Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex Kristen Zang hit back at “ageist” comments about the actor’s young girlfriends after his split from Camila Morrone.
The 48-year-old model explained in a People essay published Wednesday that while she enjoys the “funny memes” that have emerged from the split, she doesn’t believe Morrone, 25, has “got older” or “too old.” has become for DiCaprio, 47.
“Puh lease (insert dramatic eye roll),” Zang, who dated DiCaprio for four years in the mid-’90s, wrote of recent headlines. “I think we can and should do better.
“What message does this send to young people?” she continued.
Talking about her own relationship with the ‘Titanic’ star, Zang noted that they broke up four months after her 25th birthday.
“Ha, I know what you’re thinking,” the actress wrote. “It’s a choice I made. I don’t know how to explain it exactly, I just felt like I was ready for our relationship.”
Zang felt she had “outgrown” their relationship, adding, “I wanted to find out who I was and what I wanted.”
Of DiCaprio and Morrone, she wrote, “Who knows what happened. Maybe she really cared about him, but she was just getting ready for the next chapter, maybe it’s temporary, or maybe it’s none of our business.’
Zang concluded by writing that she is now married to a man named Shea, who is younger than her.
“The joke is on you, Leo,” she wrote.
Although Zang is the first of DiCaprio’s exes to speak out about his divorce, social media users have been busy trolling the Oscar winner’s pattern of dating younger women, including Nina Agdal, Kelly Rohrbach and Toni Garrn.
“The girl Leonardo DiCaprio will dump when he’s 72 was born today,” one Twitter user wrote in August.
Another added: “3 things are certain in life: – death – taxes – leonardo dicaprio breaks up with his girlfriend before her prefrontal cortex is fully developed.”
Since he and Morrone called it quits, the Revenant star has partied “every night” with friends, sources told Vidak For Congress.
Morrone, for her part, was spotted dancing at Kaia Gerber’s 21st birthday party.