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Our coverage of celebrity divorces is as interesting as it is eye-opening. But it’s also indicative of a much bigger societal shift. You may have seen headlines: 2023 was the year of “divorce,” “the breakup,” and even “the undoing of love” — and those aren’t just about celebrities; they’re about everyone.

Because of the roles they play in culture-defining movies and shows and the lives they display to us in magazines, celebrities have become the stage managers of modern romance.

After all, in the words of Oscar Wilde: “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” The result, Lyz Lenz writes for BI, may be an expansion of our freedoms: “Making divorce more accessible and less taboo and, in the process, making us all a little happier.”