Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Addresses Husband's 32-Year Age Gap

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Karoline Leavitt is opening the level to questions astir her emotion life.

The 27-year-old White House property caput offered a glimpse into her narration with hubby Nicholas Riccio, 59, and did not shy distant from addressing their 32-year property gap.

“It's [a] precise atypical emotion story, but he’s incredible,” she said connected the Feb. 21 occurrence of The Megyn Kelly Show. “He is my top supporter, he’s my champion friend, he’s my rock.”

Leavitt—who is the youngest idiosyncratic successful U.S. past to service successful her position—shared that she was archetypal introduced to the existent property developer successful 2022 portion she was moving for a spot successful Congress successful New Hampshire. While the governmental adjutant yet mislaid her bid, she was introduced to her aboriginal spouse portion connected the run trail.

“A communal person of ours hosted an lawsuit astatine a edifice that helium owns up successful New Hampshire and invited my husband,” she explained. “I was speaking. We met, we were acquainted arsenic friends and past we fell successful love.”

Following their engagement successful 2023, the mates welcomed lad Nicholas Robert “Niko” Riccio, present 8 months, successful July. They went connected to speech vows 2 weeks earlier President Donald Trump’s 2nd Inauguration successful January, successful what Leavitt precocious called “one of my favourite days” successful a station connected Instagram.

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And arsenic Leavitt steps into her demanding caller role, she pointed retired 1 mode that the generational spread betwixt her and her hubby has benefited her nonrecreational pursuits.

“He's built a precise palmy concern himself truthful present he's afloat supportive of maine gathering my occurrence successful my career,” she noted, adding that Riccio is “so supportive, particularly during this precise chaotic play of life.”

To spot what different personage couples person said astir their ain May-December romances, support reading…

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Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor

The signifier of ignoring what radical accidental astir their 32-year property gap is thing caller for the actresses.

"If idiosyncratic wants to walk immoderate clip reasoning I'm unusual for loving the astir spectacular idiosyncratic connected the planet, past that's their problem," Sarah told Modern Luxury in 2018 portion discussing her narration with Holland. "I'm doing conscionable fine." 

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Heidi Klum & Tom Kaulitz

As for the erstwhile Project Runway host, she simply says auf wiedersehen to immoderate antagonistic comments astir her 16-year property gap with the Tokio Hotel guitarist.

"My fellow is galore years younger than me, and tons of radical are questioning that and asking astir it," she shared with InStyle in 2018. "That's truly the lone clip erstwhile property seems to beryllium shoved successful my look and I person to springiness an reply for it. I don't truly deliberation astir it that overmuch otherwise."

And Heidi—who joined Tom the pursuing year—made it wide she's going to proceed surviving beingness connected her terms.

"You person to conscionable unrecorded a blessed beingness without worrying excessively overmuch astir what radical think," the supermodel continued, "because worrying is lone going to springiness you much wrinkles." 

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Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas

Meanwhile, the Quantico prima has called retired a treble standard.

While she noted radical person a batch to accidental astir her being 10 years aged than the Jonas Brother singer, she suggested this wouldn't beryllium the lawsuit if it were the different mode around.

"People gave america a batch of s--t astir that and inactive do," Priyanka told InStyle. "I find it truly astonishing erstwhile you flip it and the feline is older, nary 1 cares and really radical similar it."

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Sam Taylor-Johnson & Aaron Taylor-Johnson

And if you'd inquire the Fifty Shades of Grey director, she'd accidental her 23-year property difference with the Kraven the Hunter histrion conscionable doesn't travel up successful their day-to-day.

“No, it ne'er does," she said successful a 2024 interrogation with The Guardian. "I mean, it’s coming up present due to the fact that you’re asking. And it comes up connected the extracurricular position of radical who don’t cognize us, due to the fact that I conjecture radical volition always...We’re a spot of an anomaly, but it’s that thing: After 14 years you conscionable think, surely by present it doesn’t truly matter?”

Sam adjacent pointed retired her narration with Aaron has lasted longer than her matrimony to her ex-husband Jay Jopling, who is astir 4 years older than she is.

"So, if you deliberation of it successful that way," she continued, "then the property spread doesn’t truly marque immoderate difference.”

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Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones

Though the mates stock a day (Sept. 25), they aren't connected the aforesaid page...of the calendar.

"My hubby is 25 years older than me; that’s not a secret," the Chicago prima told WSJ. Magazine successful 2021. "With immoderate relationship, it wouldn’t beryllium mean if determination weren’t immoderate ups and downs. The changeless is emotion and respect."

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Dennis Quaid & Laura Savoie

The Parent Trap alum whitethorn reason that the lone ones who should beryllium focused connected his narration with the Bonniedale Films cofounder is them. T-H-E-M, them. Get the picture?

Still, Dennis indicated helium and Laura are unfazed by immoderate attention astir her being 39 years younger. 

"We conscionable don't adjacent announcement it," helium told Today successful 2021 astir their property difference. "We've ne'er related to idiosyncratic successful my beingness amended than we do. We person specified a large relationship. And emotion finds a way, wherever it is. And you ne'er know, erstwhile emotion is coming, who that's going to be. And you person nary power implicit it. And we conscionable couldn't beryllium happier."

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Hilaria & Alec Baldwin

The yoga teacher has admitted she used to justice couples with large property gaps earlier her narration with the actor, who is 26 years her senior.

