Who was Stevie Nicks married to? All we know about the legendary singer’s personal life as fans celebrate 77th birthday

Stevie Nicks has had numerous relationships throughout her life, but they were never truly ‘conventional.’

As Stevie Nicks turns 77 this year, fans around the globe are celebrating her enduring musical legacy through a renewed appreciation of her albums. While doing so, many are also engulfed in her heart-wrenching life events that include her long-lasting secrets. One such query that a lot of her admirers have is if the singer has ever tied the knot. She indeed did, but under very tragic circumstances, which led to the end of her marriage weeks later.

In 1983, Stevie Nicks got married to Kim Anderson after he lost Nicks’ childhood friend Robin Snyder. Their marriage took a terrible turn after Robin’s death as they attempted to cope with the shocking loss. This ‘marriage’ only lasted three months.

“We didn’t get married because we were in love,” Nicks told Us Magazine in 1990. “We got married because we were grieving, and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything.”

After Robin was diagnosed with an illness, she gave birth to a preterm baby, Matthew, who died two days later. Stevie unconsciously stepped into her friend’s shoes after succumbing to an emotional breakdown.

“I was determined to take care of that baby, so I said to Kim, ‘I don’t know, I guess we should just get married.’” (Us Magazine, 1990).

This did not take long to crumble, as Stevie Nicks would explain later on Behind the Music (1998), “It was a terrible, terrible mistake.”

That marriage continues to be Nick’s sole marriage to this day, which lasted much shorter than the time they spent together. The rock star never wed again, despite having several romances which were publicly covered.

The marriage that wasn’t meant to last

Kim Anderson was not a public figure; he was rather the lamenting spouse of Robin, whose best friend since her teenage years was Stevie. Following Robin's death in 1982, Stevie Nicks suffered profound mourning, particularly during the difficult moment of looking at the soulless newborn baby, Matthew.

“She had just been in my life since I was 14,” Stevie Nicks said in Behind the Music. “It was the absolute high and low of success. I never got to enjoy Bella Donna at all because my friend was dying.”

Their short-lived marriage remained hidden from the paparazzi and the media, and Nicks was vocal much later about the problems with that marriage.

“It was insanity,” she admitted. “And we were the only two who could really understand what we were going through.”

Just three months after the marriage, they divorced, and Stevie Nicks severed ties with both Kim and Matthew, even though she went on to prepare a room full of memorabilia, recordings, personal items of Robin, and other things she intended to give him when the moment was appropriate.

The legacy of Stevie Nicks and that reconnection

That reconnection finally happened so many years later. In 2015, Nicks admitted during an interview with The Telegraph that she discovered Matthew and assisted financially with his college education.

“I suppose that Matthew will find me when he’s ready,” she had once said in her 1990 interview with Us Magazine. “I mean, I am, really, next to Robin, his mommy.”

Stevie Nicks had multiple highly publicized affairs with Lindsey Buckingham, Don Henley from The Eagles, and even Joe Walsh, another Eagles guitarist. During this period, she remarried once, but ultimately none of these relationships culminated in marriage. To this day, she stands by the statement, telling The Guardian in 2020,

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“I’ve chosen my path, and I’m good with it.”

With Nick's turning 77, fans are celebrating not only the evergreen contribution she has made to music but also the strength encapsulated behind the legend – a woman who loved, lived, grieved, and ultimately chose to stand on her own terms.

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