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An artist used AI to show what the children of famous celebrity exes would look like if they'd stayed together
- AI images of celebrity children who don't actually exist have gone viral.
- Jeremy Pomeroy created images that show what famous former couples' families would look like.
An artist is using artificial intelligence and Photoshop to show what the families of famous couples (both real and imagined) might have looked like — and people can't get enough of them.
Jeremy Pomeroy, the founder and creative director of marketing agency Total Marketing Australia, decided to give fans a glimpse into alternate universes where celeb power couples like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston stayed together and had kids. The series of photos, which he's dubbed his "Celebrity What If?" series, has gone viral since Pomeroy shared some of his images on Instagram.
Check out Pomeroy's work below and learn more about went into his project.
Pomeroy told Insider in an email interview that he used "a combination of AI image generators and Photoshop" to create his work.
According to Pomeroy, the amount of time to complete each artwork varied, taking anywhere from several hours to days to complete a single piece.
He wanted to use technology "in a creative and impactful way" to provoke conversation.
Pomeroy chose an array of couples to feature in his series, which includes some exes with massive fandoms behind them — like Jelena (aka, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez), who split for good in 2018.
"By imagining what the families of celebrity couples would look like if they had stayed together, I sought to engage viewers in thought-provoking narratives and spark conversations about relationships, identity, and the dynamics of fame," Pomeroy told Insider via email.
Pomeroy said he picked the couples based on their significance in pop culture. Those included real-life relationships that ended decades ago, like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's.
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, another wildly popular former couple who split in 2007, are also featured.
Some of the AI portraits are also stylized as if the subjects are posing in a bygone era, like this one of Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp's hypothetical family, done in a Victorian style.
Pomeroy told Insider this was "a creative choice to enhance the storytelling and evoke a sense of nostalgia or historical context."
"I wanted to create a visual juxtaposition and explore alternate realities," he said.
Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, who briefly dated in late 2012, appear to be living on a prairie with their "What If?" family.
Pomeroy's background is in graphic design, but he's painted and illustrated his whole life.
In addition to celebrities who publicly dated and split, Pomeroy decided to feature some other famous pairs who had alleged relationships, like Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy.
People who were convinced Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were secretly in love while they promoted the 2018 movie "A Star Is Born" will love this one.
Emma Watson has copped to having had a massive crush on Tom Felton when they filmed the "Harry Potter" series as kids, and fans have been 'shipping the two IRL for years.
Fans have also loved to think about what it may have been like if Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock had dated, ever since the two publicly admitted to crushing on one another — without the other's knowledge — during the filming of 1994's "Speed."
Pomeroy also chose couples who were culturally significant because they'd starred together in beloved movies, even if they never had a romance off-screen — like frequent costars Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler.
Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, and their hypothetical children got the "Titanic" treatment.
Team Jacob? Here's what that family would've looked like if Bella (Kristen Stewart) had chosen Taylor Lautner's werewolf over Robert Pattinson's vampire.
And here are what the extremely pale children of Stewart and Pattinson, who famously dated in real life for years before Stewart cheated on him, might have looked like.
Pomeroy said the response to his work online has been "overwhelmingly positive."
"It's truly humbling to see how people have embraced and appreciated my artwork," he told Insider.
But he's also aware, and appreciative, of more negative feedback, which he says "challenges" him "to grow and learn."
The images have gone viral, but Pomeroy hasn't seen any reactions from the celebrities featured, either publicly or privately — though he says it's "always exciting" to think about the reach his work might have.
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