Kim Kardashian posted this photo on her Instagram yesterday, I guess to show that she and Kanye West did deign to spend time with North West on Father’s Day. Kim wrote:
This is what life is about! Our baby girl turned 1 today! We played so hard they passed out while we were watching the game! Happy Father’s Day to the best daddy in the world! The way you love our daughter and protect her makes me filled with so much love! #BestDayEver #Twins #HappyFathersDay #HappyBirthday
Sure. Considering North hadn’t seen her parents for weeks during Honeymoon #1 and Honeymoon #2, it’s nice that she got to take a nap with her dad for Father’s Day. Apparently, North also has pierced ears now – The Daily Mail has the pics. I don’t have strong feelings about babies having pierced ears, but I know some people feel very strongly against it. Also, Page Six had a god story about how Kanye has not completely gotten down with Lucifer’s Master Plan:
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West turned down international offers totaling up to $11 million to publish photos of their wedding — but Kim’s money-hungry momager, Kris Jenner, was unhappy with their decision, insiders say.
An inside source says that offers to publish pics from the couple’s over-the-top Florence, Italy, nuptials soared past $10 million, accounting for all global territories. But the newlyweds, or rather Kanye, took a cue from Jay Z and Beyoncé and decided to keep control of the shots.
Kardashian klan mastermind Jenner, however, “very much wanted to sell the pictures,” a source says, pointing out that Jenner gets commission on her kids’ business interests. The source told Page Six, “Kris was none too happy.”Jenner had previously negotiated lucrative magazine deals for Kim’s disastrous marriage to Kris Humphries and Khloé’s doomed union to Lamar Odom. But West had other ideas. “Kanye is taking a page from Jay and Bey, who own their photos,” a source said. The hip-hop couple, who skipped Kimye’s wedding, routinely release private pics via their own sites and social media feeds rather than sell them off. Beyoncé posted the first shots of daughter Blue Ivy on Tumblr before dangling more footage on her HBO documentary project “Life Is But a Dream” last year.
Another source close to Kim insisted that Jenner had nothing to do with her decision to turn down money for the wedding photos. “These are Kim’s wedding pictures,” the insider said. “Kim and Kanye were getting offers for money, and they decided with their teams not to take any.”
The couple has instead posted a stream of candid shots on their social media accounts. A source told us the couple also wanted to differentiate this wedding from Kim’s ill-fated last trip down the aisle with Humphries, for which People paid a reported $1.5 million plus $300,000 for their engagement. While a rep for Kim didn’t comment, the reality star was back to her game of staging bikini paparazzi pictures in Mexico to share in the sales.
My theory: Kanye made such a big deal about wanting his wedding to be so A-list, expensive and exclusive and then the wedding was just such a budget disaster and only C-listers came. Kanye wanted Vogue to publish the photos and Anna Wintour looked at the guest list and said “NO.” And since Kanye couldn’t get the wedding pics into Vogue, they decided to just release the stuff through E! and through social media. Blah.
Photos courtesy of Kim’s IG, Fame/Flynet and WENN.
So they put on matching outfits to take a nap?
Cute Pic, Kim can continue to stay behind the Camera! LOL
he is so fake sleeping.
Totally. I see a lot of pics of dads napping with babies in my FB feed and it doesn’t look “posed” like this.
Yeah, the neck position alone looks entirely uncomfortable. If you are on a couch, you have no choice, but on a bed, you’re going to prop yourself up like a dead person at a wake, when you could be on cushiony pillows, lying flat?
Also matchy-matchy outfits.
You don’t tell a one year old to “close your eyes and hold still while Mommy takes a picture.” The baby is definitely not posed. Kanye could be but who cares. It’s a cute photo. Guys can sleep anywhere. The neck position means nothing. It just means he may have a sore neck when he wakes up. I’m just shocked by Kanye’s hand. It is MASSIVE!
Nah, the baby was probably asleep and Kanye picked him up and posed like he was sleeping with the baby.
Really, look who we’re talking about–nothing about these people is even remotely genuine or real.
Here’s why it’s not a fake, Kanye doesn’t care what you think or what you say just as long as you don’t talk to him.
Kanye keeps getting into trouble trying to stop people from taking his picture, Kanye doesn’t want pictures of his child taken – Think smart why would someone like that pose?
Personally I think that’s Kanye’s character, even if he’s not sleeping, he would be that way with eyes closed to keep from having to talk to people.
