Kim Kardashian opened up about the emotional toll of her relationship with ex-husband Kanye West during the season 7 premiere of The Kardashians.
While filming All’s Fair the upcoming Ryan Murphy series starring Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, and Niecy Nash-Betts — the reality star got candid about her ex, with whom she shares four children.
“I haven’t had psoriasis since I got divorced, and it just started coming back,” Kardashian, 45, revealed. She added that she recently felt “pretty tested” by West, whom she married in 2014 and divorced in 2021. “I mean, I have psoriasis again. I felt more stressed, probably just because I had to super, super protect what I had to protect.”
In a confessional, Kardashian was asked what goes through her mind when she sees West’s erratic behavior. “My poor kids,” she said. “Everyone around can handle it, but like, protect my babies.”
She explained that she’s focused on shielding their children — North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6 — after one of them recently heard about their father’s behavior. “They’re gonna know things. They’re gonna grow up, they’re gonna see. So my job as a mom is to just make sure that — at a time when that behavior is happening — is just to make sure that they’re protected.”
Reflecting on her marriage, Kardashian admitted she “always felt like I had a bit of Stockholm syndrome” with West. “I always felt really bad and always protected and always wanted to help [him],” she said, adding that she once thought, “I should’ve stuck it out” or “I could’ve helped,” but “this was the first time I didn’t feel that responsibility personally.” She concluded, “It is so f—— sad.”
Kardashian also pushed back against the perception that she can simply move on from West. “That’s not my reality. This person — we have 4 kids together,” she said. “It’s very confusing, because it’ll be all this talk on the internet of like, ‘I’m keeping the kids.’ He’s never once called and asked [to see them]. But then I’ll wake up, and it’s on Twitter that I’m keeping the kids. When it’s not true and not rational, I just have to … I can’t engage all the time. It’s a divorce — not a kidnapping.”
Kardashian and West were married for seven years before finalizing their divorce in 2021. New episodes of The Kardashians stream Thursdays on Hulu.
Source: People
