Kim Kardashian is sharing her side.
Three years after her divorce from Kanye “Ye” West was finalized, TheKardashians star detailed how the former couple has gone about co-parenting their kids North West, 12, Saint West, 9, Chicago West, 7, and Psalm West, 6.
“I raise the kids full time,” she explained to Alex Cooper during an Oct. 15 episode of Call Her Daddy. “They live with me and I welcome a great healthy relationship with my kids and their dad. He knows that. I push for it all the time, but I also protect them when it’s time for that and it goes in waves and phases. It’s a lot of work.”
And while Kim maintained that she will allow their four kids to see the “Runaway” rapper “whenever he’ll call,” she admitted that it’s been a while since they’ve seen him.
“It’s probably been a couple months since we’ve heard from him,” she added. “They always knew that he had a big life traveling before and he was on tour and all of that and that he lives in different countries all the time and loves to live all over the place. So we manage it really well.”
And the SKIMS founder emphasized that she is never the person to stand between her kids spending time with her ex—despite what he has previously shared online.
“I think that the one thing that just gets me is there’s this narrative that I like to keep the kids away from him,” she noted. “I’ve never once done that. There’s been so many times where I’m just like, ‘Ah I want to show all these texts, what are you talking about?’ I beg them to go hang out or things like that.”
“I think it’s all good and we’re living our life,” she detailed, “and then I wake up and there’s all these tweets about how I’ve kidnapped the kids and I’m like, ‘It’s not a kidnapping. It’s divorce.’”
As Kim noted, “Every time he has asked, I will always let them see their father. That’s just who I am.”
Kim hedged that one moment she may step in is if Kanye appears to be in a mental health crisis, though she clarified, “When he is like that, he doesn’t want to see the kids a lot. So it’s always worked out."
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Ultimately, though, Kim admitted she is just trying to do what is best for their kids.
“They love their lives and their routine and schedule,” she continued. “My job as their mom is just to make sure they stick to their routine and that they’re healthy and happy.”
Although her co-parenting dynamic with Kanye is not ideal at the moment, the 44-year-old is optimistic that it will get better in the future.
“My mom would always say, ‘You’ve got to give it five years of being divorced before it all really comes together and everyone can coexist and be friends,’” she reflected. “I just welcome healthy relationships but it’s not easy.”
For more of Kim's Call Her Daddy bombshells, read on.
Did Kim Kardashian and Travis Barker Ever Hook Up?
Despite rumors that have plagued the pair in recent years, no, Travis Barker—who is married to Kourtney Kardashian—and Kim Kardashian's friendship in the early aughts never took a turn for the romantic.
“That really sucks that that has gone on,” she said of the rumor on Call Her Daddy. “But he dated Paris [Hilton] and we were all friends, and we’d all hang out and when I was with Paris, we’d be on the road and go to their tour in Amsterdam. So, I have been friends with him, but never in that way. And never hooked up with him.”
Kim Kardashian Pleads the Fifth About Her History With Tom Brady
When CHD host Alex Cooper posed a theoretical round of “F--k, Marry, Kill” between Kim’s exes—both confirmed and alleged—Pete Davidson, Kris Humphries and Tom Brady, Kim opted to forego the question. As she said, “I’ll get in way too much trouble there.”
And when Alex circled back around to clarify what exactly went down between Kim and the former New England Patriots quarterback, Kim said, “I’m not going to answer that. It’s like, he’s—”
Only for her to be saved by the bell—or should we say a call from sister Kylie Jenner.
The Craziest Place Kim Kardashian Has Had Sex
“Probably a movie theater,” she revealed, though she doesn’t say who she was with. “Yeah, so fun.”
How Kim Kardashian Feels About the “Kardashian Curse”
When it comes to whether the Kardashian-Jenner women truly have the power to place a hex on their ex-partners, causing their lives to take a turn for the worse post breakup, the SKIMS founder denied any sort of magic touch.
“I always really hated that, I really did,” Kim said. “I think it's really unfair to say that women are the problem when it comes to issues that our exes might be dealing with and that they had those issues before.”
In fact, if anything, she thinks there might be a Kardashian-Jenner blessing. “If you want to talk about the positive, I mean, my mom was with a gold medal Olympian,” she said, referring to Caitlyn Jenner. “When Khloe [Kardashian] was with Lamar [Odom], there was championships being won with the Lakers. I was dating a football player and he won the Super Bowl—there was really positive, amazing things that happened.”
And no, the football player in question is not Tom, but likely Kim’s boyfriend Reggie Bush, who won the Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints in 2010.
What Led to Kim Kardashian and Kanye “Ye” West’s Divorce?
There wasn’t a singular moment Kim can point as the catalyst to her and Kanye "Ye" West’s divorce, instead pointing to a gradual build up amid his mental health struggles.
"There was just a lot of things that I wouldn't deal with," she explained. "I didn't like the feeling of someone talking bad about my kids' grandmother, aunts—all of those feelings. If someone feels that way, then we shouldn't be together."
In addition to citing seemingly erratic behavior such as buying and subsequently giving away five Lamborghinis, Kim shared how Ye’s mental health challenges began to impact her own.
"I didn't know what you're going to get when you wake up and that's a really unsettling feeling," she explained, adding that the "lack of stability was a big thing."
What Is Kim Kardashian and Kanye “Ye” West’s Co-Parenting Dynamic Like?
Though she quipped, “What do you think co-parenting with Kanye West is like,” Kim shared an honest update on how she and the rapper are navigating taking care of their children North West, 12, Saint West, 9, Chicago West, 7, and Psalm West, 6.
Adding that it’s “not easy,” Kim confirmed the kids live with her full time and that she is raising them, but that she welcomes “a great healthy relationship” between her kids and their dad.
“And I think he knows that,” she added. “I push for it all the time, but I also protect them when it's time for that. And it goes in waves and phases. It’s a lot of work.”
But coming from a place where she has the “best memories and best relationship” with her dad Rob Kardashian Sr., Kim noted, “So, I welcome healthy relationships, but it's not easy.”
How Often Does Kanye West See His and Kim Kardashian’s Children?
“Whenever he’ll call for them and ask,” Kim said, before conceding, “It’s probably been a couple months since we’ve heard from him.”
As for how the mom explains Ye’s absence to her children, she explained, “They always knew that he had a big life traveling before and was always on tour and all of that. He lives in different countries all the time and loves to live all over the place. So, we manage it really well.”
She added of her four children, “They love like their life and their routine and their schedule. And I think just their job as their mom is just to make sure that they stick to their routine and they're healthy and happy.”
Kim also expressed frustration over the narrative that she keeps her kids from the “Gold Digger” rapper, saying, “I’ve never once done that.”
As she put it, “It’s not a kidnapping, it’s a divorce.”
Is Kim Kardashian Dating Anyone?
“I am single,” she confirmed. “And I feel totally, totally content. I've been single for a while.”
Adding that this is the longest she’s been without a partner, Kim shared instead where she’s putting her focus in her single era.
“I have my kids to raise,” she said. “I have a life that requires a lot of my attention, and my kids just really need me right now. So, I’m there 24/7, you know? I don't know how I would fit something else in. I'm just not looking, and it would have to be like someone super special.”
As she put it, “I've had all my fun, I've had all my phases. Now I just have to be with my babies.”
But while Kim is content with the single life, she admitted North is more than happy for her to start something new with someone.
“North had to say to me, ‘Mom, I think you go upstairs and like at night, like it's OK,’” she recalled her oldest saying. “Like, ‘It’s time to move on. You need to have a boyfriend now.’”