Lamar Odom’s Kids: All About Destiny, LJ and the Late Jayden
Lamar Odom’s Kids: All About Destiny, LJ and the Late Jayden
Zoe Kaplan, Currie EngelWed, April 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
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Lamar Odom #7 of the Los Angeles Lakers during a game on October 30, 2009 in Los Angeles, California ; Lamar Odom with his son Lamar Jr. and his daughter Destiny in June 2025.Credit: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty ; Lamar Odom/Instagram
In his Netflix documentary, Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, former basketball star Lamar Odom delved into his battle with drug addiction and coming to terms with the death of his youngest child, Jayden.
Lamar is a dad to two adult children — Destiny, born in 1998, and LJ, born in 2002 — who appear in the doc to talk about their complex relationship with their dad. He also had son Jayden, who was born in 2005 but died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at just 6 1/2 months old.
“We had our own little family unit,” Liza recalled in the doc of their lives after welcoming Destiny. “We’re like 19, 20 years old. We are babies ourselves. But he wasn't like that ever-present father, because he couldn't be. Obviously, his goal was to go to the league. So, I feel like there was a lot of distractions, a lot of people.”
Lamar’s professional basketball career took off in 1999, and he became the No. 4 pick in the first round of the NBA draft for the Los Angeles Clippers. After a big move out to L.A., their family continued to grow — first with the birth of their son, Lamar Jr., and then their second son, Jayden, whose death in 2006 sent Lamar into a spiral. Soon after, the couple split.
These days, after a near-fatal overdose in 2015, Lamar is on the road to recovery which hasn’t been easy for his kids. Still, he seems to be spending some quality time with them, even posting photos all together on Instagram. Lamar also credited them with helping him maintain his sobriety during a 2019 appearance on The View. “I live for my children," he said.
Here’s everything to know about Lamar Odom's kids.
Destiny Odom
Destiny Odom in Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.Credit: Courtesy of Netflix
Destiny was born on Aug. 6, 1998. During her childhood, she appeared on the reality shows Khloé & Lamar and Keeping Up with the Kardashians with her famous dad.
When Lamar married Khloé on Sept. 27, 2009, after they had known each other for just 30 days, Destiny wasn’t a huge fan of the relationship or the attention it brought to their family. In a 2017 interview with PEOPLE, she shared her thoughts on their dynamic and ultimate divorce.
"Things changed when my dad married Khloé. Things were a lot more public," she said, claiming that their relationship was “very toxic.”
Destiny was a teenager at the time, and it was a lot for her to manage the attention that came with both the Kardashians’ fame and her dad’s increasingly difficult journey with addiction.
“There were regular snide comments at school. And when his addiction became public, then it became a social media thing," she said. "Even people that I thought were my friends were saying stuff on social media. It was humiliating."
In the 2026 Netflix doc, Liza and Lamar's kids reflected on times when he was absent, or disappeared without telling them where he was, and the effect that had on their relationships.
“Rejection from a parent is extremely hard and hurtful, and it definitely pains your development growing up,” Destiny said. “There's some moments that you never forget. Well, now, I know he was, like, partying and using.”
Lamar Odom and his daughter Destiny on "Good Morning America".Credit: Matt Petit/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
In the documentary, Destiny recalled visiting her dad in the hospital after his 2015 overdose, telling him, “you can't leave, we still have memories to make.”
When he was well enough, Destiny and her brother LJ staged an intervention. “I basically gave him the ultimatum that it was rehab or me not speaking to him anymore,” she told PEOPLE. “I think that hit him really hard.”
These days, it seems like Destiny and Lamar have a strong relationship. She went to support him during his appearance on The View in 2019, and even did a joint interview with him. In 2022, he posted a photo on Instagram from one of her first runways captioned, “❤️ Follow my beautiful daughter @realdestinyodom she’s making BIG moves!”
“When your parent is an addict and they get clean it’s like a whole new world,” she previously told PEOPLE. “A whole new person, really. It’s crazy what therapy and rehab can do to a person.”
