With regards to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage, I hate two particular arguments. I loathe the argument that Kim is somehow responsible, in various ways, for Kanye’s mental health, or his politics, or his weekly rants. They’re two separate people, and Kim is only responsible for herself and their children. I also loathe the argument that Kanye has some kind of control over Kim’s politics, that his MAGA-ness is somehow a reflection on how she votes or the causes she supports. Again, they’re two separate people with different belief systems and all of that.
Now, the conversation that does interest me is the one where we wonder if Kim is just tired of Kanye’s bulls–t. It seems like it’s neverending drama and ignorance and ranting from him. I’m exhausted with him and SHE is the one who is married to him. Publicly, Kim is supporting him. She posted the above Instagram as an obvious signal that she’s not over it. Sources close to Kim also spoke to E! News and People Magazine about this weekend’s drama:
Kim is supportive: “They definitely have their issues, but Kim always defends Kanye publicly and tries to be supportive,” a source tells E! News. “She believes Kanye is entitled to his opinion and can express it freely. She may not always agree with him, but she still feels he’s allowed to believe what he wants. This is who he is and she knew that when she married him. He’s always been controversial and can ruffle feathers. Kim’s not surprised in the least bit. Kanye loves to speak his mind and that’s not going to change. Whether or not Kim shares the same beliefs, she knows she’s never going to stop Kanye from expressing himself.”
Kim is embarrassed: “Having all this backlash against Kanye is embarrassing for her and her family, but she will never say that. She supports Kanye through and through and truly does think her husband is entitled to his own opinion.”
Her support of Hillary Clinton: “Kim didn’t blindly follow the pack of celebrities supporting Hillary during the election, though she did vote for her. She respects certain aspects of Trump, but in the end Hillary was her decision.”
I think all of this can be true at once – she’s embarrassed, she knows Kanye sounds like an ignorant dumbass, she knows he’s hurting their “brand,” but she’s still supportive, and she thinks Kanye should be able to rant and rave all he wants. But… I still say that Kim is really tired of his crap. I still think she’s reconsidering divorce, in general. I think she’s waiting to see if he really does move to Chicago or somewhere else. If he does move away, she’ll just do the long-distance marriage thing.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid.
I just find it humorous that anyone thinks that this family cares about being embarrassed. They make their money humiliating themselves, and no one who is interested in this family or what they shill is going to be turned off by Kayne’s behavior.
You’re right, Josephine. Empire built on humiliation – it’s the brand!! Her HAIR should be what she’s embarrassed about. It’s like shoe polish with a fake ponytail.
Right?? She’s even faking some baby hairs to copy black women/WOC except that she lasered her hairline all those years ago so she doesn’t have any anymore.
Exactly. I would bet that Kim and her mother are thrilled with all of this attention. No matter what Kanye does, they will spin it for PR. If he goes off the deep end, it will be “poor embarrassed-yet-supportive Kim.” If he seeks treatment and stops doing these things, no doubt they will take credit. Either way they win, we all lose.
To quote Joel from the Soup, she’s famous for having a big a$$ and a sex tape. They built their family business on it! There is no shame or embarrassment for people like them, because all they care about is attention.
Even this nonsense, she’s probably secretly thrilled it’s put her back in the spotlight, plus she gets to play the “oh I’m so embarrassed” AND the “our love is strong!” cards.
I would just add to what Josephine said there that they all are ignorant dumbasses, only each of them in slightly different way. This why and how this relationship works for as long as it does now. Also I firmly believe based on what I have seem from KKlan is that they generaly are not really bright, so I would not go as far and claim that they have different believe systems. As in systems you think through and argue them first of all to your self. You search for information and agruments to support such systems. They probably just adopt some values based on their attractiveness to them. Sort of like bags and those horrible clothes and faces they wear.
Forget Kanye! Kim is just sad she cannot erase all of our memories and convince us she is in fact black. Photo evidence above.
LOLLLL … thanks for the laugh!
HA, spot on.
I want to know what aspects regarding Trump she supports? Seriously…I TRULY need to know what that is….
And Kim and Kanye TRULY deserve each other…..
Tax cuts for the mega rich?
Republicans KILL me with that “tax cuts for the mega rich” thing…Kim and rich folks make their money off of working class people buying their services…once the bubble bursts after a Republican tax cut…WHICH IT ALWAYS DOES…the economic crash is gonna wipe out those gains Kim and other rich folks made…cause folks won’t be able to buy their services…or pay for the cable channels they’re on…etc….meanwhile, we’re broke…in a recession…dealing with MILLIONS of job cuts…and a deficit that will NEVA go down…
And mega rich folks NEVA pay the taxes their supposed to pay anyway…because they ALWAYS have shelters that shield the bulk of their taxable income…so the 26%-32% they are supposed to pay…ALWAYS end up being about 11%-12% anyway….
