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For RuPaul and his hubby Georges LeBar, having an unfastened narration works due to the fact that "it's conscionable realistic," the TV host explained to The New Yorker successful 2024. "There’s nary specified happening arsenic monogamy with men."

And ultimately, it conscionable made consciousness for the couple.

"We didn't decide," the RuPaul's Drag Race star, who met his hubby astatine New York nightclub Limelight successful 1994 immoderate 2 decades earlier they wed, told Vanity Fair successful 2019. "The hoax is that monogamy is really thing that tin really happen. I wouldn't privation to enactment restraints connected the idiosyncratic I emotion the astir connected this planet. I wouldn't bash that to idiosyncratic I love, my precise champion friend."

And having an unfastened matrimony doesn't marque them question their emotion for each other.

"Listen, if you get thing happening that you cannot defy and that's going to marque you happy, spell for it," RuPaul continued. "Go fot it. Because the information is, I cognize successful my bosom of hearts similar I've ne'er known thing before, that antheral loves maine much than thing other successful this world."

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Kody Brown erstwhile said, "Love should beryllium multiplied, not divided."

And for decades, helium was successful a plural matrimony with wives Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, Christine Brown and Robyn Brown—with their travel being documented connected the bid Sister Wives.

"I conscionable fell successful love," the begetter of 18 said connected the archetypal occurrence successful 2010, "and past I fell successful emotion again and I fell successful emotion again."

However, he's since fallen retired of emotion with polygamy. Christine and Kody announced their breakup successful November 2021, with him and Janelle confirming their separation successful December 2022. A period later, Meri revealed their determination to "permanently terminate" their marriage. As a result, Robyn is Kody's sole wife.

"I'm not an advocator of plural marriage, but I've had my ain acquisition successful it and I've had my ain failures successful it," helium told People successful December 2023. "Because of that, I'm like, you got to beryllium really, truly omniscient astir who is doing it, however they're doing it."

And portion Kody said it tin enactment for immoderate people, helium noted "there's those marriages that person radical who cognize each different very, very, precise well, and they inactive don't work."

Some of Kody's exes person since embraced monogamy—like Christine, who wed David Woolley in 2023 and has said connected the amusement she "wouldn't unrecorded polygamy again." Others, similar Janelle, person said they "would see a plural matrimony again."

As for woman Robyn, she said connected a 2024 occurrence she'd bash plural matrimony again if she could warrant a "positive palmy experience."

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Willow Smith brought a treatment connected non-monogamy to the reddish table.

"With polyamory, I consciousness similar the main instauration is the state to beryllium capable to make a narration benignant that works for you," Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's youngest said connected a 2021 occurrence of Red Table Talk, "and not conscionable stepping into monogamy due to the fact that that's what everyone astir you says is the close happening to do."

And Jada and chap cohost "Gammy" Adrienne Banfield-Norris listened to what Willow had to say. 

"The main reasons wherefore monogamists' relationships oregon wherefore marriage, wherefore divorces hap is infidelity," the "Whip My Hair" creator continued. "Let's accidental you haven't ever been the benignant of idiosyncratic that wanted to person enactment each the time, but your spouse is. Are you gonna beryllium the idiosyncratic to say, 'Just due to the fact that I don't person these needs, you can't person them either?'"

But that doesn't mean they ever agreed. And erstwhile Gammy raised questions astir sex, Willow replied, "In my person group, I'm the lone polyamorous person, and I person the slightest enactment retired of each my friends."

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Shailene Woodley believes the lone opinions that substance successful a narration are the ones of the radical successful it.

"Listen, I’m idiosyncratic who has experienced some an unfastened narration and a profoundly monogamous narration successful my life, and I deliberation we’re successful a time and property wherever determination should beryllium nary rules but for the ones designed by 2 radical successful a concern — oregon 3 people, immoderate floats your boat!" the Big Little Lies prima told The New York Times successful 2020. "But determination has to beryllium a level of work successful immoderate narration dynamic, and that work is simply honesty and connection and trust. Apart from that, it’s truly nary of our concern what radical take to bash with their lives."

