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Why do people have such a problem with Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner as a couple?-Brooke Ivey Johnson-Entertainment – Metro

It’s more complicated than you may think.

Why do people have such a problem with Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner as a couple?-Brooke Ivey Johnson-Entertainment – Metro

Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner may not be having a baby, but fans still can’t believe they’re together (Picture: Getty Images)

Sometimes, two beloved things just don’t belong together. Like ketchup on ice cream or a baby in a leather jacket, Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner make sense separately but not in combination, according to many.

They seem like such an unlikely pair that some fans originally thought that the couple was a PR move orchestrated by Kris Jenner, who is often credited with puppeteering everything from the success of the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan to deep-state conspiracies and the moon landing, such is the total belief in her power.

But glimpses of the couple in public, like their much-discussed PDA at the Golden Globes, seem to suggest that the Dune star and Jenner are really together. 

More recently, pregnancy rumours swirled around the couple, drawing horrified reactions from the internet. 

‘If kylie jenner is really pregnant with timothee chalamets kid the world is a simulation,’ X user @crisisofmyfaith wrote.

‘If Kylie is really pregnant with Timothee’s baby then… wow. The devil works hard but Kris Jenner??? Kris Jenner works harder,’ @CHXN3L agreed.

The couple have been seen out and about together several times, including at the US Open (Picture: Gotham/GC Images)

User @ready222love wrote: ‘If you would have told me that kylie jenner was pregnant with timothee chalamet’s baby in 2018 i think i would’ve laughed so hard id cry.’

While the rumours were finally dispelled once and for all by multiple sources, it’s hard not to wonder why fans are having such a hard time wrapping their heads around the actor and the reality-star-turned-beauty mogul being together. 

While we can admit that they’re aesthetically mismatched – Jenner looks like a walking-talking TikTok filter and Chalamet looks like a Renaissance painting of a French Princeling with consumption – it’s actually a coupling that makes a lot of sense. Let us explain.

Think about the hot popular girl at your secondary school, the one who flat ironed her hair every morning and had that one Tiffany charm bracelet everyone wanted. 

Jenner first rose to fame on the reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians alongside her famous family (Picture: OConnor-Arroyo / AFF-USA.com)

She arrived to school in her mum’s Lexus and applied her Lancome Juicy Tube lip gloss anywhere from 200 to 300 times a day. She wrote exclusively in purple glitter pen and somehow made that school uniform look runway-ready. While you may have called her shallow and plastic behind her back, you secretly envied her – you can admit it, this is a safe space.

And who did she end up dating, against all odds, despite stereotypes?

The beatific indie boy with the vaguely anemic rock star glow. The boy who was warned not once but twice about skating on the railings outside the school. He listened to The Smiths and made sure everyone knew it and once smoked an entire cigarette without coughing.

Sure, he was in the school play and that was pretty lame, but for him, it wasn’t an extracurricular activity, it was an opportunity to ‘practice his craft’ (albeit as a member of the ensemble in Pirates of Penzance). 

Chalamet is one of the highest earning actors in Hollywood (Picture: Getty Images)

Think of Rosalia and Jeremy Allen White, think of Pete Davidson and literally anyone he’s ever dated, think of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. The indie alt boy and the mainstream bombshell girl are an archetypal couple as old as time itself. 

What the disbelief about Jenner and Chalamet’s romance may actually come down to is good old-fashioned sexism. 

In the same way that you thought that popular girl at your school was obviously stupid (she made better grades than you, for the record) and totally unworthy of someone as ‘deep’ as her indie boyfriend (did we mention he carried around a copy of Camus’ The Stranger?) many are implying that Jenner isn’t worthy of Chalamet because she’s a reality star and he’s a ‘serious’ actor. 

Chalamet and Jenner have been photographed in several moments of PDA (Picture: Gotham/GC Images)

But just because Jenner is into makeup, fashion, and lip filler doesn’t mean she can’t discuss the merits of the latest A24 movie or sit around looking vaguely French and intellectual with Chalamet. 

Just because Chalamet is a gifted artist with a craft he obviously takes very seriously doesn’t mean he’s not genuinely interested in the mind and personality of the woman who created a billion-dollar beauty empire. 

Much of the shock and disbelief at Chalamet and Jenner’s romance is actually about the continued insistence on pretending that the Jenners and Kardashians are just untalented grifters with a lot of plastic surgery – as opposed to sharp minded business women and talented entertainers in their own right. 

So the next time you consider making a snarky comment about Chalamet and Jenner’s romance, take a moment to wonder whether you’re actually mad about them, or just need to talk to your therapist in greater depth about your secondary school experience.

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