• Jonathan Cheban says he spoke to Kim Kardashian just two days before addressing feud rumors at a NYC event
• Cheban called Kim and Lewis Hamilton “a gorgeous couple” and a “good yin and yang”
• He joked about marriage speculation, saying “I will not go there”
• Kim previously said motherhood changed her social life, making it harder to see friends like Cheban regularly
• A tabloid source claims Kim is feeling competitive with sister Kylie Jenner over who walks down the aisle first

Jonathan Cheban wants everyone to relax. The reality personality — who legally goes by Foodgod — is tired of seeing headlines suggesting his decades-long friendship with Kim Kardashian has quietly fallen apart, and he’s making it very clear that nothing could be further from the truth.

“People post me in things and people say that Kim and I aren’t friends anymore and it’s so funny to watch this stuff ’cause we are friends and we talk all the time,” Cheban told Us Weekly back in March. “We’re going to be friends forever — and it’s fun.”

He doubled down on that at Vulture’s Inaugural Reality Masterminds Celebration in New York City on May 7, telling E! News that the two had literally just spoken. “I don’t really get in the group chats,” he said, “but I spoke to Kim literally two days ago.”

The explanation for why they’re not constantly photographed together is pretty simple: geography and four kids. Cheban splits his time between Miami and New York. Kim is based in LA, constantly shuttling between cities for her SKIMS empire and her children — North, 12, Saint, 10, Chicago, 8, and Psalm, 7, whom she shares with ex Kanye West.

“She’s like, ‘I’m back in LA.’ I’m like, ‘We just got to New York,'” Cheban explained. “She goes, ‘I went to LA for North and then I came right back.’ We speak all the time. I really don’t get to see them as much because I live in Miami and New York. They live in LA, and then she goes to Paris. It’s all those kids!”

Kim herself addressed the friendship earlier this year on her sister Khloé Kardashian’s Khloé in Wonder Land podcast. “I love Jonathan. We should call him,” she said, before getting candid about how motherhood reshapes everything — including close friendships. “Jonathan is not going to come and sit around Calabasas all day. He’s like always on the move.” Khloé agreed, noting how different lives can naturally create distance even between people who genuinely love each other.

On Kim and Lewis Hamilton: “They Fit Perfectly”

Of course, the bigger conversation right now isn’t about the friendship — it’s about Kim’s very public new romance with Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. And Cheban, who was also speaking to the Daily Mail at the same NYC event, had thoughts.

Good ones, actually. “They fit perfectly. They’re like a good yin and yang,” he said, calling the pair “a gorgeous couple.” He added that he’d met Hamilton before and immediately clocked the similarities between them. “They’re both very cool. Very fashionable.”

Kim and Hamilton recently made their relationship unmistakably official — the two were photographed holding hands leaving the Broadway production of The Fear of 13, starring Adrien Brody. It was their first real public display of affection after months of careful near-sightings: New Year’s Eve in Aspen, trips through the Cotswolds and Paris, a VIP suite at the Super Bowl, a luxury getaway in Utah, a trip to Tokyo with Kim’s kids, Coachella, furniture shopping in LA, and paddleboarding in Malibu where they were spotted kissing.

The two have reportedly known each other for over a decade, but sources say the romance only turned romantic late last year.

When the inevitable marriage question came up, Cheban did what any good best friend does — laughed and immediately sidestepped it. “Oh God, I will not go there,” he joked. “I’ve been through two. This is it. I’m stopping while I’m ahead.”

Kim on Marriage — and the Kylie Complication

Marriage speculation around Kim is nothing new, but it’s gotten louder since she and Hamilton went public. Kim has been married three times before — most notably her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries and her years-long relationship with Kanye West — and she’s been open about approaching the idea carefully now.

“There’ll be moods where I’m just like, ‘You know what? I understand my life is really big and I understand it takes a really, really, really special, unique person to want to deal with that,'” she said during a 2024 appearance on SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine with James Corden. “I think my life is really fun and whoever comes in my life will have a really good time, but it’s a lot.”

She also pushed back on any suggestion she’s lonely. “I’m not lonely, so I’m good. I have my kids, I have work, I have my family, but it would be nice to share your life with someone. But when you do, it’s such a big [commitment], I don’t take that lightly.”

Adding a layer of tabloid intrigue: Globe is reporting — via a source — that there’s some friendly (or not-so-friendly) competition between Kim and her sister Kylie Jenner, who has been linked to Timothée Chalamet since 2023. According to the insider, Kylie is “madly in love” with the Oscar-nominated actor and has been envisioning a future with him for the past year. The source claims Kim, meanwhile, is aware of the optics. “She hates the idea of Kylie getting married while she’s still on the shelf,” the insider allegedly said, adding that Kim has “openly joked” about Kylie not beating her to the altar. It’s the kind of claim that’s hard to verify and easy to be skeptical of — but it’s very on-brand for the family’s particular brand of competitive love.

As for Cheban, he’s keeping it simple. “Anything happens that I feel like we should discuss, we just send it right away,” he said of his dynamic with Kim. The friendship is intact. The group chat participation may be spotty. But the bond? According to both of them, that’s not going anywhere.

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• Kim Kardashian nearly chipped her custom fiberglass breastplate at her final fitting before the 2026 Met Gala
• The piece — an original Allen Jones body cast from the late 1960s — was repurposed, painted at an auto body shop, and cut down from a full-length form into a wearable bodysuit
• The entire look came together in just three weeks, with Kim traveling to Jones’ Oxfordshire studio and Whitaker Malem’s London space
• Behind-the-scenes footage from Vogue captured the near-disaster moment, with Kim saying she would’ve had to cancel entirely
• Alternate looks from the creative process — including a pink version and a fully backless design — are even more daring than what made the carpet

Kim Kardashian made it to the 2026 Met Gala steps in one piece — but it was a closer call than anyone knew.