It’s a stupid, vicious cycle…where truly NO ONE wins…
Lala11_7: Amen. Everything you said.
Unlimited power and adoration for self-serving reality stars? Appearance beats substance? Appeal to the lowest of human qualities?
Promotion of ignorance? Getting rich through scams? Abuse of power?
Honestly, I think she’s trying to not be seen as negative towards Trump because there are people in jail she wants to help and her publicly denouncing him would not help her cause. I can’t imagine having to be nice to Trump….
Yes and shading people “blindly following the pack” with Hillary, she just wants to play both sides and continue to make money from the poor whether red or blue.
I think she just likes the attention this is getting her. It’s so predictable. Nude selfies don’t work for her anymore, but “divorce rumors” get her A LOT of pr.
Kim and PMK already got what they wanted from Kanye. He opened the doors for them that they couldn’t open themselves. Now with Kanye’s rants and the fact he is a jack*ss the industry is probably (who knows, he is a rich dude after all) going to shun him, rendering him useless to PMK. I foresee a divorce and rebranding for Kim within the next two years, if not sooner.
@ Ostone : I agree completely. I think Kim and PMK are repositioning now to push Kanye out the door and resurrect Kim as the brave single mother doing what she has to do. Sigh. #JustAnotherStoryline
Also agree. I think she’s in a holding pattern at the moment, but they (Kim and Kris) are currently brainstorming how they can spin their way out of this one, if that’s what she wants (she may still be on the fence).
My guess: the K’s will usually make their move when the show is off-season, which is when we often see somewhat of a step back in coverage on them. It tends to generate less backlash because they aren’t quite so over-exposed. While things are quiet, my guess is she will make a move.
When I was looking at the photos in the article I thought: “I wonder when Kim is going to be White again?” That will be part of her re-branding, I’d bet.
Have you ever met someone that seemed to be this crazy but funny and interesting and intelligent person but after a while, you realised that person was just full of themselves with no real substance to back all the talking they did?
I would totally believe that she got infatuated with him at first for his “grandeur” sense of self and of her, painting her like a mystical muse of sorts, and he was legit, he had Grammys and could elevate her status too, now she is done, because not only is he crazy, but he is also stupid, dumb and offensive, the infatuation is over, she is “legit” on her own and he hurts her brand more than helps it nowadays.
That would maybe hold up if they weren’t fckn on the low before and during Kanye’s peak. Like for years before becoming a couple. She was actually the embarrassing one for a big chunk of their official relationship (for all the wrong reasons, but still) and Kanye stood up for her all this time. She could be grateful, who knows.
I think she is so done with him but probably doesn’t want another divorce under her belt.
And yeah, she’s not responsible for what comes out of his mouth but staying with him, and supporting his “opinions “ says a lot. If my husband, through mental illness or ignorance or both was spewing this kind of shit, I wouldn’t just be standing around with vacant expression on my face.
Please.
They’re not embarrassed about anything. That requires some degree of humility, something which no one in this family possesses.
All Kim or any of them see is more opportunities for attention.
The whole family is an embarrassment. Repeated continuously, but she got this whole gig leaking a sex tape, and not a good one either. That doesn’t embarrass her? Kris Humphries, maybe? Getting married and divorced for a tv show. Khloe’s infertility, oops that was a lie. And the beat goes on. She is getting more annoying with age, which I’m sure she is quite aware of. Forty is looming around the corner Kim!! Expiration Date
A colleague of mine has a brother who works at Kanye’s record label. Apparently Kanye had the head of the label brings dozens of employees in for a meeting a few weeks ago where he ranted and raved for 2 hours. It got so bad that the higher ups brought in HR at the end of the meeting in case anyone wanted to report their feeling uncomfortable or if they wanted to put anything else on the record. It seems like he’s off his meds right now and isn’t planning on going back on them any time soon.
Posting that Instagram is part of the divorce strategy. Keep the narcissist happy. I agree she’ll go for a long distance marriage if he moves. Otherwise, she’ll have to rebrand herself. Kanye is a known quantity. Random black ballers aren’t. (See Khloe and her messes.)
As a narcissist, “Yhandi” (eyeroll) was itching for this latest outburst.
Ugh. When will those Kardashians go away? They will do and say anything for attention.
Curse you, Seacrest, for inflicting them on us.
That little troll made this all happen along with PMK. Speaking of little Ryan, what happened to his accuser? Is she sitting on a pile of money somewhere. Seems his situation slipped away quickly and rather silently.
