Kim Kardashian Reveals Grandma MJ’s Advice During Kris Humphries Split
Lewis Hamilton Reveals Golden Gift He Got for Kim Kardashian's 4 Kids
After Kim Kardashian ignored her cold feet, she got some important advice about listening to her gut.
While detailing her brief marriage to Kris Humphries to journalist Jonathan Van Meter for his book Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future, Kardashian revealed it was her late grandmother Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon who gave her the nudge she needed towards ending her union.
“My grandmom was like, ‘Listen. My parents saved up all their money so I could have a big wedding because I thought I was in love,’” Kardashian recalled of Shannon’s advice. “‘About a month or two in, I realized I’d made a terrible decision and I was so embarrassed. It was in the town paper! I just wasted everyone’s time and money and I was mortified.’”
Despite worrying that her parents would never speak to her again, Shannon, who died in July at 91, told Kardashian she was able to go through with her own split but just focusing on the fact she “knew” she had to get a divorce.
“And she said to me,” the SKIMS founder explained, “‘You have to be happy. You have to be.'”
Because as the reality TV mogul revealed, she knew before she and the NBA player signed onto what would prove to only be a 72-day marriage that the union was not going to be a slam dunk.
In fact, she told Van Meter she knew her and Humphries’ romance was over before they even said, “I do.”
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“I just thought, ‘Well, it’s cold feet,’” the 46-year-old—who was married to Damon Thomas before Humphries and was subsequently married to Kanye “Ye” West for eight years—explained. “But your gut, your soul, is always right.”
But her internal feelings were warring with outside pressures.
“Then I thought, ‘Well, they’re filming for a show, and if I bail now, they’re going to call me “the runaway bride” and it will be an even bigger thing,’” Kardashian—who shares four kids with West—added. “But I should have just not gotten married.”
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In fact, she wasn’t the only one who could tell the union was no match made in heaven—her mom Kris Jenner also tried to direct Kardashian to an exit sign.
“I knew she wasn’t happy,” Jenner told Van Meter, explaining she decided to talk to Kardashian during the rehearsal dinner. “I said to her, “Listen… I can just… I feel like… you’re not making the right decision.’ And I said, ‘If you want to cancel the wedding, just get out of here and I’ll figure it out.’”
But go through with it she did, ultimately pulling the plug less than three months later.
These days, however, the entrepreneur is happily racing off into the sunset with F1’s Lewis Hamilton. For a closer look at the Kardashian family's love lives, read on.
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Kris Jenner
Why, yes, Kris Jenner and longtime love Corey Gamble are still doing amazing, sweetie. In 2014, the music industry insider approached the world's most famous momager at fashion designer Riccardo Tisci's 40th birthday bash in Ibiza and "I just tried saying, 'You're beautiful. I'd love to get to know you,'" he shared on the family's OG series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, "and it went from there."
More than a decade in, Kris gushed about her "ride or die" in a 2025 birthday tribute, writing, "Thank you for all you do every single day, for the love you give, and for always being there for all of us. I’m so blessed to have you by my side."
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Kourtney Kardashian
With all due respect for all the small things, Kourtney Kardashian's husband has made some pretty grand gestures throughout their yearlong marriage. Take her 44th birthday that saw her and Travis Barker take a trip up the California coast to Santa Barbara. The Blink-182 drummer marked the occasion by filling their room at the famed Kennedy Cottage with rose petals and gifting her with a $161,819 piece by artist Yoshitomo Nara.
The Poosh founder has fully embraced her new life as the girl at the rock show. And in November 2023, she and Travis welcomed their first child together, son Rocky Thirteen Barker.
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Kim Kardashian
As Kim Kardashian put it in The Kardashians trailer, "Things change really quickly." When season two wrapped, the SKIMS founder was still with then-Saturday Night Live standout Pete Davidson.
She got fans hoping she was getting back in the dating game with retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady.
Alas, the mom to North West, Saint West, Chicago West and Psalm West—with ex-husband Kanye West—wasn't on the hunt for a new teammate, a source telling E! News in May 2023, "They have friends and business partners in common."
By early 2026, she was racing into a new romance with Lewis Hamilton, hard-launching her relationship with the F1 driver that June.
After her divorce, she told The Times in October, "I wanted to completely heal and just work on myself. I wasn't ready to open up. I really wasn't even thinking about it. The universe works in your favor when you just allow it to."
Khloe Kardashian
In a 2023 episode, Kris shoots her shot while chatting with Khloe Kardashian about Tristan Thompson, asking, "How's everything going with Tristan?" Safe to say the Good American founder has the basketball player benched for now. Though the exes have worked out a game plan for raising daughter True and son Tatum, Khloe shot down the idea that they're back together in May 2023, calling the narrative "tiring."
She's more interested in starting a fresh story. After meeting Love Is Blind star Alexa Lemieux the following April, Khloe pitched a winning idea to Netflix, writing on Instagram, "I think some of us single K sisters should go on LIB. What do you think?"
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Kendall Jenner
Months after Kendall Jenner's split with NBA guard Devin Booker in fall 2022, the model's love life got an assist from friends Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber. The married duo were spotted enjoying a double date with the reality star and musician Bad Bunny in February 2023. The following December, it was reported that the two had called it quits.
Then in the spring of 2026, fans started to wonder if a new romance was in bloom as Kendall was spotted hanging out with Jacob Elordi. The Euphoria alum was among those cheering for the model when she walked in Milan Fashion Week in September 2026.
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Kylie Jenner
Seems Kylie Jenner has found herself a new beautiful boy. Last seen publicly with rapper Travis Scott—dad to her daughter Stormi and son Aire—at an Art Basel party in December 2022, the beauty mogul, has first linked to Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet in April 2023.
Now, rise and shine because you don't want to miss the glimpses they've given us of their romance at New York Fashion Week and the US Open, as well as live on TV, when they showed PDA while seated together at the 2024 Golden Globes and 2025 Oscars.
Then, while accepting Best Actor at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards in January, he thanked his "partner of three years," for the foundation she provides, adding, "I couldn't do this without you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
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