Before Camila Cabello, See the Other Lucky Ladies Who Charmed Their Way Into Shawn Mendes's Heart

We may have no verbal confirmation of Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's romance [1] as of yet, but what we do have is a lot of sweet PDA [2] from all over the country. The two seem to have struck up a romance after being friends for years and recently working together on their hit "Señorita." [3] Before Camila, though, Shawn was famously quiet about his dating history, preferring to keep his romantic life private, but he's also been surprisingly open about the fact that he's not exactly the heartbreaker that some might expect a young pop star to be. Ahead, check out the women he's been linked to — and find out his current stance on hope for love.

Camila Cabello

Neither Shawn nor Camila has openly admitted to ever being together, but their recent PDA [5] and her appearance all over Shawn's current tour of the US might say otherwise. Maybe they're just having a fun Summer together — who knows. But they're definitely very, very close.

Hailey Baldwin

Hailey Baldwin is the closest Shawn Mendes has ever had to confirming a relationship with a fellow star, and even that was pretty low-key. The duo stepped out together at the 2018 Met Gala, but Shawn explained to People that it was simply because they were friends [6] who had both been asked to rep Tommy Hilfiger.

Shawn did, eventually, admit to Rolling Stone that they were "more than friends [7]" back in 2018, but steered clear of labeling it a full-fledged relationship.

"I don't even wanna put a title on it. I think it was more of a zone of limbo." Only about a month after they were at the Met Gala together, Hailey became engaged to Justin Bieber, whom she eventually married.

Lauren Arendse

Back before Shawn Mendes hit the big time, he was just a teenage Vine star doing normal teen things like going to prom. Fans have long speculated that his prom date, classmate Lauren Arendse, is the former girlfriend Shawn once off-handedly mentioned in a 2017 Q&A [8].

"I actually had a girlfriend for two years and so I wrote songs about her. But I write a lot of songs about love that I may not understand exactly, but I do think I have a good almost understanding of it," he said.

For now, Shawn is single and admits that, though he's open to a relationship, he's not exactly a smooth operator when it comes to talking to girls.

"Dude, I have no game," he told Rolling Stone. "There's less we have to do because of the good hair. We're already 10 steps ahead. But being good-looking doesn't make you have game."

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