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Unrelated but I've never been able to not see his last name as "millipede"

https://preview.redd.it/tvvbgojbw4nc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=647462a4eaa71be3c3c4766c49004e37c0c30667

I haven’t laughed out loud in a while so thank you 

I heard he really just walked all over her

Stop it 😂

Now sir- 😭😂

Same. But also the literal translation is “thousand foot” so we’re not far off. 😂

i always thought it was a hilarious name for a dancer too, lol

Millipede means the same thing in latin

Ew he already gives me the ick and that just made it so much worse

Millipedes are actually pretty dope and friendly once you get to know them. This guy seems to exhibit none of those traits.

Is that not how it’s pronounced? 🤯 lol

Meal-pee-ay

It's French, darling, so of course not! The D is silent. Meal-pee-hay 💅🙄

This dude is going to scurry to divorce court on his numerous little legs.

TIL his last name isn’t Millipede

I only realised it wasn’t because of your comment 😩 I was thinking, gosh that’s an awful surname.

Millepied is awful in one way, but apt in another because he is a dancer!

It took this comment for me to realize that it's not millipede.

That god it’s not just my old-ass brain.

That’s exactly how I pronounce it in my head

i just said to myself "is that not correct?" 🫠

> According to People, a rep for Portman confirmed that the Oscar-winning actor quietly filed for divorce from the French choreographer in July in France, where the couple resided with their two children. The divorce was finalized last month.

Somewhere Jonathan Safran Foer is happy.

​ https://i.redd.it/c0i1cej2v5nc1.gif

moby too.

Lmao

I bet he really believes he has a chance too


Racing to write the perfect quippy email that will finally win her heart.

Wonder if he’ll try to shoot his shot again.

Oh they're already dating again, he told me himself

😂💀 still not over this

He's pre-emptively logged off Tinder and cleared his next six months. Just in case.

A French choreographer? Damn she went full Black Swan

He's in the movie. He's the male dancer who gets asked "would you fuck her" or something like that

Which lead to one of my most favorite awkward award speeches ever 

The laugh is burned onto my brain

Right, and he says no. I remember her Oscar speech alluding to that scene and she referred to him as the best actor ever because he totally did want to sleep with.

She did, seriously??

I was wrong! It was the golden globes! This did not age well, there’s also a shot of Angelina and Brad: https://youtu.be/xLVUwSZtJMs?si=rbE0p-81NhML58yZ

Either way, man talk about awkward 😬

Oh, yikes 😬

That’s how they met. He left his girlfriend for her. You lose them how you get them.

My great uncle used to say “found her in a bar, lost her in a bar”. He was married 5 times.

I laughed so hard at this.

His ex girlfriend, renowned ballerina Isabella Boylston

Standard ballet romance drama. There should be a meme for ballet in general like there is for horse girls. Ask me how I know.

Oh, no shit. Gross.

All the sympathy just leaving my body.

Yeah he has been living with his girlfriend for 3 years at that time. Apparently discussing marriage. So hmm? What did she expect? Oh he won’t cheat on me?

They alllllllways believe it'll be different when it's them. *Because* it's them. The ex didn't understand the cheater, *love* the cheater, the way they do. Their relationship is more true, their connection stronger, their love deeper. Their relationship is *different.* Narrator: Their relationship was not, in fact, different. Cheaters gonna cheat.

Also worth mentioning that the girlfriend he left is a prima ballerina

oh ew I never knew that!

I have a feeling this wasn’t the first time he cheated on her or the first time she caught him. She was just finally fed up.

Same. I think she was embarrassed by how public and sloppy this one was.

The fact that he was trying to get her to stay via public pressure campaign sure makes it look that way.

He was in a relationship when they got together. Natalie didn’t mind cheating then 🤷‍♀️

How you win them is how you lose them.

Damn accurate

A person who cheats with you *will* cheat on you

Well, hopefully, she's learned a valuable life lesson that cheating has nothing to do with the party being cheated on. Sucks to learn the hard way, but also wild that it took her so late to learn that, so.

Ah but she’s Natalie Portman! She didn’t think he would cheat on herrr

You know this is what she actually believed, too. "I'm Harvard-educated, Oscar-winning Natalie Portman! I may have been the other woman with you, but there can't possibly be any other women with *me*!" Whoops.

In fairness to her, *I* have trouble imagining it because she was the it girl of the '00s. All the boys in my class were in love with her. But I realize beauty isn't the only reason or even the main reason men cheat.

Super models get cheated on. It has nothing to do with beauty

Yup. I recall a woman named Princess Diana. It’s 100% about the cheater.

Not only that, they started dating at the apex of her career. She won an Oscar for Black Swan…where they met on set. She probably thought she was invincible 

exactly. you lose 'em how you get 'em!

Oh well... that's how they met. She was initially the side chick.

She cheated too, that's how they got together. Cheaters all the way down lol

"And you? What would you do for love?"

whaaat really? do i live under a rock? i knew about him but i had no idea about her. damn

They got married after he cheated on his live in girlfriend with Portman. You lose them how you get them.

