Kristin Cavallari and Mark Estes.Photo:Mark Estes/Instagram
Mark Estes/Instagram
AlthoughMark Esteshad no problem sliding intoKristin Cavallari’s DMs, he was still feeling some nerves heading into their first date.
The former college athlete, who is one of three members of the successful TikTok group theMontana Boyz,toldPage Sixhow he was “a little nervous” when he met Cavallari, 37, for their first date.
“Along with any first date, I was definitely a little nervous,” explained the 24-year-old social media star. “But yeah, it was great, and yeah, I’d say there was instant chemistry right away.”
“From an outside perspective, it was pretty instant,” fellow group memberKaleb Winterburnadded, recalling to Page Six how Estes was “fired up” when theLaguna Beachalum replied to his direct message.
“He mustered up the courage to do it,” he recounted. “And then he did it on the wrong account, but then, she saw it, and he was pretty ecstatic the next day.”
Kristin Cavallari and Mark Estes.Kristin Cavallari/Instagram
Kristin Cavallari/Instagram
Things went very well on that first date, leading the two to make things official shortly thereafter.
“She’s just super confident. Obviously, she’s gorgeous. She’s an amazing person as well and a great mother. So, yeah, pretty much [the] full package,” Estes said of his girlfriend.
But while the two may be crazy about each other, others on the internet have pointed out that they have a 13-year age gap. Cavallarihas previously addressed it, saying on a previous episode of her podcast,Let’s Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari, “I want you guys to know that me dating a 24-year-old is not something that I was, like, searching out… I’m not gonna lie to you guys, like the age thing was a hangup for me at first.”
Now, though, she admitted: “I don’t give a f— and I’m all in with this guy and I don’t actually care what anybody thinks.”
“You definitely got to kind of block it out and just kind of have tunnel vision and have a vision of where we’re going, what we want to do in the future,” he explained. “So we don’t let that really get in the way of it.”
On the March 12 episode of her podcast,Let’s Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari, the reality star revealed that she received adirect message from Montana Boyz’s Instagram accountthat said: “I love you.”
Cavallari later discovered the sweet message was from Estes, who she described as “the hottest guy” she and longtime friendJustin Andersonhad “ever seen.”
“Yeah, I thought I was on my own account, and I DMed her,”Estes previously told PEOPLE. “We woke up the next day, and [my friend] was like, ‘Who DM’d Kristin?’ I was like, ‘Oh, that was me.’”
The two then had their first date the day before Valentine’s Day this year, and hard-launched their relationship in February while vacationing together in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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“We love it,”Kade Wilcox— who makes up the final third of the Montana Boyz — said of his pal’s new romance. “[We] support it. It’s been fun.”
Winterburn added, “It’s been fun meeting her and getting to know her and just everything about that whole world, too. It’s cool to see.”
source: people.com
