Clint Eastwood Has Found Happiness With His Current Girlfriend

Dec 12, 2020 by apost team

Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood made a name for himself through starring in Western films such as the classic "Dollars Trilogy,” and he is now an award-winning director in his own right, having won an Academy Award for Best Director for his film Million Dollar Baby.

Despite being in the public eye for his acting career and a famous brood of children—most of them followed in his footsteps and are also part of the film industry—Eastwood has always tried to keep his private life very private. But now he has found love again with his current girlfriend, the public can’t help but take an interest.

The 90-year-old actor has been married twice and has eight children. Being such a big star, however, has often meant that his entire love life is played out for all to witness, just like his films. Any illicit love affairs, secret romances, or casual encounters are picked up by the media and end up becoming hot gossip, but maybe that’s also because Eastwood has had a very interesting and colorful history of romances.

Starting from the beginning, Eastwood had a relationship with a woman in 1953 whilst he was engaged to Maggie Johnson, reports the Daily Mail. Unknown to him, this resulted in a daughter, Laurie, who was born in 1954. Laurie was adopted by a couple living in Seattle and it was only many decades later that Eastwood found out he was her father.

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Clint Eastwood met Maggie Johnson in 1953, and they married. But it has been public knowledge that Eastwood always maintained an interest in other women throughout his marriage to Johnson, including an affair with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis. She gave birth to their daughter, Kimber, in 1964.

Eastwood and Johnson continued to work on their marriage and had children of their own. Their son, Kyle, was born in 1968, and their daughter, Alison, was born in 1972. The marriage ended in 1984 when Johnson filed for divorce after Eastwood had a notable affair with Sondra Locke. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for Johnson, reports the Independent.ie.

Eastwood had another two children with Jacelyn Reeves: Scott, born in 1986, and Kathryn, born in 1988. The actor became a father once more thanks to his relationship with Frances Fisher. Their daughter, Francesca, was born in 1993.

Eastwood married for a second time in 1996 to news presenter Dina Ruiz. The couple met when Ruiz interviewed him in 1992. Together the pair had one daughter together, Morgan Eastwood, the youngest member of the Eastwood clan. In true Eastwood fashion, his marriage to Ruiz wasn’t destined to last. They divorced in 2013.

Eastwood then went on to have casual relationships with several women, but he didn’t commit to anything serious until 2015 when he began to be spotted with a beautiful blonde woman. This woman also accompanied him to the Academy Awards in 2015, reports sheknows.com. That’s when people knew it was serious.

The lady Eastwood is serious about is 57-year-old restaurant hostess Christina Sandera from California. As soon as it became official, the world couldn’t wait to find out more about her.

Eastwood first met Sandera when she was working as a restaurant hostess at Eastwood’s Mission Ranch Hotel in 2014. According to sheknows.com, after meeting through a mutual friend, it was love at first sight.

The 33-year age gap doesn’t seem to make any difference to the couple, especially given they have now been together six years, proving that age really is just a number. After Eastwood’s marriage to Dina ended, he didn’t move house. Instead, he chose to remain living in the family’s home in Carmel Valley. Sandera moved into the mansion with Eastwood shortly after they began dating.

It is said the entire family approves of Sandera, and it looks like he’s finally found someone who enhances his life and he enjoys being with.

A source told Closer Weekly, “He’s truly happy with her. She’s fun, easygoing, and his kids like her too. She’s on an even keel like he is.”

The whole family was seen together for the first time at the 2018 premiere of the film The Mule. Christina joined Eastwood’s eight children and his first wife, Maggie Johnson. It may seem strange to think of them altogether, but if Eastwood’s mantra for life is anything to go by, he’s going to give every opportunity 100 percent.

“You’re given one shot, and you should do the best you can with it. In the end, you’ve just got to be happy with what you’ve done. There you are,” the actor once said.

Not only has he lived a life full of adventure and love, but Clint Eastwood is also incredibly fit, even at the ripe old age of 90. A source revealed some of his secrets in staying and feeling young to Closer Weekly, explaining:

“He eats healthy and has a private chef who cooks high protein, low-fat cuisine for him. He exercises every day, with weight training, and he still does push-ups!”

But it's not just physical health that Eastwood keeps up, it's also mental health. He told GQ in 2009 that he also avidly practices meditation in order to keep his brain sharp. He said:

“I do it twice a day, and it works great because it gives you a chance to gather your thoughts. I’m religious about it when I’m working.”

But the veteran filmmaker knows that meditating is different from overthinking and worrying, as he also once said:

"I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive."

Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, California. His father was a manufacturing executive at Georgia-Pacific, while his mother worked in a clerical role at IBM. The family lived in a wealthy area of town in a house that had a swimming pool, each parent had their own car, and they belonged to a country club. Despite this privileged upbringing, Eastwood got into trouble as a youth and it's uncertain whether he actually graduated from high school.

As a young man, he worked in a range of odd jobs including as a lifeguard, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, golf caddy, and paper carrier. While he attempted to enroll at Seattle University in 1951, he was instead drafted into the United States Army during the middle of the Korean War. He never served overseas, however, with his former partner Sondra Locke once stating:

"He always dropped the Korean War reference, hoping everyone would conclude that he was in combat and might be some sort of hero. Actually, he'd been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military."

Incidentally, it was his time stationed at Fort Ord that led to his career in Hollywood. Although the exact story of how he caught the attention of notable people in the film industry is disputed, Eastwood eventually made it to the audition process, and while prominent producer Arthur Lubin was impressed with his looks, he disapproved of Eastwood's acting. Nonetheless, Eastwood signed an acting contract in 1954 that included attending drama classes.

After many auditions, Eastwood didn't have much luck, until he finally got a bit-part in his first movie, Revenge of the Creature. A number of other small roles followed, but his contract eventually ran out and wasn't renewed. However, that didn't stop the budding actor, who continually put in the work with minor roles, until eventually, he landed a breakthrough part in 1958 as Rowdy Yates in the western series Rawhide.  

The series aired for five years before being canceled, but his work on Rawhide led to the movie that would put him on the map. When his co-star Eric Fleming rejected an offer to star in a foreign-made western movie, Eastwood was suggested instead. Well, the movie was none other than A Fistful of Dollars, made by a relatively unknown director at the time, Sergio Leone. The film greatly influenced the Spaghetti Western genre and led to Eastwood working with Leone on two other films in the trilogy—For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. 

The rest as they say is history. Eastwood's work in the spaghetti western genre propelled him to international stardom and led to his later work in the Dirty Harry films of the '70s and '80s. Having conquered acting, he moved on to directing by the 1990s and has had great critical and commercial success with movies such as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, and Letter From Iwo Jima. He's been honored with many accolades during his lengthy career including Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement, among numerous other film awards. He's even been honored with two of France's highest civil orders—the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Legion of Honour medal.

Clint Eastwood has lived a long and storied life full of career highs and lows, as well as a rich personal life. Even at the age of 90, we're sure he's still got a lot in store.

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