Kristin Cavallari‘s inner circle co-signs her relationship with Mark Estesdespite their age difference.
“After seeing them together, they realize that Kristin and Mark have a real connection, and they see how happy he makes her,” a source exclusively reveals of Cavallari’s inner circle in the new issue of We weekly.
The former Laguna beach star, 37, made headlines on Feb. 27 when she debuted her romance with 24-year-old Estes. “He makes me happy 🤍,” Cavallari wrote on Instagram at the time.
Fans quickly flooded the comments section with jokes about their age difference. (Estes is 13 years younger than Cavallari.)
“She doesn’t care what people think when it comes to his age,” a second source said Usnoting that Cavallari and Estes have been together “for a while.”
Cavallari proved this to be true when she poked fun at the banter via TikTok on Saturday, March 2. “When they’re all confused that I’m dating a 24-year-old. Andddd?” she wrote on the app.
Fans first speculated that Cavallari and Estes were dating in late February after they were photographed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, according to a photo obtained by TMZ at the time. She was in Mexico for a photo shoot to promote the summer collection of her jewelry brand Uncommon James. It looked like Cavallari brought Estes along as her plus one.
Although she hasn’t shared any details about their relationship yet, aside from a few photos and some TikTok videos, Cavallari teased her plans to spill the tea on their relationship during a future episode of the Podcast ‘Let’s be honest’.
“I got a boy here with me,” Cavallari said in the episode released on Tuesday, March 5, referencing her Cabo trip. “I’m going to do a whole other episode about that because I’m going to tell you how this all came about. But he’s here with me and I just posted on Instagram and, so yeah, I’m excited to share that with you guys too because he makes me very happy.
Cavallari was married to a former NFL star Jay Cutler For seven years before calling it quits in 2020. Their divorce was finalized in 2022. (Cavallari and Cutler share three children together, sons Camden, 11, and Jaxon, 9, and daughter Saylor, 8.)
Before she debuted her relationship with Estes, she was romantically involved with the former reality star The bachelorette alum Tyler Cameroncomedian Jeff Dye and country music star Chasing riceamong other things.
For more details, watch the video above and pick up the new issue by We weeklyis now on the stand.