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Sienna Miller raised eyebrows when she stepped out with her most recent beau--scruffy-to-the-point-of-disheveled actor Rhys Ifans. It's not that there's anything wrong with Rhys; it's just that, well, he's so different from her ex-fiance, pretty boy Jude Law.
And Siennas not the only star to seek romance with a past love's polar opposite: Penelope Cruz, once paired with all-American alpha hunk Matthew M Conaughey is now linked to tall, dark, and mysterious Spaniard Javier Bardem. And Ryan Reynolds went from being engaged to earthy Alanis Morissette to dating bombshell Scarlett Johansson.
Experts say that this sort of 180-degree mate selection makes sense for celebs and noncelebs alike. "After a relationship, particularly if it was a bad one, it's normal to think, Okay, I can't go there again, and purposely seek out a totally different kind of guy," says New York City psychotherapist JoAnn Magdoff, PhD. Dating a dissimilar man (whether in terms of looks, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Dating against type: these days, it seems like the remedy to a...