Why Kim Kardashian's Candid Quotes on Motherhood Are Amazing, Sweetie
Kim Kardashian is North West’s Twin in Jaw-Dropping Halloween Makeover
Kim Kardashian is free to change her look on a whim. As for her parenting style, she suspects it's too late for a makeover.
"Sometimes, I'm like, 'Damn, I wish I could do it all over,'" she admitted on a 2024 episode of The Kardashians. "The one thing I would do is be so strict from the start."
Cue North, 13, Saint, 10, Chicago, 8, and Psalm, 7, breathing a sigh of relief.
But that's just vintage Kim—who's turning 46 on Oct. 21 and recently described herself as "intermediate-strict," as well as "extremely patient and loving"—turning her discerning eye on how she's gone about raising the four kids she shares with ex-husband Kanye "Ye" West.
Over the years she's been candid about everything from her pregnancy complications with North and Saint (Chicago and Psalm were born via surrogate) to her eldest child's precocity—"Who intimidates me?" she quipped in 2021. "Maybe just my daughter North"—but there's nothing Kim loves more than being a mom.
"It is the most rewarding job in the entire world," she said on a 2023 episode of On Purpose With Jay Shetty. It's impossible to be truly prepared, but, she added, "it will make you so proud of yourself that you figured it out and that you got through the day."
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Then, however, there are the nights, and Kim—who filed to divorce Ye in 2021 after seven years of marriage—has admitted that she can feel alone, even when she's surrounded by kids.
"In the middle of the night when they’re all in your bed, kicking you, crying, and waking up—it’s not something I talk about a lot," Kim said on a November 2024 episode of Zoe Winkler's What in the Winkler? podcast. “People will be quick to say, ‘Oh, but you have nannies and help.' And I just think that, no matter what kind of help I have, I’m basically raising four kids by myself.”
Driving the carpool to school, she continued, "everyone wants to leave at different times or wants different stuff. I feel like I’m at a pit stop of a race car driver.”
Which, incidentally, may have unwittingly prepared her to date F1 champion Lewis Hamilton.
Meanwhile, Kim's own pit crew includes five nannies, though usually just one is on duty at any given time.
"Everyone says the days are long and the years are short, and that couldn’t be like a more true statement," she told Jay Shetty, and sometimes it's "full madness" at her house.
But, she added, it's the "best chaos."
Like Louis Vuitton baggage, we know you only want more of Kim's candid quotes on parenting, so read on:
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Kim Kardashian on How Mom Kris Jenner Shaped Her Own Parenting Journey
"Motherhood is a gift and I know after watching my mom do it, it's not easy, especially when trying to balance a career," she wrote in a 2013 blog post. "I'm honored to follow in her footsteps and make her proud like I am of her."
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Kim Kardashian on Embracing the Chaos
"If a tantrum comes in, oh my God, your life is completely upside down," Kim said on a 2023 episode of On Purpose With Jay Shetty, getting real about parenting four young kids. "But it teaches you so much more about yourself than I think anyone, any parent, could have ever anticipated."
She noted, "Everyone says the days are long and the years are short, and that couldn’t be like a more true statement. So, like, when you’re in it, I mean, especially when they’re babies and you’re feeding ... there’s madness going on. It’s like full madness. It’s the best chaos, though."
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Kim Kardashian on Talking to Her Kids About Kanye "Ye" West Divorce
"Ultimately, what matters is that kids feel loved and heard," Kim—who filed for divorce from the rapper in 2021—told GQ in a November 2023 interview. "You want to be sensitive because they're just kids, and it's hard to go through no matter what age."
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Kim Kardashian on Co-Parenting
"I am holding on by a thread," Kim said on a December 2022 episode of the Angie Martinez IRL podcast.
When it comes to Kanye, "I definitely protected him and I still will in the eyes of my kids, for my kids," she continued. "So, in my home, my kids don't know anything that goes on in the outside world."
But, she admitted, "It's hard. S--t like co-parenting, it's really f--king hard."
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Kim Kardashian on Why Daughter North Prefers to Live With Her Dad
"She'll be like, 'Dad is the best,'" she shared on a November 2023 episode of The Kardashians. "'He has it all figured out. He doesn't have a nanny, he doesn't have a chef, he doesn't have security. He lives in an apartment.' And she'll start crying, 'Why don't you have an apartment? I can't believe we don't have an apartment.'"
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Kim Kardashian on North West
On a November 2023 episode of The Kardashians, Kim shared that Kourtney Kardashian "always says that North is my lesson on this planet."
"I'm supposed to learn even more about patience—she teaches me patience," she quipped of her oldest daughter. "She has taught me a lot about life."
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Kim Kardashian on What Worries Her
"I worry about giving my kids too much," she wrote in a Wealthsimple essay published in July 2018. "We don't do gifts. They have to really earn it. But we talk about it all the time, about not getting too much and just trying to be as grounded and well-rounded as possible."
