Earlier this month, Leonardo DiCaprio confronted fierce backlash when he was romantically linked to a 19-year-old mannequin, Eden Polani, after they had been photographed collectively at a Los Angeles social gathering.
It got here simply months after Leo’s observe document of relationship ladies many years youthful than him and ending the connection as soon as they turned 25 was highlighted on social media.
Final yr it was identified that even in his most long run relationships, Leo has by no means dated someone previous their twenty fifth birthday.
However Eden is the youngest person who Leo has been linked to since 1999, when his on-again, off-again relationship with Gisele Bündchen first began.
She was 18 on the time and he was 24. They broke up for good in 2005, which simply so occurs to be the identical yr that Gisele turned 25.
Nevertheless, there may be one key distinction between Leo’s relationship with 18-year-old Gisele and his hyperlink to 19-year-old Eden, and that’s the 24 years that he has aged in-between.
Some identified that it’d be like David Harbour, 47, relationship his 18-year-old Stranger Issues costar Millie Bobby Brown.
Others stated the identical of 47-year-old Pedro Pascal and his The Final Of Us castmate Bella Ramsey, who is nineteen.
And earlier than lengthy, previous feedback that had been made about Leo’s love life resurfaced on-line, together with former youngster star Mischa Barton’s revelation that her publicist instructed her to have intercourse with Leo for the media consideration when she was simply a teen.
Mischa made her TV debut at 8 years outdated when she was forged in All My Youngsters, and she or he was 10 when she received crucial popularity of her position within the film Garden Canines.
She hit the mainstream in 2003 when she was forged as Marissa Cooper within the well-liked TV collection The O.C., and she or he was two years into her time on the present when she acquired the stunning publicity recommendation.
The star candidly revealed the dialog that she’d had together with her publicist, Craig Schneider, throughout a December 2005 profile with British journal Harpers & Queen, which rebranded to Harper’s Bazaar shortly afterwards.
She was simply 19 years outdated on the time, and Leo and Gisele had just lately damaged up.
Within the interview, Mischa stated that when she and Craig noticed Leo at a photoshoot in Malibu, he instructed her: “For the sake of your profession, go and sleep with that man.”
Nevertheless, she had no real interest in being with the Hollywood actor as a result of she wasn’t drawn to older males. Teenage Mischa is quoted as saying to the publication: “Isn’t Leo, like, 30 or one thing?”
A popular culture Twitter account recirculated the story this week off the again of Leo being linked to Eden, merely commenting: “aged effectively.”
“his present gf was 2 years outdated throughout this interview btw,” another person identified. One other person added: “Thoughts you this was when he was 30 and she or he thought he was outdated and now he’s 50?!!!”
After splitting from Gisele, Leo began relationship 20-year-old Israeli mannequin Bar Refaeli, and so they had been collectively till her twenty fifth birthday.
Since then, he has had relationships with Blake Energetic, Victoria’s Secret mannequin Erin Heatherton, vogue mannequin Antonia “Toni” Garrn, actor Kelly Rohrbach, and Danish mannequin Nina Agdal — all of whom had been of their early 20s.
He additionally dated American mannequin and actor Camila Morrone for 4 years, with the pair splitting in August — simply two months after her twenty fifth birthday.
Shortly after the connection ended, Leo was briefly reported to be rising near 27-year-old Gigi Hadid — the oldest person who he has ever been linked to — however he was then noticed spending time with 23-year-old Victoria Lamas as an alternative.
Leo was photographed with Eden on Feb. 2, however regardless of the hypothesis and public outrage, it nonetheless hasn’t been confirmed whether or not they’re really relationship. A rep for Leo beforehand declined to remark when contacted by BuzzFeed Information.
