantically linked to Morrone at the end of 2017. Ever since then, Morrone and Di Caprio have not exactly tried to hide their relationship, but have not been parading it around Hollywood either.

Neither Morrone nor Di Caprio have made any sort of public statement or confirmed their relationship in any way, but it's pretty much common knowledge that they are an item.

Despite the fact that they have been dating less than a year and the fact that Morrone is 22 years his junior, there are already rumors of their engagement floating around the Hollywood gossip scene.

7 Dua Lipa And Isaac Carew

Lipa and Carew began dating in 2015 but underwent a reportedly amicable break up in 2017. However, it wasn't long until the pair got back together, never officially confirming it, most likely due to the amount of backlash Lipa received when she and Carew were spotted out together again. After Lipa penned 2018's breakup anthem "New Rules," in which Lipa advises others not to go back to their exes, Lipa's fans expressed how she was being a hypocrite for going against the advice she gave out in her song.

This is a probably why Lipa and Carew keep their relationship so low-key and haven't officially confirmed the fact that they are back together, but it's quite apparent on social media that the two are very much together again. The couple occasionally speaks of one another in interviews but for the most keep their relationship on the down low.

6 Amanda Seyfried And Thomas Sadoski

Seyfried and Sadoski first met when they both starred in the off-Broadway play The Way We Get By and also went on to star in the 2017 film The Last Word. First reports of the couple's engagement came in September of 2016 when Seyfried was spotted wearing an engagement ring while she walked her dog.

The couple did not confirm this themselves but did have representatives from their teams announce the news.

The beginning of their relationship may have been slightly more public than its more recent stages. Though the couple shared the news of their engagement and made it official to the world, they did not follow in the same steps when it came to their wedding. The couple eloped and got married in Topanga, California with no big ceremony or reception. The Seyfried and Sadoski continue to remain relatively low key.

5 Alicia Vikander And Michael Fassbender

After Vikander and Fassbender worked together on their film The Light Between Oceans, in which they played a married couple, it wasn't long until Vikander and Fassbender would become the same in real life. The couple began dating in real life and got married in October of 2017 in Ibiza, Spain. The ceremony was small, very relaxed, and low-maintenance, much like the couple's relationship.

In the months leading up to their marriage, the public wasn't sure if Vikander and Fassbender were even dating. They rarely appeared in public together, with neither of them having social media to at least provide hints of their relationship. It was really only when they got married that their relationship was confirmed. Vikander also commented up about her marriage to Fassbender in a 2018 interview with Vogue, something she does not do very often, if at all.

4 Mary-Kate Olsen And Olivier Sarkozy

Mary-Kate, along with her twin sister Ashley, is notorious for leading an extremely private life in all aspects. The sister duo rarely does interviews or public appearances, nor do they partake in the use of social media. So it comes at no surprise that Mary-Kate keeps her relationship and details of her marriage to Sarkozy super private.

The couple began dating in 2012 and eventually got married in November 2015 in an unsurprisingly small and intimate ceremony.

According to Page Six, Olsen and Sarkozy required all 50 guests in attendance to hand over their phones, yet another measure taken to protect the privacy they desired for their big day. Additionally, Olsen has never mentioned her relationship with Sarkozy other than in a rare interview in 2017 with Net-A-Porter's The Edit, where she spoke about married life. She did not mention Sarkozy by name, but instead referred to him as her husband.

3 Taylor Swift And Joe Alwyn

Because the entirety of Swift's relationship with Alwyn has been so secretive from its start, the only detail we have about its beginnings is that Swift had been dating Alwyn for a few months in 2017 after splitting with actor Tom Hiddleston. They were almost never seen in public together, as they aimed to draw as little attention as possible to their relationship. However, there were a few times were the paparazzi caught the pair out in Alwyn's native London, England and Swift's current home state of New York City.

But Swift being the expressive musician she is, managed to slip in some songs presumed to have been inspired by Alwyn in her newest album Reputation. Many fans of Swift have speculated that her songs "… Ready For It," "Delicate," and "Gorgeous," among a few others, are about Alwyn. It seems that though they have been dating for a while now, they are adamant about keeping their relationship between them only. When British Vogue asked about his relationship with Swift, Alwyn quickly set the interview back on track and expressed that he prefers to talk about work.

2 Katie Holmes And Jamie Foxx

Holmes and Foxx are said to have met around 2005 when her former husband Tom Cruise worked with Foxx on the film Collateral. Since then, Holmes and Foxx are known to have established a friendship, but it was in June of 2012, when Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise, that rumors of a relationship began to emerge. Often times, publications would report incidents of the two looking very friendly with one another, or even partaking in some light flirting. Naturally, these reports only generated more rumors.

Despite this, neither Holmes nor Foxx confirmed their relationship or any possibility of them being in one, and only become more camera-shy when spotted holding hands in public in February of 2015.

However, when Radar Online released a story that Holmes and Foxx's secret relationship was on the rocks, a representative of Holmes released a statement to PEOPLE that this story is completely false, seemingly giving us the closest thing to a confirmation we'll ever get.

1 Eva Mendes And Ryan Gosling

Mendes and Gosling met while they worked as co-stars in Place Beyond The Pines in 2011. Though they have been a couple ever since then, the two have notoriously kept their longtime relationship as private as possible. Towards the beginning of their relationship, Mendes and Gosling refused to comment on their relationship or acknowledge that they were even an item.

Despite their mission to keep their relationship strictly between the two of them, over the years they have started to open up a bit about their relationship. For instance, Gosling surprisingly addressed Mendes in his speech at the 2017 Golden Globes when he accepted the award for Best Actor and thanked her for all the familial responsibly she took on while he was away shooting the movie.