Sophia Loren met her only love, producer Carlo Ponti, in 1950 at a beauty contest. It was almost impossible for Ponti to get a divorce from the catholic church of Italy at that time, so in desperation, they got married in Mexico. But the Vatican still didn’t accept that and the marriage was annulled. It wasn’t until 1966, after Ponti became a citizen of France and his first wife agreed to divorce him, that the couple finally got officially married. And they lived together up until Carlo died in 2007.