With the news that Khloé Kardashian is more than friends with rapper French Montana, the 29-year-old "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star stepped out wearing a necklace with his name on it.
The reality TV star was sporting the new accessory last Wednesday at LAX airport when she was with the Moroccan-born music maker and CEO of Cocaine City Records. While it appears a little fuzzy to us (and the language experts we consulted), E!, home to all things Kardashian,insists it says "Karim" in Arabic — a nod to his birth name, Karim Kharbouch.
For the record, Medhat Credi, who is senior Arabic language lecturer at NYU and a former UN translator, tells Yahoo that this is how "Karim," which means "generous," should look in Arabic script:
Because you may not be up on your French Montana trivia (and that's cool), Arabic is one of the three languages he speaks — in addition to English and French. In fact, the "I Luh Ya Papi" singer's stage name comes from his childhood nickname "French" (given to him when he moved to NYC at 13 and primarily spoke that language) and "Montana" for Al Pacino's drug-cartel kingpin Tony Montana in "Scarface."
Khloé and French have been inseparable as of late and a source confirms to Yahoo that they are a kouple — oops, we mean couple.
"Khloe is having a lot of fun with him," says the insider. "It's pretty casual right now."
That "fun" has included attending Sean "Diddy" Combs's son's over-the-top 16th birthday party together and they've gone on several dinner dates from coast to coast. One night out was with Kourtney and Scott Disick at Cecconi's in West Hollywood and in NYC they've hit Lobster House on City Island.(According to Us Weekly, they ate French fries together in the latter spot. We can't make this stuff up.)
"Khloe is having a lot of fun with him," says the insider. "It's pretty casual right now."
That "fun" has included attending Sean "Diddy" Combs's son's over-the-top 16th birthday party together and they've gone on several dinner dates from coast to coast. One night out was with Kourtney and Scott Disick at Cecconi's in West Hollywood and in NYC they've hit Lobster House on City Island.(According to Us Weekly, they ate French fries together in the latter spot. We can't make this stuff up.)
Khloé wearing her supposed beau's name close to her heart isn't exactly groundbreaking territory for her. When she was married to Lamar Odom, she wore this sparkler with and "L" and "O" accented with diamonds from time to time.
Meanwhile, her sister Kim, who is set to marry Kanye West next month, has also paid tribute to her man with jewelry. Soon after she started dating the "Blood on the Leaves" rapper, she was seen out with "KW" earrings.
Speaking of Odom, Khloé is still technically married to the NBA player, who recently joined the New York Knicks. She filed for divorce in December with the particulars — like who will get that "LO" necklace? — still being hashed out.
That's OK because Montana is still married as well. He has a 4-year-old son with his estranged wife, Deen Kharbouch, and up until right before he started hanging with Khloé, he had been dating rapper Trina.
Yep, we need a scorecard too. But for now, Khloé's heart seems to belong to French… at least according to her jewelry.
