Kim Kardashian’s marriage is so bad, y’all. I would actually have a little bit of sympathy for her if she wasn’t doing the performative ride-or-die thing for Kanye West. As we discussed, Kanye decided to go batsh-t on Twitter last night about Drake. Drake and Kanye’s beef has been simmering for months, and Drake has apparently not spoken to Kanye directly about it in a while. But Drake has spoken to Kris Jenner, and Drake is tight with Travis Scott, who is with Kylie Jenner. Kanye wrote about a hundred tweets over the course of six hours about or to Drake last night. So what did Kim have to say about it?
My husband is the most brilliant person, the most genius person that I know. He has broken so many boundaries, everything from music, stage design, fashion and culture and will continue to change the world.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 14, 2018
This is how you placate a child. Even though people were joking in her mentions that Kanye wrote this or Kanye “forced” her to write it, this is ALL Kim. This is Kim stuck in a sh-tty marriage and wanting out, but also wanting to see if she can “manage” her way out of the situation. She keeps hoping that if she can just get Kanye calm and on his meds and listening to her all the time, that maybe she can get this to work. At what point does Kim throw up her hands and say “no more”? The thing is, I think one of the reasons why she hasn’t left is the reason why so many women don’t leave their toxic marriages: because Kim knows Kanye would fall apart completely if she left him. If we think Ye’s rants about Drake are bad, just wait until the complete MAGA meltdown if Kanye doesn’t have Kim trying to moderate his words and actions.
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She stays in the marriage for the money and the attention, nothing more.
Attention maybe. I think she stays because Kanye gives her legitimacy but not money as I think she has more money than him. She def profits from the West name tho
Agreed. The Kardashians were not really accepted by the A list until Kanye-they were famous and wealthy already, but weren’t on the cover of Vogue, going to the Met Gala, etc. I think Kanye bumped Kim up to the next level she wanted and that’s a huge reason why she stays with him.
I think Kim really does care for Kanye as a friend. But I also think that the romantic love is long-gone (?). And since Kim has become a legitimized celebrity since being official with Kanye, I doubt she is going to let him go.
But it feels like Kanye is working really hard on trying to get out of this situation by being as “assy” as he can on every turn.
Since they spend so much time apart, it`s probably manageable for them to stay married.
Their logic is probably that they are not gonna find anyone either one of them would be happier with, so they`ll just be miserable together.
She is doing too much to the point where I think she loves his twitter rants and the attention they get from it. She is not ride or die as she leaks shit about him all the time. Sit down Kim you are really just making yourself look so stupid. Let your husband fight his own (non existent) battles.
The tweet where she says that Kanye paved the way for Drake? WTF lol! How? People on the shade room comments say the same way Ray J paved the way for her? LMFAO sorry but that was funny and she brings it on herself
Another stable genius. Sure, Jan.
Disagree. She stays in the marriage because it benefits her. As soon as she decides it is a negative on her (attention wise, money wise, etc) she will cut him loose. I think she’s working up to that now with the criticism of him she’s been saying on the show, but wants to weave enough “stand by your man” in there to make her look like more of a victim when she does leave.
She’s got (3) kids with him…
Their show’s ratings have FINALLY and consistently gone down for months…even WITH all of the drama they’ve tried to inject into it….
And with his medical issues….
There’s nowhere for her to go…so she pretty much HAS to do this….
She absolutely CAN leave though. She has her own money, she has a VERY supportive family/ support system with several other divorcees who can commiserate with her, she has Kourtney as an “example” (who ‘finally’ left Scott after three kids, she finally got sick of his crap). She has her mom, and her children, and her homes, and her endorsements. And in a business that profits on attention, she would get a TON of it for leaving him.
IMO, it’s Kanye who would be worse off without her, not the other way around.
Eh, I feel bad for her. She is stuck in a marriage with a man who routinely says ans does stupid shit (for whatever reason) and she is left to clean up the mess and manage the brand image. She’s also raising 3 kids with a man who often seems totally out of control.
Personally, I think he is a liability, and the only reason she stays with him is because she will 100% blamed for his downfall (lol) if she leaves him. As a culture we love to blame women, ESPECIALLY for the foibles of men.
