Kylie Jenner & Jordyn Woods: The 8 Most Crucial Secret Ingredients For A Woman To Consider In Order To Maintain Long And Healthy Female Friendships

My previous post about Little Mix discussed a friendship breakup, and how it can be even more heartbreaking than a breakup with a romantic partner. That’s the case with a female friendship anyway. When we speak of a female friendship breaking up, we can’t not even mention Kylie Jenner and her friendship with Jordyn Woods. I was initially going to mention them in my previous post, but then I realized that this particular friendship deserved an entire blog entry dedicated to them. I think their friendship, and the betrayal that was caused by Woods not just to Kylie Jenner herself by to the entire Kardashian-Jenner family, was something of the essence. But before we break down the friendship breakup between Jenner and Woods, we need to understand the friendship itself.

Kylie Jenner became friends with Jordyn Woods back in 2012 after they met through Jaden Smith, Will Smith’s son, whom Jenner dated at the time. The duo instantly became close friends, and Woods became part of the Kardashian-Jenner family. Not only was Woods a part of the family on a personal level, but she became heavily involved in their business ventures as well. Though the Woods family were well-known in their own right, I don’t think Jordyn Woods would be where she is today without her association with the Kardashian-Jenner family, and even more so without Kylie Jenner herself. There was a bond between the two that, to the outside world, seemed impossible to break. Personally, to me, it didn’t seem healthy.

Personally to me, it seemed as though Jenner was doing more of the heavy lifting in the friendship, and Woods was using it to her advantage. In 2015, Jenner gifted Woods a Mercedes for her 18th birthday. When she posted a picture of it on Instagram, Jenner wrote, ‘Happy birthday jordyn. Thank you for being you. Most down to earth selfless human being! I hope you enjoy it.’ Maybe there was something there about Jordyn Woods that I didn’t see that Jenner did, or maybe you just had to be there to see what a selfless human being Jordyn Woods was, because I saw her as someone who takes more than gives. Two years later, Jenner gifted Woods another Mercedes for her 20th birthday. No matter the case, the two friends’ bond grew stronger over the years, to the point where Woods became the most important person in her life; even more important than a boyfriend, and even more important than the father of her child, now of two kids, Travis Scott. When Woods’ father passed away in January 2017, Jenner donated $10,000 to the family with medical care and memorial costs. She captioned on Instagram at the time, ‘My Fire Ox, My Brother, My Soul Sister. Give Jordy & her family some support and prayers right now. I love you the long way @jordynwoods. The other half of me .. When you cry I cry.’

But Woods showed what a good friend she was when Jenner was pregnant with her daughter, Stormi. She took care of her pregnant friend when Jenner was hiding the pregnancy practically until she gave birth. Woods was one of the few people who knew about the pregnancy, and revealed that Woods reacted to the news by saying, ‘ok well i guess we‘re both having a baby.’ In 2018, following the birth of Jenner’s daughter, Jenner revealed in an interview with Vague that Woods was living with her. She said, ‘I test out most of my [makeup] on Jordyn because we live together, So I’m like, ‘Jordyn, I need you.’ Everyone that comes in my house has tinted red arms from swatches and shadows.’ I just found this to be ultra weird. Why would someone move in with their best friend when they have a child and are in a relationship with the child’s father? Wouldn’t it make more sense and be more applicable to move in with their romantic partner? But that’s Kylie Jenner for you, doing what she feels is best for her and her friendship with her best friend rather than her family; the family she created. In her world, I guess Woods was part of the family that she created. There was a co-dependency between the two that became too much and eventually caused an end to the friendship. I thought my friendship with my college friend that I talked about in my previous was co-dependant, but it was nothing compared to the friendship with Jenner and Woods.

In February 2019, the Kardashian-Jenner family was hit by a scandal, and it involved none other than Jordyn Woods. She was seen kissing Khloe Kardashian’s boyfriend at the time, Tristian Thompson. The day before the story made headlines, Woods posed for photos with her best friend as though nothing was the matter. Khloe broke off her relationship with Thompson thereafter and in the heat of the moment, she to the hurt being fresh, blamed the cheating on Woods. Of course, if you actually follow the Kardashian-Jenner family’s life, you know that the only person to blame for the cheating is Thompson himself. That wasn’t the first time he cheated on Khloe as he was caught on camera getting too close with other women when Khloe was 9 months pregnant with their daughter, True. And it wasn’t the last time he cheated either, as Thompson fathered another child while in a relationship with Khloe thereafter. He was so manipulative and calculating that he was the one that pushed Khloe to have another baby with him via IVF and surrogacy. They had their baby, Tatum, but broke off their relationship, for good this time…hopefully.

