Erika Kirk Had A Bigger Age Gap With Her Husband Charlie Than We Realized

Back in 2018, at the Turning Point USA headquarters in New York, conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk first laid eyes on his wife, Erika Kirk, during a job interview. As the founder of the organization, Charlie had brought Erika in for an open position, but the interview didn't go as planned. As Erika tells in a 2023 Instagram post, the professional chat ended with Charlie proclaiming, "I'm going to date you." The couple married three years later in 2021 and welcomed two children, a girl and a boy, in 2022 and 2024. Their relationship has been a constant spectacle following Charlie's rise to fame through his Turning Point USA organization and social media presence. Despite their public relationship, many don't realize that the couple has quite an age gap.

Born in 1993, Kirk was five years younger than Erika, who was born in 1988. At the time that the couple met back in 2018, Charlie was 25 years old, a hotshot with a new political organization under his belt, while his wife, an ex-beauty pageant contestant, was 30! Media is rife with age gap relationships where older men fall for younger women, but in the case of Charlie and Erika, she was the one dipping down in age for her partner. 

Erika Kirk's age difference with her husband, Charlie Kirk, pushed the boundaries of the couple's beliefs. During a conversation on a shared panel at the Young Women's Leadership Summit in June 2025, the pair discussed the increase in improbability of women passed the age of 30 getting married. Erika agreed with her husband as he encouraged the young women in the audience to dedicate their days to finding a spouse. The podcaster's wife, who was 33 when the pair married, quickly added (via Real America's Voice) "For the women who are getting married after 30, that's okay", before tacking on "it's not ideal, it's not probably the best statistical odds position for you". 

Erika and Charlie are not alone with their age gap relationship, in fact, as President Donald Trump shuffles government officials with new MAGA supporters, the American political landscape has become a hotbed for these age gap relationships. President Trump himself and First Lady Melania Trump are the perfect example of how typical this unbalanced relationship trend is with government officials. The president's cabinet is packed full of these relationships. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr., is 71 years old and married to 60-year-old Cheryl Hines. Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of National Intelligence, is seven years her husband's senior. Kelly Loeffler, U.S. Administrator of the Small Business Administration, is 16 years younger than her husband.