Joe Jonas is facing public scrutiny as comments Gigi Hadid made about her age when he first asked her out have resurfaced in the wake of the singer’s divorce from Sophie Turner.
Jonas and Hadid dated for several months in 2015, when the model was 20. However, she said Jonas first asked her on a date several years earlier, when she was only 13 or 14 and he was in either his late teens or early 20s.
Teen Vogue reported in 2015 that Hadid said in a Periscope stream that Jonas had awkwardly asked her out “at the Grammys when I was 13 years old.”
“He asked me to a baseball game, and I said no,” Hadid said. “I was so nervous; I literally didn’t even know what it meant to hang out with a boy.”
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“And also, Grammys are on a Sunday, and I didn’t want to tell him that I had school the next day, so I was like, ‘No, maybe next time.'”
In Hadid’s version of events, Jonas would have been 19 at the time, but as Entertainment Tonight pointed out, Hadid attended the awards ceremony for the first time when she would have been 14 and he would have been 20, citing photographs of the event.
According to Hadid, Jonas was not deterred by her rejection. Instead, he “wrote his number on a piece of paper and gave it to my mom,” beginning the former couple’s friendship.
Regardless of whether she was 13 or 14 at the time, fans on social media have been expressing their shock and outrage at the story, with some users on X, formerly called Twitter, saying that it was “creepy” and “gross.”
Another X user wrote that it was “wild how much we normalize” men asking children out on dates.
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