Meet Eileen Kelly: All About Anthony Kiedis’ Girlfriend Amid Age Gap Debate
What To Know
- Eileen Kelly is dating Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman, Anthony Kiedis.
- Kelly addressed public scrutiny over their age gap in a new essay.
Eileen Kelly is defending her relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers musician Anthony Kiedis. The 30-year-old penned an essay for Vogue and addressed all the outside opinions about her dating someone just over twice her age. Kiedis is 63.
“There is something to be said for a man who’s simply had more time to get his sh*t together, and my much older boyfriend seems genuinely excited to be with me — not like he’s biding his time before he can swipe for someone better,” Kelly wrote. “He is fully aware that he’s one lucky bastard.”
She went on to give more insights into her dynamic with Kiedis — but who is Eileen Kelly herself? And how long has she been dating her rocker boyfriend? Keep scrolling for all the details.
Who is Eileen Kelly?
Kelly is a Seattle-born, Los Angeles-based writer and podcaster, known for her work addressing sex and mental health. At 16, she started writing her popular blog, Killer and a Sweet Thang, which has since turned into the production company behind her Going Mental podcast.
“I look at my life in sections: I grew up in Seattle, then I moved to New York when I was seventeen,” she told Hero Magazine. “I lived there for 10 years. I went through relationships. I struggled very heavily with mental illness and mental health. It’s all led me to this place today, and it’s also inspired my work in different ways. So I’m like, bring it on. I know that whatever downs I feel ultimately inspire the next steps I want to take.”
“I started my podcast after I had spent half a year in a psychiatric unit, and I was at a place where I had yet to accept what I had just gone through,” she continued. “I think I felt a lot of internal shame. All my friends are doing X, Y, and Z, and I’m sitting here in this unit feeling very confused, like, ‘This is not where I should be in my life.’ It was easier to talk to other people about their shit than it was to share my own. That’s how it started.”
What is Anthony Kiedis and Eileen Kelly’s age gap?
Kelly is 33 years younger than her boyfriend. She was born on August 8, 1995. Kiedis was born on November 1, 1962,
In the essay, she revealed that strangers have mistaken her for Kiedis’ daughter in public. “My own boyfriend is more than twice my age, which is either alarming or impressive, depending on who you ask,” she wrote. “It’s my first time dating someone significantly older, and sometimes I joke with friends that I’ve been missing out my whole life.”
How did Anthony Kiedis and Eileen Kelly meet?
Kelly revealed to Vogue that she met the singer at a party, striking up a conversation after having recently returned from a solo trip to Hawaii. She discovered that Kiedis owned a home where she had rented a tiny cottage on the beach. “It was a place I’d been returning to for the better part of a decade, and he had been there the whole time, just down the road,” she recalled. “We joked about whether we’d ever passed each other on the same stretch of sand, or stood in line next to each other at the same health food store.
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They realized their lives had crossed in other ways, too, an “invisible string connecting [them].” She added, “The age gap didn’t register at first. I had met someone interesting and magnetic; if anything, I assumed we’d just become friends. But when we exchanged numbers and made plans to get coffee, I called my best friend, the only person I knew who had dated much older. ‘Should I go on this date?’ I asked. ‘How old?’ ‘In his 60s.’ A pause, then: ‘Oh my God. He’s a spring chicken.'”
How long have Anthony Kiedis and Eileen Kelly been dating?
Per People, Kiedis and Kelly have been spotted together since November 2025. In her Hero Magazine interview, which was published in June 2025, Kelly shared that she was in a relationship with someone seven years her senior, so she started dating Kiedis likely sometime between then and the fall. “The reality [of her relationship] is comparatively unremarkable,” Kelly concluded her essay. “From the inside, we’re mostly just two people doing the regular, ongoing work of moving through life together.”
