8 Celebs Who Married Young…Then Split

“Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens,” said 19th century English novelist William Thackeray. Does young love always meet its eventual demise as Thackeray so morbidly put it?

These nine stars wed at age 21 and younger, but split before 30 (at least the first time around). Were their burgeoning love affairs and eventual wedded bliss worth the heartache of divorce in the end?

Click through our picks and weigh in: Is it better to wait before getting hitched?