Added Maria Shriver: \"Kelly was such a bright loving soul, a talented actress, and a loving mom and wife.\"
\"Good Morning America\" looked back on Preston's life with Travolta and their children, below.
1989
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PHOTO: John Travolta and Kelly Preston appear in a scene from the 1989 film, "The Experts."
Preston, then married to actor Kevin Gage, met Travolta during a screen test for the 1989 film \"The Experts.\" For the actors, it was \"kinda\" love at first sight, she said.
\"Well I was not that happily married, let's put it that way,\" Preston explained in 2018 interview with Andy Cohen on \"Watch What Happens Live!\" \"I was really with the wrong person.\"
In Travolta, she found the right guy. \"There's too many 'best things' [about him],\" she added. \"His lips, dancing, fun, laughing.\"
1990
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PHOTO: Kelly Preston and John Travolta hug at the Los Angeles premiere of "Look Who's Talking Too," at the Plitt Theatre in Century City, Calif., Dec. 13, 1990.
Although Preston and Travolta didn't get together immediately after her split from Gage — she had romances with George Clooney and Charlie Sheen beforehand — theirs was a whirlwind romance. The \"Saturday Night Fever\" star proposed to Preston on New Year's Eve in 1990, according to an article from People at the time. While at a party at the Palace Hotel restaurant in Gstaad, Switzerland, Travolta reportedly popped the question along with a six-carat diamond ring. A fellow reveler told the magazine that after the actor asked, \"Kelly, will you marry me?\" the actress screamed with joy.
1991
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PHOTO: John Travolta and Kelly Preston are pictured in Paris, Sept. 6, 1991.
Preston, then newly pregnant with her and Travolta's eldest, Jett, became so overwhelmed with wedding planning that she and her future husband decided to elope to Paris instead.
\"Once the florist's assistant got an assistant, I was done,\" she said in a 2018 interview with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. \"We ran away, eloped, and went to Paris.\"
They later made the marriage official in the U.S.
1997
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PHOTO: Actress Kelly Preston gets a visit from husband John Travolta and son Jett while on location filming the 1997 motion picture "Addicted to Love."
Travolta and Preston welcomed their son Jett in 1992 and knew immediately that they weren't done growing their family.
\"I definitely want more kids,\" Preston told People in 1994. \"I just want to work a little more first.\"
She did. Preston went on to appear in films including \"Jerry Maguire\" in 1996 and \"Addicted to Love\" in 1997.
Circa 2000
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PHOTO: Kelly Preston and John Travolta kiss their daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, at the premiere of Walt Disney Pictures' "Old Dogs" held at the El Capitan Theatre on Nov. 9, 2009, in Hollywood, Calif.
In 2000, Preston gave birth to her and Travolta's daughter, Ella. Less than a decade later, the budding actress appeared alongside her parents in the 2009 film \"Old Dogs.\"
Circa 2009
In January, 2009, Jett Travolta, who had autism, died after suffering a seizure during a family trip to the Bahamas.
\"To my sweet love, Jett... you are in our hearts forever,\" Preston wrote last year. \"I send love to all of the beautiful autistic children and the wonderful people who love them. May we all shine and grant love and respect to children with special needs #autismawareness #autism.\"
2010
Preston gave birth to her and Travolta's third child, Benjamin, in late 2010.
\"We had been trying for quite a few years, and then of course there was a time when we weren't, and then we started trying again,\" she reportedly told Health magazine in 2011. \"It's pretty amazing having a child at this age.\"
2018
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PHOTO: John Travolta and Kelly Preston eat pizza at a ceremony to honor John Travolta for his body of work in TV and Film, in anticipation of the release of the film "Gotti," June 12, 2018, in Brooklyn, New York.
Preston and Travolta worked together several times, but most recently on the 2018 film \"Gotti,\" in which they played couple John and Victoria Gotti.
\"For us to be in a movie where we're playing other people is so much fun, and that's what we kind of live for -- to have that creative experience together,\" Travolta told \"Entertainment Tonight\" at the time. \"Gotti\" would be one of Preston's final films.
Now, Travolta is left mourning the woman he loved for three decades. \"Kelly’s love and life will always be remembered,\" he wrote on Instagram earlier this week. \"I will be taking some time to be there for my children who have lost their mother, so forgive me in advance if you don’t hear from us for a while. But please know that I will feel your outpouring of love in the weeks and months ahead as we heal.\"
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