You’re joking right? Kanye is a narcissist that can’t stand it when nobody’s paying attention to him.
And yes, I still think the photo is posed and no, you won’t change my mind.
Someone like that would fake sleep for the same reason he rants to convince the world he is the best, for the same reason he planned a wedding to be the best – because he is obsessed with what the world thinks of him. He tries to play it off as being above it all, but he cares DESPERATELY what you and I and the world thinks.
Now, the baby is a sleep – him, no way. When you sleep your body relaxes and that dude is rigid and posed.
@TheOriginalKitten, In the end, who really cares? Not this one.
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ITA, it looks really contrived. Mind you, all I saw at first was Kanye’s GIANNNT HAND holding North. Is it just me or is that hand really out of proportion? Maybe it’s because of the angle?
The angle i guess
Wide angle lens in close range of the hand.
Idk.
My daughter is just a couple of months older. She and my husband sleep together like this.
I have pics of them spooning. Or facing each other while sleeping and holding hands.
So maybe but not for sure
I don’t believe you, no such picture exist in the world, fathers NEVER! EVER! fall asleep with there babies….You better take it back the vast majority on this site are smart and they know it’s impossible.
Agree he’s faking it. The baby fell asleep and somebody put her in his arm for a photo op. #everythingtheydoisalie
Yes, and the somebody was the nanny. They couldn’t risk waking her up. Kim is awkward carrying Nori and Kanye seems uninterested or afraid of carrying her. So I don’t think either of them would have tried to carry a sleeping Nori over to the bed to be posed.
So obvious. The second whoever was actually behind the camera snapped this photo (after Kanye muttered “Take the f**king picture OK?” about 50 times), he jumped up and called Ricardo.
That’s it, little Ignori – play dead until those people wander out of the room in search of paps and your nannies are allowed to return.
Can’t stand them, but the nap picture is cute.
The baby is beautiful. As for the rest of this “family” just…ewwww.
@kri. Ditto…North is a beauty.
The baby is very cute but she seems to have permanent ‘anxiety brow’ like Jaden Smith. It’s nice to see her brows relaxed while she sleeps.
I wonder if they Botoxed the ‘anxiety brow’ out of her!?
Just kidding…but not really.
Oh god Nori is so cute, love her with Kanye.
Does he always nap half-sitting, with his head against a wall?
Could they just once put that precious baby in a pretty color? I’ve never seen her in anything but black, white and gray.
Kim’s clothes are still too tight.
Right. Nice that little Nori didn’t wake up when they placed her for the staged photo.
She’d look awesome in coral
They’re too artsy for that though lmao
Yes! Coral or yellow or melon, something warm colored. Would look gorgeous with her skin.
I was coming on her to say the same thing. Stop subjecting your precious baby to the insanity that lives inside of your head!!! Let her wear color for crying out loud, she is a CHILD. And I say this as someone who mainly wears black, gray, navy blue and white!!!
2) Kim can’t dress for sh*t. I usually don’t rail against her but I wish that on one of her many shopping trips that she would buy a (somewhat decent) personality and a backbone. Moping around because your SO decrees that it is unbecoming to smile in photos is so high school!!! I swear, she didn’t use to dress THIS badly before she got with him. I remember liking a lot of her outfits, or thinking that she herself looked nice.
3) The baby is SWEET. So friggin’ cute…
I thought I read something when she was first born where Kim said that she would not be putting her in anything baby pink or cutsie, just neutrals, blah.
I agree! North has such beautiful skin tone, she’d look so cute in color. As far as piercing her ears, that’s pretty common…. Nothing to get in a national debate over.
That was the FIRST thing I said when I saw the picture…grey again!? Ugh… she needs some stimulation in her life…other than the jarring shock of waking up from her nap to someone she barely knows… BUT, durn…she is such a cutie! ANY color would look beautiful on her and the ears being pierced.. I don’t see why it’s a deal at all. Just don’t go sticking huge thousand dollar diamonds in there and make ugly, cry baby faces when she loses one
(like KK did in the ocean with Humps) …***eye rolllllzzz***
The only time she wakes up to someone she barely knows is when Kim or Kanye stop by.
Well that is pretty cute. She looks so much like him. Little twinsies
I was hoping that kanye would rebel against the Kardashian family, take ignori and run.
No luck
It could still happen!
This would be a really great outcome.
Looks like Kanye snuck in there once North was already sleeping, since, you know, she’d probably wake up scared that there’s a random person in her bed.
