I met my husband when I was a child – now I’m 21, he’s 44 and I’m stepmother to his children

A WOMAN has raised eyebrows online after telling how she met her boyfriend, who is 23 years older than her.

Ellie Liptrot, 21, and her boyfriend Mark, 44, have been together for three years and first started their relationship when Ellie was just 18 years old.

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She revealed that the couple had lived in the same city for years and definitely crossed paths before embarking on their romance.

Ellie, who is now stepmother to Mark’s two children, added that Mark owned a smoothie shop and she often went there as a child.

In the clip, Mark and Ellie held each other before Ellie started doing her makeup to get ready for the day and answering a fan’s question about how the pair met.

She revealed she was with a friend on Christmas Eve when they got hungry.

Her mate then texted their friend Declan asking if he could take them out for dinner, but he was unavailable and gave them Mark’s number instead.

“We called him up and said, ‘Can you take us to get something to eat?’ I think he picked us up around 1am and we weren’t brought back until 7am because Mark was clearly having the night of his life.” Ellie remembers.

Mark, now 44, joked that he initially ignored their call, but Ellie put him in his place and said: ‘You did text us back.’

Ellie said she, Declan, her boyfriend and Mark formed a friendship group and often went on day trips together.

But in March 2022, Ellie realized she liked Mark and the pair kissed during their stay at a lodge.

Mark interjected with a laugh and said, “Oh yeah, I think I tried to go home and you told me not to and made me stay there.”

Ellie then replied, “He begged for it. I think I practically moved in with you after that.”

The couple moved in together after dating for just a few months, and in June 2022, she met his two children early in their relationship.

A week after meeting Mark’s children, they moved in with Ellie and Mark and even call her their “stepmother”.

She added: ‘If I wasn’t such a greedy girl and didn’t want food, I would never have met Mark.

A-list relationships with age gaps that have stood the test of time

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2. Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson – 23 years
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3. Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham – 20 years
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4. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas – 25 years
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The clip was posted to her TikTok account @elli3liptrot quickly went viral with over 862,000 views and 26,000 likes.

People were quick to share their thoughts in the comments.

One person wrote: “So many red flags.”

Another commented: “A bit of a vague sounding meeting but you guys seem happy together.”

“People are baffled by this relationship…I totally understand,” wrote a third.

Meanwhile, a fourth said: ‘What do your parents think?’

“Age is just a number, you make a beautiful couple,” claimed a fifth.

Someone else added: “I love their relationship.”

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