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Kim Kardashian on What Really Matters
"Being a mom just not makes you give a f--k about anything else but what's immediately going on inside in your home," she said during a Calvin Klein ad campaign photo shoot in 2018. "All the other stuff kind of fades away."
The SKIMS mogul added, "Nothing matters but your family, so I think it really helps you center and get grounded."
Kim Kardashian on How Motherhood Changed Everything
"It completely changed my life. You have a different set of proprieties," Kim once said in a Mobio Insider Q&A. "Nothing matters except your brand new family."
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Kim Kardashian on What Motherhood Taught Her
"I have such unconditional love for my kids," Kim shared in a 2017 blog post. "No matter what, I will always love them and support them in anything they choose to do in life."
Being a mom also shined new light on her own upbringing.
"My family was so close growing up; now that I'm a mom, I understand the bond my mom and dad felt with us," she added. "There can be ups and downs with kids but no matter what, I always learn so much from them. Being a mom is the most important job I have."
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Kim Kardashian on Sharing Family Moments on Social Media
"I try to share my life. I definitely love doing that, but I think I'm a little bit more cautious these days about what I do share," she explained on The View after her Paris robbery in 2016. "I've learned through experience that things in real time I might change up a little bit. I might take a photo, save it, post it when I leave the place or when I'm in a different location because I don't think that worked out for me so well when I was posting every last detail."
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Kim Kardashian on a Challenging Part About Motherhood
"I took a hiatus after I had the baby, and found it challenging to start working again because I didn't want to spend any time away," she revealed to E! News after the birth of North West. "But you adjust and prioritize, and just figure it out!"
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Kim Kardashian on Telling Her Kids About Her Surrogate
"I have to figure that out first before they really see and then if we're celebrating, you know, her, I just want to celebrate the baby," Kim shared on The Real in 2017. "I think I have to explain it to my kids first and figure out how I'm going to explain it to them."
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Kim Kardashian on Her Surrogate
"I'm like really thankful," she shared in a 2017 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "I'm seriously so grateful for her and that someone is just so like selfless and kind to do this."
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Kim Kardashian on Breastfeeding in Public
"I know some people find breastfeeding such a private, personal experience, while other people are very open and even breastfeed in public," she wrote on her app in January 2015. "Now that I'm a mom, I say whatever makes you comfortable goes."
Kim Kardashian's Thoughts on North West Becoming a Big Sister
"We talk about baby brother all the time," the reality star told E! News in 2015. "She's so sweet and yesterday she said, ‘Mommy, can I give baby brother a kiss on your tummy?' and she kissed my stomach. "
Calling her daughter "super sweet," Kim admitted at the time that North does have "a hard time when I hold other babies but she's been getting a little bit better."
She added, "I'm hoping that with her brother it's a whole new experience."
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Kim Kardashian Gets Real About Pregnancy Complications.
"You know it was really hard for me to get pregnant so I do feel really blessed that I am pregnant," she told E! News in November 2015, "and at the end of the day it is a million times worth it."
But after suffering from placenta accreta, when the placenta attaches too deep in the uterine wall, while pregnant with Saint and North, she looked to a surrogate to have Chicago in 2018 and Psalm in 2019.
"It’s honestly what people would die from in childbirth, so you have to get the placenta out within a certain amount of time and you just can internally bleed," Kim shared in 2020 on divorce lawyer Laura Wasser's podcast All's Fair. "So, there’s no choice—this is so graphic and gross — but [the doctor] had to literally cut the placenta off with his hands, with his fingernails, inside of you. And it left a hole in my uterus, and so that muscle doesn’t grow back."
Kim Kardashian on Being Pregnant Again
"I don't take it for granted," Kim said in a 2015 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "The fact that this is a miracle that's happened and I'm just so blessed to be pregnant again."
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Kim Kardashian on Her Pregnancy Attitude
Then expecting her second baby, Kim wrote on Twitter June 2015, "Pregnant KiKi does not play!!!! *BLOOP!*"
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Kim Kardashian on Pregnancy Rumors
"I secretly loved the rumors I was faking my pregnancy bc I was so skinny!" Kim tweeted in July 2015, while she was pregnant with her son Saint. "LOL Well can't hide it now! 5 month (20weeks) and 20lbs up."
Kim Kardashian Shuts Down the Haters
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star fired back at trolls who claimed that she was faking her pregnancy, posting a nude selfie with the caption, "First they said I'm too skinny so I have to be faking it...Now they say I'm too big so I have to be faking it...SMH!"
"Everyone's body is different, every pregnancy is very different!" she continued in an August 2015 Instagram post. "I've learned to love my body at every stage!"
Kim Kardashian Reveals Her Biggest Acheivement
"Having my daughter is my biggest achievement," Kim tweeted in February 2015 after North was born. "All the things you used to do, you just don't care about anymore. Your child becomes the #1 priority."
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