{"id":44501,"date":"2025-09-29T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/44501\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:02:08","slug":"emma-watson-35-says-pressure-to-get-married-is-a-cruelty-on-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/44501\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson, 35, Says Pressure to Get Married Is ‘a Cruelty’ on Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Watson<\/a>, 35, says the pressure on young people to get married by a certain age does more harm than good.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose<\/a>” podcast, Watson spoke about her views on marriage and pushed back against the expectation that it should happen on a deadline.<\/p>\n

“I’m just so happy not to be divorced yet,” Watson told podcast host Shetty. “Like that sounds like a really negative answer, but I think that we’re being pressured and forced into this thing that I believe is a kind of miracle.”<\/p>\n

The “Harry Potter<\/a>” actor said that this social pressure is “the least romantic thing I can possibly think of.” Had she tried to marry when she was younger, she added, “it would have been carnage.”<\/p>\n

“I just didn’t know myself well enough yet. I didn’t have a clear enough idea of what my purpose, my vision, like how I was going to be of service. I didn’t know where I really felt like I needed to be,” Watson said.<\/p>\n

She added that it’s unfair to tie a person’s self-worth to their marital status.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s such a violence, and it’s such a cruelty on people \u2014 especially young people, I think, and especially women \u2014 to make them feel like they have no worth or like they haven’t succeeded yet in life because they haven’t forced to its culmination something that I just don’t think can or should ever be forced,” Watson said<\/p>\n

Pressuring people to marry too soon ignores how much work is required to build a lasting relationship<\/a>, she said.<\/p>\n

“I have really sat with myself in a lot of discomfort and asked myself a lot of very difficult questions to be at that point. It hasn’t happened to me yet,” she added.<\/p>\n

A representative for Watson did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n

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Watson isn’t alone. Other female celebrities have also spoken about wrestling with the same expectations around marriage.<\/p>\n

During a 2017 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” Kim Kardashian<\/a> said her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries was partially influenced by the societal pressure to settle down.<\/p>\n

“At the time, I just thought, ‘Holy shit, I’m 30 years old. I’d better get this together. I’d better get married,'” Kardashian said. “I think a lot of girls do go through that, where they freak out thinking they’re getting old and all their friends are having kids. So, it was more of that situation. But I knew on the honeymoon it wasn’t going to work out.”<\/p>\n

In a July 2025 interview, Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a> called out the pressure on women to marry and said her mother, Diana Ross, taught her to embrace the joy of being alone.<\/p>\n

“[My mom] didn’t build the wealth she has, she didn’t build the career she made because of a man. The example that was set for me [was] that I didn’t need a man to build the life I wanted,” Ross said.<\/p>\n

More people are choosing to get married later in life<\/a>. Based on US Census data<\/a>, the median age to marry in 2024 for the first time was 30.2 for men and 28.6 for women, up from 23.2 and 20.8, respectively, in 1970.<\/p>\n

Marriage aside, Gen Z in particular is delaying many traditional milestones of adulthood<\/a>, from having children to even getting their driver’s licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Watson, 35, says the pressure on young people to get married by a certain age does more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[34885,1269,458,35337,35335,11782,146,35336,85,46,2400,1669,20606,3192,16773,35334,3897,5175,1113],"class_list":["post-44501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-appearance","tag-business-insider","tag-celebrities","tag-cruelty","tag-diana-ross","tag-emma-watson","tag-entertainment","tag-expectation","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-life","tag-lot","tag-man","tag-marriage","tag-pressure","tag-purpose","tag-violence","tag-woman","tag-young-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}