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Image Credit: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock Charlize Theron has been romantically linked to Sean Penn, Stuart Townsend, and Third Eye Blind’s Stephen Jenkins. In 2020, Charlize revealed she hadn’t gone connected a day successful 5 years, arsenic she prioritized her kids instead. In 2023, Charlize was photographed holding hands with exemplary Alex Dimitrijevic.
From Oscar-winner to enactment star, Charlize Theron has remained 1 of the biggest, baddest, and astir breathtaking stars connected the metallic screen. The 47-year-old prima of Monster, Mad Max: Fury Road, Atomic Blonde, and The Old Guard has enjoyed an unthinkable vocation – and immoderate unthinkable romances, arsenic well. Charlize has been progressive with Sean Penn, Stuart Townsend, and Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins.
In May 2023, Charlize was spotted holding hands with a caller man: exemplary Alex Dimitrijevic. This marked Charlize’s biggest romanticist infinitesimal successful a while. “I’ve been connected a fewer dates, but I haven’t dated anybody for implicit 5 years,” Charlize told Drew Barrymore in 2020, per USA Today. Not the benignant of crippled that we deliberation of. The benignant of crippled that’s like, ‘My beingness is truly good, truthful you amended beryllium capable to bring that and possibly better,’ due to the fact that I conscionable won’t judge thing less.”
(Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)Charlize explained that her precocious barroom for imaginable partners came aft motherhood. She has adopted 2 children – 1 girl successful 2012 and a 2nd successful 2015 – and she said the acquisition changed what she expected successful dating. “It’s not that it replaces thing oregon that it makes you little funny successful thing else,” she told Drew. “I deliberation your priorities are successful a spot that is of precocious request due to the fact that it’s a batch of enactment to beryllium a parent. And past portion of that is, astatine the extremity of the day, I get successful bed, and I go, ‘Oh my God, I wouldn’t privation this time to beryllium thing different.'”
Charlize besides said she was not “eager to leap into a relationship” due to the fact that of her hard upbringing and didn’t privation to upend her kids’ lives. “I americium truthful arrogant of the information that my kids unrecorded successful a location wherever they consciousness similar they’re safe, and they consciousness similar they’re ne'er gonna person to locomotion connected eggshells, and they’re ne'er gonna person to travel down and interest astir however their time is gonna go.”
As it appears this caller antheral passed the test, get to cognize astir him and Charlize’s past romances.
Alex Dimitrijevic
Charlize and Alex Dimitrijevic caused a disturbance successful mid-May 2023 erstwhile they went for a stroll successful Los Angeles. The 2 walked hand-in-hand done the Los Feliz neighborhood, causing speculation of a imaginable romance betwixt them. When Daily Mail published the photos of their luncheon date, not overmuch was known astir Alex, but that helium was a exemplary repped by NEXT MODELS.
His listing with the agency said helium was 6’3″ and had a 42-inch thorax and 34-inch waist. The AlexanderDimitrijevic.com website showcased immoderate of his modeling enactment and linked to a deactivated Instagram account. It besides linked to a LinkedIn account that listed him arsenic the Design Director for Malbon Golf, the co-founder of undrtone sport, and the Design Director for Short Par 4. The LinkedIn relationship besides stated that helium went to UC Santa Barbara for Sociology.
Sean Penn
The “five-year” dating hiatus that Charlize spoke astir successful 2020? That started aft she divided from Sean Penn successful June 2015.
In 2020, Charlize clarified a misconception astir her narration with the arguable actor. When appearing connected The Howard Stern Show, the big suggested that She “almost got married” to Penn. “What? That’s not true. No. I did not ‘almost get joined to Sean.’ That’s specified bulls—t,” she said, “We dated. That was virtually each we did. It was a relationship, for sure. We were decidedly exclusive, but it was for hardly a year. We ne'er moved in. I was ne'er going to wed him. It was thing similar that.”
(David Fisher/Shutterstock)“I ne'er wanted to get married. That’s ne'er been thing that’s important to me. On the lives of my children, I’ve ne'er been lonely. I’ve ne'er felt alone,” she added. Charlize did accidental that her life, astatine that moment, “doesn’t let a batch of country for thing similar [dating] to happen. But successful saying that, there’s not this happening that drives maine [to person a romanticist relationship].”
“I bask being acceptable up connected dates, but I don’t cognize if I’ll ever beryllium capable to unrecorded with idiosyncratic again,” she added. “To beryllium wholly frank, they mightiness person to bargain the location adjacent to me. I don’t cognize if I’m going to beryllium capable to woody with that ever again, I’m excessively aged for that s—t.”
Stuart Townsend
Charlize’s longest narration was with Irish histrion Stuart Townsend. The 2 met connected the acceptable of 2002’s Trapped. “We sat beside each other, and I honestly truly didn’t instrumentality that overmuch notice, possibly due to the fact that we were working,” helium said of their archetypal read-through successful a 2004 interrogation with Irish America (h/t InStyle). “All I retrieve is Charlize had a canine with her and I retrieve thinking, “Oh, there’s the huffy woman with the dog!'”
Later that night, Charlize dressed up for meal with Stuart and the director, and Townsend’s jaw was near connected the floor. “When she glams up it’s ridiculous,” helium continued. “She tin look truthful hot. She’s a goddess, man, a full goddess. That nighttime we had truthful overmuch fun. I was conscionable smitten aft that.”
(Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock)Charlize said she wasn’t taken by Stuart astatine first. “He had each the criteria for idiosyncratic who wasn’t going to beryllium thing serious,” she told Marie Claire. “He lived implicit determination [in England]; I lived implicit here. So we were precise honorable with each other: ‘I deliberation you’re hot, I deliberation you’re nice, I deliberation you’re smart. We tin spell connected dates. What bash you think?’ And then, things happened.”
The 2 were unneurotic for 8 years, earlier rumors of a breakup started to disturbance astir 2010. In 2011, Charlize said she’d antecedently taken a interruption from acting to hole things with Stuart. “It was sinking, and I had to springiness it a fight,” she said, per InStyle. “I truly wanted to effort and marque it work. That was the priority. I wouldn’t bash it immoderate antithetic way.”
It’s unclear what caused the breakup. In 2017, she told Howard Stern that her “heart was married” to Townsend. She would besides archer Vogue that what they had was “more than love.”
Stephan Jenkins
(Dave Lewis/Shutterstock)Charlize had a “tumultuous three-year relationship” with Stephan Jenkins, per SF Gate. The mates dated from 1998 to 2001. When asked successful 2003 if his band’s caller album, Out of the Vein, had immoderate songs inspired by Charlize, Stephan said, “Yes. Um…no, I deliberation that…[pause] I deliberation she was decidedly a…[long pause] Um, what’s the word…[longer pause] I deliberation that’s a bully answer: Yes.” (per People).
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