Chris Evans is one of the very few celebrities who have never had a bad breakup.
Most of his relationships have only lasted less than a year, with a few exceptions — like
Jessica Biel, Minka Kelly, and Jenny Slate.
Chris and Jessica dated for five years, and they even discussed marriage.
So what happened to the cute couple of the early 2000s?
The circumstances of Jessica Biel and Chris Evans's introduction are unknown.
It is safe to say that they probably ran in similar chic early 2000s young actor circles.
The pair began dating in 2001, which, for reference, was the year Evans starred in and
was best known for Not Another Teen Movie, a masterpiece on its own.
And Biel was about six seasons into her tenure on 7th Heaven.
Because they were a relatively low-key couple that pre-existed current social media buzz,
there's not a lot of confirmed information about the romance on the internet.
Surely, both of their levels of fame weren't quite what they are today, so there’s also
that.
In December 2001, Biel told Extra that she was very appreciative of all Evans's training
for the role of “a hot jock with a heart of gold” in the Not Another Teen Movie.
"He was pretty good before … but damn.
He really got buff," she said.
We mean, has she seen him in this little indie movie called Captain America?
That same month, Evans and Biel were extremely affectionate on the red carpet at the second-ever
My VH1 Music Awards.
Two years later, the lovebirds were still attending red carpets as one of the hottest
couples in Hollywood.
Jessica and Chris were that super cute and super active couple who are always trying
new things and would gush over their "person" in ultra-curated Instagram posts if that was
all happening now, and they were in their early 20s.
For instance, they went skydiving for Valentine's Day.
Nothing says "I love you" like a life-threatening jump into the gloomy abyss … When they weren't
adventuring, the couple was busy co-starring in poorly received films.
In 2004, they co-starred for the first time in Cellular.
Evans played a college student who had to rescue a school teacher, played by Kim Basinger,
and Jessica played his love interest, of course.
Speaking with Boston Magazine about what it was like working with Jess, Chis said, "You
have to find a certain level of relaxation while you're trying to perform, and any time
you can lean on an existing relationship with someone, it's only going to help."
Almost a year to the date that Evans talked to Boston Magazine, Biel spoke to Cosmopolitan
about all the sweetest things Evans did for her.
"When I turned 21, I actually awoke to find my bed covered in rose petals," she said.
"In the middle of the night, he had pulled apart at least 24 roses in all different colors
and sprinkled the petals everywhere.
He's definitely a keeper."
Biel made herself sound like a lovely partner as well, explaining that she loved to take
photos of Chris and his dog and enjoyed cooking for him.
The relationship they had was drastically different from the one she had before.
When asked if she's ever gone through a bad-boy phase, Jessica said she learned her lesson
and that she'll never do that again.
The guy Biel dated was lying to her and accusing her of cheating, only for her to find out
later that he was the one who was cheating.
"He was putting it on me and making me feel like shit.
I will kick a man to the curb.
But then three years later, I was still with him.
And then it finally just smacked me in the face, and I was like I'm done.
I'm over it."
Chris Evans and Jessica Biel dated as they both were trying to ascend the ranks of Hollywood.
They were young and naive, but that didn't prevent the pair from discussing what a future
together might look like.
"We always talk about it.
We both want to be married, and we both want to have children."
​​​​​​In 2006, the couple co-starred for the second time in the indie drama London,
and they once again played lovers.
Chris plays Sid, the drug-addled ex-lover of Jessica's character.
They might have had fantastic on-screen chemistry in the film, but Evans and Biel broke up only
months after the movie premiered.
Neither actor is particularly fond of discussing their love lives publicly, so we don't have
a ton of clues as to what went wrong between the couple.
We mean, just a year prior, Jessica had said that she and Chris "always talk about" marriage.
Not long after splitting from Evans, Biel took up with this one fellow you've probably
never heard of, Justin Timberlake.
After breaking up and making up in 2011, the pair wed in 2012.
They welcomed son Silas in 2015 and Phineas — five years later.
After Biel, Evans dated actors like Minka Kelly and Dianna Agron and was rumoured to
have dated Sandra Bullock after her 2010 divorce.
His connection with Minka lasted from 2007 to about 2015, but most of the time, they
were broken up.
He was also briefly linked to Lily Collins and Elizabeth Olsen, though neither of those
relationships was confirmed.
He didn't have a long-term relationship like he had with Biel until he started dating his
Gifted co-star Jenny Slate in 2016.
But they also called it quits a year later.
"He's really vulnerable, and he's really straightforward," Slate said of Evans a month after they called
it quits.
They tried one more time, but alas, it didn't quite work out.
The couple ended their relationship for good in 2018.
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