A few weeks ago, Chris Evans posted a very cute video, which consisted of clips of him and his girlfriend “jump-scaring” each other across 2022. It was like their summary of their year. People hated it! I enjoyed it. I know Chris is not for me and I wish him well. If that means his 41-year-old ass is happy with a 25-year-old, so be it. Besides, I just saw Alba Baptista in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and she was very cute in that. Why not? They make a nice couple and she’s an adult. Anyway, Alba and Chris have been together since 2021? And they’re going strong. Sources told Us Weekly that they’re “getting serious.”
Taking it to the next level! Chris Evans and Alba Baptista confirmed their romance via social media earlier this month — and their love story is just getting started.
“Chris and Alba have gotten serious,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “This is the most committed anyone can remember him being in a very long time, if not ever.”
The insider added: “They spend most of their time at his place in Massachusetts and love the quiet life there, surrounded by nature and away from the spotlight. Chris was very open that he wanted to take his time before settling down.”
We also look at these famous “bachelors” in their 40s and 50s and say “they’ll never get serious, they’ll never really settle down.” And then some of them do. John Stamos, George Clooney, Warren Beatty, Hugh Grant, all of them got married later in their lives after decades of being seen as eligible and sought-after bachelors. I assume Chris will be the same, especially because he’s never really seemed to relish the “bachelor” brand. Like, Chris’s brand is “the guy who really wants to settle down and start a family, he just can’t find the right girl.” Is Alba the “right girl”? I don’t know. But I enjoy watching the Evans stans argue about her!
Chris Evans and Alba Baptiste via Instagram pic.twitter.com/IWSTDZAhiz
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Smart of him to keep it secret for a year (or more?). More celebs should do that instead of jumping on the publicity train which makes so many of them seem fake and for the cameras. Although I think his rabid Stan’s already suspected Alba because they are sleuths that should be in the CIA.
So she was 23 and he was 39 when they started dating?
*eyeroll*
I was 22 and my husband was 33 when we started dating, we’ve been together almost 12 years. I think people do need to dial back some of the judging on any sort of age gap. he doesn’t have a history of dating women who are significantly younger than him (nor did my husband), it just happened that we were a good fit. I’m assuming that’s the case here as well. 🤷♀️
Same @Arizona. My husband was 34 and I was 22 but we are now about to hit 10 years together, 7 married. He’s super supportive of my career/business goals and ever since we got together has said that he wants to help me succeed and fulfill my dreams.
Age differences should be looked at for sure to make sure no one is being taken advantage of, but sometimes people just click and it works.
MHO but I think there’s a difference between a 10-12 year age gap, and close to 20. For example, my brother is 11 years older than his wife – they met when she was in her late 20’s – and they get along like a house on fire, have 2 great kids, and so on.
When it’s pushing 15-20 years tho, like with Evans, I feel it starts to get a wee bit creepy. She could almost be his daughter.
It’s not judging so much as a word of caution. 99% of the time, these relationships function on a power imbalance.
In addition, the younger person is often labelled as super mature, but in reality, it’s the older person who lacks the maturity to function in a well-balanced relationship where they may be held accountable for their behaviour and communication skills more frequently.
When there is power disparity, the younger person is often expected to adapt to the older person’s life, so that the older person doesn’t have to change at all.
What I think young women like you do not understand is that a man who wants a 20-year-old when he’s in his 30s is going to win a 20 year old when he’s 50. It’s who they are. I’m old enough to have seen this play out 100% of the time. Zero of them jarred through the women’s late thirty’s, Sorry wishing you the best of luck girls like you don’t really listen though.
It speaks a lot to me about these men 10+ years older who get with women under the age of 25 when they start dating. I don’t think it reflects badly on the women at all though.
When I was in my early 20’s, I thought I was the ish when grown ass men in their late 30’s and older were trying to hook up with me or my friends of the same age group. We just thought is was because we were sooo mature and sophisticated (eyeroll). Ha . Sure Jan. Once I got to that age, and especially after having a daughter of my own, my eyes were open and my brain fully aware that a lot of these men who get with a very young women are many times just either emotionally stunted, immature, or looking for someone with limited life experiences, naive, and/or intimidated enough by older men thinking they are easier and more malleable to mold or control, vs an age appropriate woman with more life experience, more wisdom, self-confidence and more of a voice.
My eyeroll is 1000% directed at Chris.
(And every other man well into their 30s+ who dates women in or around college age. We see you, and we think you’re all pathetic.)
I’m with you. I dated a man who was 10 years older than me when I was 19, and it didn’t end badly, for me, but now, as a 48 year old woman who has a son? NO. NO.
My bf married a man 16 years older than us and a bigger, greater, love story I’ve never known. Although she was 24 when they married she’d been dating since age 15 and at college had many, many boyfriends. One even lasted seriously for two years, but she knew he wasn’t The One. When she married her One, her whole heart was in it, as was his. They loved together till his premature death and she loved him on for another ten years till her death. There just was no one else for either of them. Love finds its way.
I never put him in the aging bachelor category because he always seemed to have long-ish relationships with age appropriate women. He’s no ‘still going to the club’ DiCaprio.