Thompson wasn’t the first man to ever cheat on Khalid. If you’re a fan of the Kardashian-Jenner family, and actually keep up with them, you might recall that she was once married to Lamar Odom. They were married between 2009 and 2013. They famously married only a month after meeting each other. They had a fairly rocky relationship. They even got their own short-lived spinoff show chronicling their union. Odom is a recovering drug addict, and he too cheated on Khloe, though not as publicly as Thompson did. This eventually led to their breakup. Khloe filed for divorce, but called off the motion when Odom overdosed in 2015. Beforehand, Odom put off signing off the divorce papers in hopes that they’d reconcile. Her decision was made for as to be able to make medical decisions on his behalf while he was in a coma; not to get back together. She, as well as the rest of the family, took him in and cared for him until he fully recovered. The divorce was finalized in 2016. Kardashian restarted the divorce proceedings after Odom was spotted drinking alcohol at a bar.

In a 2021 ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ episode, Khloe revealed that she and Odom weren’t in touch anymore. This, however, didn’t stop Odom from speaking out about his former spouse. On his TV special, ‘Sex, Drugs, & Kardashians’, he revealed that he knew marrying her would give him relevance. He said, ‘I was an amazing basketball player, but I know me marrying Khloé Kardashian gives me relevance in so many ways in the entertainment world, I knew what I signed up for. I was doing business with my wife. It’s her business, so I’m making it my business.’ And of course, he said more than we all wanted to know, but none of it is relevant to what we’re talking about here. What I will add, though, is what he said of Kris Jenner being his mother-in-law. He said, ‘I used to call her ma. She showed a lot of love. She was cool. I loved her. We all got into business. It was a family business. I’m comfortable enough [for her to be my manager]. I’m happy enough to do it. I made some money. I came out on the positive.’ And of his overdose and Khloe being there for him during that time, he said, ‘Khloé, you know, she wiped my ass. It don’t get realer than that. She would bring me pictures of my mother, my grandmother, help me with my memory. I couldn’t show how I really felt. I was hardly even talking. I could hardly say, ‘Thank you, Khloé.’ I could think it, but I couldn’t express it. I wish at that time I was more cognitive to let her know how much I appreciate her for that. I couldn’t show how I really felt. I knew it had to be terribly frustrating for her.’

Having any sort of association to the Kardashian-Jenner family has its perk. Whether you’re a romantic partner, a friend, an acquaintance, or even just a random person who had one encounter with any of them that ended up being filmed. Let’s not forget the teenager Kylie Jenner went to prom with after the girl he initially asked to be his date rejected him. The night of the prom was filmed for her own spinoff show, ‘Life Of Kylie’, and he used it to his advantage to get himself out there and start his own online following and a career in boxing. The only person in the Kardashian-Jenner circle who has nothing to gain by associating with them is Paris Hilton, but that’s because she was already known to the public before they ever came into the limelight, and she was the one who gave them a head start in their careers in the entertainment business when she hired Kim as her assistant in the early 2000’s.

And there’s nothing wrong with anyone making a name for themselves by associating themselves with the Kardashian-Jenner family. It’s not like it doesn’t come with a price. Kris Jenner is a very calculated person. She can make money out of pretty much ANYTHING. She can either make something out of you and make a name for yourself, or she can destroy you and your reputation. She certainly tried to do so with Ray J, who was the one who co-starred in the infamous sex tape with Kim Kardashians. One thing is for sure, though. Kris Jenner won’t ever hurt the fathers of her grandchildren, no matter how much they hurt her daughters. They’re still very much present in the Kardashian-Jenner circle, and they’re still very much loved and respected. Jenner still to this day dedicates Father’s Day posts on Instagram to each and every father and father figure in the family.

Khloe and Thompson still co-parent their two children despite their differences. She even went as far as taking in his disabled brother to move in with her in a time of need. It’s safe to say that selflessness is just part of who the Kardashian-Jenner are. No matter how ridiculous their entire beings might seem, one thing is for sure: they try to do good by the people they care about, and sometimes they go above and beyond and give more than they take. Though Kris Jenner and the rest of the family don’t cut ties with the fathers of their children and still keep them in their lives and help them with their respective business ventures or other career moves, the same can’t be said for anyone else in their lives in the case of they’re wronged in any sort of way. I have to use Larsa Pippen as an example. She was close friends with the Kardashians-Jenner family for years until they abruptly cut her off without reason.