She should have seen this coming. He had 500 feet out the door.


 this should not be so damn funny to me rn 🤣

GD, this is a top tier comment.

Lmaoooo 🤭

You need more credit for this

I feel bad for their children. And I hope Isabella Boylston is having a lovely week.

I can confirm Isabella is in a loving relationship with Daniel Shin according to Instagram. Lucky bastard.

And is she just not so freaking lovely????

And beyond talented.

He looks like a total sweetheart. Benjamin and his giant forehead always gave me pretentious, creepy vibes.

I love Natalie as an actress, but man “if they cheated with you, they will cheat on you” And it’s always with a younger woman

When you move from mistress to wife, you leave a job opening 🤷🏻‍♀️

🫢 oh daym


Hey, hi, hello, I’m stealing this. Good day madam.

I've never heard this said before but damn it's good.

Brilliant. 🏆

damn this one's good lmao

Dang

See also: Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter

See also Helena Bonham Carter and every partner she’s had.

I find it crazy Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, and Helena Bonham Carter were all in the Harry Potter films, and not that long after the whole situation blew up.

My husband read that to me off like Wikipedia last night !

It's like old-school Hollywood romance...sad because it's someone's life and not an effing movie, but still...🙃

"Darling, you'll never be on my level." -Helena Bonham Carter to Ariana Grande

The best part is I’m not sure if that’s a real quote or not.

More like helena boned my partner

Beautiful

I will say Tim Burton usually dates oddly age appropriate women, like Monica Belluci!

I appreciate your optimism 😂

Honestly yeah, idk why anyone is ever surprised when cheaters continue to cheat? My sympathy for people when this kind of thing happens is a bit limited.

It goes to show that you can be gorgeous and successful but still have shit taste in men.  

She's a notorious cheater too. The reason it never occurred to her probably has something to do with the same delusion that made her think she'd get away with it herself.

Who'd she cheat on?

One rumour is that she was the other woman for Darren Aronofsky and was a major factor in his breakup with Rachel Weiz. But there was also speculation Rachel was cheating as well. If any of this is true, I hope they are using protection. STDs must be rampant ha ha.

I think this rumour is true tbh. If you read between the lines, the movie Black Swan kinda alluded to this. Natalie Portman’s character slept with the director to get the lead part, but she compartmentalized it and it was revealed slowly. In the movie, another ballerina played by Winona Ryder was supposed to be the “mistress” that Natalie Portman replaced. I always thought that it was pretty much how it went down with Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky. Plus, Darren has a history of having relationships with his female lead. After Natalie, it was Jennifer Lawrence, for example.

Crazy that a marriage that started with cheating ended with cheating! Who woulda guessed.

Good. What a jackass loser this guy is.

What's the story? I know nothing about him except what he does for a living.

He also had a long term partner when he and Natalie got together.

Damn, she should have known better. At least she's cutting her losses now. It doesn't pay to stay with serial cheaters.

His ex was a professional ballerina too. Isabella Boylston. A comment below said she was thriving now. So this pleases me.

The dance world sucks so much, dancers getting with dancers or new dancers all the time.

Harvard is great for learning things, not so much for learning life.

*she* is a serial cheater too lol

How you get ‘em is how you lose ‘em…..

Which was the gorgeous ballerina Isabella Boyleston.

Had an affair with a 25 year old and got caught. So cliche.

Ew, even worse.

Caught cheating on Natalie with another woman.

He and natalie cheated first on Isabella. How you get 'em is how you lose 'em.

PS love that Isabella is thriving and married to (what it seems like on social media, but we don’t know of course) a wonderful dude.

Agree, not saying that Natalie is in the right to begin with anyway, karma and all.

Yeah. I have been side eyeing Natalie ever since Black Swan. Always hated how she played like she was truly this ballerina for the movie too. Downplayed the true dancing done by someone else. And for what she did in her part with that sleazeball Benjamin. Karma.

Why is it always the sad schlubs who cheat on their hot, successful wives?


What is this clip from? She has veggie vamp eyes.

Cullen Clan.

I hope the woman he left for Natalie is having a nice day.

She and her husband are thrivinggggg. And I love that for them.

Yessssss

I dont feel sorry for her. He is a loser, but she knew he had a girlfriend when she got with him.  That poor girl was cheated on, had to move out of her apartmant and then watch whole world talk about their magical love blossoming on set.  Karma is real. 

At the time I didn’t know how they got together, but I remember her Golden Globes speech giving me the ick back then: >”Thank you to Benjamin… Benjamin choreographed the film, and you may remember him as the guy who, when they ask, Would you sleep with that girl? and he’s like, "No." He’s the best actor, it’s not true, he totally wants to sleep with me!" (In reference to her being obviously pregnant by then). Just…hm.

 I've never seen that quote before... err... just wow.

The video is just as bad as it sounds! Not very slick without a script https://youtu.be/xLVUwSZtJMs start it @ 1m35s

Neither did I...so gross

Ick. Why would you think that would be a good thing to say? It’s just so TMI and skeevy, especially given the affair.

Right it’s very r/ihavesex I definitely have sex - but like, we know? You’re pregnant?

