Kylie Jenner's Vanity Fair Moment: Timothée, More Kids, and a Blackfishing Backlash
Kylie Jenner just gave her most candid interview in years — and the cover that came with it is already causing a storm. The Vanity Fair Spring Issue, published Wednesday, put the 28-year-old front and center with a stripped-down shoot photographed by Mert Alas. Within hours, the images were drawing praise and fury in roughly equal measure.
What She Said About Timothée
The relationship that Hollywood has been quietly watching since 2023 got its most public acknowledgment yet. When Chalamet publicly proclaimed his love at the Critics Choice Awards in January — thanking his "partner of three years" — Kylie mouthed "I love you" from the crowd. Asked about those awards-season shoutouts in the Vanity Fair interview, she kept it simple. "Of course," she answered — the only time in the interview she reportedly got flustered, blushing in what the writer described as "the most charming way possible."
She told the magazine the couple spend evenings at her Hidden Hills estate hosting poker nights — and that she prefers playing with people who bet big. Three years in, the relationship has moved well past tabloid speculation.
More Kids, On Her Terms
Jenner — who shares Stormi, 8, and Aire, 4, with ex Travis Scott — was direct about the future: "I do want to have more kids." But she framed it carefully: "In the last years of my 20s, I want to focus on just me, my businesses, my work, traveling with my kids, enjoying my kids."
She also addressed her instinct toward privacy — explaining how becoming a mother at 20 fundamentally shaped her protectiveness around her children's lives. "Stormi wasn't planned," she said. "It happened, but obviously, I knew that I wanted to have her. I wanted children so bad."
The Blackfishing Backlash
The interview was strong. The cover generated something else. The image depicts Jenner lighting a cigarette in a bra and high-waisted army-green riding pants — and immediately drew accusations of Blackfishing, with fans and commenters pointing to her visibly darkened complexion in the Mert Alas photographs.
"Why the ethnicity change?" actress Grecia Castillo De la Paz commented. Another fan wrote: "Kylie is WHITE-skinned and they darkened her for this shoot… why did they do that?" This is not a new accusation for the Jenner-Kardashian family — the Blackfishing criticism has followed the family for years — but the Vanity Fair platform amplified it significantly.
The Brand Pivot Nobody Expected
Separate from the magazine rollout, Jenner's business moves are generating their own conversation. Sprinter — her vodka seltzer brand launched two years ago — appears to be pivoting toward health and wellness after the company scrubbed its social media. Jenner posted a video of her hand pouring a powdered substance into a water bottle and tagged the Sprinter account, writing "We've been working honey."
Trademark filings in recent weeks cover dietary and nutritional supplements, supplement shakes, energy bars, and vitamins — a pivot away from the oversaturated hard seltzer market into the equally crowded but higher-margin wellness space. No official announcement has been made.
The Wedding Industrial Complex Is Already Speculating
Insiders told OK! Magazine that Chalamet and Jenner have discussed engagement and could marry before year's end — with exploratory conversations allegedly underway about capturing the wedding for The Kardashians on Disney+. A TV production source described the financial opportunity as "extraordinary," with a nine-digit figure being floated. Neither Jenner nor Chalamet has confirmed any of it.
The couple attended the 2026 BAFTA Awards together in London last month, with Kylie photographed inside the venue in a bejeweled black Mugler gown — skipping the carpet, as she almost always does. The pattern holds: present everywhere, accessible almost nowhere.
