Cosmopolitan UK – September 2019

COSMOPOLITAN · 75

Seeingherfresh-faced,outsidethe
realm of social media and with her
mum, Elizabeth, a few steps away
ensuring that her girl feels supported,
she seems younger than her 21 years.
Over the past few months, Jordyn
Woods’ name has featured heavily
in celebrity gossip headlines and
been dragged through the mud on
Instagram. “There’s been so much
that’s happened in my life, I feel like
I’m so old,” she tells me semi-wearily, as
though the magnitude of living such
a public-facing life is still sinking in.
She is referring, in part, to the loss of
her father in 2017 and to the moment
she found herself embroiled in a
tabloid frenzy of cheating allegations
surrounding the Kardashian-Jenner
posse – the world’s most-watched
family, with a combined social-media
following in the hundreds of millions.
For the benefit of the uninitiated,
Woods – a successful fashion and
beauty entrepreneur – was known
to many as the long-time best friend
of Kylie Jenner. Until, in January of this
year, there was an alleged kiss between
Woods and Tristan Thompson,
boyfriend of Kylie’s sister Khloé
Kardashian and father of Khloé’s

16-month-olddaughter,True.Inan

intimate chat with close family friend

Jada Pinkett Smith on her online show

“Red Table Talk”, Woods claimed that

Thompson kissed her on the way out

of his house. Yet a now-familiar

narrative pattern, in which men

are not held to account for their

infidelities, repeated itself and despite

Thompson’s rumoured history of

cheating, it was Woods who

received an onslaught of

online hatred, including

a (since deleted) tweet

from Khloé Kardashian

that read, “Why are you

lying @jordynwoods?? If

you’re going to try and save

yourself by going public,

INSTEAD OF CALLING

ME PRIVATELY TO

APOLOGIZE FIRST, at least be

HONEST about your story. BTW, you

ARE the reason my family broke up!”

apparently holding Woods accountable

for the subsequent breakdown of her

relationship with Thompson.

Woods goes on to explain that,

straight after the kiss, “I didn’t know

how to feel. I was like, ‘That didn’t

just happen’. I [told him] ‘I need to go.’

I wasleavingalreadysoI walkedout

immediately. I got in the car. I was

in shock.” The first thing she did was

check in with her mum and family

and spend time processing what had

happened. “You know that saying,

‘I feel so alone in a room full of

people’? I went through a phase of

thinking, ‘I’m going to isolate myself,

because I don’t know how I feel.

I don’t know what the

right thing to do is.’”

Throughout our

conversation, Woods speaks

about the importance of her

relationship with God. “I

just need[ed] some time by

myself to try to understand

what [was] happening, why

it [was] happening, and how

am I going to react to this

internally, you know? How can I make

things right with myself, with God

and with my relationships? It took

some time off in order for me to have

a level head on how I should react.”

When it comes to self-care, Woods is

an advocate of social-media detoxing

in favour of family time. “I don’t

believe in clapping back, or reacting

out of emotion. I could have handled ›

“I don't

believe in

clapping

back”

CELEBRITY

Life is crazy. A lot can

happen in four years,” says Jordyn Woods,

sitting across from me in London’s

Sanderson hotel, wearing a hoodie that

aptly reads “Bad energy stay far away”.

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