I had my daughters ears pierced at 3 months. She survived. I cried more than she did. First ear she didn’t really get what was going on and kind of jumped and with the second one she cried for 2 minutes while they were doing it and stopped right after. She looks seriously gorgeous with them and I’m happy I did them. I don’t think it’s something people should be in an uproar about.
My husband refused we pierce our daughter’s ears.”you don’t want to hurt her? Right?!” If she wants later …when she will be adult!
Why would you do that? “She looks gorgeous” Please excuse me while I throw up. You hurt your 3 month old baby because YOU want her to look good? Jesus christ.
I didn’t ‘hurt’ my daughter. You can even go and ask a pediatrician, who, by the way, pierced her ears. The doctor himself even said it’s better to do it before one because their ears are all soft tissue and they barely feel anything more than a pinch. They cry because of the noise from the gun, not because of the pain. But you wouldn’t know because you’re too busy making generalizations and throwing up all over yourself.
Also, I didn’t get it done to make her look good. She’s already a stunning child. I did it because it’s the norm in the culture I was raised in.
I’m with you. I love how ‘experts’ who are adults and have forgotten their initial years have opinions on whether or not children feel pain. I have a hard time believing a kid is crying because of noise vs. pain. Babies who don’t have an opinion one way or another shouldn’t be subject to the whim of a parent’s aesthetic dream. Kiddo can make up her mind for herself later on.
Medical ear piercing is great! I thoroughly recommend it. I took my daughter (she was 9) to have hers done in a pediatrician’s office. You know it’s sterile, and they have posts in surgical steel and even surgical-grade plastic.
You might want to calm down and put the dramatic, judgmental outbursts on hold. Smh.
I worked in a pediatric office for years and when it comes to ear piercing I opted to let my daughter make the decision for herself later because while some of the children were not upset – like, at all – others would cry like they got shots and other would wail the same way they would when they came with serious injuries. I didn’t want to chance that my daughter would have that sort of experience because of me. I also met a lovely woman whose oldest daughter slept through the event at 3 months, so when she came in with her next one at 3 months she was expecting the same thing but that little girl went ballistic and reacted as if she had just got bit by a dog or a burn or something. Poor mom was in shock and had to decide to continue and do the other or take out the one already done – she took it out. When your child is in that sort of pain you don’t continue for the sake of fashion.
Pediatricians piercing a baby’s ears is just about as ethical as a Veterinarian amputating a cat’s bone to declaw. What’s next? How young is too young for baby’s first tattoo?
Of course it hurts! It’s the twenty first century and we still question whether babies feel pain. I’m sure baby boys scream to high heaven when they’re circumcised just because they’re cold too. Give me a break.
And the “It happened to me and I turned out just fine” excuse has always been lame. Some of us are lucky to have survived childhood. It doesn’t mean we should blindly repeat our parents’ mistakes.
It’s cultural is not the same as “it happened to me and I turned out fine”. Sorry that you claims thousands of years of traditions doesn’t line up with your view. And yes, we are from India so I literally mean thousands of years.
Glad to see another Indian here, Clever Hand! I feel exactly the same way–it’s a several thousands of years tradition and I see no reason to do otherwise to my children when every single indian female and some males have gotten it and it’s been fine.
The reason pediatricians are okay with having ears pierced younger rather than older is because of the soft tissues. I’ve asked my mom how I took to piercing my ears when I was that young and she said the following:
The first ear you didn’t realize understand what happened until he’d pierced it–the second ear, you were crying because of how loud it is and we had to hold you still for a couple of mins and keep you steady and the squirming turned into crying for 5 minutes.
Lastly, children feel pain over a lot of things- scraping their knees, bruising elbows, falling from their bikes. Buying your child a bike or having them play at a park is “risking pain” and it’s going to happen over the course of their lives. Kids will live. I have, almost 500 million women in India (1/2 of billion plus Indians) are doing just fine over the course of centuries by having their ears pierced before they turn a year old. Save your outrage for young women facing sexual molesting because of cultural norms rather than a cultural and religious norm that is harming no one and causes about 5 minutes of pain.
I’m with you Clever. My mom, her parents and siblings are all from Morocco and my mom had hers done at 3 weeks, along with all 6 of her sisters. To us it means something.
In some cultures it actually is widespread and accepted. My parents are from the West Indies and both my sisters and myself as well as all my cousins had our ears pieced before we were one.
