15 Hottest Hollywood Women Who Married Below Average

Let's get one thing straight here right off the bat: the guys on this list, with a couple exceptions, are not ugly. They are not the kind of hideous monsters you shield your children from and from whom you avert your gaze out of fear of having your eyes melt out of your head, but they're not traditionally handsome, or even conventionally attractive. The thing is, while they may be average-looking or even a bit below average, their generally rough appearance looks way worse next to the impossibly gorgeous goddesses who are their wives. Hey, we know it's not really fair! If you're a man, you might argue that women have the power of makeup and better clothes to look hot. If you're a woman, you might get a little pissed at the idea of meh-looking dudes managing to snag some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. The double standard is real, people.

So, while we know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and love is blindness and all of that, let's just check out these 15 couples to whom a great personality, a stacked bank account, or an unrivalled intelligence are the only aphrodisiacs these beautiful ladies need!

15 Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard

Look, Dax Shepard isn't an ugly dude by any means, he's just a little… odd-looking. He's a pretty lanky guy, standing a full foot taller than his petite wife, Kristen Bell, and his hair and face make him look like a bit of a goof. Clearly, though, that's exactly what Kristen was looking for: the two have been married since 2013!

Even though Kristen's blonde, blue-eyed, bubbly beauty has made her the object of lust for many men since she first burst onto the scene as the titular character in Veronica Mars, she has a pretty chill and spontaneous side that jives well with Dax's zaniness. Two weeks after meeting at a dinner in 2007, the two got together, and it seems that opposites attract - and not just in the looks department! While Dax has been open about his struggles with addiction, Kristen described herself as a “good Catholic girl”. Obviously, there's a lot of good stuff that keeps these two and their little family together, and we couldn't be happier for them!

14 Isla Fisher & Sacha Baron Cohen

Another actor who's more dorky-looking than straight-up hideous, Sacha Baron Cohen must have boatloads of charm to have snagged redheaded Aussie Isla Fisher! Sacha is obviously best known for his over-the-top performances in films like Borat, Bruno, and even Oscar winners like Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. Isla, on the other hand, often gets confused with that OTHER redheaded beauty, Amy Adams.

While one may be better known than the other, it's clear that Isla is the one bringing it in terms of sex appeal. However, they both seem like complete equals in their relationship, with Isla regularly helping out her husband who goes all in when it comes to his characters - she even smuggled in his Ali G costume to the Oscars one year! A relationship that appears to be built on fun and loyalty (Isla converted to Judaism for Sacha), this odd couple are also the parents to three adorable young children, and despite any discrepancy in their looks, they seem like a perfect match!

13 Amber Tamblyn & David Cross

They say that age ain't nothin' but a number, and Amber Tamblyn will be the first to agree with that, having married actor and comedian David Cross, who is 19 years her senior. The couple have the weird kind of meet-cute that you would expect from them: they met while on a plane, and began making jokes about the in-flight catalogue, and boom! Romance was born.

While they may not be exactly household names, Amber and David are definitely the kind of couple that make you do a double-take, until you learn more about who they are. She's a gorgeous young woman with a wide smile and he's the older, sillier, greyer actor who is possibly best known for his role as Tobias Funke in Arrested Development. Obviously, though, humour and intellect is what bonds this pair, and the two wed in 2012 and welcomed a daughter earlier this year!

12 Leslie Mann & Judd Apatow

Another average-looking funny guy who got the gorgeous girl, Judd Apatow will be the first person to point out the discrepancies between his appearance and that of wife Leslie Mann. “She has no sense of what attractive is based on marrying me,” Judd joked on the red carpet in 2017. While he's the dorky (but hugely talented) director whose built his success on the kind of clever frat-boy comedies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, she's usually had a part in his films, often playing the “straight man” to his crazy creations.

While she may have leading lady good looks and he's a bit more of a goofball, this Hollywood funny couple has been married for 20 years and are the proud parents of two daughters, Maude and Iris. Having met at an audition way back in 1995, Judd says that the first time he saw Leslie, he knew that she was the woman he was going to marry. “I had a soul connection instantly… That's why I remember it.”

11 Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy

This long-term Hollywood couple may not be the one that comes to mind most readily when you think of pairs that are in it for the long haul, and perhaps it's because they look kind of mismatched! While Felicity Huffman is a blonde beauty and former Desperate Housewife, William H. Macy looks a bit rougher around the edges.