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Currently, Destiny appears to be working and modeling in the fashion industry, and posts on Instagram about her church and Christian beliefs.
Lamar Odom Jr.
Lamar Odom Jr. in Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.Credit: Courtesy of Netflix
LJ was born in 2002. Like his sister, LJ also appeared on the reality shows Khloé & Lamar and Keeping Up with the Kardashians during his childhood.
He has appeared at various events throughout his life and even went to Kobe Bryant’s last basketball game with Lamar and Destiny in 2016. Around 2023, LJ moved to L.A. to live and work with his dad on their family businesses, including Odom Recovery Group, Oxy Dental Lomita and ZNest, according to his IMDb page.
In the 2026 Netflix doc, LJ talked about going to visit Lamar with Destiny after the Lakers won the 2009 NBA championship. When they showed up to go to the parade with him, he was nowhere to be found.
As it turns out, Lamar had been partying. “You wonder where your dad is. Where is he at? What’s he doing?” LJ said. “Obviously, I miss him, you know, I want to see him. But, he wasn't there.”
Lamar Odom and his kids, daughter Destiny and son Lamar Jr. in August 2023.Credit: Lamar Odom/Instagram
LJ also recalled how terrifying it was to visit his dad in the hospital as a teenager. To cope, LJ said that he just kept playing the same short, happy clip from a basketball tournament in the early aughts where Lamar did a cool move around someone, and celebrated. Even though Lamar was in a coma, “I always just played that clip for him so he could hear it,” LJ said.
Of course, recovery hasn’t been easy on any member of the family. "As much as he’s grown over the past couple years, I feel like sometimes you always gotta put him back on track. It seems like you’re the parent, and he's the son,” LJ said.
The two seem to be close these days, though. In 2025, LJ posted on Instagram in honor of his dad’s 46th birthday. “The realest one that’s been through it all but never let that held you down. Taught me how to be strong when others want you to be weak,” he wrote. “Point of the story is I’m glad I can call you my father and my best friend in the very same sentence.”
Jayden Odom
Lamar Odom and his kids in Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.Credit: Courtesy of Netflix
The youngest of Liza and Lamar’s children, Jayden, was born on Dec. 15, 2005, and died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) while sleeping in his crib on June 29, 2006. He was 6 1/2 months old. Lamar and Liza both talked about the deep trauma of that loss in the Netflix documentary.
Liza shared memories of her younger son, saying, “He was just so curious, he had big eyes and he would look around the room ... I did think he'd be my last child. And I remember saying to myself, ‘Appreciate this,’ because something was telling me to enjoy that moment.”
At the time of Jayden's death, the family was visiting New York for Lamar’s aunt’s funeral. Liza overslept one morning, and was surprised that Jayden seemed to be still sleeping—so she went to check on him. “I just remember, like, turning him over, and his lips were blue,” Liza said in the documentary. “I just remember my mother just screaming like, ‘Call 911, call 911.’ I just saw the fireman just grab him up like a football and just ran to the ambulance.”
At the hospital, Liza recalled a doctor telling her she was sorry and that there was nothing they could do. “When he passed, I couldn’t even leave the hospital. I just sat there for about three hours and held him,” Lamar said on Good Morning America in 2019.
In an interview with ESPN not long after his son’s death, Lamar shared that Jayden had been healthy, and that the autopsy had been inconclusive. "I don't think nothing could prepare you," he said at the time, tearing up. "You just have to accept it, it's God's work."
Lamar went on to share how his older kids were handling his death. "[Destiny’s] in the third grade—she reads on a fifth-grade level. She understands," Lamar said at the time. "[L.J.] understands, too. I don't think he gets it like his sister gets it."
Both Lamar and Liza have talked openly about their mental health struggles in the wake of Jayden’s death. For Lamar, who now has a tattoo on his chest to honor his younger son, the loss also worsened his struggle with addiction. “I didn’t really cry too much when he passed away,” he said. “And then to think about the night that he passed away, I was out all night partying with my man.”
In the doc, Khloé said that every June, around the anniversary of Jayden’s death, Lamar would disappear, because it was “really hard” for him.
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