Karl-Anthony Towns proposed to Jordyn Woods on Christmas Day 2025, and the couple announced their engagement on Instagram with a post that read, “Marry Christmas.” Woods later marked the moment again at the end of March with a bachelorette party in St. Barts, a celebration that signaled the relationship had moved from private milestone to public campaign of the sort followers notice quickly.
The timing matters because Towns is playing for the New York Knicks during the 2026 NBA Playoffs, putting his off-court life in the middle of the same spotlight that follows his game. Woods has been part of that world for years, and the engagement gave fans a fresh reason to revisit how the pair got here, from long friendship to something more.
The two have been together since 2020, after years of knowing each other through mutual friends. Towns said in 2021 that they met years earlier through common people and became friends first, then grew closer when the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to decide whether their bond would stay platonic or turn into something else. He said they chose the latter. Woods has said their connection deepened after Towns’ mother died in April 2020, while she was dealing with her own loss, having lost her father to cancer three years earlier.
That history has helped explain why the relationship has lasted through attention that might have pulled apart a less established pair. Woods, who began modeling in 2015, has also built a public identity of her own, launching Woods by Jordyn in 2023 and owning The Tox Buckhead. She and Towns have been visible together at Knicks games, and Woods has shared Instagram posts from her own celebrations, including the St. Barts bachelorette party that followed the engagement.
There is, however, another layer to Woods’ public life that has followed her for years. She and Kylie Jenner fell out in 2019 after Woods was caught kissing Tristan Thompson, though Jenner later said they had stayed in touch, met up at her house, and kept a “healthy distance” in the relationship. By 2024, Jenner said they talked about once a month, and the two had also been spotted celebrating at Knicks games together over the past two years.
What comes next is the one detail still missing: a wedding date. For now, the engagement gives Towns a personal milestone to match a postseason run, and it leaves Woods and Towns with a public future that is official, visible and still unfinished.