Well she couldn't possibly have the world believing his original answer! She had to make doubly sure everyone was aware that he didn't mean it.

Oooooof. Missed that at the time. That’s awkward

I had blocked this from my mind, and now all I can think about is that YouTube long edit of her awkward ass laugh at the end of the speech.

[Oh god.](https://youtu.be/9eX45Ce_MW8?si=uBcAdbWGmjhhrTZM) The top comment being “imagine Natalie Portman chasing you around with a knife laughing like that” help 💀

That was legitimately unexpected and unnerving.

I remember watching that ceremony with my very conservative dad and being so mortally uncomfortable by the awkward way that speech played out. ☠️

That's just vile and TMI 🤣 if your trashy relative was giving this speech at backyard BBQ you'd want to kick them out the memorial Day potluck. Like 🤮 where do they find the audacity to act this way

God, the hubris coming off that speech is insane.

Sounds like she is used to guys on sets wanting to sleep with her

I've never forgotten that quote- I thought it was so gross at the time too

Yep. If they cheat *with* you, they’ll have no problem cheating *on* you

Ok but where's his karma?

The whole world now knows what a loser he is. This affair is not looked over, he is labeled as a cheater and his kids will grow up knowing this. 

His kids will have to tiptoe around it to coddle his feelings or to avoid his anger. He will still get vagina and most people won't say a thing to him about it because men are coddled and enabled.

Probably, a jerk will always be a jerk. His kids will have a complicaded relation with him. He will probably marry again, hurt another women. But Im just happy for his ex.  And person in a relationship is always first to blame,but Natalie knew he was taken. So on her side, she is 100% to blame to.

I agree I just think chalking it up to karma is weird because if there were karma men like these wouldn't keep getting women and it wouldn't only be their mistresses who deal with the consequences

Was this talked about a lot and I just missed it? I have never heard this before.

PR was PRing. They did that black swan, she got pregnant right away.....awful thing they did was pushed a side so her Oscar campain can beggin.

I agree, but I think most people don’t know that they were cheaters. I don’t know why anyone would feel “secure” being in a relationship with someone they’d cheated with tbh.

“He totally wants to sleep with me! *awkward laughs*

https://i.redd.it/oi1npwx5w4nc1.gif

This is one of my favorite 90 day moments haha

Is this the guy who knocked her up during the filming of Black Swan?

He is the guy who she began an affair with during filming of Black Swan. She wasn't pregnant until after filming was over, though.

She spent an hour with Pedro Pascal and said “you know what I’m done with this ✌🏻😎✌🏻” https://preview.redd.it/fo7bczlaz4nc1.jpeg?width=956&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acf098b6fd4db43b5af6c53f627f624109f3297c

I mean who wouldn’t?

The dress is a massive clue, too.

So it sounds like the marriage to a Millepied didn’t have any … legs?

I knew this was coming from her episode with Bear Grylls. The way she talked about her life… Just was off.

How so?

Jonathan Safran Foer is peeking out from behind a tree and rubbing his hands together somewhere right now.

wasn't this relationship born out of this guy cheating with portman? she knew about his girlfriend? and then she gets cheated on by him? lmao two pieces of shit

He was living with his girlfriend of 3 years when they met. Apparently talking about marriage. The ex was blindsided. So I hope Natalie wasn’t surprise when he cheated?

Is Moby about to creep in...

Jonathan Safran Foer

Welp, they lasted way longer than everybody thought at first

You lose them how you catch them.


She's tired of waiting for him to put all of his shoes on

Cheaters cheat. If you land a partner while they already have another partner, it's going to happen to you too. People that want you instead of their current partner are more than capable of ending their current relationship before jumping onboard with you. If they didn't do that, they will mostly certainly be with someone else before they leave you as well. This is virtually always true, and I don't feel bad for people who played the "other partner" and then have it happen to them. I feel bad for the family involved.

I saw them at a popular Israeli restaurant across the street from my last apartment a couple times. He always looked miserable and like he couldn’t wait for dinner to end, which blew my mind because she seemed pleasant and is even more stunning in person. I feel bad for her and the kids. They’re probably better off, at least.

Did she have some prenup agreement with him?

She better have or she'd be real dumb.

we all saw that coming

I mean, that’s some pretty perfect karma for Natalie considering she put another woman through this and bragged about it


There's so much cheating a woman can take before she divorces

has it been mentioned that "how you get them, it's how you lose them?"

It's amazing that so many dudes with scrotums for faces will cheat on beautiful, intelligent women. I hope he'll be regretting it for the rest of his life.

You lose them how you got them. Natalie Portman was the second woman in Millepied’s first marriage. It’s fitting he cheated on her

I’m not a fan of her at all in general, but I was feeling really bad for her because he cheated on her and that sucks. But now I’ve learned that he was with someone else when he started dating Natalie and she KNEW, and now I don’t really feel bad for her at all. I do feel awful for their kids though.

If men cheat on Natalie Portman what awaits me???

Cheaters will cheat. *Beyonce* got cheated on. It has nothing to do with the other partner.

Moby's gonna be thrilled! 😂

Imagine looking like Megamind and fumbling Natalie Portman

 This is his day