Kim Kardashian is setting the file straight about her friendship with Jonathan Cheban.
Jonathan, higher often known as FoodGod, has been a part of Kim’s interior circle for many years, so when followers began speculating that the longtime mates had drifted aside, the Skims founder was fast to close it down.
The Kardashians star, 45, addressed the rumors head-on whereas showing on sister Khloé Kardashian’s podcast, “Khloé In Marvel Land,” on Wednesday, January 21. In the course of the candid dialog, Kim made it clear that regardless of what folks would possibly suppose, her friendship with Cheban, 51, may be very a lot intact.
Reflecting on the early days of her profession, Kim recalled how Jonathan was typically proper by her facet — even serving to her pose for paparazzi photographs. “I like Jonathan, we should always name him,” she advised Khloé earlier than pulling out her cellphone.
Because the sisters FaceTimed Cheban, who answered from a dinner in Miami, Kim defined why followers could have assumed one thing was fallacious. “I feel folks suppose that we don’t speak,” she stated. After ending the decision, she doubled down: “Jonathan and I are good.”
Kim went on to elucidate that life — not drama — is what modified their dynamic. “Right here’s the factor, I had children,” she stated. Kim shares daughters North, 12, and Chicago, 8, in addition to sons Saint, 10, and Psalm, 6, with ex-husband Kanye West.
“It’s actually onerous to keep up friendships when you’ve gotten children and also you’re like in it,” Kim defined. She additionally identified that their existence couldn’t be extra completely different. “Jonathan will not be going to come back and sit round Calabasas all day. He’s like at all times on the transfer.”
Khloé, 41, agreed, including, “Particularly when another person doesn’t have children.” She continued, “It’s not like you are able to do play dates along with your children. I get that. We love Jonathan. There’s a lot historical past there.”
This isn’t the primary time Cheban has addressed the hypothesis. Practically a 12 months earlier, he shut down related rumors throughout a March 2025 interview with Us Weekly, echoing Kim’s rationalization.
“I imply, she’s obtained so many children and so many issues to do and I’m all the way in which on [the east] coast, so it’s like, yeah, we don’t see one another as a lot,” he stated. “However we speak on a regular basis and something occurs that I really feel like we should always talk about, we simply ship it immediately.”
Cheban laughed off the continuing chatter, including, “It’s so humorous to look at these items ’trigger we’re mates and we speak on a regular basis.” He made his stance crystal clear, saying they’re “completely” nonetheless shut. “We’re going to be mates ceaselessly — and it’s enjoyable.”
