Kanye West and Kim Kardashian: A Timeline

Kimye was as soon as a powerhouse Hollywood couple. Kanye West, music mogul and genius, joined Kim Kardashian, the entrepreneurial queen of actuality TV, to kind considered one of America’s richest, strongest households in leisure.

Their relationship, nevertheless, has additionally been laced with fights with different artists, social media rants, and finally a really public divorce.

Now, greater than a 12 months after Kardashian filed for divorce in 2021 — after a choose declared her legally single in 2022 — the time period “Kimye” has grow to be synonymous with public tumult as West makes use of social media movies, music lyrics, and claymation to assault Kardashian’s post-Ye life.

Right here’s an abridged timeline of Kimye:

They begin relationship in 2012.
The pair first met in 2002 or 2003, when West was recording a music with Brandy, considered one of Kardashian’s pals. (“I vividly keep in mind hanging out with him,” Kardashian stated on her present Keeping Up With the Kardashians years later.)

Quick-forward a decade and Kanye launched his monitor “Cold,” a music that includes lyrics in regards to the actuality star: “And I’ll admit, I had fell in love with Kim/Across the similar time she had fell in love with him/Properly, that’s cool, child woman, do ya thang.” The “him” within the lyric refers to Kim’s two-second-long marriage to Kris Humphries. (They had been married for 72 days in 2011.)

All through 2012, Kardashian and West had been typically noticed on lavish holidays and on units for photoshoots. The 2 even attended Paris Fashion Week collectively that fall.

By December, Kardashian was pregnant with the couple’s first daughter, North. “Kanye and I expect a child. We really feel so blessed and fortunate and want that along with each of our households, his mother and my dad might be right here to have a good time this particular time with us,” she wrote on her website on the time.

Kanye proposes to Kim, and so they welcome North.
By the beginning of 2013, the couple had bought an $11 million home (that they’ve now bought) as Kardashian confirmed off her child bump; their first little one, North, was lastly born on June 15.

Three days after welcoming North, West launched his beloved album Yeezus, which Rolling Stone named one of many 500 best albums of all time.

In October of that very same 12 months, their romance turned much more official when the couple received engaged. Kanye proposed to Kim on the San Francisco Giants’ stadium (which he rented out) by projecting the phrases “PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!” on AT&T Park’s jumbotron on her birthday.

Kanye sealed the take care of a 15-caret diamond ring. “I’m not smug about love or emotions in any respect. I’m assured within the work I put a lot work into, however that is another person’s emotions,” he informed Ryan Seacrest on the time. “You by no means know what another person could really feel on the time.”

Kanye and Kim tie the knot.
Kim and Kanye land the cover of Vogue in March, simply months earlier than tying the knot in Could 2014 at an over-the-top ceremony in Florence, Italy. A snap from their wedding ceremony turned the most-liked photo on Instagram of the 12 months.

“It was essentially the most wonderful expertise simply to have the ability to share [the wedding] with so many members of the family and pals,” Kim said about their wedding at the time. “We wished everybody to be on this love journey with us.”

In early 2015, the couple continued making public appearances on the Grammys, Met Gala, and different occasions. (On the Grammys, Kanye carried out “Solely One,” a monitor devoted to their daughter, North.)

And in December 2015, Kim and Kanye welcomed their second little one, Saint.

Kim and Kanye versus Taylor Swift.
After which “Well-known” occurred. In the summertime of 2016, a public feud between Taylor Swift and Kardashian and West erupted after West rapped, “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have intercourse/Why? I made that bitch well-known,” on his single that includes Rihanna. The lyric referred to his notorious interruption of her VMAs acceptance speech in 2009.

On the time, Swift described the lyric as “misogynistic,” earlier than Kim posted video of Kanye and Swift talking on the cellphone; the couple alleged that the 1989 singer had accepted the reference. (Swift accepted the intercourse line, however by no means the phrase “bitch.” The whole dialog leaked in 2020, proving precisely that.) Issues received even worse after he launched the music’s video, which featured bare wax figures of the likes of Swift, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Donald Trump, and Caitlyn Jenner, amongst others.

The controversial monitor ended up being nominated for finest rap efficiency and finest rap music on the Grammys the next 12 months.

Kim will get robbed in Paris; Kanye is hospitalized.
The couple went by way of a scary second after Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at a resort in Paris in October 2016. West left the stage on the Meadows Music and Arts Competition in New York when he realized what occurred and flew to France to be together with his spouse.

