Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian’s short-lived marriage began on Aug. 20, 2011
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- Kris Humphries is a former professional basketball player from Minnesota
- The athlete was famously married to Kim Kardashian for 72 days in 2011
- Humphries retired from the NBA in 2019 and has since opened several restaurants
It has been 15 years since Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian’s 72-day marriage began.
Humphries is a former professional basketball forward who played for several NBA teams — including the Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks and the New Jersey Nets (now the Brooklyn Nets). Although he was already well-known among fans of the sport, he skyrocketed to mainstream fame in 2010 when he began dating Kardashian.
The athlete and the SKIMS founder dated for less than a year before getting married on Aug. 20, 2011. However, their marriage only lasted a matter of weeks, with Kardashian filing for divorce on Oct. 31, 2011.
“I was definitely naive about how much my life was going to change. But the one thing that really bothers me is whenever people say that my marriage was fake,” Humphries wrote in an essay for the Players’ Tribune in March 2019. “There’s definitely a lot about that world that is not entirely real. But our actual relationship was 100% real.”
After he and Kardashian divorced, Humphries focused on basketball until 2019, when he officially announced his retirement. Since ending his professional career, Humphries returned to his home state of Minnesota and has kept a low profile as he has branched out into the restaurant business.
So, where is Kris Humphries now? Here’s everything to know about the former basketball player’s life, 15 years after he married Kim Kardashian.
Humphries and Kardashian wed in August 2011
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In the midst of his basketball career, Humphries’ life got turned upside down when he started dating Kardashian in October 2010. By May 2011, Humphries proposed in front of Keeping Up With the Kardashians cameras.
Humphries and Kardashian got married on Aug. 20, 2011, in Montecito, Calif. The extravagant wedding was filmed for the E! two-part special, Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event.
On Oct. 31, 2011 — 72 days after tying the knot — Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries. Humphries responded by requesting an annulment on the grounds of fraud, and the two embarked on a nearly two-year legal battle. The exes reached a divorce settlement in April 2013 and finalized their divorce in June 2013. At the time, Kardashian was dating Kanye West and pregnant with their first child, North West.
Their marriage and divorce was highly publicized, but Humphries has maintained that the relationship was “real” to him.
“To me, it was real,” he told Access Hollywood in February 2012, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I would never go through something and do something that wasn’t real or I didn’t believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.”
Humphries later admitted that their divorce and the publicity from the split took a toll on him and he struggled with the negative attention.
“It sucked. It’s never easy to go through the embarrassment of something like that … but when it plays out so publicly, in front of the world, it’s a whole other level. It was brutal,” he wrote in the Players’ Tribune. “I didn’t know how to handle it, because I never thought I was going to be famous in that way.”
He continued playing professional basketball following their divorce
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In the midst of his divorce from Kardashian, Humphries continued playing basketball. At the time, he was playing with the Nets and later the Celtics.
Humphries wrapped up his professional basketball career by playing with the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016, the Phoenix Suns for a few games in 2016 and the Atlanta Hawks from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, Humphries initially signed with the Philadelphia 76ers but was cut from the roster. He officially announced his retirement in March 2019.
“I hope that true fans of basketball remember me as a grinder, as a guy who transformed into a heck of a rebounder, and as a guy who always tried to put the game in the best light,” he wrote in the Players’ Tribune. “I was never a person who wanted to be famous. I’m a guy from Minnesota who loves the game of basketball.”
After retiring, Humphries recalled getting booed by Kardashian’s fans while he was playing games.
“I was playing at Madison Square Garden for the first time after my marriage ended, and I was getting booed so loud that it was crazy,” he wrote for the Players’ Tribune. “I wasn’t Kris Humphries any more. I wasn’t a real person. I was That Guy. And I’m standing there at the free throw line waiting for the ref to hand me the ball, and the Garden is shaking.”
Humphries recalled another time he was “getting booed so hard” in Philadelphia, and he asked himself, “‘Why exactly are they booing me, though? Is it just because I’m That Guy from TV? Do they think I was trying to be famous? Is it because they think I disrespected the game of basketball?’ The last one killed me, because all I’ve ever wanted to be known for was basketball.”
Humphries confessed that he started to deal with “a lot of anxiety” and “was in a dark place” for a year. He explained, “I didn’t want to leave my home. You feel like … the whole world hates you, but they don’t even know why. They don’t even know you at all. They just recognize your face, and they’re on you.”
Despite having mixed emotions during his divorce from Kardashian, he still called playing in the NBA the “most fun thing in the entire world.”
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He has since opened dozens of restaurants across the Midwest
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After Humphries retired from the NBA, he began pursuing business ventures outside of basketball and has opened several restaurants in his home state of Minnesota and across the Midwest.
“Since I’ve stepped away from the game, I’m trying to stay under the radar and work on a new phase of my life,” he wrote in the Players’ Tribune in 2019. “I’ve been developing some business ventures.”
At the time, Humphries shared that he was preparing to open seven Crisp & Green restaurants in the Midwest and had already opened 10 Five Guys franchises. In 2022, Humphries joined forces with his parents and cousin, Alex Humphries, in opening several Dave’s Hot Chicken franchises. After starting small, in September 2025, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported that the family has expanded their deal with Dave’s Hot Chicken to 30 restaurants.
When he’s not working, Humphries is spending time at Lake Minnetonka outside of Minneapolis. Humphries also frequently posts photos from his travels, which have included Miami and Yellowstone National Park.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Humphries started playing pickleball. Since then, he competed in the Celebrity Pickleball Showdown in November 2024.
“Pickleball’s a lot of fun, just competitive and exciting once I got past the fact that it’s a wiffle ball,” he said in an interview with Pickleballtv at the time.
As for his love life, Humphries has not publicly dated someone since his relationship with Kardashian.
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