The wild way Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom met thanks to her brother Rob’s obsession
Their love story is literally unhinged
There are celebrity love stories, and then there are peak late-2000s pop culture love stories, and Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom’s is firmly in the second category.
Their romance moved at a speed that would make even the most chaotic reality TV producer blink, but the origin story is surprisingly specific.
Before the whirlwind engagement, the lavish wedding and the Khloé & Lamar era, there was a party, a Lakers connection and one very excited Rob Kardashian.
So, here’s how Khloé and Lamar first crossed paths, and why it all escalated so quickly.
How Khloé and Lamar met
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Khloé Kardashian first met Lamar Odom in August 2009 at a party in Los Angeles that was being thrown for his Lakers teammate Ron Artest, later known as Metta World Peace.
But the little detail that makes this story so fun is that Khloé has since explained she only agreed to host because her brother, Rob Kardashian, a huge Lakers fan, was so excited about it. In other words, Rob’s obsession with the team helped put Khloé in the exact room where everything started.
Even better, Khloé has said she didn’t know who Lamar was before that party, while Lamar later said he didn’t know who Khloé was either.
So despite how famous they both seem in hindsight, this was not some grand, pre-planned celebrity link-up.
It was more like two people landing in the same orbit at exactly the right moment. Lamar was fresh off winning his first NBA championship with the Lakers, and the chemistry apparently clicked fast.
In Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, Khloé recalled the party as the beginning of “the coolest, coolest time” in her life.
It also was not quite love at first sight in the fairy-tale sense. Khloé later revealed she wouldn’t give Lamar her number at first.
Instead, he found another route in a very Hollywood way. He learned they shared the same business manager and kept pushing for her contact details.
Khloé admitted on The Kardashians that his persistence actually won her over.
They got married super quick
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Now for the part everyone remembers… they moved ridiculously fast!
After meeting in August 2009, Khloé and Lamar dated for only a few weeks before getting engaged in September 2009.
Then, just nine days after the proposal, they got married on September 27, 2009, in a lavish Beverly Hills wedding.
People weren’t wrong to be shocked, even Khloé has since admitted that marrying in 30 days sounds “insane.”
Still, she has also looked back on that whirlwind chapter with real affection. In 2025, she said marrying Lamar 30 days after meeting him was “one of the best experiences” of her life, even while admitting she would not do it that way again because you “really don’t know the person.”
Khloé and Lamar were together from 2009 to 2013, and married from 2009 until their divorce was finalised in 2016, following Khloé filing for divorce in 2013.
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