Kanye West Went Instagram Official With “Kim Kardashian Lookalike” Chaney Jones Amid Ongoing Criticism Of How He’s Handled The Divorce And Treated Kim

Kanye West has confirmed his new romance with 24-year-old Instagram model Chaney Jones, who fans have dubbed a “lookalike” of his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian.

At the time, Kanye (now legally known as Ye) was seeing Uncut Gems actor Julia Fox — who also publicly branded herself as his muse — in what developed into a widely publicized, albeit short-lived, relationship. He’s been pictured out with Chaney on several occasions over the last month.

Reposting a screenshot of a headline that noted that “Ye and his new boo Chaney Jones are going strong” alongside paparazzi photos of the two out shopping, the Donda artist added a single black heart emoji.

Days prior, Chaney also uploaded a selfie of the two to her page alongside a single black heart emoji once again.

Well, with Ye finally confirming the romance himself, fans have continued to draw comparisons between his new lover, Chaney, and his ex, Kim — who filed for divorce from him just over a year ago.

Some users have speculated that Ye purposefully orchestrated the new relationship to gain Kim’s attention given that all of his outings with Chaney have coincided with his string of public pleas and gestures made toward his ex.

What makes Ye’s apparent stunt all the more believable is the fact that his last highly publicized relationship was — according to sources, and to Julia herself — all part of a ploy to gain attention in the media, presumably to make Kim jealous.

Not only did Julia’s style appear to resemble Kim’s throughout her and Ye’s six-week-long romance, but fans also noticed that aspects of the respective relationships seemed eerily similar, too.

Early in January, for example, Julia gushed that Ye had gifted her a “hotel suite full of clothes” just days after they started seeing each other, reminding fans that he virtually reworked Kim’s entire wardrobe back in the day too.

These parallels, along with his repeated attempts to win Kim back, led to many accusing Ye of “recycling” his old relationship — though Julia denied that she was “chaneling” the Skims founder with her outfits.

“We’ve worn some similar looks,” she said of Kim on an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast last month. “I thought it was cool that she had worn it. It is unfortunate, because women are always being pitted against each other, and there are 10 years of history that they have prior.”

On the same podcast episode, Julia directly addressed Ye’s long-running attempts to win Kim back, telling host Alex Cooper that it’s “human” to have “residual feelings” for an ex. “I also know that he’s with me now. And that’s all that matters,” she said.

But weeks later, when the pair broke up, Julia claimed that Ye wanted her to glamorize the entire relationship in the press, further fueling — and seemingly confirming — rumors that the whole thing was a stunt to get under Kim’s skin.

“I don’t know if I would ever say, ‘Oh my God, this person looks like me.’ I think if someone has dark hair and tan skin people are going to say, ‘Oh, that looks like Kim.’ And that’s not fair, because there are so many people who are just themselves,” Kim said.

“Kanye West is obsessed with Kim Kardashian. I mean look at Chaney Jones his new girlfriend, she looks exactly like Kim,” one person tweeted alongside a paparazzi photo of Chaney on a beach.

As the conversation unfolded, fans noted that Ye dating a so-called “lookalike” of Kim amid their tumultuous legal split and his recent flurry of Instagram posts slamming both her and Pete seems “creepy.”

If you’ve followed the pair’s divorce proceedings over the past year, you’ll know that Ye has only been vocal about his disagreement with the split in the months since Kim and Pete started dating.

Not only did Ye claim to have “never even seen” the legal papers while still calling Kim his “wife” back in November — just after she and Pete shared a kiss during their joint Saturday Night Live appearance — but he also reportedly dismissed her request to move forward with the proceedings last month.

In light of Ye’s objection to finalizing the split, several users pointed out that choosing to publicly date someone who’s been widely perceived to resemble Kim — and just after apparently flaunting his relationship with Julia to make his ex jealous — appears even more strange.

Some fans even went on to accuse Ye of dating Chaney purely to perpetuate the “Kim Kardashian lookalike” narrative in the media and publicly keep his “name attached” to Kim’s.

Of course, there’s also the chance that Ye and Chaney’s romantic connection is completely genuine. But between the undeniable resemblance, his treatment toward Kim amid the divorce proceedings, and Julia’s recent claim around his public glamorization of their romance, fans’ skepticism is only growing more intense.