The purpose of this paper is to establish the existence of renormalized solutions to the following parabolic–elliptic system \(\begin{aligned} \varvec{\left\{ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\sum _{i=1}^d \partial _i\left( a_i\left( x, t, u, \partial _i u\right) \right)&=\kappa (u)|\nabla v|^{2}{} & {} \text{ in } Q_{T}=\Omega \times (0, T), \\ {\text {div}}(\kappa (u) \nabla v)+{\text {div}} F(u)&=0{} & {} \text{ in } Q_{T}, \\ u&=0{} & {} \text{ on } \partial \Omega \times (0, T), \\ v&=0{} & {} \text{ on } \partial \Omega \times (0, T), \\ u(\cdot , 0)&=u_{0}{} & {} \text{ in } \Omega , \end{aligned}\right. } \end{aligned}\) We will consider the inhomogeneous anisotropic Orlicz–Sobolev spaces, without imposing the \(\Delta _{2}\) -condition on the N-functions.