Karl-Anthony Towns proposed to Jordyn Woods on Christmas Day 2025, turning a relationship that began as friendship into an engagement. The pair announced the news on Instagram with a caption that read, “Marry Christmas.”
The timing matters now because Woods has been in the spotlight again after celebrating her bachelorette party at the end of March in St. Barts, where she posted, “Did you hear the news!?!? I’m on my Bach!!!! #StBach #JordynsBachlorette.” Towns, meanwhile, is in the middle of the New York Knicks’ 2026 NBA Playoffs run, and the engagement gives that on-court momentum a personal counterpart off it.
Towns and Woods have been together since 2020, when their friendship turned romantic after years of knowing each other through common people. He later said on Woods’ Instagram series in 2021 that they met years earlier and stayed friends before the relationship deepened during the pandemic, when both had to decide whether what they had would remain platonic or become something more. Woods has said they grew closer after the death of Towns’ mother in April 2020, a period that also hit hard for her because she had lost her own father to cancer three years earlier.
Woods’ own profile helps explain why the engagement drew immediate attention. She began modeling in 2015, launched her Woods by Jordyn brand in 2023 and owns The Tox Buckhead, a wellness center focused on body sculpting and contouring. Her personal life has also long been part of the public record, especially her 2019 falling out with Kylie Jenner after Woods was caught kissing Tristan Thompson. The two women have slowly reconciled since then, and Jenner said in 2023 that they had stayed in touch, met up at her house and talked things through. By 2024, Jenner said they spoke about once a month and kept a healthy distance.
That history makes the current moment feel fuller than a simple engagement post. Woods and Jenner were spotted together at Knicks games over the past two years, a sign the old fracture has eased without ever disappearing from the story. For Towns and Woods, the unanswered detail is the most obvious one: the wedding date is still not known, even as the engagement moves their relationship from private milestone to public chapter.
