Chris Hemsworth Doesn’t Like PDA But His Relationship With Elsa Is Still Solid

Some things are just destined to be. When model and actress Elsa Pataky was 15, she got the Thor symbol tattooed on her right shoulder. Little did she know, she’d end up marrying Thor himself…well, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who played the god of thunder and lightning in the Marvel films decades later. “It is shocking how things in life [turn out]. I just liked that [symbol] and the legend he had was so beautiful and I wanted to keep it,” she told Vogue Australia in 2018.

Elsa and Chris met in 2010, a year before the Thor release would make them household names. “It’s difficult when you go from being an unknown person to a very known person and all the changes that come with that,” Elsa explained. But the sudden change in lifestyle allowed her and Chris to grow together. It certainly wasn’t easy, though. The couple got married just a few months before this rise to international fame and welcomed their first child shortly after that. “We did everything very quickly," she said.

While Elsa and Chris don’t quite have a roadmap for how they’ve "survived as a couple," Elsa said, they’ve put in the necessary work in order make their marriage a solid one. It’s work that comes through in their body language. Their stances on the red carpet and the small gestures they subconsciously make at home point to the many ways Elsa and Chris trust each other and show their love, according to Karen Donaldson, body language expert. Ahead, she breaks down what each of these moves means for this marriage.