"Alec and I are connected each the lists of 'Celebrities with the Biggest Age Differences' and worldly similar that," she explained connected her podcast Witches Anonymous in 2022. "And I would look astatine it and beryllium like, 'This older antheral wants immoderate young bimbo with nary opinions whatsoever. And past that younger pistillate is evidently a golden digger, and she evidently doesn't adjacent attraction and is conscionable similar OK, whatever, I anticipation you dice and I'm gonna instrumentality each your money.'"

However, she's since had a alteration of heart.

"Now that I'm successful that narration and radical volition accidental those things astir maine regularly, I'm like, 'Oh my God, wherefore was this trained into my head? Why was I truthful judgmental astir different radical who are virtually conscionable uncovering love?'" she added. "And possibly their emotion looks antithetic from you, and from your love, oregon from what I thought emotion would be, but it doesn't marque it not valid."

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Felicity Blunt & Stanley Tucci

Gird your loins due to the fact that The Devil Wears Prada histrion antecedently spoke astir however helium astir ended his narration with the literate cause successful the aboriginal days of their romance.

"I'm 21 years older than she is and I didn't privation to consciousness aged for the remainder of my life!" Stanley told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2023. "But I knew that this was an incredibly peculiar person.”

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Oli Green & Sienna Miller

The Alfie histrion and the Lift histrion cognize not everyone understands their relationship.

 “I would ideate it would beryllium analyzable for anyone to get their caput around," Oli enactment it to Vogue portion referencing their 15-year property gap, "but there’s been thing but emotion and joy.” 

And frankly, Sienna suggested cipher other needs to recognize it.

“I don’t deliberation you tin legislate connected matters of the heart," she added. "I surely person ne'er been capable to."

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Jeff Goldblum & Emilie Livingston

The Jurassic Park prima recalled a lighthearted infinitesimal with his Olympian wife, who is 30 years his junior.

"I said, 'Which Beatle would I beryllium if I was 1 of the Beatles?'" helium remembered connected The Hoda Show. "She said, 'Rex Harrison.' I said, 'Wait a minute, I cognize we saw that My Fair Lady yesterday. I deliberation you're reasoning of that.'"

However, Jeff noted it didn't instrumentality Emilie agelong to recognize she meant George Harrison

"So there's that benignant of thing," helium noted of the couple's property gap. But different than their differing taste touchpoints, helium continued, beingness unneurotic is "so acold truthful good."

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley & Jason Statham

The exemplary besides doesn't consciousness the request to present a accelerated and furious effect to immoderate critics of her 20-year property spread with the actor.

"His cognition and spot are truly inspiring and attractive, and that tin travel with a antheral who's had a spot of time," she told Glamour in 2013. "We person a transportation that has thing to bash with age. Work comes and goes, but if you person idiosyncratic astatine location who thinks you're the top idiosyncratic successful the world, that keeps you going."

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David Foster & Katharine McPhee

As for however the American Idol alum feels astir immoderate judgement towards her astir 35-year property spread with the composer? Probably truthful implicit it.

"I wholly get the judgement initially, but things are ne'er arsenic they appear," Katharine said connected Dr. Berlin's Informed Pregnancy Podcast in 2023. "And I'm successful emotion with our emotion story, and that's each that matters is that I'm successful emotion with the emotion story."

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Kristin Cavallari & Mark Estes 

One happening that’s not unwritten? The mode Kristin felt astir her 13-year property gap with fellow Mark Estes

“Me dating a 24-year-old is not thing that I was searching out,” The Hills alum said connected a March 2024 occurrence of her podcast Let’s Be Honest. “It’s not thing that I ever thought would ever happen. If you guys perceive to the podcast, you cognize I thought 30-year-olds were excessively young for me.” 

And portion Kristin said she understands however “it looks to the extracurricular world,” she insisted Mark is “not a emblematic 24-year-old” and that there’s much to a idiosyncratic than their commencement year. 

“I truly deliberation property is conscionable a number,” she continued. “It’s what you’ve been done successful your life, however you were raised. There are conscionable truthful galore factors that spell into maturity different than age.”

But months later, Kristin shared she broke up with Mark.

“I conscionable cognize semipermanent helium needs to acquisition life,” she said connected an October occurrence of her podcast. “He’s young. He is. I started to consciousness the property a spot conscionable with beingness experience. I look backmost erstwhile I was 24 and however overmuch beingness has happened for maine successful betwixt then. Those are important years. Those are formative years. This is erstwhile you find yourself and helium needs to beryllium capable to bash that.”

Still, she called their romance "the champion relationship" of her beingness and expressed anticipation that Mark volition recognize their divided was for the best.

"I cognize that 1 time helium volition look backmost and helium volition recognize it," she added, "and I really deliberation 1 time helium volition convey me."

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Amal & George Clooney

When the Oscar victor archetypal started crushing connected the barrister, helium wasn't definite she'd consciousness the aforesaid way.

“I liked her, but I didn’t privation to leap the shark connected it,” George said connected The Howard Stern Show astir his aboriginal romance with Amal. “I couldn’t archer if she liked me. ‘Cause I’m 17 years older than her truthful she might’ve thought I was grandpa.”

However, it turns retired she liked him close backmost and they wed successful 2014.

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