Travis Barker, Kourtney Kardashian confirm romance: 7 rock stars who dated models

From David Bowie and Iman's lasting love to Alex Turner and Alexa Chung's whirlwind years

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Marwa Hamad, Assistant Editor
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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and model and reality star Kourtney Kardashian are Instagram official. Maybe rock stars dating models is a cliche. But only because it happens so often. Some of those romances are passionate and short-lived, while others are enduring and all-encompassing. David Bowie said it best when he said: 'You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.'
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It started with actress-model Megan Fox starring in Machine Gun Kelly's video for 'Bloody Valentine'. And now the two are so in love that MGK wears a necklace with Fox's blood in it. The two can also be heard discussing their whirlwind romance on MGK's album, on the interlude 'Banyan Tree', where Fox says: "That was four months ago, that we were right here, and I met you. That's not possible. Like you just got my initials tattooed on you. And I got your nickname tattooed on me."
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The 90s were a wild time. Pamela Anderson famously dated Tommy Lee for four days only before the two tied the knot. They stayed together for three years and had two kids, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee, who are now both in their 20s.
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Good Charlotte's Joel Madden and model-actress Nicole Richie proved that whirlwind doesn't have to mean short-lived. Madden just shared this image of his wife, and mother of their two kids, to Instagram with the caption: "Happy 14th Valentine's Day."
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British rock star David Bowie married Somali fashion icon and cosmetics mogul Iman in 1992 after Bowie experienced love at first sight. 'I couldn’t sleep for the excitement of our first date. That she would be my wife, in my head, was a done deal,' he said.
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Pete Doherty and Kate Moss had a tumultuous and extremely public relationship after meeting in 2005 at Moss' 31st birthday party. The on-again-off-again couple stayed together for two years. In 2007, at one of Doherty's concerts, in which Moss also performed, the rocker announced they were engaged. But they broke up briefly after.
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Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and model and fashion designer Alexa Chung dated from 2007 until 2011. A love letter was allegedly discovered in a bar wherein Turner described his all-consuming love for Chung. The widely circulated note says that the notion of being with Chung for "a traditionally terrifying forever excites me to an unfamiliar degree."
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