Kardashian said that she tries to protect her children from hearing any harmful news about her and the father of her children.
Key Takeaways
- Kim Kardashian uses a household “lockdown” protocol—swapping TV and radio for movies and phone-streamed music—to shield her four children from news about her and Ye.
- In Jonathan Van Meter’s biography, Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future, Kardashian says she worries about Ye “all the time” but maintains boundaries and co-parents “without too much conflict.”
- Kardashian says she and Ye rarely talk but hug when they see each other, and she remains “really close” with his family.
Kim Kardashian has a “lockdown” protocol in place to help protect her children from news about her and the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
As Jonathan Van Meter’s new biography about the 46-year-old SKIMS founder, Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future, features an admission from her about making sure the children she shares with ex-husband Ye don’t find any harmful news about them. Kim co-parents her four children with Ye—7-year-old Psalm, 8-year-old Chicago, 10-year-old Saint, and 13-year-old North—and will enter a family-wide “lockdown” so they’re not privy to tabloid-style reporting
“My whole household knows what a ‘lockdown’ means if I text it,” she shared. “Like, ‘We’re on lockdown.’ No TVs, just movies. No radio, just plug in a phone for music in the car. Not even, like, Sirius XM, because they talk about current events in real time. It’s like, they don’t have have to be a party to this.”
Elsewhere in the book, she also confessed that she frequently worries about her ex-husband, whom she filed for divorce from in 2021.
“Oh, I worry about [Kanye] all day,” Kim said. “All the time. That’s the father of my kids, I’ll never not worry about him. 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. … I do everything in my power to forget about all the negative things that happened. I have to be realistic, and my therapist definitely tells me, ‘Your boundaries have to go up,’ but we manage to co-parent without too much conflict.”
Despite her concern, she said they “don’t talk that much,” but when they do see each other, they make sure to share a hug, and she’s still “really close” with his family.