Out of my siblings I was the only one who cried and that was due to the fact I didn’t trust anyone but my mother or my father when I was 6 months old. My mother, who is a nurse took me home and pieced my ears herself- not a single tear.
On the contrary Clever and Almoney, I have deep respect for Indian culture. I am a nurse and have worked many years with doctors, nurses, and techs, both Muslim and Hindu from India, and consider many of them good friends. One man in particular was very open and curious and we would have philosophical discussions about issues like the fact that though he raised his daughter to be a proud American, he anticipated arranging her marriage. Of course I gave him hell, but we respected each other.
I have Hispanic family members as well. They have a tradition of piercing babies ears as well. There is much I respect in that culture – but not that.
I don’t understand causing a baby pain for beauty. The Chinese bound their daughters’ feet for thousands of years in the name of beauty. Rituals that have no true meaning are therefore meaningless.
I bet if you sat down and wrote one hundred things that you most cherish and respect about your culture, piercing babies’ ears wouldn’t make the list.
Ick. I just hate the idea of invasive and painful procedures to ‘enhance’ a beautiful little baby’s appearance. A good rule of thumb should be if you can’t do it to a house pet, why oh why can you do it to an infant? Cultural significance is a piss poor argument too, female circumcision has cultural significance, does that mean that’s fine?
IMHO, it’s cruel and tacky. Body modifications should be the decision of the individual and the individual alone.
Miffy,
I want to believe that you’re not equating an ear piercing to female circumcision but it seems as though that’s the exact comparison you’re going for so I’ll say this:
Vaccines are invasive and painful to babies as well. A lot of times certain vaccines leave the babies with tender skin and some swelling but we do it inspite of the fact that it’s invasive and painful.
It’s disrespectful and ignorant to cultures that do pierce children’s ears at a young age that you’re equating piercing with female circumcision. Clearly, those are not the same or the same degree and if you want to make egregious claims like that–let’s do away with vaccines for being painful and invasive and because they aren’t the decisions of the babies, aka the individual.
Almondey,
Hypocrit much? Equating vaccinations to ear piercing? In one instance, you are giving the child a shot to keep them from contracting fatal or debilitating diseases.
In the other you are putting holes in their ears for vanity, only.
That it is cultural is no reason to continue to do something that you now know you should not do.
Let your child decide for herself when she is older.
Almondey,
You are so completely right, let’s abolish all health care for children til they’re of an age where they can decide for themselves. What’s that little, Timmy? Broke your arm? Shame it didn’t happen when you were a consenting adult. Tough it out, kiddo.
I’m somewhere between laughing and sobbing at the absurdity of what you’re saying. Yes, I compare ear piercing and genital mutilation in the same capacity as they are both completely unneccessary body modifications performed on young children without their consent. Granted, there’s a massive leap in the extremity of both procedures but both are pointless, painful and vouched for under the terms of ‘cultural significance.’
As for you anti-vaccine rant… I can’t make head nor tails of how you even consider basic (yes, basic and logical) health care within the same realms of permanently interfering with a child’s physicality for nothing other than your own vanity.
It’s a cute picture. They must have gotten money for the wedding pics because People had a cover with them on it and pictures inside (or that is what it said on the cover – didn’t read or look inside the magazine, just saw it on the magazine rack while waiting to check out). They probably didn’t get the amount they thought they would and/or Kris J didn’t get a cut of it. As far as piercing babies ears, I’m meh. I pierced my daughters’ ears at seven because at that point they could change the earrings themselves. My concern is she took out the earrings they used to pierce the ears with (which are suppose to be left in for 6 – 8 weeks while they heal). I hope someone is cleaning those ears on a daily basis.
I know different cultures do different things, but I can’t stand earrings on babies. Babies don’t want earrings. They don’t know what earrings are. It’s all about the vanity of the parents. I had my ears pierced as a teenager and it made this gross squeaky noise as the needle pierced my skin that I will never forget, and you have to dip them in alcohol and turn them several times a day, which stings, to prevent infection. Why would you do that to a baby? Just so you can think they look cute.
I don’t like them on babies either but if it’s not my child, not my business that’s why i’m meh. My daughters were so ingrained with they couldn’t get their ears pierced until they were 7 that they tried to convince my niece she couldn’t get hers pierced until she was 7 (she got them earlier). I self-pierced mine in college (they had self-piercing earrings) because at that time you had to go to the dr. to get your ears pierced (weird – but they didn’t have the guns at the time).
