Khloé Kardashian used July 27 to answer Who Is Amari Kardashian in the most direct way possible: with a birthday tribute for Tristan Thompson’s younger brother on his 20th birthday. Her Instagram post placed Amari at the center of the family’s public message, while Kris Jenner added her own shout-out the same day.
“Happy Birthday sweet Amari ♥️,” Kardashian wrote, before adding that he changes people “simply by being you.” She closed by calling him “our sweet angel,” language that matched Jenner’s own message about “our sweet angel boy” and the “love, joy, and light” he brings to the family.
Amari at 20
Amari is nonverbal and lives with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and epilepsy. Those details make the birthday posts more than a routine family gesture: they place him within a care network that has remained visible even after Kardashian and Tristan Thompson split in 2021. The posts do not read like distant celebrity etiquette. They read like ongoing family maintenance.
Khloé Kardashian has already described that arrangement in practical terms. In a July 2025 podcast episode, she said her family took Amari back with them to the United States and added that California weather is good for him. She also said she employs two caretakers to help her, which gives a clearer picture of how his day-to-day support is organized when Thompson is away with the NBA.
Kris Jenner’s July 27 post
Jenner’s birthday message followed the same line, calling Amari “such a blessing to our family” and saying he brings “so much love, joy, and light into our lives.” She also wrote, “Your sweet spirit reminds us every day what really matters,” a line that signals how central he has become to the family’s public identity around caregiving.
The family context matters because Thompson was granted legal guardianship of Amari in 2023 after the death of their mother. Kardashian and Thompson dated on and off from 2016 to 2021, and they share daughter True and son Tatum, but the birthday posts show that the connection to Amari has outlasted the breakup. That is the part worth watching: not the romance, but the continuity of care.
What July 27 changed
For readers following this family closely, the July 27 tribute does not introduce a new relationship; it confirms a stable one. Amari remains present in Kardashian family life, with Kardashian, Jenner, and Thompson operating around his needs rather than treating him as a peripheral figure.
The unanswered piece is simple and human: how old was Amari when Thompson became his legal guardian in 2023? The birthday posts make the family’s role plain, but they also leave the chronology of his care story incomplete.
