This Divorce Trend Is Becoming More Popular With Celebs — For A Good Reason

A-listers, Natalie Portman and Meryl Streep among them, are divorcing on the down low.

Delete those Notes app breakup announcements and requests to “respect our privacy during this difficult time.” The latest trend in celebrity divorce is far more low-key.

In the last few years, an increasing number of A-listers have taken the “let’s separate and tell them later (even years later) route.”

Meryl Streep and her sculptor husband, Don Gummer; actors Laurence Fishburne and Gina Torres; and Elliot Page and his dancer partner, Emma Portner, all divorced on the down low. Even Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith quietly separated in 2016 before becoming extremely loud about their breakup last year.

The latest example? Natalie Portman, who “quietly filed” and finalized her divorce from ballet beau Benjamin Millepied earlier this month, after nearly 12 years of marriage and two children together. (Rumors about Millepied’s alleged affair last year were a little less quiet, at least in the French tabloid press.)

Non-celebrities, too, are opting for less flashy divorces, said Lynda Hinkle, a family law attorney practicing in New Jersey.