Nope, a lot of times it’s religious and in lot of cultures it’s tradition to name your child formally in your place of worship at the 3-month mark and ear piercings go hand-in-hand with that. The old school explanation for this is that your skin is softer and easily pierced at that age and children that age don’t really process much more than a pinch.
I had my ears pierced at around 3 months and it’s been fine. It had nothing to do with my parents vanity or my grandparents vanity. It’s how things are done in many cultures and I find it slightly offensive that you can chalk it up to vanity. My parents are the most reserved and least appearance conscious people. My mom probably hasn’t worn an item of makeup other than lipstick once a month MAX. It’s unfair and offensive to suggest that “different cultures do different things”–but then instantly chalk it up as “all about the vanity of the parents.”
OK, I’m fine with the religious/cultural drivers in some situations as almondey addressed. BUT, in situations like this one, where it is strictly done for the parents’ own gratification, I think it is callous, and a decision best left until the child is old enough to participate in the decision about her body. So, I guess I balance to a meh as well.
Almondey is spot on about the cultural tradition. I don’t know whether that has any bearing on this particular baby’s piercing, but it is true for a lot of babies. My hometown has a high Latino population and most of the babies who were brought to me for piercing were part of that culture.
I got my babies ears pierced when she was 6 months. They did both ears at once and she only cried for a couple of minutes and then was completely over it. She cries more after getting shots. It doesn’t hurt/make them sore like certain vaccines, so I don’t see the big deal. Others can judge all they want, but that is their own personal problem. My child is fine, she isn’t traumatized. She was in no way treated unethically, not to mention she is my child and I’ll raise her how I like. As long as she is getting proper care and not being abused, it shouldn’t be an issue. I hate that people make it seem as if your child is being abused when getting pierced ears. It literally stings for seconds, just like a shot and then it’s over.
It doesn’t hurt when you twist them and I assume so from when I had my ears pierced and also at the fact that she didn’t cry or really notice when I did it. And just so you know, they give you an alcohol free solution to clean the ears with so it doesn’t sting when you use it.
I’m not trying to be rude or anything, so sorry if I come across that way. This subject just gets me riled up.
Why is something “okay” to do as long as it is seen as cultural? Just because your culture has done something for hundreds/thousands of years, doesn’t mean it’s NOT backwards thinking.And just because your culture does and continues to do one thing, doesn’t necessarily make it okay (and I’m not just talking about ear piercing at a young age, there are many things we can discuss, such as circumcision etc). I understand you are just trying to justify why you had your ears pierced at such a young, but that doesn’t make it okay. Modifying body parts should be done when the person HERSELF/HIMSELF, can make the decision on their own.
ScrewStewRat99:
What was the driver behind choosing to get your daughter’s ears pierced? I think that’s what is ultimately in question here. Did Kim (or any mother/father) want to get their daughter’s ears pierced because it makes them more beautfiul/allows for more accessories or are there cultural and/or religious implications at play?
If the driver is parental gratification, then, while it’s legal, there are going to be people who do not agree. Even if there is no permanent harm (as we would see with FGM or other mutilations), why should you choose a body modification for your child? What is the benefit of pierced ears-for her? The way she looks (to everyone else)? Weighing that against the potential to get caught, yanked, and infected by an active child who doesn’t understand that there is something foreign in her body, I’m just not sure there’s justification.
For the record, I also disapprove of parents who put sweet tea in a sippy cup for their 2 year old. It doesn’t mean they are necessarily unfit parents, just that we’re all making decisions for our children based on our own opinions and beliefs about what is beneficial/ harmless.
I cannot understand why any parent would do this. Childs should have the right do decide that for themselves when they are older.
Besides that, it’s just stupid. Chances are much higher the children will end up with asymaterically placed piercings.
People MAGAZINE pics were paparazzi pics.They were not exclusive.USWeekly had some of them.If People had the pics they would be clear not blurry and up close pics.Like Kelly Clarkson,Drew Barrymore, Timberlake,etc pics.
adorable pic. can’t slam kim for it, i too love to watch my husband nap with our son.
that’s my “something nice” for today. 😉
So they’ve been taking yet another hit in the press for being such bad parents and now they do this? Seems very contrived to me. These two and well the whole damn family are such stunt queens it is hard to believe anything that they put out there. The funny thing to me is every time they get caught in a lie or lies they simply shrug and go on to the next lie! How do they get away with the crap? All I can say about North West is I hope she becomes everything her parents are not. And that will be hard to do when born into this mess of a family.
