Similar to any couple, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have skilled each highs and lows of their years-long relationship.
Kardashian and West met within the early 2000s when he was recording a music along with her pal Brandy, a singer who can also be the older sister to Ray J — the KKW Beauty mogul’s ex. The duo reconnected years later after her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries ended. On the time, Kardashian visited Paris to attend West’s style present.
“Proper earlier than I acquired married to Kris Humphries, [Kanye and I] had been speaking and I simply went a special course. I feel I needed to undergo that to determine what I needed,” she defined on the Keeping Up With the Kardashians tenth anniversary particular in 2017. “After my breakup, I used to be feeling actually low and down and he mentioned, ‘Simply come to Paris and see my style present.’”
The businesswoman added, “He jokes that he placed on this entire style present simply to get a date with me. So, I went there and I stayed with him, and that’s the place we began relationship. I swear from the second I landed, I fell head over heels in love with him and I assumed, ‘Oh, my God. Why didn’t I do that sooner?’ Like, that is what actual life is like — love and enjoyable and actual help.”
The twosome started relationship within the spring of 2012 and Us Weekly confirmed that December that Kardashian was anticipating the pair’s first youngster, North. 4 months after welcoming North, the “Gold Digger” rapper proposed to Kardashian. The couple wed in Italy in Could 2014.
As their marriage progressed, the pair encountered issues when trying to grow their family. Although Kardashian gave beginning to son Saint in 2015, she would welcome daughter Chicago in 2018 and son Psalm in 2019 through surrogate.
“You get your surrogate legal professional, you get your surrogate dealer after which the dealer really helpful that we use a therapist that might talk with me first after which talk along with her and type of be our liaison,” she defined on Laura Wasser’s “All’s Fair” podcast in February 2020. “Towards the tip, we acquired shut sufficient the place we might talk actually with out that.”
The pair continued to come across and overcome hardships over time, together with Kardashian being held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room in 2016. West abruptly ended his New York live performance and rushed to his spouse’s facet upon listening to of the scary incident.
In July 2020, the Grammy winner announced his run for the U.S. presidency. Throughout his campaign rally in South Carolina, he revealed a really private tidbit about how he and Kardashian considered aborting their daughter North. He then proceeded to go on a Twitter rant, throughout which he claimed that Kardashian tried to get a “doctor to lock me up” after his habits on the South Carolina occasion.
Scroll right down to see Kardashian and West’s ups and downs via the years.