Harry Styles Dating Rumors 2013 [PHOTOS]: 'Xtra Factor' Host Caroline Flack Opens Up About 2012 Romantic Fling w/ Much Younger One Direction Hunk

Back when One Direction was just starting to take off, Harry Styles started dating "Xtra Factor" host Caroline Flack who is about 15 years his senior. This relationship garnered plenty of attention considering the age difference, but a recent interview with Flack (now 33 years old) reveals that Harry's family was okay with the relationship. Flack also mentions that she had no intention of taking the relationship to a more serious level.

"We weren't bothered and his family wasn't bothered," the host of "Xtra Factor" said in a new interview with Glamour. "But the thing about unconventional relationships is that other people do seem to be bothered."

She added: "I mean, look, it was just really fun to hang out... I don't think we were ever going to have a long-term future. It was fun and it was hurting nobody... [Breaking up] was fine. And now we're friends."

One of the biggest effects dating Harry Styles had on Flack's life was the attention and being called a "cougar." Though technically, she was too young to be a "cougar" at the time (and still is), she understood why she was given that label.

"I think maybe I'm more aware of my age than ever before," she explained. "People have made me aware of my age... I do think the word 'cougar' is quite funny. I was once offered something ridiculous, like a million pounds, to be the face of cougarlife.com... It's an American website where younger guys can find older women. When I checked out the site, I discovered that, at 31, I was actually technically too young to be a cougar."

After Flack, Styles' love life has pretty much stayed in the headlines. He dated Taylor Swift for a while and has since been romantically linked with Kara Rose Marshall, Cara Delevingne, Alexis Allen and Paige Reifler.