Only a month later, West went on to cancel his Saint Pablo tour after dealing with backlash for utilizing the stage to go on political rants and ending reveals early. Shortly earlier than, West made controversial statements onstage about how he “would have voted for Donald Trump” within the presidential election.

In November 2016, he was hospitalized for psychiatric analysis for exhaustion after “appearing erratically.”

Kimye has two extra infants; Kanye drops two extra albums.
In early 2018, the couple welcomed their son, Chicago, by way of surrogate. Later that 12 months, West would go on to confess to The New York Times that he frightened his feedback on TMZ earlier that 12 months — when he stated that slavery “seems like a alternative” — would trigger Kardashian to depart him.

“There was a second the place I felt like after TMZ, possibly every week after that, I felt just like the power ranges had been low, and I referred to as totally different members of the family and was asking, you understand, ‘Was Kim interested by leaving me after TMZ?’” he stated. “In order that was an actual dialog.”

Kimye, however, continued. The couple welcomed their fourth little one, Psalm, in Could 2019, across the similar time they renewed their wedding ceremony vows to have a good time their fifth anniversary. That’s when Kardashian started pursuing a profession in regulation.

Kardashian publicly addresses West’s psychological well being.
Kanye 2020: The pandemic — and its overlapping election cycle — was in full swing when West took to Twitter to announce his intention of “trusting God, unifying our imaginative and prescient, and constructing our future” as a candidate for president of america. (He’d go on to earn 60,000 whole votes, as he missed poll deadlines in a number of states.)

Throughout West’s run, Kardashian posted a prolonged assertion on Instagram addressing her then-husband’s erratic posts on social media and public speeches referring to their household life.

“Anybody who has [bipolar disorder] or has a cherished one of their life who does, is aware of how extremely sophisticated and painful it’s to grasp,” Kardashian wrote. “I’ve by no means spoken publicly about how this has affected us at residence as a result of I’m very protecting of our kids and Kanye’s proper to privateness in terms of his well being. However right now, I really feel like I ought to touch upon it due to the stigma and misconceptions about psychological well being.”

West later publicly apologized on Twitter: “I didn’t cowl her like she has coated me. To Kim I need to say I do know I harm you. Please forgive me,” he wrote. “Thanks for all the time being there for me.”

I want to apologize to my spouse Kim for going public with one thing that was a non-public matter.
I didn’t cowl her like she has coated https://t.co/A2FwdMu0YU Kim I need to say I do know I harm you. Please forgive me. Thanks for all the time being there for me.

— ye (@kanyewest) July 25, 2020

Rumors about their relationship being on the rocks started circulating in tabloids, even after he gifted her with a hologram of her late father, Robert, for her birthday. (A supply informed People that December that the 2 had been dwelling “separate lives.”)

They break up in February 2021, however Kardashian nonetheless helps Donda.
Kimye is kaput. After months of hypothesis, Kardashian filed for divorce from West in February 2021 with the assistance of superstar divorce lawyer Laura Wasser. A supply informed a number of retailers that their separation was “amicable.”

Regardless of being months into their break up, Kardashian supported West at reside occasions selling his 2021 album, Donda, that summer time. At one listening social gathering in Chicago, she even recreated her wedding ceremony day, carrying a white wedding ceremony robe. (She attended almost the entire album’s listening events.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz1dIx36yHA

Accused rapist Marilyn Manson — who’s featured on Donda — additionally appeared at West’s listening social gathering; a supply informed People Kardashian was not informed upfront. “She was seated inside a set dealing with the again of the home on the stage so she wouldn’t have been in a position to see them in any respect from her vantage level,” the supply informed the journal. “She was solely conscious of what Kanye had requested her to do, and he or she was keen to assist him.”

Pete Davidson and Kardashian begin relationship.
Kardashian appeared to be inching away from West towards the top of 2021, as she was noticed with comic Pete Davidson throughout a visit to Knott’s Scary Farm in late fall. A supply informed Individuals they had been “just friends,” although they had been seen holding fingers throughout a roller-coaster journey.

That fall, the couple had been noticed having dinner collectively, publicly holding fingers, and Kardashian even threw the comic a party in November.

West begs Kardashian to come back again to him throughout a charity live performance.
In December 2021, Kanye put a halt to his years-long feud with Drake by internet hosting a joint charity present in honor of Larry Hoover, who’s serving a life sentence in jail.