This.
Totally agree.Kanye is posing like he is sleeping and the baby was placed there.They have no shame and everything they do is planned and thought out.My thing is why do people watch this show?How do they even have fans?And for what?I use to watch the E! channel YEARS ago.I only watch the Fashion Police and that is it now.I am sure they go to these sites and read what people say about them.We blog because we can’t stand you!Just please get some self respect and disappear.
The photo is staged but the baby is cute. I agree that baby needs to be able to wear color . Poor kid, yesterday was her first birthday and they took her to museum yuck!!! Kimeye makes me sick.
Has anybody noticed that the baby and a weird protruding “V” shape on her forehead. You can see it on almost all the pictures of her. Not as much in the sleeping picture. But anytime Kim is hold her you can see it.
That’s her fontanelle. Totally normal.
IMO, North inherited the “widow’s peak” trait as both her aunt Kourtney and Uncle Rob have the same hairline.
photoshoped her in to the pic?
So Lucifer’s Homegirl isn’t going to get the big payday she was expecting from this wedding. Stay tuned for inevitable separation and divorce. PMK didn’t do all of this so she could be cut out of millions. No no, she’s working on finding Kim her next husband and will undoubtedly have her share of earnings put in the prenup.
Aside from that farce, can’t believe Nori turned 1 already. Where has a year gone?
Well, regardless of how awful they are… it’s a sweet pic.
So fake.
Kim needs to dress her child in vivid colors as this stimulates her brain. Sigh, does this woman not understand anything?
I’d love to know if parents who get their baby’s ears pierced would also allow them to have a piercing somewhere else on the body or face. To me that’s no difference. How about waiting long enough to ask the kid if it wants to potentially live with a (small, yet visible) scar, because that’s what is left when you don’t wear piercings anymore.
I completely agree. What if your daughter is going to be more of a tomboy and doesn’t want piercings? Is your beautiful child not lovely enough without jewelry in her ears? Are you so afraid that she won’t be seen as feminine enough that you have to make this decision for her in infancy?
Also I am a preschool teacher and have seen little girls with severely infected piercings, even ending up in the hospital for treatment.
Plus, go ahead and hate, but personally I think it just looks trashy. To me it’s on par with putting toddler girls in triangle string bikinis. Respect the fact that your baby is a baby.
I agree. There is no reason for a baby to have her ears pierced. They DO feel pain at the time their ears are getting pierced and for some time after, especially if an infection occurs, not to mention the child grabbing at their ears all the time. Why put them through that? Let them decide if they want their ears pierced when they are old enough to make those types of decisions. I also hate seeing toddlers in bikini’s. It’s ridiculous. I’m just giving my opinion, if it’s not my child I don’t have a right to tell anyone what to do, but I do have a right to my voice my own concerns.
The people saying it’s ok to pierce your baby’s ears would be outraged if a baby’s nose was pierced (even it if was for cultural reasons) or if a baby had 2 or 3 piercings in one ear.
Exactly, me. Perfect way to get your point across! Couldn’t agree more.
My thought on ear piercing is, if your child isn’t old enough to make an intelligent, informed decision about what to do with her own body , then you have no right to make those body altering decisions for them. Seems narcissist and tacky. Having said that, our daughter made the decision at 14, after much talking and thought.
Meh, I think a child can always choose to let a piercing close up after they grow up and decide they don’t want it. Not every decision a child makes about their own body is the result of intelligent, informed conversation. Parents vaccinate, (force) feed, choose formula vs. breast milk for their children all the time.
If you choose to (for religious and cultural reasons/personal reasons) pierce your child’s ear when they’re younger…as long as you’re not harming them and it’s not forbidden by law, I say you’re well within your rights to do so.
Parents make a lot of decisions for children without intelligent and informed decisions aka feed them crap etc. Piercing your ear and eventually letting it close up if the child grows up and doesn’t want it is MILES less detrimental than some other executive decisions parents make for their children.
So a kid can decide to let their holes close over if they want to? That’s a really poor argument. How about letting them decide to get the holes in the first place???
Deciding what to feed your baby is a LOT different than deciding to physically alter their appearance, almondey. Taking care of your child’s NEEDS is a lot more important than a parent’s WANTS for their child.
ear piercings won’t close up after a few years though.
