Katharine McPhee, Sarah Paulson & More Discuss Romance Age Gaps

Let’s talk about what the world thinks. The judgment, the bulk of it, usually falls on the woman. “It’s always the woman’s fault,” Katharine McPhee, 40, mused during Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast. She was discussing how people often view her marriage to David Foster, 74.

The assumption? “It’s the woman who wants to be with the older man because he has money and he’s had success and she wants this, that.” But, McPhee says their story is the polar opposite.

Does she care? Not really. “It doesn’t matter,” the Smash star declared. As long as you know your own story and you’re in love with it, that’s what counts.

Still, the debate rages on. The controversy over these romances is a timeless one. It’s a topic for the ages, you could say.

And what about other famous couples with a significant age gap? Let’s see what they’ve had to say about the space between them.