Whereas singing his monitor “Runaway” — Kardashian and their daughter North in attendance — he tweaked to his lyrics to name for the return of his estranged spouse. “I would like you to run proper again, child, extra particularly, Kimberly,” he sang onstage.

Only a few days later, Kardashian petitioned the court docket to be declared legally single, saying their “marriage has irremediably damaged down.”

West and Julia Fox begin relationship; West shares a violent video about Davidson.
To kick off 2022, West and Julia Fox received collectively for a whirlwind romance — full with interviews and photoshoots.

“Every part with us has been so natural. I don’t know the place issues are headed, but when that is any indication of the long run, I’m loving the journey,” Fox informed Interview journal. The couple’s relationship lasted two months.

It was additionally throughout this time that West began a public tirade towards Davidson. On the music “Eazy,” he rapped, “God saved me from that crash/Simply so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass.” West would go on to launch a video the place a claymation West kidnaps and kills Davidson. In one other video, an animated Davidson will get beat up by a monkey.

“Artwork is just not a proxy for any ailing or hurt,” West stated in regards to the preliminary video following backlash. “Any suggestion in any other case about my artwork is fake and mal supposed.”

In February, West made public pleas to Kardashian to rekindle their romance, writing on Instagram, “God please convey our household again collectively.” The put up got here days after West claimed Kardashian accused him of “placing successful on her.” It was additionally throughout this time that West shared his discontent about their daughter North utilizing TikTok.

“I do that for each father or mother on both aspect [whose] youngsters futures are being one-sidedly managed I don’t even have the fitting to get offended as a father with out being referred to as [erratic],” West wrote. “A father ought to by no means need to beg for the situation of their youngsters.”

Kardashian addressed his remarks, posting a press release on Instagram Tales. “Kanye’s fixed assaults on me in interviews and on social media is definitely extra hurtful than any TikTok North would possibly create,” she wrote. “Because the father or mother who’s the primary supplier and caregiver for our kids, I’m doing my finest to guard our daughter whereas additionally permitting her to precise her creativity within the medium that she needs with grownup supervision — as a result of it brings her happiness.”

West additionally debuted the music “True Love” from Donda 2 in regards to the expertise of being estranged from his spouse and youngsters. On the monitor, he sings, “Wait, if you see the youngsters?/I’ll see y’all tomorrow/Wait, when the solar set? I see y’all tomorrow/Wait, whеn I choose ’em up, I really feel like they borrowed/Once I gotta return them, scan ’em like a bar code.”

West is asserted legally single; texts between Davidson and West hit social media.
In early March, Kardashian was declared legally single by a choose after saying “I very a lot need to be divorced” in an earlier court docket assertion, obtained by Rolling Stone. “I’ve requested Kanye to maintain our divorce personal, however he has not executed so … Kanye has been placing lots of misinformation concerning our personal household issues and co-parenting on social media which has created emotional misery.”

As Davidson formally appeared on Kardashian’s Instagram, West accused his ex-wife of withholding custody of their youngsters. (One thing Kardashian has denied.)

West — who nicknamed Davidson “Skete” — claimed that the comic was “antagonizing” him and “bragging about being in mattress with my spouse.” Dave Sirus, a good friend of Davidson, would go on to put up what gave the impression to be a screenshot of a dialog between the 2, the place Davidson certainly writes “in mattress together with your spouse.” (The posts had been then deleted.)

Pete Davidson’s good friend, Dave Sirus, shares textual content dialog between between Pete and Kanye West. pic.twitter.com/lxAf4xhyd0

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 13, 2022

“It don’t gotta be like this,” Davidson allegedly wrote. “What she does for these youngsters is wonderful and you might be so fucking fortunate that she’s your youngsters’ mother… It’s wonders what [rehab centers] do if you go get assist. It is best to attempt it. I’m in La for the day when you wanna cease being somewhat web bitch boy and discuss.”

On March 14, West shared a photograph of North’s backpack, which featured pins emblazoned with the faces of her mom and father. “This was on my daughter’s backpack once I was ‘allowed’ to see her final week. For this reason I am going so exhausting for my household I’m wired to guard my household in any respect value,” he wrote. “Because the priest of my residence Don’t fear Northy God remains to be alive.” (Kardashian commented on the put up, “Please cease with this narrative, you had been simply right here this morning selecting up the youngsters for college.”)

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