Bad Bunny Admits if Kendall Jenner Inspired His Latest Album
Kendall Jenner has been on TV since she was 11 and divides much of her time between magazine cover shoots, high-fashion runways and hanging out with her family and glamorous friends.
But she abides by the rule that being famous for more than half of your life doesn’t mean everyone has to know everything about you.
“Since I was really young, I felt out of place in my family,” the 29-year-old told WSJ. The Magazine in 2023. “I was born into this life, but I didn’t choose this life.”
Kendall hasn’t un-chosen it, either, still logging screentime on The Kardashians since Keeping Up With the Kardashians ended in 2021, but she has broken away from the pack as a full-time model who—unlike all of her sisters—is not yet a mom. (“I’m excited for that time in my life,” said the aunt of 23 nieces and nephews. “I just know it’s not right now.”)
But very much like every member of her family, her private life is the subject of mass fascination, hence the notice paid when she and ex-boyfriend Devin Booker enjoyed a meal together in Aspen over Valentine’s Day weekend.
And though she’s willing to candidly speak on everything from anxiety and therapy to fashion and business, the specifics of her love life are off-limits.
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“I try [to] find the balance of keeping things private and keeping things sacred, [and] also not letting the unfortunate frustration and stress of everyone trying to get in on it stop me from enjoying my side,” she told WSJ. “I just think that that’s the healthier way of dealing with relationships anyway.”
Meaning, there’s about a zero-percent chance she’ll comment on whether she and her NBA star ex are rekindling the flame.
Or whether she and her more recent ex-paramour Bad Bunny, who watched her walk in Calvin Klein’s show during New York Fashion Week earlier this month, have more tale to tell.
But Kendall has been known to talk about relationships and feelings in the abstract, if not who’s inspiring them at any given time.
“I love really hard, and I love without apology,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in a September 2023 story. “I don’t like goodbyes, and I will fight to not have to say goodbye. I will always fight for relationships. I’ve been that way since I was little, although I was shy and sometimes very closed off. I don’t give up on anything. Some people aren’t willing to meet me at that level. But that’s okay. I’d rather do that than shut myself off to something and not give it a proper chance.”
Meanwhile, she has called herself “the worst single person ever” because staying home is usually the more appealing option than going out in the chance of meeting people.
And yet romance still finds her.
And even when she’s not dating anyone, the internet is happy to link her to some fellow or another—as acknowledged by Kim Kardashian, who sported a fan-made “Kendall’s Starting Five” T-shirt on a 2023 episode of The Kardashians, featuring her sister surrounded by rumored and actual love interests Blake Griffin, Ben Simmons, Jordan Clarkson, Kyle Kuzma and Devin.
Which of those basketball players actually courted Kendall? And who has she dated outside the arena? Read on for the full rundown on her quietly stacked romantic history:
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Harry Styles
“No story, we’re friends,” Kendall Jenner told E!’s Giuiliana Rancic in November 2013 of her and Harry Styles‘ relationship status after they were spotted at dinner in West Hollywood. “He’s cool.”
But subsequent sightings in New York and London even had Brody Jenner guessing that, whatever was up between them, his half-sister was in the driver’s seat.
“I’m sure she’s having a fun time with him,” he told the New York Daily News that December. “She has a very level head, great head on her shoulders. But they are both so young.”
Then 18 and 20, Kendall and Harry never lost each other’s numbers, reuniting for stop-the-presses outings in 2016 (including a PDA-packed stay aboard a yacht), 2018, 2020…
So, at the very least, a lasting friendship was in the cards for the duo, who sparked romance rumors again as recently as 2022, following Harry’s split from Olivia Wilde.
“She and Harry are just good friends,” a source told E! News at the time. “They remained friendly over the years and have kept in touch.”
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Justin Bieber
Kendall never dated Justin Bieber, but they were around each other enough that some people speculated they were.
Enough so that it was brought up during a Nightline interview Kendall gave in 2014.
“He’s a longtime friend of our family,” she said of the “Baby” singer. “Everybody loves to assume things, but no.”
Moreover, Kendall has been besties with Hailey Bieber for ages, and she’s been known to double date with the married couple when she has a plus-one in her life, or just chill with the duo on her own.
