The NFL’s newest power couple, Kim Kardashian and Odell Beckham Jr., has decided to keep their relationship on the down low unlike Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s headline-grabbing romance.
The reality TV star and Super Bowl winner have been rumored to be dating for a number of months and added fuel to the speculation when they headed to Chateau Marmont for Jay-Z and Beyonce’s post-Oscars party earlier this month.
However, the new couple is said to be making a point of keeping their blossoming romance under wraps.
The NFL star reportedly attended the Vanity Fair Oscars after party as Kardashian’s plus-one but they tried to make it seem like they weren’t together, according Life and Style magazine.
The business mogul and the wide receiver are said to have arrived at the soiree separately but within minutes of one another before spending little time together as they mingled in separate groups. They did then head to Beyonce’s party together, however.
‘They really make a point not to be so cozy in public,’ a source told the magazine.
Kardashian is no stranger to the limelight with her famous family sharing almost every single detail of their lives on their reality TV shows, ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ and ‘The Kardashians.’
The mother-of-four has rarely shied away from taking her relationships public with her wedding to ex-husband Kanye West, her 72-day marriage to retired NBA player Kris Humphries and most recent romance with Pete Davidson all taking center stage on the show.
But it is claimed that the SKIMS founder is treating her new flirtation with the NFL free agent differently.
‘Kim really likes Odell, and she doesn’t want anything to ruin it,’ the outlet claimed. ‘Plus, he’s a very private person. She’ll talk to her family about him — when the cameras aren’t rolling — but that’s about it.’
It marks a contrast from Beckham Jr.’s fellow NFL star, Kelce, and his pop superstar girlfriend Swift.
The power couple took the NFL world by storm throughout last season with the 14-time Grammy Award winner attending 13 of the tight end’s games, including their Super Bowl victory in Las Vegas.
The songstress was regularly featured on the big screen and broadcasts as she cheered on the Kansas City Chiefs alongside Kelce’s mom, Donna, her celebrity posse of pals, and new friend Brittany Mahomes – the wife of quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Kelce has also played the role of doting boyfriend, traveling to Argentina, Australia and Singapore to watch his girlfriend perform her Eras Tour.
In January, the tight end admitted his relationship with the global superstar and the high profile that comes with it does come with its challenges, especially when it comes to questions over his performance on the field.
‘It’s just the outside noise and dealing with everyone else’s perspective of things,’ he said.
‘You hear it through the media throughout the season when I haven’t had success or things aren’t going well that perhaps we aren’t focused, but if you’re in this building, you know what’s going on. So you’ve got to compartmentalize what you’re hearing and make sure you’re staying on task and giving everybody in the building and on that team the right perception.’
But he insisted that he and the 14-time Grammy Award winner block out the noise and focus on their relationship.
‘As long as we’re happy, we can’t listen to the outside noise,’ he added.
Chiefs Kingdom could boasts two of the NFL’s power couples next season with Beckham Jr. said to be interested in signing with Kansas City.
Beckham joined the Ravens last year on a one-year contract worth $15million but Baltimore spread out the hit by paying $13.835m as a signing bonus and included four void years. Beckham’s 2024 salary cap charge is $3,977,000.
A number of the NFL’s star free agents have already been snapped up after a hectic week of moves but a deal is proving harder to come by for Beckham Jr. – who won the Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams in 2022.
DailyMail.com understands that Beckham is commanding a high price for his services, given this will likely be his final pay day in football before the 31-year-old eventually retires.
The Chiefs are known to want to improve their receiving unit this offseason, given Patrick Mahomes and his offense struggled for large parts of last year before eventually clicking at the right time to win the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
But if they do opt to offer terms to Beckham Jr. it would mean long-term rivals Kardashian and Swift will be supporting the same team next season.
Whether Kardashian will sit alongside Swift and her Chiefs WAG pals Brittany and Lindsay Bell is doubtful, given the two A-Listers’ long-standing feud.
The bitter history between the two began in 2016 when Kardashian’s ex-husband, rapper Kanye West, released his 2016 track ‘Famous’ which included a vulgar reference to Swift in the lyrics.
Swift, understandably, took offense. However, Kanye defended the line, claiming he had a phone conversation with Swift and that she had consented to the lyric ahead of time, which she denied.
Swift continued to accuse Kanye of lying which prompted Kardashian to release a partial recording of the call in question. Swift hit back, claiming that while Kanye spoke through some of the lyrics, he never said that he would call her a ‘b***h.’
Swift opened up on the ordeal during her interview with TIME last year, after she was named the magazine’s Person of the Year in December.
She said that the public fallout felt like ‘a career death,’ adding: ‘Make no mistake — my career was taken away from me.’
