When you are Captain America and at the same time one of the most adored bachelors in Hollywood,
your fans want you to be with the best woman that would be "worthy" of you.
When Hollywood star Chris Evans began dating comedian Jenny Slate, the public feedback
was not long in coming and at some point it resembled nothing less than bullying.
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Evans and Slate became close on the set of the film Gifted in 2015. At the time, Slate
was still married, but the two quickly became friends - that was just platonic, but very
fulfilling for both.
Shortly after Jenny separated from her husband, Chris showed a romantic interest in his friend.
That move came as quite a surprise for Slate who said ironically:
"To be quite honest, I didn't think I was his type. Eventually, when it was like, 'Oh,
you have these feelings for me?', I was looking around like, 'Is this a prank?'"
They started dating in 2016 and seemed so lovely together. The two instantly became
everyone's favorite couple. Well, almost everyone's...
Even though Slate was known and respected in comedy circles, Evans already was an INTERNATIONAL
(!) star due to his Captain America role. He was getting all the attention associated
with his fame. That meant no privacy, in the first place.
She would say:
"For him to go to a restaurant is totally different than for me to go. I sit in my window
and I say 'Hi' to people on the street. I have more freedom because I'm not Captain
America. I'm mostly a cartoon."
And again Jenny was laughing off serious issues. But the public started adding oil to the fire.
Social media users actually started dropping cruel comments about Slate, and specifically
- about her appearance, which according to them was not good enough for someone as hot
as Evans.
One of the users wrote: Fans of Chris Evans are commenting on Jenny
Slates' Instagram things like "ew" & "ugly" because she's dating him...THAT is what's
disgusting.
And that was unfortunately not a one-time thing.
There was, however, another camp of the couple fans annoyed by the horrible comments. The
situation a little bit reminded of the one with Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant who
was tagged "too old" for him.
Some also didn't miss a chance to compare Slate with Captain America's ex girlfriends
- like actress and model Minka Kelly or actress Jessica Biel.
By March 2017, they broke up, but kept being the sweetest exes on earth when talking about
each other.
Jenny told Vulture after the split how much they loved being with each other despite having
different lifestyles and social circles.
She confirmed her thought in an interview with the New York Times saying:
'Chris is truly one of the kindest people I've ever met, to the point where sometimes
I would look at him and it would kind of break my heart… He has beautiful, big, strong
emotions, and he's really sure of them.'
And Chris called Jenny (quote) "my favorite human" and said he was (again quote) "endlessly
grateful for having met her"
Awww! That doesn't sound like an end of relationships at all! Right? And the prayers of the couple's
fans were finally heard.
Already in October we saw the two excessively flirting on Twitter.
To cut a long story short - Chris and Jenny got back together and even spent a lovely
Christmas with Evans's family. Many were betting on engagement and couldn't hide their disappointment
when the two ultimately broke up in March.
Chris's immense fame looked like one of the serious reasons for breakup (both first and
second time). Jenny said somewhere in between:
'If you are a woman who really cares about her freedom, her rights, her sense of being
an individual, it is confusing to go out with one of the most objectified people in the
entire world.'
It appears like Jenny was uncomfortable not only with bullying, but generally all that
attention and rumours.
For better or for worse… those relationships ended. The comedian, as we learned at the
end of 2019, is engaged to Ben Shattuck. And Evans… has not apparently been involved
in something serious since then. He told Men's Journal he would love that though…
"I really want kids. Yeah, I do. I like pretty pedestrian, domestic things. I want a wife,
I want kids. I like ceremony. I want to carve pumpkins and decorate Christmas trees and
shit like that."
As we look back at this story, it is hard for us to stop thinking it could really work
out unless all the public attention. What is your opinion on that? Let us know in the
comments!