What you need to know
Nicola Peltz Beckham’s love life grabbed headlines long before she married Brooklyn Beckham.
Born into a wealthy family in New York, she attracted attention from an early age. She started acting when she was about 10 years old and got her breakout role in 2013 as Bradley Martin in the thriller series Bates Motel. Her character’s profile grew even more after she started dating Anwar Hadid, a member of another rich and famous family.
Their relationship was made public for two years until 2018, but after their split, Laura briefly dated LANY frontman Paul Klein.
Nicola met her future husband in 2017, when they were both dating. They got back together in 2019 and married three years later. Brooklyn has stood by his wife throughout the ongoing drama, claiming her parents Victoria Beckham and David Beckham tried to “ruin” their relationship.
In an emotional statement posted to his Instagram Stories on January 19, he said: “My wife has been consistently disrespected by our family, no matter how hard we try to be together. Neither my wife nor I want a life defined by images, press or manipulation. All we want is peace, privacy and happiness for us and our future families.”
Here’s everything you need to know about Nicola Peltz Beckham’s dating history.
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Nicola and Anwar, the younger brothers of Gigi and Bella Hadid, started dating around 2016. Nicola confirmed their relationship in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily after the pair uploaded photos of each other on their respective Instagram accounts.
“We play together,” she told the outlet in January 2017, adding that Anwar comes from a “great family.” Nicola also described her sisters as “very kind” and “strong.”
Although Nicola and Anwar split in 2018, it appears that Nicola remains close with at least some of his relatives. According to Vanity Fair, Gigi was a guest at her wedding to Brooklyn in 2022. In 2026, she appeared alongside Bella in Ryan Murphy’s body horror show The Beauty.
However, it seems that not everyone in Anwar’s family is supportive of the relationship. His sister Alana Hadid weighed in on an Instagram post by pop culture account Saint Hawks, which had been sharing memes about Beckham’s family drama. In a comment referring to Nicola, Alana wrote: “He doesn’t want any privacy yet he’s been trying to be famous for 10 years 😂😂😂😂.”
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After splitting from Anwar, Nicola briefly dated LANY’s lead singer in 2018. During their months-long relationship, Nicola modeled for his band’s cover of their 2018 single ‘Through These Tears’.
Paul hasn’t confirmed whether his songs are written about Nicola or other famous ex-girlfriends (like Dua Lipa), but he told PEOPLE in an August 2023 interview that “nothing is off limits.”
“I’ve never called anyone up and been like, ‘Hey, I wrote this album about you, I hope you like it, but I hope you hate it,'” he said. “LANY’s ethos is about candor and openness and telling it like it is, and that’s exactly how we write songs.”
The relationship did not last long, and the two appeared to part ways on amicable terms. In a now-deleted post to X in February 2019, Nicola wrote that the two had gone “separate ways” but that he “may rest in peace”.
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Brooklyn and Nicola first met at Coachella in 2017, but didn’t start dating until October 2019, when they reunited at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Halloween party. She asked him to help her get her friend inside, and he “didn’t hesitate.”
“Two days later we had our first kiss,” she told Glamor magazine in June 2025. “That’s when the story really began.”
The couple got engaged a few months after making their relationship official on Instagram in January 2020. In a July 2020 Instagram post, Brooklyn revealed that she posed the question to her “soulmate” two weeks ago and she said “yes.”
On April 9, 2022, Nicola and Brooklyn tied the knot in a lavish ceremony at her family’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. While the wedding looked almost perfect online, eldest son Beckham later revealed that family drama had overshadowed their big day.
“The night before the wedding, my family told me Nicola was ‘not blood’ and ‘not family,'” Brooklyn wrote on her Instagram Story. “My mother hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned for weeks to a romantic love song… She danced on me very inappropriately in front of everyone. I have never felt so uncomfortable and humiliated in my entire life.”
The couple renewed their vows in August 2025, a decision reportedly taken in light of what happened at their wedding three years ago. “We wanted to renew our vows on our wedding day to create new memories that would bring joy and happiness, not anxiety and shame,” Brooklyn said in a statement on Instagram.
Despite the drama between him and the Beckhams, the couple has continued to support each other. Brooklyn has more than 20 tattoos dedicated to Nicola, including a large portrait of her on his right shoulder.
“I’m half preoccupied with her,” he told E! in a February 2023 interview. News “The Rundown.” “They’re so addictive. Especially when you love someone, you want to cover everything.”
