The newspaper also added that people who claim to be close to the couple are “convinced” an engagement is inevitable. Fans were simultaneously mourning and celebrating the news. Many other fans were crushed because they hoped to marry her...

“So many people would flip but if the couple at some point announced they were engaged I’d be happy,” tweeted one fan. On Friday, Whoopi Goldberg’s rep said “no comment” when asked whether the 61-year-old actress was tying the knot.

In the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), Goldberg played Oda Mae Brown, an eccentric psychic who helped a slain man (Patrick Swayze) save his lover (Demi Moore), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1992, she starred as a pretend nun in the comedy Sister Act.

The duo is parents to a 44-year-old daughter, Alexandrea Martin, who was born on May 9, 1973.

Whoopi was just 17 years old when she gave birth to her first and only baby and is now a grandmother to two granddaughters and a grandson. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) After that union came to an end, Whoopi moved on with cinematographer David Claessen and the two wed on Sept. The pair had no kids together and they divorced two years later in 1988.

Although Whoopi has not been married over the past nearly 25 years, she's been known to date some high-profile stars including Ted Danson from , Frank Langella, and Timothy Dalton, to name a few. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) In a 2011 interview, Whoopi opened up about her multiple marriages, and revealed none of them made her happy.

So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from." Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in his book In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past, found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were African Americans, that she has no known Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.

star began dating her first husband, Alvin Martin, in 1973.

After a short period of time, they tied the knot before splitting six years later in 1979.

It's not hard to get jealous of these men that Whoopi Goldberg has gone out with, so try your hardest to contain your envy. Her ex-husbands were: Alvin Martin, cinematographer David Claessen, and union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg.

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