Did you know Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith don't celebrate their wedding anniversary?

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been one of those Hollywood couples who have always managed to dominate the headlines.On Thursday, (Oct 12), Jada shockingly revealed that she and Will have been living separately since 2016, but the couple are still legally married.

In an interview on the Today Show, the 52-year-old actress told Hoda Kotb that she and her husband Will were already living "totally separate lives" for years before the infamous Oscars incident, when Smith slapped Comedian Chris Rock for making jokes about Pinkett's bald head.

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"By the time we got to 2016 we were just exhausted with trying," she said in a promo clip of theinterview to promote her upcomingmemoir, Worthy.

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As the separation news of Will and Jada took the internet by storm, a lot ofthings about the couple's relationship, their marriage, and other thingsstarted circulating again.

What might intrigue you is thatJada and Will don't usually celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Why Jada and Will don't celebrate their wedding anniversary

Jada and Will tied the knot on New Year's Eve in 1997. Despite their wedding date coinciding with the big day, the couple chosenot to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

In 2019, Pinkett revealed in an episode of her Facebook Watch series, “Red Table Talk,” that they really don't celebrate their wedding day, because the context of their union is 'totally different.''

“We don’t really celebrate that day, you know what I’m saying, anymore in that sense, because the context of our union is totally different,” Pinkett Smith said back then.

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Jada went on to reveal that on New Year's Day, the couple is usually busy doing their own stuff.

"Usually Will on New Year's likes to be in an adventure in the world somewhere," she said on the show before adding, "There's no telling where he's gonna be! And I like to be inside. I don't want to be out in the world ... He now has the freedom to go have an awesome adventure of some kind."

Will and Jadadon't call each other married!

A few years back, Will said they don't even call themselves married. The Men in Black actor said in an old episode of Tidal’s “Rap Radar” podcast, “We refer to ourselves as ‘life partners,’ where you get into that space where you realize you are literally with somebody for the rest of your life.”

“There’s no deal breakers,” the actor added. “There’s nothing she could do ― ever ― nothing would break our relationship. She has my support until death and it feels so good to get to that space.”

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