Before his career took off, Kevin Costner told Richard Burton he wanted a life free of scandals. And he largely lived up to that promise. But his busy schedule required him to spend a lot of time away from home. In addition, his then-wife Cindy Silva and mother of three of his seven children had growing issues with Costner's films that banked on his sex appeal. To make matters worse, rumors of infidelity began to circulate in the early 1990s, which proved to be too much for their marriage to endure. In 1994, Costner and Silva announced they were divorcing, People detailed.
After his divorce, he dated Bridget Rooney — with whom he had a child — activist Birgit Cunningham, and Australian model Elle Macpherson. Costner married Christine Baumgartner in 2004, and the couple welcomed three children. "I have played two roles in my life, one I get paid to do, which is the movies, and the other one is being a father, for which I'll be rewarded my whole life," he said (via Closer Weekly).
The end of his marriage came as his career was also going through a rocky phase. The release of "Waterworld" in 1995 wasn't ... well received. Then "The Postman," which he also directed, hit theaters in 1997, a movie that received five Razzie Awards, including for worst movie, worst director, worst actor, and worst screenplay. Ouch.
