Aussie star’s ‘nuts’ family dinner with first girlfriend Kylie Jenner

Aussie singer-turned-swimmer Cody Simpson has told of the moment he met Kanye West while dating Kylie Jenner as a teenager.

There are not many people who can claim their first girlfriend grew up to become one of the most famous women in the world.

But Australian singer and swimmer Cody Simpson can.

After moving to the United States in 2010 to pursue a singing career, Simpson dated Kylie Jenner.

The 25-year-old revealed on Friday what it was like to date the celebrity at just 15 years old – in particularly attending a Kardashian-Jenner family dinner and meeting Kanye West.

“When I first moved to the States my very first girlfriend was Kylie and at the time he (Kanye) was with Kim (Kardashian), so I ended up going to a dinner in New York and sitting next to him,” Simpson told Fitzy and Wippa on Nova.

Cody Simpson confirmed his first girlfriend was Kylie Jenner. Picture: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images

It is not known how long the pair were together. Picture: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix / AFP

“I was like you know 15 at the time and I’m sitting next to Kanye at this dinner. He was actually really nice. You know how he can be quite intimidating when he’s not smiling and then he’ll smile real quick?

“He was doing that and then he had all these grills in and was telling me how he got his grills and how I should get some grills.”

Wippa questioned what the rest of the conversation was like and Simpson said the dinner felt unexpectedly “normal”.

“He was friendly as and I was quite surprised at how sort of normal it all was,” he said. “But yeah, as a young kid then, that was nuts.”

It is believed Kanye West and Kim Kardashian started dating in 2012 and were married in 2014. The couple were declared legally single last week after Kardashian filed for divorce last year.

Simpson dated Miley Cyrus from 2019 for about a year. Picture: Instagram

Simpson dated Gigi Hadid from 2013 for two years. Picture: John Parra/Getty Images

For Simpson, Jenner was the first of quite a few famous women he would go on to date, including supermodel Gigi Hadid and singer Miley Cyrus.

Simpson rose to fame after he released his debut single iYiYi in 2010, which featured American rapper Flo Rida.

Simpson in his iYiYi music video in 2010. Picture: YouTube

He has turned his attention to professional swimming. Picture: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

In 2012, he joined Justin Bieber’s Believe tour as a support act.

Flash forward to today and Simpson is a professional swimmer aiming to compete at the Commonwealth Games.

He shocked the world to qualify for the finals of the 100m butterfly event at the Australian Olympic Swimming Trials in Adelaide last year but failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

Originally published as Aussie star’s ‘nuts’ family dinner with first girlfriend Kylie Jenner