Leonardo DiCaprio Chats About His Love Life And How Lucky He Is

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Leonardo DiCaprio covers Esquire magazine’s May 2013 issue, and lucky for us, the 38-year-old actor posed for a number of sexy photos for the spread.

Leo chats about his career and what motivates him, but he also reveals a tiny tidbit as to why he ended his last relationship ... and we're 98% sure he's talking about his 10-month romance with Victoria's Secret beauty Erin Heatherton. “Six months of being on location or being off in Morocco or someplace like that is not the best thing for a relationship,” he says.

On what drives him to succeed, Leo tells the mag, "I always thought of myself as the underdog, because I didn’t have nice enough clothes or maybe my hair didn’t look good. And so you have to understand – getting your foot in the door is like winning the lottery. It’s literally like winning the lottery if you get to have a career. And I’ve always felt, Okay, now I’ve gotten this shot, and I’m lucky to have gotten this shot, and if I don’t do this to the best of my ability – if I don’t work my as* off and make a life of it – I’ve squandered this incredibly golden opportunity. And that’s always been what has propelled me."

When discussing his rise to stardom at such an early age, he adds, “I really didn’t understand what fame was and I didn’t understand what being in a giant hit was and I didn’t understand what a giant hit Titanic was compared to other giant hits. There was no rule book. There was nobody to navigate me through the experience of being watched all the time and nobody to tell me how to be normal when everybody is acting and looking at me differently.”