Mila Kunis and More Stars Who Have Tried Friends With Benefits

“I was like, you know what, ‘I actually care about you. I don’t want to mess anything up so I’m just going to walk away before it becomes too much,'” she explained during a 2018 appearance on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “And he was like, ‘Got it.’ And the next day, he showed up to my house and he was like, ‘Move in with me’ and I said, ‘Okay.'” 

Not that that every sealed-with-a-handshake pact ends with an 11-years-and-counting marriage and a couple of kids. 

Long before he was giving Gigi Hadid a second look, Bradley Cooper was keeping things shallow with a high school BFF. 

“Because we are both seniors, I realize that we might as well just enjoy the time we have left before we go to college,” the then-intern wrote in a 1993 op-ed for the Philadelphia Daily News. “Because once college hits our relationship will definitely return to ‘best friendship.'”

Not that there’s an age limit on casual situationships. Dyan Cannon revealed last year that she’s been seeing “several” special partners. As she put it to People, “I have friends with benefits, yes.”

And if you ask stars like Fran Drescher, Sonja Morgan and The Brady Bunch‘s Florence Henderson, there are plenty of upsides to that sort of arrangement.

Here’s how they play the game.