Felicity is clearly more conventionally attractive than the two, but William still has the kind of charm that makes you ignore what might not be conventional good looks. In addition to being married since 1997, the two have also worked together, and Felicity regularly gushes about how big a fan she is of her own husband. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Felicity confessed, “I got really lucky marrying Bill… I swear to God, every time he walks in the room, I go, 'It's Bill Macy!'” A couple that can regularly fangirl over one another? Talk about #couplegoals!

10 Alexis Bledel & Vincent Kartheiser

She's known as the perpetually youthful blue-eyed Rory Gilmore we've come to know and love, and he's the dude with the prematurely receding hairline who played a jerk in Mad Men. We know that actors aren't the characters they play, but when they've done such a good job like Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser have, it can be difficult to differentiate between the two.

She may be more conventionally attractive than Vincent (although he's recently grown a beard which does help balance out the lack of hair on top), but the two have kept their romance quiet and under wraps since meeting on the set of Mad Men back in 2012. True to their mutual need to have a private life after spending most of it in the spotlight, the couple secretly wed in an intimate affair in 2014, and then also welcomed a baby boy in the fall of 2015! While Alexis may be the more obviously beautiful one of the two, looks don't seem to matter much for this joyous couple, who seem to truly love one another.

9 Cameron Diaz & Benji Madden

This couple probably threw everyone for a loop when they secretly married, because they both seem so different! She's a Hollywood golden girl, with a leggy blonde appeal that carried her through her 30-or-so-year career, whereas he's a pop-punk-rocker with a ton of tattoos and piercings. (Don't get me wrong, in the early '00s I was very much a Benji fan.) It seems odd that they ever got together, let alone even knew each other, but hey, sometimes Hollywood is a strange (and small) place!

Cameron Diaz has a history of dating her very attractive costars, like Matt Dillon and Jared Leto, and even had a four-year-long relationship with Justin Timberlake. Good Charlotte's Benji Madden wasn't doing to shabbily either, having been involved with blonde bombshells like Holly Madison and Sophie Monk. It was Nicole Richie who introduced the pair, as the wife of Benji's twin brother Joel, sparks flew, and now this odd couple seems happy to live a quiet and loving life together since secretly marrying in January 2015!

8 Tina Fey & Jeff Richmond

Another celebrity husband who isn't ugly by any means, but whose short stature (Jeff Richmond is only 5”5) makes it appear as though wife Tina Fey is towering over him, the two are perhaps at odds on the spectrum of conventional attractiveness.

Beyond having beauty in the eye of the beholder, humour makes up some of the glue that holds this funny duo together. The pair met while working at Second City, and later moved to Saturday Night Live, where Jeff worked as a composer. Soon after, when Tina's TV show 30 Rock took off, Jeff moved to work alongside his wife there, as well, doing the music in addition to appearing as an extra and directing five episodes.

Like a fine wine, Tina has gotten more beautiful with age, shedding the awkward '90s fashions that plagued us all and becoming a writer, director, producer, comedian, and actor whose as famous for her beauty as for her wit. Like we said, Jeff isn't unattractive, but it's hard to measure up to a goddess like Tina!

7 Christina Hendricks & Geoffrey Arend

Christina Hendricks is essentially the character of Jessica Rabbit brought into living, breathing colour, so pretty much any man who got with her was doomed to be considered the “ugly” one of the pair, because how do you compete with perfection? With her fiery hair and buxom figure, Christina is the embodiment of all things feminine, while husband Geoffrey Arend looks more like the nice guy you'd find at the library: You might have a bit of a nerd crush on him, but nothing more.

It was another guy on this list, Vincent Kartheiser, who introduced the two in 2006, and Christina was struck by how funny and magnetic Geoffrey was, and got his number right away on the pretext of “just being friends”. Of course, who could resist Christina? The two married in 2009, and while their friends have been bugging them about when they'll have kids, they say that they're quite content with their dog, and aren't looking towards children any time soon.

6 Salma Hayek & François-Henri Pinault

Another curvaceous superstar, Salma Hayek has the kind of impossibly gorgeous good looks that makes her seem more than unattainable - she seems almost impossible to even exist! With her gravity-defying curves and luxurious dark hair, Salma has been a pin-up in bedrooms and magazines since the mid '90s, and it doesn't seem to have slowed down in the least!

Her husband, billionaire François-Henri Pinault, on the other hand, is a little less of a looker. (The guy has a history with beautiful women, however: he was also involved with supermodel Linda Evangelista, with whom he shares a child.) While Salma seems impossibly young, François-Henri looks much older, despite having only four years on her! Raking in all that cash must get exhausting!

