

No marriage in America has been discussed more in recent weeks than that of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, particularly after their record-breaking Red Table sit-down to discuss Pinkett-Smith’s “entanglement” with August Alsina.
But entanglemania isn’t over yet. A source has told People that the couple’s marital problems were exacerbated by their fame, and that Smith felt “more of the pressure” to make their marriage work:
“They’re two different people trying to make it, and on top of it there’s this huge spotlight on them,” says the source. “People are always going to grow and change, but most don’t have the world watching their every move while they do that.”
I don’t know how anyone stays with the same person for 23 years, probably because I am a cynical child of messy divorce whose belief in love died while I was still in braces. But to maintain a healthy marriage while the world clutches its chest and declares you “#couplegoals” every time you leave the damn house together? Exhausting.