Anthony Kiedis’ girlfriend Eileen Kelly has written about the benefits of their age-gap relationship, calling him “one lucky bastard”. (NME report)
Kelly is a columnist for Vogue magazine, and began dating the Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman earlier this year. She is 30 years old, while Kiedis is 63.
In a new article, she has espoused what she believes to be the virtues of their age gap, without identifying Kiedis by name. “It’s my first time dating someone significantly older, and sometimes I joke with friends that I’ve been missing out my whole life,” she wrote.
“There is something to be said for a man who’s simply had more time to get his shit together, and my much older boyfriend seems genuinely excited to be with me — not like he’s biding his time before he can swipe for someone better,” she continued. “He is fully aware that he’s one lucky bastard.”
She said they met at a birthday party and began striking a connection after finding out they had a mutual connection to Hawaii. She went on to say she has lost a friend over the relationship and has been mistaken for Kiedis’ daughter on multiple occasions.
Kiedis was in a relationship with actress Ione Skye in the late ‘80s and was rumoured to have a brief relationship with Sinead O’Connor in 1990 and Mel C later that decade. He also wrote in his autobiography Scar Tissue that he had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23.
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