In what seems like an eternity in Hollywood, François-Henri popped the question after 11 months, and the two were engaged in 2007, married in two separate ceremonies in 2009, and now seem pretty damn happy together in their decadent, jet-set lifestyle!

5 Beyoncé & Jay-Z

Look, when you're paired with Beyoncé, it's pretty much a guarantee that you're going to come second no matter what (just ask Solange). While Jay-Z is obviously a majorly talented individual who has been on the scene longer than Queen Bey, he doesn't quite measure up when it comes to physical appearance - Bey is called “Queen” for a reason.

She's regularly considered the most beautiful woman in the world, and regarded as a goddess among us mere mortals, so really, what chance did Jay have? Again, he's not ugly in the traditional sense of the word, but his larger features seem less refined - and thus less classically appealing - than that of his wife's. We know that this wedded duo haven't been without their share of drama (just look to Beyoncé's Lemonade), but they've still been going strong since 1997 (or 2000, there's no clear date for this one), and are the proud parents of Blue Ivy and the world's most anticipated set of twins!

4 Shannon Tweed & Gene Simmons

Some of you may be too young to remember this odd couple who are at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to attractiveness, but they're still kicking it together after a staggering 33 years! He's the bassist of KISS with the infamously long tongue (and claims of having bedded over 4,800 groupies), and she's the Canadian-born Playboy model, and even though they didn't get married until 2011, they've proven time and time again that a marriage certificate isn't the glue that keeps them together.

Shannon Tweed is the classic type of beauty you find in the pages of an adult magazine, all blonde hair, buxom figure, and wide smile, whereas Gene Simmons made his name as a “Knight In Satan's Service” with a painted face, platform shoes, and horrifically sprayed-and-teased hair. Their strange (but somehow totally functional) relationship was played out for TV viewers in Gene Simmons: Family Jewels, where we saw that, despite all their differences and despite their histories and careers, they were pretty much like any other long-standing couple!

3 Beth Ostrovsky Stern & Howard Stern

Another blonde beauty who worked as a model before marrying a man arguably far below her level of attractiveness, Beth Ostrovsky Stern has said on numerous occasions that she brings out the softer side of husband Howard Stern, who is known for his shock-jock antics as the host of The Howard Stern Show. (In fact, many of his questions have gotten our number two pick in hot water.) While the couple doesn't have children, they've made headlines for their efforts to rescue animals, and have successfully found homes for over 250 creatures as of January 2017.

Although Howard isn't an obviously unattractive-looking man, his crazy hair and tinted shades make it impossible to see the guy behind the provocative questions, while his sunny wife Beth is clearly the more beautiful one in this strange pairing. But hey, the weirdness clearly works for these two, who have been married since 2008. Beth has even said of her husband, “I am so lucky. He is perfect for me.” Awww!

2 Melania & Donald Trump

Come on, all politics aside, we couldn't really talk about beautiful women and their rough AF husbands without discussing the First Couple! While Melania Trump (née Knauss) is an Eastern European beauty, her husband, Donald, is more likely to be photographed making some weird face or gesticulating wildly mid-speech. She began her career as a model, gracing the pages of publications like GQ with her high cheekbones and cat-like eyes; he was a twice-married real estate tycoon with four kids whose propensity for tanning beds and speaking without thinking were well known.

When it comes to looking at the President of the United States and the First Lady, the physical differences between the two are pretty staggering, especially considering the 23-year age difference. While we're not going to pretend to be relationship or body language experts here, we will point to the geographic expanse between the couple (for the sake of their son, naturally), and pretty much leave it at that. Enough has been said and analyzed about their relationship already!

1 Crystal Harris & Hugh Hefner

Narrowly edging out Mr. and Mrs. Trump are none other than former Playboy model Crystal Harris and the Playboy mogul himself, Hugh Hefner. While Hef has always made a point of bedding his favourite models (and turning the most beloved into his girlfriends), Crystal didn't seem too thrilled to be tied to the octogenarian - she ended up running out on him when they were first supposed to tie the knot! (She also wasn't too kind about her would-be husband's bedroom skills, saying their first intimate encounter lasted “like two seconds”.)

While Hef was definitely a bit of a looker back in his heyday, you can't really expect a woman just entering her thirties to be that enamoured with the man who's now in his nineties. As the third wife of the Playboy publisher, Crystal eventually married Hef in 2012 in a ceremony that took place at the Playboy mansion, and an “ironclad” prenuptial agreement stands between the blonde beauty and her husband's vast fortune, estimated at about $43 million. Who says money can't buy happiness?