Leonardo DiCaprio dates models. It’s a Thing.
It is such an established Thing that Tina Fey made a perfect, instant-classic joke about it when she and Amy Poehler hosted the Golden Globes in 2013.
The most iconic pairing is possibly Leo and Gisele. Their five-year relationship, which lasted from 1999 to 2004, may well have been the first time your pre-teen self truly understood that you would never date Leo.
Mostly because you would never actually have a chance to be in the same room as him, let alone start a conversation, but also because you must be this hot to ride:
But then they broke up not long after her 25th birthday, and you thought: hey, maybe now I’m in with a shot!
…and then he started dating Bar Refaeli.
And that relationship ended when she was 24… and he started dating Blake Lively, then 23.
See a pattern here?
Reddit user u/TrustLittleBrother did. And he’s made a graph that shows in stark, though beautifully designed, detail that Leo is apparently incapable of dating anyone who is not a) a model (or Blake Lively) who is b) aged 25 or under.
(See the original post here.)
He’s now 44, and dating model Camila Morrone – who was a six-month-old baby when Titanic was released in December 1997.
Leo’s a smart dude who’s worth a lot of money and does an enormous amount of philanthropic work, and he’s also far from the first powerful man to have a preference for beautiful women half his age – all of whom are probably also intelligent, funny and kind as well as having perfect, valuable faces.
If he’s happy, who’s to judge?
But if you were born in 1995 and still holding out hope, better get on it soon.