Pippen, on her part, blames Kanye West, otherwise known as Ye, Kim’s ex-husband, for the sudden falling out. She previously said to Entertainment Tonight, ‘[Kanye] has literally brainwashed the whole family into thinking I don’t even know what,” she said. “I don’t even know. He talks so much about me being this and that and this and that. [Kanye] used to call me at four, five, and six o’clock in the morning,” she said. “I was the person that would take his calls when he wanted to rant. I would listen to him. I would be like, ‘I love you, you’re the best, things will get better.’ I was his go-to person to call when he wasn’t happy with X, Y, and Z. … Maybe because I blocked him on my phone because I couldn’t bear taking his calls anymore. I can’t, I’m drained. So, I blocked him on my phone. Obviously, that really upset him. So, he turned that into, ‘Oh, she’s this and she’s that.’ [The Kardashians] all started to ride his wave. If you’re that easily swayed like the wind then do I really give a fuck? Should I give a fuck? I don’t know. Was I hurt by it? Yes. But at the same time, I’m like, I’ve done nothing. I’ve never done one thing. I’ve been the most honest and truthful best friend to all of them.’

Pippen also revealed that she used to date Tristian Thompson, and in fact, they dated right before he got together with Khloe. She said, ‘I was seeing him, I had him come to L.A. I brought him to a party Kim had. I introduced him to all of them. Then a week later, or 10 days later, he started seeing Khloé. Which is fine, I don’t even care. It’s whatever. I’m the type of person that doesn’t chase what’s not for me. I will never chase a man; I will never put a leash on a man. I don’t do that. I feel like, let you be great. If you want to be with other people, go ahead. I’m great by myself.’ But when he started dating Khloe, Thompson was allegedly still in a relationship with Jordan Craig, and she was pregnant with his child at the time. In court documents, Craig claimed that Thompson’s cheating caused complications in her pregnancy. Thompson denied those claims, writing on Twitter, now known as X, ‘When I met Khloe I was SINGLE, The negative comments that are constantly being directed towards her are unnecessary. She does not deserve all this backlash for my wrong doings. Both Khloè and Jordan have been nothing but great mothers to my kids.’

The Kardashian family certainly didn’t like the fact their former friend was sh*t talking about them. One source said, ‘They think she’s trying to stay relevant and Kim doesn’t appreciate the accusations regarding Kanye. The family is very protective over one another and all feel like she violated their privacy by dishing out details to the public.’ They also added that Kanye never trusted Pippen. And when it comes to Khloe, the source said, ‘Khloé doesn’t believe Larsa was dating Tristan before her. Larsa knew Tristan, but they were never dating. They all think Larsa is toxic energy.’ And nevertheless, Kim had a soft spot for her former friend because they’d gone through a lot in their time as friends.

It’s a little hypocritical of the Kardashian-Jenner family to have treated Larsa Pippen that way. I do believe that Thompson was in some sort of relationship with Pippen. He’s not known to be an honest man, a man of his word. He has a reputation. He cheated on Khloe and WITH Khloe. Only she knows whether she actually knew about it or not. They do say, however, that if a man cheats with you, he will cheat on you. That’s exactly what happened. With that said, Khloe shouldn’t have expected nothing less and nothing more of him. Thompson has his good side, though, too, which makes me see what Khloe sees in him. His brother, Amari, suffers from epilepsy, the worst kind of epilepsy that caused such severe brain damage that he can’t walk or speak. In 2013, Thompson established the Amari Thompson Fund in partnership with Epilepsy Toronto to support families and children with epilepsy. He’s supported the cause in other ways too, such as auctioning off his signed Bulls jersey and sneakers to raise funds for the Epilepsy Foundation, educating others on what epilepsy actually is, and matching donations. Because of the severity of his condition, Amari requires a 24/hour care. Since Thompson’s mother passed away in January 2023, he gained full custody of Amari and is now his primary caregiver.

Thompson being so empathetic and giving towards his disabled brother doesn’t change the fact that he’s a serial cheated and the fact that he lied, tricked and manipulated women to get his way. Khloe isn’t the only woman who’s been victimized by him. Khloe previously said that Jordyn Woods ruined her family. No, it was Tristian Thompson who ruined her family. If it hadn’t been Woods, it would’ve been another woman. Me saying it doesn’t diminish Woods’ wrongdoings in her role in the matter. She’s guilty of allowing Thompson to kiss her. She’s guilty of acting like nothing happened and lying to Kylie and Khloe. She’s guilty of making Kylie look stupid online when Kylie made a post about the two of them hanging out the night before the cheating news leaked. I watched the entire drama unfold on ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’, and honestly, it was heartbreaking to watch. It was heartbreaking to watch Kim being told of the entire ordeal by Larsa. It was heartbreaking to watch Khloe break down due to the cheating and the betrayal she’d endured yet again by her partner and father of her child. And it was heartbreaking to watch the end of Kylie’s friendship with Woods unfold. I can’t forget that scene between Kylie and Khloe where Kylie tells Khloe that she’s always on her side.

