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Considered one of Hollywood's longest lasting couples, rock legend Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea Hurley have enjoyed a 34-year marriage alongside their four children.
The high school sweethearts tied the knot in style in Las Vegas back in 1989 after dating for almost a decade and are parents to children Stephanie, 30, Jesse, 28, Jake, 20 and Romeo, 19.
And the family are getting ready to welcome a Hollywood A-Lister into their tight-knit family circle after son Jake's engagement to 19-year-old Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown.
Dorothea has admitted to trying to shield their kids from the spotlight, with her telling People magazine: "We never really drag the kids to things."
"I never pointed at the TV and said, 'There's Daddy!' We try hard just to give our kids a normal life," Dorothea added.
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The Bon Jovis have had their own family strugglesDespite their happy family life, the Bon Jovi's have struggled with their own family issues, including a drug over dose suffered by their eldest daughter Stephanie.
When she was 19 she was hospitalised after overdosing on Opioids. Speaking about the ordeal back in 2013, Jon said: "It was horrible, a horrible moment. It was my worst moment as a father.
"She was by no means sticking needles in her arms. But there's a lot of synthetic stuff in the world and a lot of temptation and access and pressures that just a generation ago you and I didn't know about.
"I feel it was a terrible tragic lesson of life but I thank God every day because she is whole. It happened and it has gone. I know personally people whose sons and daughters, where it was a lot, lot worse. That could have been Stephanie."
Millie shared the happy news of their engagement this week (Instagram)Later in 2016, Jon opened up about his personal struggles with mental health, admitting that it was a "very difficult time" but thanked his wife Dorothea for her support.
"It was a very, very difficult time that I haven't fully rebounded from yet but my wife has been phenomenal. Without her, I am not sure how I would have coped," he told us.Jon also shared that he suffered a breakdown in 1991 after becoming exhausted touring back-to-back around the release of Bon Jovi's third album Slippery When Wet.
He confessed that he contemplated suicide by jumping out of a moving car and seeked help from a psychologist.
"I am not ready to share it in full but it was not pretty. But I am working towards it. It was similar to that period in retrospect," he said. "I found acting at that time which gave me a release. There was no release this time around but there were just as much difficulties."
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