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How Did John Travolta Meet Kelly Preston?

February 14, 2012 by · Comments Off on How Did John Travolta Meet Kelly Preston? 

How Did John Travolta Meet Kelly Preston?, Kelly Preston (born October 13, 1962) is an American actress and former model.
Preston was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old. Her mother married Peter Palzis, a personnel director, who subsequently adopted her; she used his name when she first began her acting career. She has a younger maternal half-brother, Chris Palzis. As a child, she spent time living in Iraq and Australia.

While living in Australia, she attended Pembroke School in Adelaide, South Australia. She later attended Punahou School and studied drama and theater at the University of Southern California.
Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage from 1985 to 1987. She also had a relationship with George Clooney, who gave her Max, a pet pig that he kept after the couple split up. She was briefly engaged to Charlie Sheen in 1990, but ended the relationship shortly after he accidentally shot her in the arm.
Preston first met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts. They married in 1991. Both traveled to Paris on an Air-France Concorde for a wedding ceremony at the Hotel de Crillon (close to the Place de la Concorde), celebrated on September 5, 1991. However, a second ceremony had to be conducted because the first, performed by a French Scientology minister (both Preston and Travolta are Scientologists), was regarded as invalid. The second ceremony took place a week later, on September 12, in Daytona Beach, Florida. They have since had three children: Jett (born April 13, 1992), Ella Bleu (born April 3, 2000) and Benjamin Hunter Kaleo (born November 23, 2010).

On January 2, 2009, their son Jett died while the family was on a holiday vacation in The Bahamas. The cause of his death was attributed to a seizure. Jett reportedly suffered from Kawasaki disease as an infant and had a history of seizures. On September 24, 2009, Travolta and Preston confirmed longstanding speculations when they testified that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures. This revelation came during their testimony at the trial resulting from an extortion attempt related to their son’s death.

On January 23, 2009, three people were arrested in the Bahamas in connection with a multi-million dollar extortion plot against Travolta and Preston around the circumstances of their son’s death. One of the men, Obie Wilchcombe, a member of the Bahamian Parliament and former Bahamian Minister of Tourism, was described as a “close friend” of Travolta and Preston. Two others allegedly involved were an EMT named Tarino Lightbourne and a Bahamian senator named Pleasant Bridgewater. Bridgewater was charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort and resigned from the Senate as a result of the allegations.

In May 2010 Travolta and Preston announced that she was pregnant with the couple’s third child. At age 48 Preston delivered a healthy son, Benjamin Hunter Kaleo, on November 23, 2010.

John Travolta Kelly Preston Married 20 Years

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John Travolta Kelly Preston Married 20 Years, ACTRESS Kelly Preston, married for 20 years to John Travolta, has dealt with both tragedy and joy in recent times.

Her son Jett died of a seizure nearly two years ago aged 16. But she gave birth to Benjamin in November 2010 when she was 48.

They also have 11-year-old daughter Ella Bleu.

In her early twenties, Kelly was briefly married to actor Kevin Cage, lived with George Clooney and was engaged to Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen.

She has successfully launched the Jett Travolta Foundation to help children with special needs.

Here, Kelly, 49, tells GARTH PEARCE about what she wishes she knew aged 18.
AT 18 I wish I had known the dangers of smoking pot. There was a fallacy in Hawaii, where I grew up, that it was not addictive.

It was supposed to be natural so I did it along with all my friends. I now don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t do drugs.

I have done all of that in the past but now live a clean and healthy life. It is not possible to know the answers at 18 so you go with what most people believe. I have already started educating my own children about the dangers of drugs. They are addictive.

We are giving our kids the space to discover who they are, but life can’t be enjoyed in a drugs culture.

I have learned to appreciate that personal health and enjoyment of life go hand in hand.

I also wish I had learned how much you had to work at a marriage before I married for the first time. I married too young. But, with Johnny, and the benefit of being older, I was able to work out what helps keep a marriage happy.

Don’t go to bed angry and talk out your issues. The things to remember are honesty, playfulness, humour and being creative. Some people think marriage is not real unless it is natural and say: “I shouldn’t have to work at it.”

I disagree. I would not have thought it possible, at 18, that friendship could turn, slowly, into love. But it did.

I was with another partner when we first met in 1987 on a film called The Experts and we were friends during filming. But we stayed friends and met up again a couple of years later, when we were working on separate films. I was single again and he asked, over dinner, if we could start going out. He said he thought I would make a great girlfriend simply because of the way I treated my partner at the time.

I said: “Definitely — that is a great idea.” It became love very quickly. We also decided, very early on, we wanted to have a family. I got pregnant on my very first try.

We were at the country house of our friends, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. The date was June 15, 1991.

When I was 18, if I’d have thought I would have met someone like Johnny, I would have not believed my good fortune. At home, he’s exactly as he appears to others — relaxed and very caring. One of his greatest attributes is a wonderful sense of humour.

Happy family … Kelly Preston and John Travolta with Ella Bleu and Benjamin
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He is the greatest romantic. For our engagement, he flew a group of us to Gstaad in Switzerland, picked up a ring which had been specially made and proposed where we were staying.

It was a complete shock, because I was not expecting it. It is easier to be surprised at 18, because you have such little experience, but always more difficult in later life.

What is so fantastic is that my husband loves to fly, so everything about airlines, jets and flying is his true passion. He has been a pilot for more than 30 years.

He has his wings for Qantas of Australia, which is the hardest school to get through. It is a career in itself. He also looks so handsome in his uniform.

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