About the pierced ears: it is more common in some cultures than others. I used to pierce ears and preferred not to pierce a child’s ears until she could tell me herself that she wanted it.Some arguments in favor of early piercing is that the mom can do the aftercare easily, and the kid won’t remember the pain. A major argument against the early piercing is that it can trigger metal allergies, particularly to nickel. But little Nori probably won’t ever have to wear less than 18k in her lobes anyway!
ETA cute picture
North is asleep. Kanye is a big faker.
I am so tired of that poor little girl in itchy looking gray clothes. You do NOT have to deck a girl out in pink or lavender or frilly stuff but for the love of God, get her out of the funeral garb for ONE day.
Kaiser-I hope SO MUCH that you are right about your Vogue theory!! That would be amazing
Sure, sure, I stiffen up like a board when I nap, too.
My word North is such a cute baby! Can’t believe she is a year old! I love shoeless babies, never understood shoes on babies who can’t yet walk.
My 6 month old has shoes because he can’t kick them off as easily as socks, and his feet get soooo cold when we are out in (Australian) winter. Not all of his outfits have feet built in. The shoes are mostly decorative though!
North is absolutely adorable, and I have no doubt that her parents adore her. And for however crazy her parents are, there are plenty of worse parents in the world.
So Kanye likes his daughter in grey. We all know it’s Kanye, not Kim, that i dressing this child, just like he dictates to Kim her wardrobe. Odd to always see Nori in grey. I find it even odder that Kim as a mother even could care less. and Kanye is the sylist for the baby. I highly doubt Kimmie would be picking out this color all the time for her baby.
I know that is what is so tacky about the baby wearing grey all the time. You just know her idot father thinks he is such a fashion icon. Wearing grey or black isn’t such a big deal but the fact that you know the thought process that went into it and that the idiot bio mom just goes along with it. And to the person up above that hopes for Ignori’s escape. Here is hoping but I havey doubts considering she is surrounded by a bunch of egomaniancs and people who think the name North is a good idea and that it is genius for a guest at a wedding to dress up as a white batman. So this little girl is surrounded by sycophants , toad eaters, megalomaniacs, nitwits, idiots, vacuous people and lots of money she certainly has an uphill battle. I mean look how Kimmy turned out? No thought of her own.
Well said.
Well, if baby girl was awake she would have had a look on her face that stated,
‘ Who the hell are you?’ Kids are not stupid.
I think Kaiser is right – if A-listers had shown up, they’d have been selling those photos everywhere to show off. But all they got was Jaden Smith in a Batman costume. Score.
The photo is cute but looks staged.
“But all they got was Jaden Smith in a Batman costume. Score.” LOL!
These two are so hilarious, they make it too easy for us sometimes.
I pierced my daughter’s ears when she was 3 months. The first one she squirmed a bit and the second one she cried for the 1 minute it took to stand up and walk to the register to pay. The upkeep was fine. I took them out when she was 18 months because she was pulling them and lost 2 pairs in a day. She wanted them back at 2.5, but she lost other pairs. Now she is 4, she’s wearing a pair today and yesterday, but all last week she had none because she didn’t want them. If I ever have another I will probably just wait.
I’m not so sure the photo is staged. I fell asleep in some pretty awkward positions while holding a sleeping baby. You’re sort of pinned there. Or maybe Kanye is just resting his eyes.
Wow, some of you are very judgy about pierced ears on a child. Wow…
WORD.
also he may not have been asleep just closing his eyes to rest!!! fake sleeping?!!!!
hahahahahaha too much honestly.
Occupational hazard of having children. People will judge your EVERY parenting decision!
Also, I hate that I always end up having to defend people that I dislike, but sometimes people freak out too much about small things. I’d rather save my freakouts for something bigger– we won’t have to wait long!
Yeah like people with kids don’t judge others ever?
Oh, I never said that, word. In fact, other parents are some of the judgiest. I’m not innocent, either.
People aren’t allowed to have opinions on things? Why does one have to be called “judgey” for having an opinion?
You can have an opinion, not saying you can’t. But the tone some people are using here…my goodness. We get it, you don’t agree with ear piercing, but to take it to some of the lengths some commentators took it here. That’s what I’m referring to.
Yeah. If it’s not your kid and they’re fine who cares?
+1…ppl need to have more respect for other peoples’ cultural traditions, especially if no one’s life is being endangered. Everyone is different and every parent doesn’t need to subscribe to only one “right” way of doing something. Some really need to take it down a notch with the judginess.
