Rob Kardashian may be famous by blood, but he’s private by choice.
The sole Kardashian brother—who stepped away from the family’s popular reality series in 2017, following his and ex Black Chyna’s short-lived Rob & Chyna E! spin-off in 2016—shared why he stays away from the cameras these days.
“I don’t wanna be filming and putting myself in a position where I’m not comfortable,” Rob—dad to 8-year-old daughter Dream with Black Chyna—told his sister Khloe Kardashian over the phone during the July 16 episode of Khloe in Wonder Land. “I’m not comfortable in my skin, so why would I want to go be on camera and just be vulnerable and let people in when that’s not what I want to do?”
And the 38-year-old, who falls behind Khloe, as well as older sisters Kourtney Kardashian, 46, and Kim Kardashian, 44, in birth order, emphasized that there was no animosity between himself and his siblings.
“There’s definitely nothing wrong between any of us,” he noted. “It just has everything to do with myself.”
Though he isn't ruling out a return in the future. “I love filming if it’s positive and natural and I’m feeling good about myself,” he explained. “I like being around my family so that stuff is good to me.”
But while Rob—older brother to half-sisters Kendall Jenner, 29, and Kylie Jenner, 27—stepped away from the family’s original Keeping Up With the Kardashians E! series following its 13th season, he has made a few appearances on the family’s subsequent The Kardashians on Hulu.
Indeed, Rob’s few appearances have made for headline-making commentary. During an episode he appeared on in 2023, his mother Kris Jenner asked him to describe what his sister Kourtney’s ex Scott Disick may be looking for in a woman.
“I don’t know,” Rob replied. “A f--king whore?”
Barely phased, matriarch Kris joked to producers they’d have to “bleep” out Rob’s comment.
Meanwhile, Rob’s confirmation that he has no interest in returning to the series also follows sister Khloe expressing hope he’d come back as a regular cast member.
“I do think Rob would come back to the show," Khloe, 41, said in a confessional during a 2023 episode of The Kardashians. “He talks about it a lot, he does, but I do know that Rob has been through a lot personally.”
Khloe admitted, however, that her younger brother was doing well out of the limelight.
“He's literally the best dad I know and I'm so proud of him for that,” she gushed. “And I know that he is feeling really good about himself and I'm happy for him.”
For a deeper look into the Kardashian family, keep reading…
Kris Jenner
Why, yes, Kris Jenner and longtime love Corey Gamble are still doing amazing, sweetie. In 2014, the music industry insider approached the world's most famous momager at fashion designer Riccardo Tisci's 40th birthday bash in Ibiza and "I just tried saying, 'You're beautiful. I'd love to get to know you,'" he shared on the family's OG series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, "and it went from there."
Kourtney Kardashian
With all due respect for all the small things, Kourtney Kardashian's husband has made some pretty grand gestures throughout their yearlong marriage. Take her 44th birthday that saw her and Travis Barker take a trip up the California coast to Santa Barbara. The Blink-182 drummer marked the occasion by filling their room at the famed Kennedy Cottage with rose petals and gifting her with a $161,819 piece by artist Yoshitomo Nara.
The Poosh founder has fully embraced her new life as the girl at the rock show. And in November 2023, she and Travis welcomed their first child together, son Rocky Thirteen Barker.
Kim Kardashian
As Kim Kardashian put it in a trailer of The Kardashians, "Things change really quickly." When season two wrapped, the SKIMS founder was still living it up with then-Saturday Night Live standout Pete Davidson.
She later got fans hoping she was getting back in the dating game with retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady.
Alas, the mom to North West, Saint West, Chicago West and Psalm West—with ex-husband Kanye West—wasn't on the hunt for a new teammate. "They have friends and business partners in common, but [are] not dating," a source told E! News in May 2023. "Kim is very focused on her kids, her businesses, law school and preparing for American Horror Story."
She briefly dated Odell Beckham Jr. until news broke of their split in April 2024.
As a source told E!, Kim is "open to finding love again if she meets the right person."
Khloe Kardashian
In a 2023 episode, Kris shoots her shot while chatting with Khloe Kardashian about Tristan Thompson, asking, "How's everything going with Tristan?" Safe to say the Good American founder has the basketball player benched for now. Though the exes have worked out a game plan for raising daughter True and son Tatum, Khloe shot down the idea that they're back together in May 2023, calling the narrative "tiring."
She's more interested in starting a fresh story. After meeting Love Is Blind star Alexa Lemieux the following April, Khloe pitched a winning idea to Netflix, writing on Instagram, "I think some of us single K sisters should go on LIB. What do you think?"
Kendall Jenner
Months after Kendall Jenner's split with NBA guard Devin Booker in fall 2022, the model's love life got an assist from friends Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber. The married duo were spotted enjoying a double date with the reality star and musician Bad Bunny in February 2023. The following December, it was reported that the two had called it quits.
Kylie Jenner
Seems Kylie Jenner has found herself a new beautiful boy. Last seen publicly with rapper Travis Scott—dad to her daughter Stormi and son Aire—at an Art Basel party in December 2022, the beauty mogul, has been linked to Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet since April 2023. Now, rise and shine because you don't want to miss the glimpses they've given us of their romance at New York Fashion Week and the US Open, as well as live on TV, when they showed PDA while seated together at the 2024 Golden Globes and 2025 Oscars.