Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet's Very Public Private Romance

Inside Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet's Public Yet Private Romance

Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner may not want to talk about each other in public, but their photos are worth 1,000 words.

Even the ones in which they aren't color-coordinated, as they were at the premiere of Marty Supreme, Chalamet's latest bid for that so-far elusive Best Actor Oscar.

Though at only 30 years old, as of Dec. 27, he's got time. As he does for all the other stuff "that could be on the radar," as he referred to the idea of having children in his recent Vogue cover story. 

As for his significant other—who's mom to daughter Stormi, 7, and son Aire, 3, with ex-boyfriend Travis Scott—he doesn't refuse to discuss her "with any fear," he told the publication. "I just don't have anything to say." 

In the meantime, Chalamet and Jenner, 28, have created an unspoken narrative all their own, no matter where they are, be it at nationally televised sporting events, in the middle of Beyoncé's silvery Renaissance birthday concert in Los Angeles (the site of their first public appearance together in September 2023) or at the Oscars.

Chalamet also, incidentally, brought Jenner to the Golden Globes two years in a row.

 Well, then, why not talk about each other? 

"Privacy is so important to me in life," Jenner explained to British Vogue for an August 2024 profile. Which, she noted, "feels so good" to have on her terms for a change.

Not that such a sentiment squelched the public's desire to know more or stopped them from desperately scouring what is visible to the world for clues.

Date night sightings tapered off for awhile when Chalamet got busy playing Bob Dylan in the James Mangold-directed A Complete Unknown, which earned him his second Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Jenner's appearance at the after-party following the film's Dec. 11, 2024, Los Angeles premiere was an indicator that they were still going strong in time for Chalamet to be nominated for a Golden Globe for his Dylan-sanctioned performance.

When a lack of activity got the rumor mill buzzing yet again this summer, even after they vacationed in St. Tropez in July, the Kylie Cosmetics founder made sure to smash that "like" button when Chalamet shared the Marty Supreme trailer on Instagram in August.

And now it's already time for Kylie & Timmy Take Awards Season, Part 3.

They had their second consecutive viral Globes outing last January, featuring sweet moments à deux and Jenner getting a chance to bond with her beau's costars Elle Fanning and Barbaro.

The Kardashians star also got to appreciate the comedic stylings of the evening's host Nikki Glaser, who zeroed in on Chalamet for a good-natured riff on his name, featuring a cameo by Adam Sandler.

But with celebrity romances often indecipherable in their early stages, it was unclear at first just how serious Jenner and Chalamet were—or whether they were even more than friends.

Now, however, we're closing in on three years since they were first linked in a romantic fashion (and in regular fashion, as Jenner wore Gaulthier by Chalamet favorite Haider Ackermann to the 2023 Met Gala), and at the 2024 Golden Globes they graduated to the fans-frantically-lip-reading-for-clues stage of their relationship.

Yet that world of pure imagination was only possible because the pair are full-on dating in public, not bothering with any comments or Instagram posts and just letting their PDA-packed outings do the talking.