Like a Virgin: 9 Stars Who Waited Until Marriage to Have Sex

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon

Okay, so Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon both had sex before their wedding. But they didn’t have sex with each other until after they got hitched.

Mimi explained, “It’s not that we had no intimacy. We just didn’t have complete intimacy. It’s just me, and my feelings. But we both have similar beliefs and I just thought that it would be so much more special if we waited until we were married. And it was.”

Adriana Lima

Even though she was a sex symbol, this Victoria’s Secret Angel waited until she married Marko Jaríc to actually have sex.

“They have to respect that this is my choice,” she said before meeting her husband. “If there’s no respect, that means they don’t want me.”

Kevin Jonas

Before his wedding to now-wife Danielle, Kevin and his brothers famously wore “promise rings.” As an 18-year-old, Kev explained, “My ring represents a promise to myself and God that I’ll stay pure until marriage.”

While he waited until he got hitched, his brothers Nick and Joe have both made it clear they’ve done the deed.

Jill Duggar

She conceived a child just weeks — if not days — after exchanging vows. But prior to their wedding day, it was all side-hugs for Jill and her husband, Derick.

Prior to the wedding, she said, “We’re just really trying to keep our relationship focused not on the physical but really just more on communication and continuing to learn more about each other. We’re saving our first kiss and things beyond that for our wedding.”

Jessica Simpson

Before marrying Nick Lachey, Jessica — who had a very cultivated, virginal image — said of her first time, “I promised God, my father and my future husband that I would remain a virgin until I got married. I just always knew it was something I wanted to do.”

After divorcing Nick, she went on to have kids out of wedlock.

Carrie Underwood

In 2007, the American Idol alum told Slate that she planned to abstain from sex until her wedding night, and cited her Christian faith as her reason. Three years later, she wed Mike Fisher — with whom she just welcomed her first child!

Sarah Drew

When a fan asked the Grey’s Anatomy star how old she was when she lost her virginity, she replied, “I waited ‘till marriage.”

She married her husband, Peter Lanfer, in 2002. She was 21-years-old at the time.

Sean Lowe

Sean was labeled “The Virgin Bachelor” — though he actually had sex before his marriage, he embraced celibacy after becoming a born-again Christian.

In his own words, “I didn’t have sex in college, and, honestly, I don’t even know if I knew at that time why I took that stance. After graduating college, I moved back to Dallas, I’m dating other girls, and I started having sex. And I would feel extremely guilty afterwards but after that guilt faded, then I would start talking to some other girl and go down the same path of destruction.

“I just reached a point where I thought, ‘I know Jesus is in my heart and I know how I’m supposed to live, but for the past five or six years, I’ve just decided to ignore it, and something’s got to change.’”

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