In a behind-the-scenes video captured by Vogue at her final fitting, the 45-year-old reality star and The Kardashians star bumped directly into the cone-shaped fiberglass breast mold at the center of her custom look — and immediately feared the worst.

“Did I break this?” she said, visibly alarmed after hearing a smacking sound. “I ran into it so hard. If I broke it or chipped it… we wouldn’t have had a Met look. I would’ve had to cancel.”

Fortunately, the piece survived. And on Monday, May 4, Kim walked the carpet in full sculptural glory — a tangerine hardshell bodysuit and matching leather skirt that stopped traffic and set social media on fire.

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The Story Behind the Sculpture

The look wasn’t just fashion — it was a genuine art collaboration three years in the making in spirit, and three weeks in execution. The centerpiece was an original Allen Jones fiberglass body cast, a work the British pop artist titled “Body Armour,” created in the late 1960s as a prop for a film he’d written that was never produced. Jones originally cast it from a model in 1967 or 1968, and Kim was adamant she wanted the real thing.

“I wanted something original,” she explained in the Vogue video. “I didn’t want to cast my own body. I wanted the original breastplate that he had made.”

The piece is more storied than it might appear. A portrait of Kate Moss wearing the same Jones breastplate in 2013 sold for roughly $52,000 at Christie’s. For Kim’s version, that original mold was repurposed, finished in a glossy orange at an auto body shop — and it started as a full-length cast, feet and all, before being cut at the ankles and then high on the hips to create a wearable bodysuit. Jones himself hand-painted details on the final piece, insisting the collaboration feel current rather than like a museum loan.

“He was adamant that it’d be something current and fresh that he had just worked on,” Kim said, “not just a piece from his past, but something a little bit more current as well mixed together.”

Leather artisans Patrick Whitaker and Keir Malem of Whitaker Malem crafted the half-skirt that completed the look. The duo told Perfect magazine that Kim’s body was a near-perfect match for Jones’ original sculpture. “Kim’s torso curves and silhouette were remarkably close to Allen’s breastplate sculptures, which were never really intended to be worn,” they said. “We’d never seen an Allen Jones breastplate fit anyone as well as Kim!”

The whole look came together in just three weeks — a whirlwind that had Kim traveling to Jones’ studio in Oxfordshire and then to Whitaker Malem’s space in Dalston, London, for the fitting that nearly ended in disaster. The project was creatively directed by photographer Nadia Lee Cohen, whose Allen Jones-themed shoot for Perfect magazine originally sparked the idea.

“It was a whirlwind few weeks,” Kim said. “No stylists, no nothing. I just kind of went in with my idea and made it all happen.”

The Looks That Almost Were

In a carousel of behind-the-scenes photos Kim posted to Instagram, fans got a glimpse at the creative process — and the alternate looks are, if anything, even more daring than what made the carpet.

The team originally planned to paint the breastplate pink before landing on the signature orange, a nod to the classic colorway Jones had used first. There was also a dark iteration, captured in a black-and-white shot of Kim posed atop a glass pedestal table. Earlier versions of the breastplate were also fully backless, held in place with only leather straps.

In another image from the shoot, Kim appears in pale pink silk bloomers with an open back, a sky blue cropped turtleneck, matching socks and pumps, and a padded bra with faux nipples — gripping a pool cue with billiard balls scattered at her feet. It’s a direct visual reference to Jones’ stylized, fetish-inflected figures, and it’s a lot.

The pre-carpet shoot also served a practical purpose: testing hair and makeup before the real thing. Hairstylist Chris Appleton ultimately went a different direction from the earlier fittings, giving Kim a loose “cashmere blond” look worn down for the carpet. “The inspiration behind Kim’s Met hair look was disheveled — a lived-in, undone glamour influenced by the provocative work of Allen Jones,” Appleton wrote on Instagram. Makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic kept things deliberately muted to let the sculptural orange piece do the talking.

Interestingly, Jones himself had a preference. At the final fitting captured on camera, the artist told Kim he’d always envisioned the contrast of her dark hair against the warm tones of the piece. “In my naivete, I accepted Kim as I saw her for the first time and the contrast of the dark hair made me spark to these warm colors,” he said. They agreed to see what worked — and in the end, the blond won out.

Kim’s Met Gala History of Close Calls

This wasn’t Kim’s first brush with Met Gala wardrobe chaos. At the 2023 gala, her custom Schiaparelli Haute Couture gown — covered in more than 50,000 freshwater pearls and 16,000 crystal pearls — started shedding by the end of the night. Her solution? She put her daughter North West on pearl duty. “I told my daughter to grab them all. They’re real pearls, and she was putting them in her purse,” she later told Vogue.

The year before that, she famously wore Marilyn Monroe’s actual dress to the gala — a commitment that required losing 21 pounds in three weeks. “It was such a challenge. It was like a movie role,” she told Vogue at the time. “I haven’t had carbs or sugar in about three weeks.” And in 2024, she arrived in a Margiela by John Galliano corset so restrictive she admitted on The Kardashians that she couldn’t breathe in it.

This year, at least, she had a moment to herself before all the madness. Before heading to the Met, Kim posted an Instagram Story of herself out in New York City eating ice cream — rainbow sprinkles and all — a surprisingly low-key beat of calm before one of fashion’s most high-pressure nights.

The fiberglass held. The orange was perfect. And for her 13th Met Gala, Kim Kardashian didn’t just wear art — she nearly broke it first.

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