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Nick Jonas
In August 2015, freshly single Nick Jonas was rumored to be seeing Kendall after being introduced into her orbit by brother Joe Jonas and his then-girlfriend Gigi Hadid.
But they weren’t on the level of dating, according to Nick.
“Kendall is great,” he told E! News at the time, “and naturally with her being good friends with Gigi and with Joe and Gigi dating, there are times we’ll be in the same place and we all hang out.”
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Jordan Clarkson
There were rumored fireworks between Jordan Clarkson, then playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, and Kendall over Fourth of July in 2016—and they seemed to still be getting along swimmingly in November, once basketball season was underway.
Jordan was also a guest at Kendall’s star-studded 21st birthday party that month, but their connection remained in the casual zone.
A$AP Rocky
Also on Kendall’s radar at the time, at least as a cool guy to hang out with, was A$AP Rocky.
Though he was apparently just biding his time before Rihanna was ready to date him, he and Kendall had fun in 2016 and 2017 going to dinner, partying in Miami and New York, making the scene at Coachella and cozying up for Kylie Jenner‘s epic Met Gala selfie.
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Blake Griffin
Then an L.A. Clipper, Blake Griffin was seen squiring Kendall around town more than once starting in August 2017, and she caught a few games courtside.
But once again, it was more of a let’s-hang-out-and-have-fun thing than the beginnings of a serious romance. And then Blake was traded to the Detroit Pistons in 2018, so that was that.
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Ben Simmons
Ben Simmons actually courted Kendall, the pair meeting in the spring of 2018 and making an effort at meeting up whenever possible despite the point guard being based in Philadelphia. (Ironically, now he’s a Clipper, as of 2025.)
Kendall streamed a 76ers game during a photo shoot with Australian Vogue in the spring of 2019, according to the subsequent cover story, and then FaceTimed the Melbourne native to show off her copy of his recent GQ Australia cover.
“For me, a lot of things are very special and very sacred, like my friends and relationships, and I personally think that bringing things into the public makes everything so much messier,” the model told Australian Vogue. “Also I’m very young and right now I feel like relationships aren’t always super-certain.”
By the first Monday in May—i.e. the Met Gala—in 2019, they had amicably split up, Kendall foreseeing that her packed schedule could pose too many complications.
As she told Australian Vogue, “Everyone has their own path and their own way of letting the cards fall. Your 20s are for messing up and figuring it out.”
Meanwhile, the Internet had sensed a pattern. A fan tweeted a meme in 2019, “Starting 5 of NBA Players Kendall Jenner Dated,” that boasted photos of Jordan, Ben, Blake, then-Laker Kyle Kuzma and journeyman D’Angelo Russell.
“This is a playoff team lmao,” the fan wrote.
Then it was Kendall with the dunk: She reposted, adding, “2 out of 5 accurate, thanks.”
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Devin Booker
Kendall dated Devin Booker for almost two years starting in 2020, even bringing the Phoenix Suns shooting guard as her date to sister Kourtney Kardashian‘s Italian nuptials in May 2022.
But by the following month they were taking time apart, a source telling E! News that, after they got back from their trip, “they started to feel like they weren’t aligned and realized they have very different lifestyles.”
It was game on again that July, but by November they were going their separate ways, their schedules still not compatible. (Though he bumped D’Angelo out of “Kendall’s Starting Five” by the time Kim Kardashian got her hands on a T-shirt version of the meme.)
More recently, a Valentine’s Day weekend sighting of the snow-goggles-sporting pair sitting side-by-side at an Aspen restaurant in 2025 showed that one’s 20s really are for letting things happen and figuring it out.
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Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny hopped into Kendall’s life in 2023, and they were first spotted in February on an apparent double date with Justin and Hailey Bieber.
Then Kendall caught the Puerto Rican artist’s set at Coachella in April, and the following month they slipped into a Met Gala afterparty together and twinned at a Lakers game.
Numerous date nights ensued, and they sat together at the Gucci show during Milan Fashion Week that September, but they were no longer a couple by the end of the year.
However, because if you can stay friends then why not, the duo, who have mutual pals, have reunited numerous times since, all over the world.
And not one to resist a runway-side seat, Bad Bunny was in the audience to see Kendall walk the walk for Calvin Klein Collection’s Autumn/Winter 2025 show during New York Fashion Week in February.
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