I realize I will get jumped on for this, but honestly, I feel bad for that innocent baby inheriting Kanye’s facial expression. He only has a few, & the prominent one is “p*ssed off.” I’ve seen a couple of pics of her smiling, & they’re beautiful. But most of the time she looks puzzled & befuddled by who is holding her.
On the other hand, she could have got Kim’s blank Stepford expression. Babies do need to see facial expressions on the people they spend time with. I hope she gets more than these two expressions.
Her resting poutface is so cute, though. I admit I never thought about how a parent’s frozen botox face might affect a kid’s development. That’s an interesting idea.
I agree with you to an extent. Even the “candid” pictures Kim posts of North, she’s still miserable.
We have indeed seen pictures of Nori smiling and laughing at a camera. She is always carefully isolated in those shots. It’s safe to assume her parents were not nearby or else such pictures would include them. She also looked normal on Khloe’s lap in that weird “Kanye addressing the Kardashian women” pic from the wedding. I think she has normal baby expressions. And one of them is “who is this stranger holding me” which we see around Kim and Kanye… I wish they would stop with the fakery. They’re rich, and many rich people pay other people to do everything and only get interested in their kids when they’re much older (if ever…).
Staged, but cute photo.
Oh I agree about Anna and Vogue.. I think Kris and Kanye both thought after the first Vogue they were a shoe in for there wedding in Vogue… Lets just say that Vogue honestly numbers were not what the PR wanted you to think they were.TRUTH. If were really paying attention there ratings are down and I am intersted In knowing what they are this week.. I firmly believe this family and the Ks are on the decline which means. YES THERE IS A GOD. I honestly dont think anyone was willing to pay anything close to 11 million for the pics and that was a shock to Kris and Kanye
if you take out the bedding, they look like they’re in prison.
LOL they kinda are.
Let me guess this scenario, lying in bed with baby curled in your arms while talking to wife/husband and you realize that baby has FINALLY fallen asleep, so you stop talking, stop moving and lean back on bed not to wake baby but you fall asleep and wife/husband snaps what they think is the cutest bonding picture every!
—NAH! it couldn’t have happened that way!
Not when there’s a Kardashian involved.
Word! Lol
Not with the opportunistic Kartrashians. Every move is calculated with that klan.
The reason it’s clearly staged on Kanye’s part is that they have no pictures of her awake and responding normally to her parents. She still just doesn’t know them well enough. She knows Khloe but not Kim or Kanye. She knows whomever has been behind the camera in photos where she’s smiling and laughing- but it wasn’t Kim or Kanye because we know that if it were, we would see photos of Kim or Kanye holding the camera (that’s how they roll). They take pains to not reveal the camera holder in those shots. I don’t know what’s wrong- maybe she’s too messy for them? Not instantly lovey dovey and the get bored? Maybe once she’s old enough to talk and remember them from occasional visits, they’ll get more interested in her. Or at least get better pictures that look like she knows them. Kim and Kanye strike me as sad people, missing out on so much. I don’t think they are maliciously ignoring the baby, they just are both damaged and lack something crucial in their brains. Kim was never genuine with Kourtney’s Mason either- his mom complained she just used him for Instagram pictures.
Good Lord, some people need to calm down! Piercing ears early on is very common in some cultures and people should be understanding of that. It’s not like the parents are harming their children, causing them permanent damage or doing something illegal. It’s been done for years and years all over the world, and the children turned out just fine. The biggest thing to keep in mind is the after care, which is cleaning them for 6-8 weeks to prevent infections, etc.
How can he protect that baby when he is very rarely with the baby? If Kim thinks he’s the best dad in the world, she must not understand what the word dad means. I doubt he’s had much of a chance to know the child at all. And quite a pattern with the baby photo-ops — always right after they travel extensively without her.
Why are you so angry about their private lives? Do you think they are angry about yours?
I think Kim and Kanye should apologize to you for interfering in your private family life.
@gypsy
Why are you so defensive of them? Op’s post was ok to me
Oh I’m not angry at all – not sure where you’re getting that. I think they are utterly and completely empty and sad.
Kimmy and PMK better be mindful of all the wonderful things they say about Ianye because when the inevitable split and custody dispute comes those words of praise will be used against her when she and PMK tell the judge that he is an unfit father and accuse him rightfully or wrongly of all kinds of ghastly things.
Baby North is precious! I love this photo.
let’s be fair.
they did have one a-lister present.
but apparently they didn’t think he was worth a glass of water.
Sorry. Photo ops don’t count as real parental involvement.