The Awkward Connection Austin Butler’s Girlfriend Kaia Gerber Has To His Ex Vanessa Hudgens

The age disparity in Hollywood relationships is a crazy phenomenon. From Leonardo DiCaprio’s obsession with dating women 25 and under, including Camila Morrone, to Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick’s massive age gap, the male stars in the industry seem to be drawn to their younger female counterparts. Such celebrities also include Austin Butler, who has been dating Kaia Gerber, 10 years his junior, since 2021. Their age gap became apparent when photos of Gerber with Butler’s ex Vanessa Hudgens surfaced, which revealed just how young Gerber is compared to Butler.

Butler and Gerber first sparked dating rumors in December 2021, when the Daily Mail published photos of the two looking very cozy after a yoga class. Since then, the couple has been sharing their relationship publicly through photoshoots and red carpet events. Butler’s romance with Gerber is his first long-term relationship since the “Elvis” star’s eight-year commitment to fellow former Disney star Hudgens. The pair dated from 2011 to 2020. When they first met, Butler was 20 and Hudgens was 22. Want to know how old Gerber was in 2011? She was 10! What’s even crazier is that Hudgens once met a much-younger Gerber way back when.