Due to the private nature of Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet’s relationship, there have been a lot of questions about what their families think of each other. While there are strong indications that the three-time Best Actor Oscar nominee has attended the Kardashian-Jenner family functions — Marty Supreme jackets were aplenty at Thanksgiving — how much Chalamet’s family has been welcomed into the circle has been a mystery… until now. A comment from the actor’s mother seems to prove they’re closer than we realized.
The revelation about Timothée Chalamet’s family comes amidst sad news, as Kris Jenner lost her mother MJ Shannon just a couple of weeks before she would have turned 92. The momager took to Instagram to wish her mom a happy heavenly birthday, and amongst the comments was one from Chalamet’s mother, Nicole Flender that read:
So happy I got to know her.
First of all, it’s extremely sweet that Nicole Flender would reach out to her son’s girlfriend’s mother over such a loss, but it also reveals something big about the families’ relationship: Timothée Chalamet’s mom had met Kylie Jenner’s grandmother!
The only way for Nicole Flender to have gotten to know MJ is for both families to have spent significant time together, possibly at one of Kris Jenner’s holiday parties.
Fans already wanted to believe that the potential future mothers-in-law were besties based on the fact that Kris Jenner commented on Nicole Flender’s Instagram post after the Critics Choice Awards. (That, incidentally, was the night Timothée Chalamet publicly recognized Kylie Jenner by thanking his “partner of three years” for their “foundation.”)
In reality, though, Kris Jenner expressing excitement about Timothée Chalamet’s win doesn’t indicate a relationship between the two women at all — lots of strangers left similar congratulatory messages, too.
This comment was different, though.
While all signs indicate that Timothée Chalamet has been accepted into the Kardashian-Jenner crowd, rumors have persisted that Chalamet’s family thinks the two are mismatched. The supposed words that Timothée had for his sister Pauline Chalamet at the Oscars didn’t help matters either, as many fans read Pauline and Kylie’s interaction as awkward.
Knowing that Nicole Flender has been around the Jenners enough to have met Kris’ mother may not be rock-solid proof that the families are intertwined, but it does show that — at the bare minimum — they have met in person and maintain a polite relationship.
This is definitely a positive sign for fans hoping to see Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet get engaged soon. If their families had gone well over three years without spending any real time together, that could be cause for concern.
In the end, it was really nice of Timothée Chalamet’s mom to reach out to Kris Jenner on her late mother’s birthday, and we’ll just have to wait to see if Nicole Flender and/or her son appear at one of Kris Jenner’s events on The Kardashians. Maybe Timmy could go incognito again.
Keep an eye on the 2026 TV schedule for a premiere date for The Kardashians Season 8, and in the meantime, stream all current episodes of that and Keeping Up with the Kardashians with a Hulu subscription.
