In the new authorized biography ‘Citizen Kim,’ she admits she covers for her ex, routes her calls through his wife — and would bury every insult for one reason: the kids.
Kim Kardashian has spent four years saying almost nothing about the hardest job she has — co-parenting with Kanye West. That silence ended Tuesday with the release of Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future, the authorized biography by journalist Jonathan Van Meter, who interviewed Kardashian over several years for the book. What she told him is the most candid account she has ever given of life after the divorce — and the headline is a promise: she will bury all of it, every shot he has ever taken at her, if that is the price of her children knowing their father.
“I will sweep everything under the rug, all the horrible things he has said about me, so that the kids can see their father,” Kardashian says in the book. That is not a figure of speech. It is her actual operating system. Kardashian, 46, and West, 49, were married from 2014 until their divorce was finalized in 2022, and they share four children — North, 13, Saint, 10, Chicago, 8, and Psalm, 7.
Start with the logistics, because they say everything. Kardashian admits she often does not speak to West directly at all: she communicates with him through his wife, Bianca Censori, or through a friend of his who doubles as his manager. And because West comes by only every few months, she covers for him with the children. “It is challenging co-parenting with someone who comes by every few months, but I’m always like, ‘Oh, Dad’s traveling,'” she says. “I still make up stories and protect [the kids] because I want them to think their dad is the greatest.”
The door, meanwhile, is wide open — she is the one holding it. “I invite him over all the time,” Kardashian says, describing how she offers West dinner at the children’s own house and tells him he can sleep over for a few nights so the kids feel comfortable. Last Christmas, she says, she invited him to sleep over on Christmas Eve and do the holiday together as one family — and she plans to make the same offer again this year. Asked how often the children actually see their father, she pointed Van Meter to the paparazzi record: every time they are with him, they are photographed, so Google it and see.
Underneath the strategy sits something she does not hide: worry. “Oh, I worry about him all day. That’s the father of my kids. I’ll never not worry about him,” she says. “And that’s a big burden of having kids with someone who you don’t necessarily get along with. My kids would never know that.” She concedes her therapist pushes back — “Your boundaries have to go up” — but says the two have managed to co-parent “without too much conflict,” and that things have been “pretty smooth” for a while now, partly because they barely talk. When they do see each other, she says, they hug. She remains close with his family and keeps what she calls an open-door policy for all of them.
One note of context: West himself was not interviewed for the book — Van Meter has said he decided against it — so Citizen Kim is her account, unrebutted, and she does not pretend it ends in a breakthrough. “I don’t think it’s going to get better,” Kardashian admits. “I pray it does. For my kids.”
The 247 Take — This is the most controlled Kardashian has ever sounded about the least controllable part of her life. Read the quotes closely and the strategy is unmistakable: absorb every insult, manage every absence, keep the door open and the stories kind — not because the past is forgiven, but because four kids are watching. Whatever anyone thinks of the arrangement, she has decided who it is for, and it is not him. It is not even her. It is North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm — and on that, she is not negotiating.
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Sources: Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future by Jonathan Van Meter (the original source of the remarks) | People | Page Six
