Has anyone ever been more in love than couch-jumping Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? We'll wait. Beginning in 2005, the actress and fashion icon (not just anyone can pull off socks over sweatpants, alright?) engaged in a whirlwind romance with PDA-filled red carpet appearances that solidified their public image as TomKat.
Within a year of meeting, they were engaged and welcomed a child together. A few months later, they tied the knot (Holmes' first marriage and Cruise's third). While many believed that the union wouldn't last — and it ultimately didn't — the pair still went on to share nearly six years together as husband and wife.
Since their 2012 divorce, we're remembering the Hollywood couple that once gave every teenager a glimmer of hope that it was possible — although highly unlikely — that maybe, just maybe, the dream of marrying their celebrity crush could become a reality.
As the story goes, after Cruise divorced Nicole Kidman and subsequently split from then-girlfriend Penelope Cruz, the Mission: Impossible actor's beloved Church of Scientology set out to find him a worthy (and malleable) wife. After reportedly courting (and ultimately scaring off) famous women like Sofía Vergara and Scarlett Johansson, the task proved more difficult than expected.
Eventually, church officials' prayers were answered through a Seventeen article, per HuffPost. In October 2004, Holmes (then engaged to Chris Klein) told the teen magazine, "I used to think that I was going to marry Tom Cruise."
Six months later, Klein and Holmes announced their breakup, and on April 27, 2005, Cruise and Holmes were first spotted together in Rome. TomKat made their red carpet debut as a couple two days later on April 29 at the David di Donatello Awards. Coincidence? We may never truly know.
"When I met Tom, I was completely in love, and, yes, I admired him growing up — he's Tom Cruise!" she reportedly told T: The New York Times Style Magazine (via People).