Overview
- Eileen Kelly’s Vogue column, published Friday, describes dating someone “more than twice my age” without naming him.
- Outlets including NME and Stereogum link the unnamed partner to Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, 63, who has been reported as dating Kelly, 30, this year.
- Kelly writes that they met at a birthday party, bonded over a shared tie to Hawaii, lost at least one friendship over the pairing, and are sometimes mistaken for father and daughter.
- She defends some upsides of the age gap, saying her partner is “one lucky bastard,” while noting such relationships can involve power or money imbalances and stressing her own independence at 30.
- Coverage places the essay in the context of Kiedis’s past with much younger women, citing a memoir admission of sex with a 14-year-old when he was 23, and reports no public statement from him.