Kardashian Quotes About Travis Barker: What Family Thinks of Him

Travis Barker was welcomed into the Kardashian-Jenner family with open arms when he left the friend zone and started up a romance with Kourtney Kardashian in January 2021. The pair wed the following year in May 2022, and her family has had some glowing things to say about the Blink-182 drummer, although the tide may be turning amid Kourt’s well-documented feud with her relatives.

“While there’s been tension for years, the heart of the matter is the family doesn’t really like Travis,” an insider revealed to Life & Style exclusively in October 2023. “Some of them tolerate him more than others, and some are less outspoken, but they all share an opinion that Kourtney is not the same person since getting together with Travis, and they don’t like it.”

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“Kim believes Travis has been isolating Kourtney from the family and slowly turning her against them,” the source continued. “It’s true that Kourt spends a lot less time with her sisters and is more vocal in sharing how she doesn’t agree with a lot of things they do. She has certainly pulled away.”

Scroll down to see everything the Kardashian-Jenner family has said about Travis.

Kris Jenner

“Kourtney and Travis, they’re really made for each other, they really are,” the family matriarch gushed during an October 2021 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, adding, “They’re the cutest couple. They’re so in love, and they let us know that they’re so in love constantly.”

Kris revealed Travis asked for her permission before proposing to Kourtney earlier that month, saying, “He’s a sweetheart, and they’re so happy.”

However, the momager did note that the couple’s over-the-top PDA did make others in the family uncomfortable at times.

“Well, you feel like they’re the only two people in the room, and we almost don’t know what to do with ourselves, like, I’m looking for a closet to hide in, somewhere to go!” Kris said with a laugh, adding, “But you know, they’re in that stage, and it’s really, really special. And I’m so excited.”

During an April 2022 episode of The Kardashians, Kris revealed Travis sent her a text of what he planned to say during his proposal to Kourtney to get her opinion. After reading the romantic words aloud, Kris said in a confessional, “This is the most tender thing I’ve ever read and it’s bringing me to tears. I can’t help it, I’m a crier what can I say?”

Kim Kardashian

Kim and Travis go way back when it comes to being pals, seen here at a 2007 party. In a 2021 Q&A session on her Instagram Stories, the Skims founder shot down rumors the pair had hooked up, writing, “NO! False narrative. We’ve been friends for years and I’m so happy for him and Kourt.”

Travis revealed in his 2015 memoir that while he was dating Paris Hilton in 2006, he told his assistant how attracted he was to Kim, who was working as the heiress’ closet organizer at the time.

“I kept on secretly checking out Kim, telling Lil Chris, ‘I don’t care if she’s the closet girl, she’s f–king hot,'” he wrote in Can I Say.

Travis chimed in on how that was not the reason for the sisters’ ongoing feud, explaining to the L.A. Times in October 2023, “I obviously shared all that stuff because I wanted to move past it. It was therapeutic for me. That’s [Kourtney’s] sister. She knows how we used to talk. Nothing bad was going on. You give people a little information and they think they’ve solved the mystery of ‘this is why they’re fighting.’ It’s just so ridiculous.”

Khloe Kardashian

The Good American founder thanked her future brother-in-law for his thoughtfulness after he sent her a bouquet of white roses in April 2022 to celebrate the debut of The Kardashians on Hulu. She shared a photo of the blooms in an Instagram Story along with a card that read, “Congratulations! Much Love, Travis.” Khloé wrote on the slide, “The most thoughtful. Thank you @travisbarker.”

When Kourtney announced her pregnancy with the couple’s first child in June 2023, Koko shared an Instagram Story of when she revealed the news at a Blink-182 concert, writing, “Congratulations my cuties!!!” to the duo, adding, “My baby is having a baby!!!!!!!! I love you and baby soooooo much.”

Kendall Jenner

The supermodel was Travis’ biggest cheerleader about moving from being friends with Kourtney to something more. “Kendall, for years, would always say… ‘he’s so fire, he’s so fire!’ Anytime we’d see him or he’d be with us,” the Lemme founder told People in April 2021.

Kendall jumped in to add, “I have a secret psychic ability that nobody knows about it and I knew it from very long ago. I always had a feeling and I would encourage her. Every day I’d be like, ‘Just do it, just try! Just try.'”

“Cause they were really good friends for so long,” Kendall continued about Travis, adding, “Just try, take it to the next level, what’s it going to hurt?”