She has all the money in the world, she doesn’t need him for that anymore. She may have needed him for his connections 10 years ago, but the K’s are very well connected (and liked) in industry circles now – I mean, Kris was invited to be in the most talked about video this year, Kendall is the highest paid model in the world, Kylie is rolling in $$ – they don’t need Kanye for legitimacy any more. The number of legit A-listers who call them friends is long (Serena, Ellen, Travis, JLaw, John Legend, Bieber…) However they got there, they are there – they don’t need Kanye, but ditching him now (which btw he deserves) will be a PR disaster.
I always wonder about the Kardashians…and their…”all the money in the world” thing…
I know Kylie has stable income from her makeup line…
I know Khloe has stable income from that blue jean line she has…
Kendall has modeling…
I know Kris gets a piece of EVERYBODY’S PIE…
And of course they ALL have sponsorship deals through Instagram/Snapchat/Marketing
It seems like Kim and Kourtney…are kinda in the same boat when it comes to income…they have the show…and have their sponsorships…I know Kim made decent change off that emoji/app game a couple of years ago…but then…their lifestyle also costs a pretty penny…and Kanye owes everybody and they Mama…
So…I wonder….
Kim also has makeup and skincare lines which tend to sell out too (they do the same thing Kylie does- have small runs to drum up the price/exclusivity/demand, ensuring they will sell out and creating more attention for the next run of products). Kim also still does appearances, which I can’t believe is still a thing…seems so 2008. And Kim is *constantly* in demand for endorsements and magazines (I think they’re paid for magazines? I might be wrong though).
Kourtney is starting to seem kind of Rob-ish. She just shows up and does the bare minimum, and uses her show income to live semi-modestly. I hope she’s saving, because she doesn’t have a lot of marketability when her ‘vibe’ is done much more enthusiastically by every single one of her sisters. like, why get Kourtney when you can get one of the other girls?
You’re not wrong, but they do a lot of sponsored posts on social media and I bet they’re making good $$ off that (500k-1m per post, according to google).
Plus their lifestyle costs (homes where they film, glam squads, flights, stylists, clothing, blah blah) will all be expensed as business costs and therefore tax free (so like an additional 30-40% off retail, if they were paying for it in the first place). Forbes is telling me Kim’s net worth is $350 mil, so if its even half that, and sitting in a decent fund, her income on capital alone with be around $7mil a year – and that’s a super conservative estimate, assuming she has decent asset managers. Plus they’ve got those shops that sell overprices shit. I mean, all I’m saying is, she may not be Bill Gates or Zuckerberg rich, but all those income streams add up to a pretty penny.
I guess ‘all the money in the world’ is relative, but if you’ve got $175m (again, half of what Forbes is telling me)to your name, in my book, you’re doing alright, man. She doesn’t need Kanyes negative bank balance.
Hi Clare
You raise some interesting points. I agree with you. You are right, that she is very financially successful, and has a good support network, and I would honestly add that she is intelligent. She could absolutely be successful without Kanye.
At the same time it seems that the Kardashian brand is based on maximizig the attention that they receive in the media and social media. During their marriage, Kanye has stirred up controversies that have allowed Kim to connect to the rap world, fashion word and pop music world. It may be that Kim’s calculations on whether to leave Kanye are based on what other opportunities she has to stay front and centre in the spot light.
Have you ever read Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton? Kim is a 21st century Undine Spragg and it makes for great celebrity gossip.
A few weeks ago another site had something up with her saying that Kanye’s standing by her despite the sex tape when others wouldn’t is one of the reasons why she stands by him despite the things he’s been saying. It was a ridiculous false equivalent (sex tape /= Trump support, racism, & misogyny) and also kind of a shame if she really thinks like that.
I have no sympathy for this woman or her family. Their approach to anything and everything, good or bad, is to milk it for however it can keep them relevant and line their pockets. If Kanye was no longer worth the investment, she would drop him like a hot potato.
These two deserve each other. I just hope that when he finally has his mental break, the kids aren’t around.
“My husband is the most brilliant person, the most genius person that I know.”
