Kim Kardashian is the latest to join Alex Cooper for a lengthy Call Her Daddy one-on-one, resulting in some candidly delivered insight into the current status of her relationship with the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
Ye and Kim were married in 2014 and share four children together, including their eldest daughter, North West. By 2022, however, the two had been reported to have settled their divorce, though they’ve both remained intermittently linked in headlines in the years since.
Asked in Wednesday’s episode about “the state of you and Kanye’s co-parenting relationship,” Kim first offered a lighthearted response by playfully throwing the question back at the Call Her Daddy host.
“What do you think co-parenting with Kanye West is like?” Kim asked before diving into her actual answer.
As fans are aware, Ye’s critical remarks on his perspective of the divorce, specifically co-parenting, have frequently fueled that aforementioned headlines chatter. According to Kim, however, the truth of the situation is more nuanced than what might be assumed.
“It’s not easy but, I mean, I raise the kids full-time,” Kim said. “They live with me and I welcome a great, healthy relationship with my kids and their dad. I think he knows that. I push for it all the time. But I also protect them when it’s time for that and it goes in waves and phases and it’s a lot of work. But like I said earlier, I have the best memories and the best relationship with my dad [the late Robert Kardashian]. Even like, I love that I see Tristan [Thompson] puts [his and Khloé’s] kids to bed every night and takes them to school every day when he’s not in season. So I just welcome healthy relationships, but it’s not easy.”
Asked to name the last time Ye saw the children, Kim initially pondered the question for a moment before providing an estimate. Worth noting is that it’s not entirely clear when, exactly, this interview was recorded. In the opening minutes, Kim mentioned being on a call earlier that day about the recently launched NikeSKIMS endeavor, so that may point to some context in terms of timeline.
“Whenever he’ll call for them and ask, it’s probably been a couple months since we’ve heard from him,” Kim said.
Alex then inquired about any possible sense of disappointment among Kim and Ye’s children, to which Kim responded by pointing out that certain aspects of her ex-husband’s lifestyle, travel being chief among them, have been in play from the very beginning.
“They always knew that he had a big life traveling before and was always on tour and all of that and that he lives in different countries all the time and loves to live all over the place,” she said. “We manage it really well. They love their life and their routine and their schedule. I think [my] job as their mom is to make sure that they stick to their routine and they’re healthy and happy.”
The one thing that bothers Kim is the narrative that she herself is standing in the way of Ye being able to see the children when he wants, though she remains hopeful, based on advice from her mother Kris Jenner, that she and Ye will one day be able to have a co-parenting relationship similar to the one she grew up in.
“But it’s more of the narrative that I think it’s all good and we’re living our life and then I just wake up and there’s all these tweets about how I’ve kidnapped the kids,” Kim added. “I’m like, it’s not a kidnapping, it’s a divorce. We can still all be in each other’s lives and have group dinners. I just grew up so different seeing my family co-parent so great.”
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Six years of Ye’s life are documented in the recently released documentary In Whose Name? Directed by Nico Ballesteros, the film features several appearances by Kim, as well as captures an especially tense moment between the 24-time Grammy winner and Kris Jenner. Following its theatrical release, the streaming version of the film is expected to feature a different cut, with Ballesteros previously telling fans “the truth is coming.”
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