I don’t think so. Latest I can find on her is that she filed a police report, which was likely ignored, and was hired by Kathy Griffin (who I can’t stand but I give props to for that move).
It’s been awhile though. He does his little show with the equally annoying Kelly Ripa. I think he even went back to E News. Plus the award shows. He’s getting a pass. Kathy Griffin has zero clout anymore but one can hope.
Kim only became embarrassed by her husband’s ridiculous comments after the backlash. Kim is a Dotard supporter just like her husband(she believes everything that he does, remember how she wouldn’t even say one negative thing about the Dotard?), especially since she has been able to take several photo-ops in the WH under the pretense that she was doing it all for prison reform. This is something she couldn’t do when the Obama’s were in the White House. Kim isn’t going to divorce Kanye because of all of the attention and opportunities from the press and fashion industry that she and her family have gotten as a result of the marriage. Plus Kanye is even more vindictive than Kris and her daughters. Kris pays tabloids to write negative articles about her daughter’s exes every week, but Kanye will write songs and do endless interviews trashing them just like he did to Amber Rose and TS every day.
Kris bought Kanye’s ass, literally, a while ago. He won’t say shit. That is, if he stays alive, because that’s a very bad spiral he’s in.
I think Kim is going to pull a Katie Holmes on him, except she is gonna spill all his tea and he will never recover from it, sadly.
I have a different take on this: I think that Kanye’s rants/mental health issues/horrific political opinions have been FANTASTIC for Kim Kardashian’s brand. Maybe not at first, but most definitely now.
Kanye is keeping Kim in the news…and “people” are clamouring for her reaction to his behaviour. The fact that she has stood by him and remains dedicated to him, while still (outwardly) remaining independent and maintaining her own belief system, is actually a really great move. If Kris thought this up, kudos to her! If it’s genuinely who Kim is, then kudos to her.
Why is she using such dark makeup? That is definitely not a tan. She is as dark as the baby. She looks her normal color in the pic with Nori.
Pretty sure she’s been fake-baking this summer, her hands and feet have looked streaky to me in some pics.
She may be embarrassed with the way he ranted on SNL, but she’s clearly not embarrassed by Kanye’s association with Trump. She herself is on some sort of committee or board that Ivanka leads. I was glancing over Ivanka’s IG account a few days ago, trying to figure out what she actually does now, and Kim was sitting at the board table with some others. So they are in deep cahoots with the Trumps.
Side note, if they do end up in divorce, it’s fun to consider who she might go for next.. Drake maybe?
Eff anything this disgusting racist horrible culture vulture says. Her blackface says it all.
She married him for the brand and its been biting her in the bum ever since.
If “Kimye” decide to separate or divorce, what then? It will be interesting to see what Kim’s popularity will be like then. Depending how the Kardashian’s treat Kanye they could have another “Kris Humphries” debacle on their hands.
PMK does not want that….
They are all so dumb.
I mean, I’m not saying the Kardashian are responsable for what happens to West.
But come on, look at all of the Kardashian’s exes and husbands they have not ended up well.
She will drop him as soon as he impacts the Kartrashian brand.
Has she styled her baby hairs? The Fulani braids not enough for her?
>> I loathe the argument that Kim is somehow responsible, in various ways, for Kanye’s mental health, or his politics, or his weekly rants.<<
Thank you. I am married. I love my husband more than my own life, but in no way am I personally responsible for the things he says, the way he votes, or the choices he personally makes.
She’s not divorcing him anytime soon. This is a marriage of convenience for them both, kind of how marriages back in the day were for status between families. That being said…his albums are not doing well and I don’t think they are out of debt yet so they are both stuck.
Is she mouth breathing?
Kim clearly fools many. She supports Kanye because she agrees with what he says. She’s buddy buddy with Trump and won’t say a bad word about him. It’s not because she wants prison reform either. She wants Trump on her side because he has power (shudder). That’s all they care about…looks, fame, money, power. It’s been 10 years, you’d think people would get what the Kardashians are about by now. They are not much different than Trump.
The Kardashian-Jenner, West & Trump trifecta has one thing in common which is no matter how offensive, racist or really f**ked up things they say or do. Their fan base will blindly follow them and lap that sh*t up.
Kim co-signing Trump’s facist, racist, sexist and xenophobic behaviour is dangerous. Both Kim and Kanye are giving legitimacy to the alt-right/white supremacists of America including the chief of said alt-right/white supremacists in the WH. Disgusting.
She really needs to stop doing whatever she’s doing to her face. The divorce will be coming shortly…