Well when you received a nothing of an education, don’t continue to read and inform yourself and hang around dummies, who make sex tapes to get famous, I guess you would think Kanye is a genius.
Try working with and being around woke, aware, educated people and you will see that Kanye is bright enough, but not brilliant or a genius of any kind. More like a stable genius.
Sure Kim, you keep telling yourself that……there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home…..
Brilliant compared with what or whom? Buddy Trump?
Must be exhausting cleaning up after 4 kids instead of 3.
You think she lifts a finger ever?
Oh Kim. You aren’t fooling anyone. We know you’re miserable. They will eventually divorce. Maybe when the kids are a bit older but when they do, it will not be pretty. I think this is the reason she is trying to avoid it or maybe she thinks she can stage manage it but she won’t be able to.
You’re right. It’s not going to be pretty. That’s why I think Kim should go ahead and check out of that faux marriage she’s in while the kids are too small to go onto the internet and see all the craziness. IMO, Kim isn’t any better than Kanye. But at least she’s not psychotic, so there’s that.
They’re both idiots.
Yup!!! Cannot argue with this logic.
She probably wants one more kid.
Didn’t she make a comment around the time Chicago(just can’t with that name) was born or shortly before that there was one embryo left? I can see a pregnancy being announced in the new year and also Khloe doing the same
Kim probably has mixed motives. She was friends with Kanye (probably with benefits) for a long time before she leaped to dump her husband of two months to grab him officially as a mate. She benefitted considerably from his connections and got things she wanted but had been beyond her reach, such as the attention from Vogue.
But I wonder if those connections have been evaporating as he falls deeper and deeper into untreated mental illness. She may feel torn between knowing he is pretty useless to her now, plus being a financial risk, and feeling some loyalty to him because of the kids and their long-time friendship.
Hard to say what she really feels because she is such a pathological liar herself. She may actually love the guy or at least like him, icy heart though she has always seemed to have to me (thick emotional shell probably formed during her childhood with Demon Mother). Wait and see, I guess.
While we wait and see, let’s speculate…Do you think she would stay single for long, if she left? Or perhaps try to build her career further with another marriage?
Hmmm… she’s been married to an athlete, a rapper…are there any movie stars with names that start with a K?
There’s a lovely gif of an elderly black woman, Bernice Staines, in a wheelchair talking to reporters. When asked for a comment on the robber who had just been arrested, Ms. Staines replied, “I’m supposed to feel sorry for that B? I don’t.”
This is what I offer to any discussion on KimK and Kanye that tries to paint her as anything but a victim of her own greed and narcissism.
“I’m supposed to feel sorry for that B? I don’t.”
Says one idiot about another.
Kim stays with him because Kanye gets her more attention than her nudes do lol.
How is Kanye a genius? Well maybe compared to the Kardashian/Jenner clan he might stick out as the only one with intelligence, but still…
Supporting him keeps her in with his influential friends when she says she has no other choice but to leave for the safety of her children. She is thinking of the connections she made through him and doesn’t want to lose those.
God knows what her kids have to put up with now and if he is acting out around them like this…..even when she leaves him, they will be affected for life.
Said the dumbest woman on the planet….
She’s thinking about the “legacy”of her kids if she jumps on the ‘Kanye is crazy’ train, she’s thinking about her “legacy” being someone she chose him to have a family with, she’s thinking about their brand in how all of this will look should she divorce him just yet.
Aaand….a little part of me believes she loves him and feels sorry for the backlash he’s going through.
This is clearly only my theory and my opinion.
Behind closed doors, however??
I would make a legitimate bet she’s scrambling to get him to lay low, do damage control and find medical help.
Sadly, in that order.
Lastly, I DO respect how this family is so protective of one another (and their, um, brand)
Except when it comes to a person who was a father figure to them for most of their lives. They tossed Caitlyn out like trash but lie down in front of trains for Tristin, Kanye, Scott, Tyga, etc. That family makes no sense.