Exactly. And I honestly don’t think he would be opposed to dating someone his age. But I do wonder if someone his age would be interested in HIM. Single women at 41 are very different from single men at 41. I mean…I’m 42, but I would give it a go! LOL
His public brand is very different than what he does bts. He’s a lot more DiCaprio than his militantly curated persona allows.
This is evidence of the theory that whoever is standing in front of a guy when he’s ready to get married is always going to be “the one”.
Especially if they are 15 years younger, or so it seems.
I don’t care one way or another, generally.
It’s so odd how his fans are so invested in his personal life. I’d try to keep things quiet too.
Dodger is the star in that house, IMO.
Exactly this. I am Chris Evans lover – but I am pretty meh about the whole upset about him dating a 25 year old. Because mentally they are about the same age – being a male star comes with a LOT of arrested development. And that’s not meant as a diss to Chris. As long as she’s not UNDERAGE it’s ultimately their business.
There might be problems further down the line though when she continues to emotionally mature and he.. doesn’t.
Well that can be said about a LOT of relationships- regardless of age.
Listen, I love Chris and think he’s a great actor with good political ethics, BUT – can you imagine going to a dinner party with them at a friend’s house and trying to have a conversation with her? With ANY 25 yr old (at 40 yrs)?
No disrespect to any young uns here, but when I was in grad school (at 32) with a gaggle of 22 yr olds, I was blown away by the maturity difference, regardless of life experiences. I think the foreign ones were more grounded… but not by much.
My daughter tuned 21 when I was 43. She’s 24 now. Her friends (both male and female) came and still come over to the apt often. I can tell you from that experience alone their minds are in a place that I just cannot fathom ever dating any guy that age. Some of them still have baby faces. Not to mention that mentally they are in places that my mind literally grew out of decades ago. Nope. Nah. Not for me.
She reads younger than 25.
But yeah, he’ll probably marry her.
Would not be at all surprised if they get married. It feels like this is headed that way IMO. Things can change of course, but it wouldn’t shock me if that indeed does happen. She’s gorgeous and was a delight in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris!
I LOVED mrs harris goes to Paris…the whole movie was such a delight and Alba is so charming in her role. Best of luck to them
So if they want it kept out of the limelight, why keep putting out articles on them?
Not buying this love story. Never will buy any love story of a 40 something year old rich man in HW chasing after a very impressionable less successful PYT from a whole different country. She’s in disadvantage in every way. On the other side him? i thought he was better than that. Chasing after a 23 year old at his big ass age. PLEASE. Every time I see this kind of situation one question comes to my mind “Why is this man avoiding a woman his own age?”
Hmm yeh that is a good point. Very concerning power imbalance here particularly cos he can spin this in his favour but she might not get the benefit if anything goes wrong.
100% luan.
I’d say it is because he wants children. Women his own age – in their late 30’s early 40’s might have a harder time giving him the big family he says he wants.
There remains a power imbalance at work here: he’s older, he’s much more established and she’s younger and her career is up and coming. It feels a little transactional to me beneath all the rosy ‘we’re in love’ story they certainly seem to believe themselves. He wants to be a parent and she’s young enough to theoretically provide those children without too much difficulty. If she’s lucky in terms of her career ambitions, they’ll have the sort of arrangement Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in that one stays home with the kids while the other works, rotating as need be. I’m not optimistic on that score.
Also, wasn’t he going on and on about marrying someone from Massachusetts? I guess he couldn’t find anyone.
I like Chris actually, I think he’s a decent actor and enjoyed his tv series. This just seems icky tho and I can’t put my finger on why. I think it was private more cos he knew what it would look like cos she looks younger than 23. Also, didn’t he say he was single last year during some press? Might have misread that…
You’re right he did. In an interview in June (I think – for Light-year). He said he was “razor focused on finding a partner”.
Why all these articles with separate pictures of them?
1. There are no pictures of them posing together 2. So they can pair her current photo with a photo of him from at least 5 years ago, so we don’t notice the age difference. The Hollywood PR machine is so obvious.
His fans are psychotic and I genuinely worry about the safety of both of them.
I do too. I see some of them have already arrived here trying to push their weird conspiracy theories. Unhinged is a word I’ve seen used to describe some of them and I’d say that’s accurate.
They’re relentless and vile. And while they love to act like she’s a full blown racist for things she never even tweeted, they’ll brag with their whole chests about going down to do ghost hunts on southern plantations.
I read that KM and thought it said in southern pantaloons. I need new glasses!
So serious for the past year yet she was dating another man???
A woman even a little bit closer to Chris Evans’ age would never put up with constant jump scares. Honestly, Alba is probably getting sick of it too. He’s probably the type of guy that repeats a punchline over and over.
Also, famous people who are truly private don’t tell their publicist to contact multiple media outlets with news on their feelings for their partner. They just live their life.
She’s very self-possessed and mature in the one interview I saw. The age difference is definitely creepy in addition to the fact she looks like a child. But then yesterday I was just looking up Gene Hackman (great actor but don’t know much about him) and he started dating his wife when he was 58 and she was 32 years younger at 26. So love is love but a little sideye here as he’s dated so many women although not on the Leo DC revolving-door level. There are some actors or just public figures who date a handful of people and have long, long relationships. It just doesn’t look like he’s going to find “the one” just like that.