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When you’re huffy astatine Ne-Yo astir his polyamorous relationships, helium doesn’t springiness it different thought.

"Them: 'NEYO WE DON'T APPROVE OF YOUR POLY RELATIONSHIP,'" the vocalist wrote connected his Instagram Stories successful February, aboriginal adding, “Fun fact: I don't care."

And Ne-Yo—who was joined to Crystal Renay for astir 7 years earlier they finalized their divorcement successful 2023—introduced the net to his 4 girlfriends successful March.

"It works," the Grammy victor said connected a February occurrence of the Rickey Smiley Morning Show. "Everybody’s honest. Everybody’s telling the truth. Everybody is consenting. I consciousness similar I wasted a batch of clip conscionable being dishonest astir things to the constituent wherever had I taken this attack initially I astir apt could person saved myself a batch of headache and heartache."

However, that doesn't mean polyamory works for everybody.

"Please recognize that I'm not successful present saying that everybody should effort what I'm trying and bash what I'm doing," Ne-Yo clarified. "I'm telling y'all what works for me. I'm showing y'all what works for me. And if you agree, cool. If you don't, cool. Either mode you portion it, I'm happier than I've ever been, I'm much zen than I've ever been and that's what it is—that's the important part. I don't request everybody to agree. I'm not doing it for y'all."

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There’s been a batch of speech astir Nick Cannon raising kids with aggregate women. However, The Masked Singer big has shared his thoughts connected monogamy before.

“That’s a Eurocentric conception erstwhile you deliberation astir the ideas of you're expected to person this 1 idiosyncratic for the remainder of your life, and truly that's conscionable a classified spot erstwhile you deliberation astir it," helium said connected a 2021 occurrence of The Breakfast Club, aboriginal adding. "Just the thought that a antheral should person 1 woman, we shouldn't have anything. I person nary ownership implicit this person. Like, if we truly talking astir however we coexist and however we populate, it's astir what speech tin we make together. So, I've ne'er truly subscribed to that mentality."

Nick shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey, kids Golden Sagon, Powerful Queen and Rise Messiah with Brittany Bell, lad Legendary Love with Bre Tiesi and girl Onyx Ice with LaNisha Cole. In addition, the Wild 'n Out prima welcomed 3 kids with Abby De La Rosa—twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir arsenic good arsenic girl Beautiful Zeppelin—and 2 with Alyssa Scott: girl Halo Marie and precocious lad Zen.
 
“Those women and each women are the ones that unfastened themselves up to say, 'I would similar to let this antheral successful my world, and I volition commencement this child,’” Nick continued. "So, it ain't my decision. I'm pursuing suit."

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From Omarion’s perspective, monogamy conscionable doesn’t deed the close note.

And arsenic the vocalist explained connected a February occurrence of Sherri, "being unfastened is important" to him.

"The women conscionable genuinely outnumber the men," helium told big Sherri Shepherd, aboriginal adding, "It’s lone a fewer bully men. Whether oregon not it’s a carnal thing, we extremity up fostering the adjacent procreation arsenic well….Why not person our queens align with that? It takes a village. It’s not gonna conscionable beryllium 1 man. You tin get married—that antheral inactive aint going to beryllium conscionable your man. He’s gonna beryllium determination for his daughter, he’s going to beryllium determination for his mom, his grandmother.”

So arsenic Omarion sees it, “This conception isn’t truly foreign, it’s conscionable a small aged and it’s meant to beryllium upgraded.” And he’d similar determination to beryllium much discussions connected the topic.

"I emotion this speech due to the fact that I deliberation erstwhile men are unfastened and honorable that they don’t wanna person conscionable this 1 happening for the remainder of their life, it gives a pistillate the accidental to take and further recognize a man," the instrumentalist added. "Because I deliberation that women don’t truly recognize a man. Certain women do, but there’s a larger speech that has to beryllium had astir knowing men and however we’re meant to dispersed our seed."