Why Camila Morrone doesn’t care about her 23-year age gap with Leonardo DiCaprio

When Camila Morrone, 24, and Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 47, first went public with their relationship back in 2017, both she and DiCaprio were met with plenty of criticism.

Many believed that these two celebs should find someone their own age seeing as their 23-year age gap was simply too hard to ignore. But flash forward to today, and the couple is still going strong despite the huge age difference. What’s the secret to making this relationship work? Well, it may have everything to do with Morrone, herself, not caring about age.

Camila Morrone and Leonardo DiCaprio

In 2019, Camila Morrone came forward with a statement following the overflow of disapproval about her pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio.

“There’s so many relationships in Hollywood — and in the history of the world — where people have large age gaps,” the actress said at the time. “I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date.” So it looks like Morrone is fine with the age gap simply because it’s not uncommon and she wants to be with whoever her heard desires. And that’s pretty fair.

While a few people seemed to agree with Morrone’s sentiment, however, many simply couldn’t overlook the fact that this wasn’t her boyfriend’s first rodeo dating someone much younger

During his relationship with Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively in 2011, DiCaprio was 36 years old while Lively was 23. It was a similar situation for his previous brief flings with Bar Refaeli, Erin Heatherton, Toni Garrn and Nina Agdal, all of whom were at least 10 years younger than DiCaprio when they were with him but were no older than 25 when he broke it off with them. This is why many (sort of) joke about his refusal to date anyone older than 25 years old.

In knowing his past, it’s hard for people to not feel strongly about their opinion towards Morrone and DiCaprio’s age gap, seeing it as something that could end badly for Morrone once she hits a certain age. But the actress seemingly understands all the chatter, as she stated, “I probably would be curious about it too.”

Nevertheless, the two have continued with their relationship and seem to be nearing the endgame. But even if they aren’t, Morrone wishes for her identity to be more than “the super young person who dated Leonardo DiCaprio.”

“I feel like there should always be an identity besides who you’re dating,” she expressed. “I understand the association, but I’m confident that will continue to slip away and be less of a conversation.”