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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were undoubtedly one of the most powerful couples in the world, using their wealth, fame, and sometimes infamy to garner global attention.
On Friday, Kardashian, 40, decided to leave her marriage of six and a half years. filing divorce papers In Los Angeles.
The couple began dating around April 2012, but they had been friends for years: West, 43, appeared on an episode of Kourtney And Kim Take New York two years earlier.
Kim and Kanye, photographed here in 2012, had been good friends for several years. Image: XPX / STAR MAX / IPx via AP
West was at the height of his music career at the time, having just completed his Watch The Throne world tour with fellow rapper Jay-Z.
Meanwhile, Kardashian was still technically married to NBA star Kris Humphries, whom she shed after 72 days of marriage.
They became regulars in top-notch fashion and social circles, appearing as a couple in September 2012 at Paris Fashion Week.
Three short months later, West revealed on stage that the couple were expecting their first child.
The memes were spawned in May 2013 when a very pregnant Kardashian appeared at the Met Gala alongside her new boyfriend in a Givenchy floral dress and matching gloves.
Her appearance at the gala was an example of how they captured the world’s attention, even the late Robin Williams compared her to his own Ms. Doubtfire.
The famous ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ dress that launched an avalanche of memes and jokes from the 2013 Met Gala. Image: mpi01 / MediaPunch / IPX via AP
A month after appearing at the Met Gala, the couple’s first daughter was born. Speculation abounded about what the couple might call their first child, but they ultimately settled on the unconventional North.
Later, the couple had three more children: Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.
The same month that Kardashian gave birth was the same month that her separation from Humphries became official.
This cleared the way for Kardashian and Kanye to become Kimye, with West kneeling in a typically bombastic way, renting a ballpark in San Francisco on his partner’s birthday.
They became known for their appearances at celebrity social events. Photo: Evan Agostini / Invision via AP
On May 24, 2014, the couple promised each other at a celebrity-filled ceremony at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy, with guests including the rest of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, magician David Blaine, and BFF. Jonathan Cheban.
And, of course, it was the subject of an episode of her family’s TV show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Her world fell apart in October 2016, when Kardashian was assaulted at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week, and was bound and gagged during the raid in which thieves took $ 10 million worth of jewelry (£ 7 million).
West was in the middle of a concert when he was told about the attack, quickly jumping off stage to deal with the incident.
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A month later, West was admitted to the hospital after suffering “temporary psychosis due to lack of sleep and dehydration,” forcing him to cancel his upcoming tour to recover.
In June 2018, after releasing his album Ye, West publicly revealed that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
It was also around this time that the rapper began to generate controversy, making comments implying that slavery was a “choice” for African Americans, and met with then-President Donald Trump, where he took an oath in the Oval Office.
Meanwhile, Kardashian had also met with President Trump, where they discussed prison reform, one of her passions, which led to the release of two people from prison who had been in on drug charges for the first time.
Kardashian later said that she intended to practice law and was studying to pass the bar exam.
Speculation about the couple’s troubled relationship began in 2020, after West declared he was running for president.
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In a rambling and emotional speech in South Carolina in July, the rapper revealed that he and Kardashian had considered aborting their first child and came out pro-life.
His speech was followed by a series of erratic tweets, in which he claimed that his wife was trying to get doctors to lock him up and that he had tried to divorce her before.
This prompted Kardashian to speak publicly about her husband’s bipolar disorder, calling him a “brilliant but complicated” person, whose “words sometimes don’t align with his intentions.”
After his candidacy for the White House failed, it was widely reported that West had taken refuge on his ranch in Wyoming, while Kardashian continued to live with his children in California.
The couple revealed their relationship in April 2012 Pic: XPX / STAR MAX / IPx via AP
While she was in Wyoming, a (completely false) rumor started to spread like wildfire on the internet, that she claimed she was having an affair with YouTuber Jeffree Starr.
In a YouTube video titled Addressing the Kanye Situation, Starr categorically denied the claims, saying “Kanye and I have never dated.”
Since January, celebrity insiders began speculating that the couple’s divorce was imminent, speculation that was confirmed Friday when Kardashian filed documents in Los Angeles.
Expect the pair’s tribulations to unfold on screen over the next several months, with the final season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians airing in March.
