Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are covering the most recent issue of GQ, and while the pictures are great (as is to be expected with Kylie’s level of veteran), it’s the interview that really catches our attention: Not everyone is the biggest fan of them together, but nobody can deny they’ve been one of the biggest It couples of recent times, especially with the birth of their daughter Stormi back in February. Of course, just like Kylie’s pregnancy was completely kept under wraps until after Stormi’s birth, much about Travis and Kylie’s relationship has been kept private as well, making this our first up-close glimpse of the couple. Here are five of our favorite things we learned about Kylie and Travis.
1. She went on tour with him right after their first date.
Kylie and Travis first met at Coachella, which is what they consider their “first date.” And it seems like the sparks flew instantly, because neither Kylie nor Travis wanted to say goodbye to each other when the weekend ended.
“Coachella was one of the stops on his tour,” Kylie told GQ. “So he said, ‘I’m going back on tour—what do we want to do about this?’ Because we obviously liked each other. … And I was like, ‘I guess I’m going with you.’”
That might not be everyone’s idea of romantic, and some of you cynics may be thinking there’s no way you can run off with a guy you just met and have it work out. But according to Kylie, the experience brought them much closer to each other, and they were better for it.
“[W]e would just go to these random cities,” she said. “We got to not be who we really were. Like, if we were in L.A., I feel like it would’ve been way different. Everything happened for a reason. We weren’t going out as ‘Kylie and Trav.’ We would just be in Cleveland, walking the street for hours. We would go on walks, and no one would bother us.”
2. Travis hates posing for pictures.
I know, how can you date a Kardashian and not want to appear in pictures? But during their photoshoot, Travis was noticeably less excited than Kylie, claiming he was “impatient as a motherfucker” and couldn’t deal with posing for so long. Kylie found it funny afterward, saying, “He was whispering to me the whole time. He just doesn’t like taking the photos.” So I guess opposites really do attract, huh?
3. They don’t care about the “Kardashian Curse.”
The “Kardashian Curse” is a term originally used by Scott Disick to refer to how anybody who hooks up with a Kardashian seems to face bad luck afterward. But it looks like neither Travis nor Kylie are worried about the same thing happening to them.
Travis just brushed off everything, showing any haters that he has bigger things to be worrying about. “I don’t even be looking at motherfuckers,” he said. “I don’t be looking at shit. Kylie actually likes me for me. … I’m on my own island. So hey, come over there to Astroworld. I’m not into all the other shit. I don’t get involved. I’m over here. Kylie is different.”
As for Kylie, she keeps Travis from burning out in her own way. “Well, for all the news stories, it’s how I get over them so fast. Trav, for example, he’s like, ‘Wait…but how do you just get over this?’ He gets more angry about things. … I know these stories aren’t going to matter, so don’t even let them affect you, you know? … I don’t think he’s really cool with it, but he deals with it, because we love each other and we have a family.”
That doesn’t mean, however, that they’re not at all affected—Kylie also revealed they do take measures to keep their relationship low-key. “For sure, I know he doesn’t like the attention,” she continued. “That’s why we just go the extra mile to keep our relationship super private, or like, if he has events or something, I won’t come. Because I want him to do his own thing. I want him to be him. I don’t want it to be Kylie and Trav. If people don’t ever see us together, that’s okay with me, because we just do our thing.”
4. His birthday present for her was super romantic.
Kylie was asked about the most romantic thing Travis has ever done for her, and she had an answer immediately. Considering Travis isn’t generally all hearts and flowers, this gesture is especially sweet.
“On my birthday, he woke me up out of bed at like six in the morning,” Kylie recalled. “He was like, ‘We gotta go,’ and I’m just like half asleep, like, ‘What do you mean? What do you mean?’ And he just starts pulling me, and the sun was just coming up, and he had flowers all the way down his house and violin players everywhere.”
Uh, when will someone do this for me? I’d like to know.
5. They fight just like every couple.
Despite the cute romantic gestures, Kylie and Travis are human beings like the rest of us, and they have their share of arguments. Kylie admitted at the time of the interview that they had recently had a spat that made her cry.
“Me and Travis got in a little fight. Which is normal,” she said. “So I was just crying because I was just overwhelmed. It wasn’t even about anything really specific. I was just overwhelmed. And then we made up an hour later. I just flew to Houston to see him for a few hours.”
Of course, maybe they’re not like every couple if they can just hop on a plane to make up with each other, but still. Haven’t all of us gotten in an argument and sent a sorry text right after?