12 Celebrities Who Are Single and Not Particularly Keen to Mingle
In some cases, it takes someone a lifetime to realize that they’re better off growing in their own direction, in their own time, no matter what kind of pressure society or their family puts on them. Then there are those who just don’t want to hear someone freaking snoring.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi just likes her alone time: “I’m much happier on my own. I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I’m not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone. I don’t want somebody in my house.”
Fran Drescher
In 2020, she said she wanted to avoid becoming codependent: “Getting really connected to myself has been a great journey because now, I’m not even feeling like I have to be in a relationship, because I’m in a relationship with myself — and it’s going quite well.” Fast forward to 2025, and she’s mentioned “friends with benefits” and a “rotation” of hookups, so it sounds like she’s found a pretty solid balance of dependence.
Diane Keaton
She says watching her mother devote herself exclusively to her family at a young age made her yearn for autonomy: “I feel like she chose family over her dreams. And she was just the best mother, but I think that she is the reason why I didn’t get married. I didn’t want to give up my independence.” It also sounds like no one’s really shot their shot: “I don’t remember anyone calling me, going, ‘This is so-and-so. I’d like to take you out.’”
Jane Fonda
She said she’s done with relationships, but a girl can dream: “Do I fantasize? Yes, here’s my fantasy. I’ll just put it out there. That I meet a professor or a researcher, somebody in that line who is really capable of loving, of cherishing a woman, so that I could test myself and see if I could show up.”
Tiffany Haddish
After breaking up with Common, she says she’s been playing the field, but hasn’t found someone worth showing off yet: “There is a variety of men that I like to hang out with. I’m on the red carpet by myself. I’m enjoying my options, but I’m not bringing none of them to no carpets. They haven’t earned that privilege.”
Linda Evangelista
The model said she’s done dating for good, and her reason is as simple as it gets: “I don’t want to sleep with anybody anymore. I don’t want to hear somebody breathing.”
Allison Janney
When asked if she regrets never getting married or having kids, she said, “I wasn’t ever really confident that I wanted to have kids, and I would rather regret not having kids than have kids and regret it. I really am at this time in my life getting to know who I am and what I want. So I’d love to eventually find someone to share my life with, but if it doesn’t happen, I think I’ll be just fine.”
Stevie Nicks
She said she revels in the opportunity to grow old without being tethered to a man:
“I feel very un-alone. I feel very sparkly and excited about everything. I know women who are going, like, ‘I don’t want to grow old alone.’ And I’m like, ‘See, that doesn’t scare me.’ Because I’ll never be alone. I’ll always be surrounded by people. I’m like the crystal ball, and these are all the rings of Saturn around me.”
Amber Rose
It sounds like she’s wading into a pretty scummy dating pool: “(Men are) pretty disgusting out here. They’re fucking gross. Like, I wanna be single for the rest of my life. I don’t want to share my house or my life with anyone. I don’t want anyone around my kids. I don’t want to have sex. It’s so gross. I don’t want it.”
Susan Sarandon
She said being single for the first time in years is “traumatic and exhilarating.” It also sounds like being married to Tim Robbins is a little bit like marrying some sort of virus: “The one thing that’s been really clear to me is that you have to think of your own life and your relationship and everything as a living organism. It’s constantly moving, changing, growing. I think long-term relationships need to be constantly reevaluated and talked about.”
Mindy Kaling
She’s sick of her friends taking pity on her: “They want to set me up with some loser they know. And I’m like, ‘I’m okay. I’m a rich, successful woman with great clothes and a nice family.’”
Taylor Swift
Before she got Kelce-fied, she said she revelled in her alone time: “I’m perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. … I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights, and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don’t act like you’ve been hit by the plague when you’re alone on a Friday night and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it’s not a bad day.”
