<p class="ingestion featured-caption">There's been a steady stream of celebrity divorces throughout the year.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Kevin Winter/Getty/Insider</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>2023 seems to be the year of celebrity divorce — more than a dozen high-profile couples have split. </li><li>Their breakups mirror national trends that suggest divorce is on the rise among American couples.</li></ul><p>2023 is officially the year of the celebrity breakup. More than a dozen high-profile couples have called it quits this year in a steady stream of separations and divorces.</p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/sofia-vergara-and-joe-manganiello-are-divorcing-2023-7" rel>Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello</a> are ending their seven-year marriage due to "different attitudes."</p><p>Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth said divorcing after 11 years of marriage took "a great deal of care and consideration."</p><p>And <a href="https://www.insider.com/kevin-costner-christine-baumgartner-relationship-timeline-marriage-divorce-2023-5">Kevin Costner</a> said his <a href="https://www.insider.com/kevin-costner-accuses-christine-baumgartner-using-stalling-tactics-in-divorce-2023-8">divorce from Christine Baumgartner</a>, his estranged wife of 18 years, was "beyond his control."</p><p>The wave of high-profile divorces mirrors broader national marriage trends.</p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-21.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest relationship data </a>from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), divorce rates were steadily declining between 2017 and 2020. In 2021, however, the divorce rate went back up again in the 45 states where the CDC collects this data.</p><p>Though the cause of this year's wave of divorces is unclear, <a href="https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2023/05/04/the-pandemic-sent-divorce-cases-soaring-with-volume-yet-to-wane-family-law-practices-struggle-to-find-attorneys/?slreturn=20230807172443" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post-pandemic differences between partners</a> could have played a role, Law.com reported. And the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/the-great-separation-summer-divorce-is-hollywood-epidemic/">summer months can be a reflective time</a> for many, Rachel DeAlto, the chief dating expert for Match, told The New York Post.</p><p>"Work is a little slower, school is out, and time off gives time to think about their lives. It's also when everyone has a bit more fun, and if your relationship isn't fulfilling it becomes more evident," DeAlto said.</p><p>And celebrities, it seems, are not immune to that trend. Here are all the couples who have called it quits so far in 2023. </p>