Kirsten Dunst was working with Maggie Gyllenhaal on “Mona Lisa Smile” in 2002 when her co-star introduced her to her handsome brother. Dunst, then 20, and Jake Gyllenhaal, then 21, were soon an item, per InStyle. As the hot couple they were, the paparazzi never failed to follow them around town. It is thanks to one of those photogs that we now have the infamous snap of Gyllenhaal starring at Dunst as she ate a salad with her fingers at a London eatery.
Even though they were young, Dunst and Gyllenhaal soon moved in together, sharing a $1.7 million home in Los Angeles, according to People. The move may have seemed fast, but Dunst knew what she was ready for and what she wasn’t. “Oh, I’m too young to get married,” Dunst told the outlet. “Seriously, I’m 22 years old. It’s so annoying that they put pressure on you.”
Instead of proposing and thinking about children, Dunst and Gyllenhaal adopted a German Shepherd named Atticus. No one was more relieved about Dunst’s resolution to not marry Gyllenhaal than her mother, Inez — at least that’s what a source told Radar Online in 2014. Inez reportedly wanted her daughter to settle down with someone who wasn’t part of a “rich, snobby Hollywood family.” As the son of a film producer and a director, Gyllenhaal notably hails from Tinseltown royalty. The insider dished, “Inez never really got along with the Gyllenhaals.”
