<p id=”par-1_61″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/beyonce/?swcfpc=1″>Beyoncé</a> and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/jay-z/?swcfpc=1″>Jay-Z</a> have been together for years. They <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/celebrity-relationships/?swcfpc=1″>married</a> in 2008 and share three children together. Both are massively famous, but they don’t often discuss their relationship publicly. Jay-Z has bristled at questions about their romance in the past, and Beyoncé said she likes to keep it quiet, too. She shared why she doesn’t like to talk about her marriage.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-beyonce-said-she-didn-t-want-to-talk-about-her-relationship-with-jay-z”>Beyoncé said she didn’t want to talk about her relationship with Jay-Z</h2>
<p id=”par-2_49″>In 2003, Beyoncé appeared on <em>The Oprah Winfrey Show</em>. There were rumors that <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/jay-z-beyonces-different-stories-met-raise-questions-rape-allegations.html/”>she was dating Jay-Z</a> and Winfrey asked her about the relationship. Beyoncé responded with a single “yeah” when asked if she was dating him. She expanded on why she didn’t want to talk about the relationship.</p>
<p id=”par-3_41″>“I don’t actually talk about who I’m dating, who I’m not, because I think it’s important that I concentrate on the music and when you start talking about those things, then that becomes bigger than the art,” she said (per <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/beyonce-jay-z-relationship-timeline-rcna40115″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Today</a>).</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Beyonce-Jay-Z.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Beyoncé posing in a white cowboy hat while sitting next to Jay-Z, who’s flashing a peace sign at the camera at the Grammy Awards” class=”wp-image-3750265″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Beyoncé and Jay-Z | Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-4_14″>She later said that they didn’t need attention on their relationship to validate it.</p>
<p id=”par-5_21″>“What Jay and I have is real. It’s not about interviews or getting the right photo op,” she said. “It’s real.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-jay-z-didn-t-think-it-was-necessary-to-talk-about-his-relationship-with-beyonce-either”>Jay-Z didn’t think it was necessary to talk about his relationship with Beyoncé either</h2>
<p id=”par-6_20″>Just like his wife, Jay-Z was hesitant to talk about his relationship. He bristled when asked to confirm their marriage.</p>
<p id=”par-7_22″>“That’s ridiculous for me to confirm,” he said. “I don’t have … I’m gonna say, I think that was a ridiculous question.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_12″>He said he needed to keep parts of his personal life private.</p>
<p id=”par-9_91″>“I just think it’s really a part of your life that you gotta keep to yourself … You have to, or you’ll go insane in this type of business,” he said. “You have to have something that’s sacred to you and the people around you … I shared so much of my life, my childhood, and my family, the death of my nephew with the world. I should have something to hold on to. You need something for your sanity to say, ‘Okay, I could chill out, and this is it.’”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-they-kept-their-wedding-under-wraps”>They kept their wedding under wraps</h2>
<p id=”par-10_17″>When Jay-Z and Beyoncé <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/beyonce-never-wanted-get-married-turned-25.html/”>married in 2008</a>, they didn’t give many details about their impending wedding ceremony.</p>
<p id=”par-11_50″>“It’s a choice, you know, we made a long time ago and it’s worked and I wouldn’t change it now because it’s worked so far,” she told <em>Access Hollywood</em> (per <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.nbcwashington.com/local/beyonce_talks_marriage___maybe__having_kids/1841631/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>NBC Washington</a>). “I know just from experience, when you let so many people in, it just complicates things so much.”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Beyonce-Jay-Z-2.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Jay-Z holds a lit sparkler and Beyonce blows on it. They both wear white.” class=”wp-image-3754066″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Beyoncé and Jay-Z | Josh Brasted/WireImage</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-12_29″>She admitted that it wasn’t easy to keep things quiet, though. She felt so excited about her wedding that she wanted to be able to talk about it publicly.</p>
<p id=”par-13_21″>“When you’re excited and you’re happy, it’s just, you know, it’s in you, you wanna just be like, ‘Yeah!’” she said.</p>
<p id=”par-14_11″>The couple married in a small ceremony at Jay-Z’s Manhattan penthouse.</p>