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Kim Kardashian is finally opening up about how she handles the erratic behavior of her ex-husband Kanye West, and how she's been able to protect her four kids from it.
Kardashian shares North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6 with the rapper, whom she filed from divorce from in early 2021. In the years since, West has waged war on his ex-wife on social media, made wild accusations about her parenting, and harassed her ex-boyfriend, Pete Davidson. Meanwhile, their kids have to witness the meltdowns along with the rest of the world.
On the season 7 premiere of her Hulu reality series, The Kardashians, the SKIMS co-founder discussed the ongoing situation with West from the set of her Ryan Murphy legal drama, All's Fair.
"I was pretty tested, I will say. Very tested. I mean, I have psoriasis again," Kardashian said, when asked how she was doing. "I felt more stressed, probably just because I had to super, super protect what I had to protect. My kids are involved now."
Switching to a confessional scene, the 45-year-old was asked what goes through her mind when she "sees the behavior, just like everybody else sees it."
"My poor kids. Everyone around can handle it, but like ... protect my babies," Kardashian responded. "They’re gonna know things. They’re gonna grow up. They’re gonna see. So my job as a mom is to just make sure that at a time when that behavior is happening, is just to make sure that they are protected."
"It was the first time I think one of my kids knew what was happening. I’ve been able to hide it for so long," she continued. "I always felt like I had a little bit of like Stockholm syndrome, to where I always felt really bad and always protected and always wanted to help. And this was the first time I didn’t feel that responsibility personally. You know, 'I should've stuck it out, I could've helped."
"This was the first time I was just like…" Kardashian added, trailing off.
"As much as people think that I have the luxury of walking away and not dealing ever again, that’s not my reality," she clarified. "This person, we have four kids together. It’s very confusing because it’ll be all this talk on the internet of like, ‘I’m keeping the kids.’ He’s never once called."
"But then I’ll wake up, and it’s on Twitter that I’m keeping the kids. So it’s just, when it’s not true and not rational, I just have to like—I can’t engage all the time," Kardashian lamented.
"It’s a divorce. Not a kidnapping. We haven’t left! We’re in the same spot. We have the same address, so he knows where his kids are at," she continued. "What happened to the house that you bought next door and we were going to co-parent and do it like back and forth, and you take them to school every day? I was like, ‘Have dinner with us every night.’ Let’s have dinner as a family every night."
Kardashian said that obviously, that's just not what West wanted, but it was what she saw with her mom and stepdad and her dad growing up. Her parents, the late Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner, separated she was just 10, and Kris went on to remarry Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce Jenner).
"I just saw the best co-parenting, the best healthy relationships," Kardashian added. "So it is what it is."
