Kim Kardashian has opened up about the fears and struggles she’s been experiencing following her divorce from rapper Kanye West.
Speaking on the Angie Martinez IRL podcast, the fact TV icon, 42, shared her worry that future partners will be afraid of her ex, whose erratic behaviour has made headlines in current months.
“There’s a part of me that is like, ‘Oh my God, is everyone gonna be scared because I don’t have the easiest ex?'” she stated on Monday’s episode.
“I do not suppose that is truthful for me to ever put somebody in a state of affairs or carry a brand new individual in who might be tremendous harmless.
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“Then there is a facet of me that is like, ‘Why would I ever should dwell that approach?'”
The couple’s messy divorce was finalised in November after two years.
During this time, Kardashian endured West’s public objection to her requests for a divorce (“IM NOT GIVING UP ON MY FAMILY”); criticism of her parenting, including calling her out for allowing their daughter North West to use TikTok; threats towards her boyfriend at the time, Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson; and several posted and deleted tweets.
West’s behaviour has made headlines, and even drawn some concern from experts.
In a February article for Psychology Today psychotherapist and author Kaytee Gillis suggested West’s behaviour was reminiscent of “post-separation abuse”.
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“The behaviour we’re witnessing highlights the varied non-physical kinds of abuse typically ignored by the courts, and the general public,” she wrote.
“West’s behaviour represents stalking and harassment, and mimics the behaviours that so many others have exhibited towards victims who attempt to depart a relationship with them.”
Despite her concerns post-divorce, Kardashian told Martinez during their interview that after being “in a relationship for nearly 15 years”, she’s now in a “enjoyable zone”.
The mom of 4 admitted, nonetheless, that the relationship pool is small.
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“So what sucks is, like, all of it has to be ‘at a non-public home celebration’ or a ‘home dinner’,” she said, highlighting a Miami trip that didn’t result in the whimsical romance she may have expected.
“Then you are like, ‘What am I doing? There’s nobody out right here’.”
However, Kardashian has not given up on love.
“My individual will be in a position to deal with all of it, and that I do know, and that is what I’ve religion in. I imagine in God, love, I’ve religion in all of it and he will carry me my excellent individual,” she advised Martinez.
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“I’m like the most important hopeless romantic, so I do know that my individual can deal and my individual will like it and similar with me and whoever that’s.”
Kardashian even extended the conversation into her experiences with co-parenting, and admitted she doesn’t feel the need to publicly respond to rumours spread about her, particularly around her relationship with her ex.
“In my residence my youngsters do not know something about what’s taking place on the skin,” Kardashian said.
“I’m holding on by a thread… I do know I’m so near that not taking place, however whereas it is nonetheless that approach, I will shield that to the tip of the earth so long as I can.”
The star additionally stated her 4 youngsters are the rationale she avoids bagging out her ex in public.
“I’ll privately reply something that they need to know,” she said.
“One day my youngsters will thank me for not sitting right here and bashing their dad once I might.”
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