One of the pop music’s most-talked-about couples, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello celebrated their second anniversary with a romantic getaway to the Caribbean. Shawn Mendes, 22, on Saturday posted a photo on Instagram of them kissing on the beach. He captioned the post, “Happy 2 years my baby.”
Camila Cabello, 24, also shared a few photos from their romantic getaway and captioned it, “Happy anniversary Kuko. Here’s to more joy, more friendship, and more love.”
The two singers officially started dating in 2019, after the release of their first song together, ‘Señorita.’ Now fans cannot seem to stop gushing about the two, watch their moves, and popularly call them, ‘Shawmila.’ But how did the two get here? Let’s take a look at the timeline of their relationship:
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July 2014
The two first met in the opening acts for Austin Mahone’s tour when Camila Cabello was a member of Fifth Harmony. Discussing the same with V Magazine, the ‘Havana’ singer said, “I remember thinking we met on the Austin Mahone tour, and I remember I wanted to hang out with you.”
April 2015
In a game of “Lips, Wife, or Leave It”, Shawn Mendes chose Camila Cabello as the wife over Chloë Grace Moretz and Jade Thirwall from Little Mix and said, “Yeah, she rocks.”
November 2015
Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes drop their first collaboration together called “I Know What You Did Last Summer” sparking dating rumours. Talking about their song, the 22-year-old told Rolling Stone, “We were just backstage hanging out… I pulled out my guitar and we were just messing around, not really thinking about writing a song.”
March 2017
The two post a video together, jamming on Ed Sheeran’s song ‘Kiss Me.’
May 2017
Shawn Mendes praises Camila Cabello’s song ‘Crying in the Club’ and wrote on Twitter, “Speechless.. goosebumps all over. You’re incredible.”
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April 2018
Further fuelling their dating rumours, Shawn Mendes in an interview with Beats 1 heaped praises on Camilla Cabello as he called her his “favourite person in the whole world.”
“I don’t think you’ll ever meet somebody who can feel emotion like her, in all aspects,” he added.
“I shouldn’t be crying at this time in the morning but I AM ??? i love you SO much @ShawnMendes,” Camila Cabello wrote on Twitter, quoting the interview.
June 2019
Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello set the internet on fire after dropping ‘Señorita’ and fuel their relationship speculation as the song’s lyrics say, “You say we’re just friends. But friends don’t know the way you taste. ’Cause you know it’s been a long time coming. Don’t you let me fall.”
July 2019
The two started getting spotted together more often and on the fourth of July, they were caught kissing in San Francisco.
August 2019
And it went official when Shawn Mendes turned 21 and Camila Cabello posted a picture for him, captioning, “Happy birthday to this magic human, I love you!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️.” However, till that date, they had not officially announced that they are together.
September 2019
Shawn Mendes confirmed that he is in a relationship. When asked about whether he has ever been in love, he said, “Honestly, I wanna say I wanna talk to you guys about this stuff, but it’s not just me in the relationship.”
The same month, the two posted a video on Instagram making out, where Mendes said, “So we saw, like on Twitter and stuff, you guys saying stuff about how we were kissing and that it looks weird, that we kiss like fish…and we just want to show you how we really kiss,” and Cabello added, “It really hurt our feelings.”
October 2019
Camila Cabello publicly declared her love for Shawn Mendes, speaking to the U.K.’s Capital Breakfast radio show, she said, “We’re pretty happy. I really, really love him a lot.”
Shawn Mendes told fans they have not been dating that long as he and Cabello “have been dating since July 4th officially.”
Well, the rest is history. From attending NBA matches together to talking about each other in interviews, the two never hesitated to speak about their relationship. The two spent the first months of pandemic-prompted lockdown together, and to date continue to post PDA-filled photos on social media.
