John Mellencamp and Wife of 18 Years Split Up

By PopEater Staff Posted Dec 30th 2010 10:56PM

John Mellencamp and his model wife are taking some of the sheen off all the recent celebrity engagements by delivering some sad news. The 'Pink Houses' rocker, 59, and Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, 41, announced through a spokesman on Thursday that they are "calling it a day as a couple" after 18 years of marriage and 20 years together.

"John and Elaine Mellencamp are proud of their 20 years together and are very happy with their accomplishments both as parents and as a family," the statement reads.

The couple will continue to raise their two children, sons Hud and Speck, in his home state of Indiana.

No reason was given for the split and it's unclear if they have filed for divorce. This is Mellencamp's third marriage.

The pair met on a photo shoot when Elaine, a bonafide supermodel at the time, was hired to appear on the cover of his 1991 album, 'Whenever We Wanted.' They were engaged 10 weeks later and married the next year. The cover of that album:

Mellencamp's latest album, 'No Better Than This,' was released earlier this year.

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Friday 31 December

By Nico Toscani

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Why do all celebrities have HUGE heads? It looks like a photo of a horse standing next to an encephalitic dwarf.

By dino

if you made the kind of money they make, your head would look big too!!

By Diane

Because their bodies are so anorexic!(sp).... I agree!
They alway have BALLON HEADS!

By joyce

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Because their bodies are not in proportion to their heads. Excess dieting is one cause of this.

By hawk

Since menstral-cramp is only 5 feet tall, photographers shoot at an angle that attempts to make him appear normal which makes his "melon" appear as inflated as his ego.

By NeekoTosskani

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Tosconi- Screwface should have daggered you when he had the chance... or Bobby Lupo should've... What a friggin' moron....

Don't be such a whiny d-bag Jeff.

By Katyreigh

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I just saw him on David Letterman and was thinking of how detached he seemed to be when talking about his family. I decided to look them up and just as I was they had posted this. Not surprising, a little birdie was telling me it was over!!

By Todd

Time to head on down to the Rod Stewart Audi dealership & trade her in for a new model.

By Bill

Only Nico knows how the race card applies to this article.... somehow.

That would be a good trick since both parties are white. I'll work on it though.

By Hannah

That's too bad...I have read that he's a surly sort of guy and not easy to get along with. He sure as hell didn't age well.

By Sue

What? The gorgeous thing is too "old" for that toad? Old men are just disgusting, selfish and ridiculous.

See: Kelsey Grammar for the heights of old fat stupid.

By mark

he is a liberal piece of crap. just sing and shut up

By Erin

Mark, are you always a douche or only around the holidays?

By Tinman0670

Being a liberal is a whole lot better than being a right wing neo nazi piece of crap!

By Mike

WRONG. Mellencamp is a bonafide Indianan rightie-tightie; GM-Fix and repair daily FORD/pensioner promoter. Gimme a break. Dumb and dumber.

By Rem

You've got that right Mark! The guy is a marxist through and through. Big-time Obama supporter.

By mw

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!

By Jane

She must've known how to deal with him if he was impossible to get along with, she stayed with him all those years.
I thought they would be together forever, but the kids are older and they're both famous so...

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