Since the scandal happened almost 6 years ago, Kylie has been spotted with Woods in public on several occasions. In an interview with Elle Magazine in October, Jenner opened up about her relationship with Woods, as well as its demise. She said, ‘I was heartbroken. We’ve always tried to talk through things, so it’s never been a full cold-turkey cutoff; it was needed distance. Anytime something happened, good or bad, and I needed to call someone, it would always be her. To lose that person felt really lonely, but I had to go through that. I learned so much, gained so much independence, and was there for myself. It helped me grow up a little bit, because we were so attached at the hip. I think that in order for us both to grow, she needed to spread her wings and do what she needed to do as well.’ In an episode of the Hulu series, ‘The Kardashians’, Kylie directly spoke with Khloe about her former best friend after spending Paris Fashion Week together. She said, ‘I saw Jordyn again in Paris… It was fun. I think we have a lot more healthy distance in the relationship. Now it’s like, we talk once a month.’

Jane Fonda once said in an interview with Kelly Clarkson that the lack of female friendships has the same negative effect on a woman’s life as smoking. Though I don’t know if I believe it’s a serious as that, but I do believe that having close female friendships is a necessity in a woman’s life. Studies do show that women, and people in general, who maintain good friendships live longer than those that don’t. I’ve always had trouble maintaining female friendships. I had some very close female friends that were really important in my life. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them, starting from the first friend I ever made when I moved to Canada at age 12. Heck, even the friend I had in middle school who mistreated me to the point of abuse gave me a sense of purpose. My female friends gave me an escape, support, love, and a level of intimacy that I didn’t receive from my male friends, family or my husband. Girls’ nights out were always my favourite because those were the nights I knew I could be myself without judgement. After each girls’ night out, or even a talk on the phone with a girlfriend, I always felt enriched and empowered. It was beautiful. Now that I’m a mom, I miss that special time in my life where I could just call up a girlfriend to have that escape to just be myself with her. Because of different circumstances, I don’t have friendships as deep as I did back then.

Female friendships can be intense. Women have a lot more expectations of their friendships than men do. That’s why female and male friendships are drastically different. Studies do show that it’s harder to make friends when you have a disability, lose your mobility, or have no or limited access to transportation. For me, personally, it’s always been hard to maintain my female friendships because of me having cerebral palsy. A lot of my girlfriends tended to think I needed saving be changed. Some even tended to feel like they could tell me how to live my life. I’ve always been hesitant to get close to anyone because I’d feel that everyone was against me; that everyone around me wanted to save me from my ‘demons’ or change me in the way I led my life. Some didn’t understand my life at all. Some of my female friends that I’d made in my adult life showed to me that I was right to be hesitant. Others showed me how truly wrong I was about people. When I was diagnosed with epilepsy, my biggest downfall in making friends was the fact that I couldn’t drive. I lost my sense of freedom and independence when I lost my driver’s license, but my friends were so good and so supportive at the time. They were my chauffeurs in a sense. I don’t think I would’ve survived my time following me surviving the car accident that led to my epilepsy diagnosis if it weren’t for my female friends. I don’t think I would’ve survived my first years after being diagnosed with epilepsy if it weren’t for my female friends. I don’t know if I would’ve survived the first year of motherhood if it weren’t for my female friends. I wouldn’t have survived Covid years if it weren’t for my female friends. This just goes to show how vital female friendships are during those tough times.

But in female friendships, there’s such a thing as being close with someone and being TOO close with someone. The biggest mistake Kylie Jenner made with her friendship with Jordyn Woods is that she gave her too much access to literally every aspect of her life up until the 2019 scandal. This begs the question, ‘What does it take for a woman to lead healthy female friendships?

• Communicate with one another on a continuous basis
• Setting boundaries right from the start
• Evolve together
• Accept each other for who you are
• Accept that you and your friend won’t stay the same forever, and that you and her will change over time
• Accept that your friendship will change over time
• Know that not all your female friendships will be the same. Every person is different, and therefore, all friendships are different.
• Know that not all friendships are meant to last forever. Some friends for a reason, some are for a season, some friendships are for different eras in your life, and if you’re lucky, some are lifetime.