It’s been a couple months since we’ve talked about Chris Pine, the best Chris, and it’s a good time for a check-in because he was spotted in New York yesterday with his girlfriend, identified as Keana Sky Wenger. You might remember her as the “mystery woman” he was seen with earlier this summer, they are now apparently official.
They look cute together, but I’m sure everyone will get in their feelings about their fifteen-year age gap. She’s 29, though, is that old enough to let a woman make her own choices, even if you wouldn’t make the same? This is forever my problem with the age gap discourse. There is a legitimate conversation to be had about unequal power dynamics in relationships, but when it comes to pure numbers, at a certain point you just have to let women be old enough to make their own choices.
Anyway, the internet calls Keana a “fashion designer” (no further details given) but she apparently used to be a hostess at an LA restaurant where she met Chris. No shade, people gotta pay bills. Besides, Matt Damon’s wife, Luciana Barroso Damon, was a bartender when they met. Sometimes dating a civilian works out well for celebrities. I feel like when a celebrity’s significant other is identified as having a service job, there’s a sort of denigrating edge to it, and that is definitely the case when I googled Keana’s name to see what her whole deal is. Her deal appears to be: woman trying to make it in a cutthroat industry, who worked a service job to make ends meet.
And now she’s dating Chris Pine, which again, people will definitely have feelings about. They’ve kept their relationship pretty lowkey so far, though, aided in no small part by the fact that Keana isn’t a celebrity. Again, sometimes dating civilians works out, especially if you’re not looking to make your relationship into a heatscore. For all we know right now, she seems fine, they’ve been together for at least a year, and they both have great taste in outerwear. Celebrity relationships have been built on less.
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