I’m 21 & my boyfriend is 51 – trolls say the way we met is a huge red flag but we’re in love & share a baby

A WOMAN who took to Reddit to celebrate her age gap relationship has faced harsh criticism for meeting her much older boyfriend on a kink app.

Then-18-year-old Auggie Byrd met her then-48-year-old boyfriend on an app called Kinkoo, ‘the largest dating app for kinksters interested in the BDSM and fetish lifestyle'.

The couple have now been together for close to three years, and recently welcomed their first baby together.

The pair, from the US, were living in different states when they first met on the app, but Auggie soon got into a college near his area and moved out there.

She said they met for the first time the day she moved into her new dorm and have been “inseparable since.”

Auggie, now 21, shared pictures with her boyfriend, now 51, to r/AgeGapRelationship, where age-gap couples come to share their stories.

The four sweet pictures she posted showed the couple holding hands at a music festival, embracing and kissing, snowboarding and beaming at the camera.

Most comments in the thread were supportive, describing them as ‘cute' and a ‘beautiful couple'.

But some users said they way they had met was a huge ‘red flag' and raised eyebrows at how young Auggie had been.

One person wrote: “Gonna be real, there’s age gaps and then there’s age gaps, 48 and 18 whilst having met on a kink site rings all sorts of red flags.”

A second person commented: “Sooo, you met on a kink dating app when you were freshly 18 and in college ??? I'm assuming freshly 18 as you’re still 20 but going into your third year..... Yikes. I support age gap couples hence why I’m in this sub (I’ve been in one myself) but this is a whole new level. Hopefully it all works out, especially since you’ve got a kid.”

While a third person said: “I appreciate this post isn't some kink filled mess but… she was 18… that's a whole lot to take in”

Auggie wrote back to one of the haters asking them: “Why are you here on this sub Reddit? To complain?”

And most users showed their support for the couple.

One person wrote: “THEY'RE ACTUALLY SO CUTE TOGETHER THO.”

While another said: “Congratulations!

“Ignore the haters. You're both legal adults and can do whatever you want for whatever reason you want.”

A third cooed: “Beautiful couple, lucky people.”

Another person said: “I may not like the method you met, but there is nothing wrong with it if neither is using or abusing each other.

“Enjoy each other’s company and ignore the negative bs.

“People can say ‘you’re almost a child' but we don’t bury people who are almost dead. Everyone one is almost something that they are not.”

A-list age gap relationships that have stood the test of time

1. Kris Jenner & Corey Gamble – 25 years
   The Kardashian matriarch, 69, met her younger man, 44, at a mutual friend's 40th birthday party in Ibiza. They've been together since August 2014.
2. Sam & Aaron Taylor-Johnson – 23 years
   The director, 57, and actor, 34, reportedly met at a film audition in 2009, and were married by 2012. The pair share two daughters and Sam has two children from a previous marriage.
3. Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley & Jason Statham – 20 years
   The model, 37, started dating actor Jason, 57, in 2010. They were wed in 2016 and have since welcomed a son and a daughter together.
4. Catherine Zeta-Jones & Michael Douglas – 25 years
   Catherine, 55, was introduced to Michael, 80, a film festival in 1996 and engaged three years later. Shortly after their engagement, the couple welcomed a son and married in 2000.