Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi: Inside Their Six-Month Romance

By CreativeQuizzes Editorial Team

A romance that's taken them from Los Angeles to Paris

Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi were photographed hand-in-hand at Paris Fashion Week this weekend, the latest stop in a relationship that's now been quietly building, then very publicly confirmed, for about six months. It's a notable pairing on paper: a supermodel who entered her late twenties determined to slow down on dating, and an Australian actor coming off some of the biggest roles of his career.

What makes the relationship stand out isn't just who's involved — it's the pace. In roughly half a year, Jenner and Elordi have gone from a flirtation at an awards party to a couple who've now traveled together across at least three continents.

How it started: an Oscars party spark

The pair were first spotted chatting at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March 2026, where both had reason to be in the room — Elordi's Wuthering Heights co-lead Timothée Chalamet, who's dating Jenner's sister Kylie, was among the night's Oscar nominees. Sources told Entertainment Tonight the two had "run in similar circles for years," but something shifted around that party specifically, with an insider noting Elordi pursued Jenner and she was "open to it right away."

The timing lined up with something Jenner had said about herself heading into her 29th year: after what she described as a lot of relationships throughout her twenties, she'd decided to stop actively dating. Elordi, evidently, was the exception she hadn't planned for.

Going public, one double date at a time

The relationship moved from rumor to visible fact through a string of low-key but increasingly public outings. They joined Kylie Jenner and Chalamet for a Los Angeles night out, turned up together at a Chris Stapleton concert in Washington state in July, and took a weekend trip with Justin and Hailey Bieber. By August, they were photographed holding hands during a London date night, timed just after Elordi's red carpet appearance at The Dog Stars premiere — where his date, notably, had been a dog.

Kendall's brother Brody Jenner had to publicly push back on tabloid speculation at one point, dismissing some of the wilder claims about the relationship as clickbait — a sign of how much attention the pairing had already generated barely a few months in.

A relationship built around fashion month

Both Jenner and Elordi have leaned into a coordinated public image as the relationship's gone on, showing up to London date nights in matching colorblocked outfits that fashion writers picked apart as its own kind of relationship milestone. That pattern continued through September's European fashion circuit: Elordi sat front row for Jenner's runway walk closing the Bottega Veneta show at Milan Fashion Week, then the two were seen together again days later at a L'Oréal Paris event and an after-party during Paris Fashion Week.

For two people whose day jobs both revolve heavily around being photographed, the relationship has played out almost entirely in exactly the kind of settings where photographers are already stationed — which hasn't stopped it from generating near-constant headlines anyway.

The bigger picture

Neither Jenner nor Elordi has spoken publicly and directly about the relationship in detail; what's known comes almost entirely from sightings, photos, and the usual network of anonymous sources that track this level of celebrity. But six months in, with matching red-carpet appearances, international travel, and family double-dates now part of the pattern, this has clearly moved well past a fling — whatever either of them ends up saying about it publicly.