I think for right now their marriage is one of convenience and they both profit off of it. That being said I do think KIm has to stage manage him a bit because of him not wanting to take his meds and his frequent antics. Kanye is more than willing to be out the door at any time(look who followed them on their Africa trip 🤫) and so Kim is always on the lookout and when to leak something so she won’t have any bad press. But I’m calling it right now, that when they do divorce it will because he’s found a mistress on the side and isn’t willing to leave her.
Who followed them on the Africa trip? Genuine question. A divorce lawyer? what?
I just disagree. This is about the brand. As long as Kanye keeps acting up, it’s more publicity they don’t have to pay for. Kim, in my mind, has no compassion for Kanye. He’s exactly why she signed on. It’s working if we’re saying poor Kim. That’s just a concept I can’t get behind. Ha, behind. No shame. It’s insane and unattractive for what was such a beautiful girl. However the rule seems to be if it makes money, it’s passes. And don’t forget, she’s having children with this guy. I think the public has no idea what is really going on.
I think she is as ridiculous as he is. Her whole “I support him 100%” schtick is stupid. I’d much rather have a STRONG partner who can call me out on my dumb shit. He’s humiliating himself over and over again and the one person who is supposed to be honest with him and help him continues to pat him on the head and encourage him to keep acting like this. I don’t feel sorry for her because she is part of the problem. Snoop Dogg was right, he needs a strong woman (or person) to set him straight and not be passive.
I think she knows yet another divorce will hurt her so she’s hanging on as long as she can. She’s probably waiting for Kanye to do that last totally unforgivable thing so she can safely extricate herself without too much damage to her reputation.
She doesn’t leave him because she loves the attention, and because she wants to be portrayed as Kanye’s long suffering supporting wife.
I don’t think Kanye would fall apart if she left him. They have lived separate lives from the beginning and I’m pretty sure they still do. They just get together for events or to hang out with the kids. She doesn’t have to deal with him on a daily basis (and neither do the kids, thank god).
I think it must be a PR nightmare every now and then but if he really was hurting her brand she would have dumped him a loooong time ago. And also, fashion wise she wants to be thought of as an icon. And despite the fact that common sense dictates that Kanye has horrible taste in fashion, a lot of young people think he is stylish and buy his overpriced shoes and stuff.
Kanye does not look like a well man. He’s a little bit bloated and puffy, and emotionally he looks dead inside. Sad.
Kanye looks like someone who is being emotionally abused. He has been looking like that for years now. Disoriented, acting out, weight gain, delusions and instablility, probably caused by gaslighting. He looks like an abused child.
An onset of bipolar is a common symptom of mental and emotional abuse as well.
I hope he stays healthy and alive for many years to come. He says stupid shit but I don`t wish anything bad on him.
No, you ARE bipolar. Situations can trigger a onset of a manic episode.
Abuse does not in any way make you bipolar.
It can worsen it and if your young bring on an episode sooner.
If you’re bipolar you will be that way whether there is abuse or not.
It usually does get worse as your older, especially if your not medicated.
Plus there is more than one type of bipolar. And some of them pop up in your 30-40’s
Like a lot of women are misdiagnosed until their 30’s because they didn’t get a true mania episode til then.
A lot of people don’t experience mixed episodes til their 30’s as well.
Also you usually aren’t Just bipolar, almost always you have some other affect disorders
Like depression, anxiety, add, adhd, ocd ect.
Lots of cross over.
But he seems like he might have a personality disorder too on top of the bipolar. I’d guess narcissistic or sociopathy
Medication and therapy can help greatly with the mania and other affect disorders
Unfortunately there is no real help for a personality disorder except serious therapy if the person wants to get better, usually they don’t see a problem.
I think she also doesn’t leave him because he KNOWS alot about her and her family!!! He knows their secrets lol!! And she can’t control a loose lip husband now, so imagine if he becomes her Ex!!! A loose cannon!!! There is no way she is going to control this narrative no matter how it ends…and both Kim and Kris know that i bet!! Kanye will be a PR nightmare to their already diminishing brand !!!
Kim looks like A thirsty plastic trophy wife. Ye looks lost
She just recently brought a 3rd child into this mess. She did this to herself. She is not responsible for Kanye, but she is responsible for continuing to participate in his chaos.