Kim Kardashian posts a photo of North perched on Kanye’s lap: adorable?

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This poor baby. She has no idea who any of these people are. “Whose lap is this?” Nori asks herself. “Who is that kat-faced person behind the camera?” No, in all honesty, I think this is one of the cutest photos I’ve seen of Kanye West and Nori. Look, people! Kanye actually looks like he’s engaging with his daughter. He’s smiling at her and everything. And Nori is to focused on figuring out the identity of the person behind the camera. I feel you, Nori. Kim posted this photo on her Instagram with the hashtag: #BringYourDaughterToWorkDay.

The photo was taken (I guess?) once Kim and Kanye had returned home to LA after their excursion in Ibiza for Riccardo Tisci’s birthday party. Is this Kanye’s studio? It looks sort of… unexpected. I thought Kanye’s studio would at least feature leather walls and a giant toilet wall. A source told Us Weekly recently that “North loves anything musical! She loves being in the studio with her dad. Loves music class.”

As for the state of Kim and Kanye’s marriage… they have now officially made it longer than Kim and Kris Humphries. I guess that’s a big deal. And everyone keeps saying that Kim and Kanye both want another kid (to ignore unless there are cameras around). While Kim was vacationing in Thailand a few months ago, she met a little girl named Pink at an orphanage and Kim “totally” wanted to adopt her. You can read about it here. I suspect my take on the story was not as harsh as others. While I think Kim sounds like she’s shopping for the perfect little black dress (“oh, darling, the orphan is so cute and she’ll go with everything!”), it’s not like Kim and her family HAD to donate their time, money and products to the orphanage. Of course they got “credit” for it (and filmed it for E!), but do you think that matters to the orphans?

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  1. Jenny12 says:

    She’s a beautiful little girl and her parents know it.

  2. Kiddo says:

    That is freakin’ adorable. The baby is so cute and it’s nice to see Kanye with such a wide smile.
    If only we could replace all the KIm duckface, sausage attire, and ass photos with this type of thing.

    • JudyK says:

      +1

      Nori is such a beautiful baby…great pic of Kanye.

    • Mia V. says:

      Yeah, stop taking selfies Kim and take more pictures of this adorable girl! That’s a face we wanna see!

    • TheOriginalKitten says:

      I usually don’t get why people go crazy over babies. Sorry, but they all look the same to me.
      But this is one seriously adorable baby.

      Yes. more cute baby, less giant ass–whether it be Kim’s behind or Kanye.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      He looks so much better when he smiles, and she is one cute baby.

    • Audrey says:

      She’s cute!

      My husband is so much more involved with our toddler than he was when she was a baby.

      Dads are much more active and hands on in my experience

      I hope he really is stepping up and getting more involved

  3. MrsBPitt says:

    Thats a sweet picture…Kanye looks like a proud daddy!

  4. GiGi says:

    I couldn’t find the remote the other night while I was falling asleep and that episode of KUWTK was on… the orphanage one. They did show North’s arms… so I guess she was there? IDK. It’s common for people visiting orphanages to want to adopt. It seems like the easiest and most relevant way to help the children living there. But many countries don’t allow foreign adoption and these kids don’t always need to be rescued to America. Even though I’m an adoptive parent, myself, I have a lot of conflicted feelings about this kind of “tourism adoption”. Basically, Kim met a kid for an afternoon and was ready to take her home, with no thought of the child’s loss of culture, language, surroundings, sense of place, etc. Typical Kardashian, self-centered thoughts.

    • K says:

      I don’t think that’s a fair assesment. The adoptive parents could take steps to ensure that the kid will have their culture and language with them (through learning the language and visiting their home country) like Angelina and Brad for example does. There’s a difference in doing it and “wanting” to do it for an afternoon, I agree.

      • GiGi says:

        I’d say it’s fairly split. I adopted domestically, but I know several families who’ve adopted internationally. Some families are very good about maintaining culture for their adopted child. And it never even crosses the minds of other families I know.

        It’s a very complex issue, in general, but I was specifically talking about the Kardashians here.

    • TG says:

      I was really mad that they put that part in there just to make Kim look like a good person. It is gross how she uses orphans to make herself look good. If she really wanted to adopt this child she would move mountains to make it happen and at the very least do every thing she could to make it happen, not just let her mom tell her she can’t and the owner of the hotel tell her it is difficult to adopt out of the country without ever investigating it herself. She could even donate large sums to the orphanage and sort of adopt it in that way to help all the children rather than donate to PMK’s faux church. I mean the stories I have read about both foreign and domestic adoptions are heart wrenching and heartwarming the hoops some people have to go through and in some cases it can take years for the parents to finally get their child home from dealing with all the red tape. On another note did you catch the scene where Brody Jenner acts all tough knocking some guys glasses off because he touched Kendall? Before it happened I saw the burly body guard not more than a few feet behind Brody and so Brody acted all chivalrous and knocked the glasses off of the guy and then moved out of the way to let the big body guard handle the guy and then tried to take credit for standing up for his sister. What a wimp. Reminded me of Toddler Beiber. It is easy to act big and bad when you have others doing the muscle work for you. Losers.

  5. lower-case deb says:

    North is so cute!!

    also, now i believe that Kim goes everywhere with her daughter, Transfigured into a pillow most of the time for privacy sake.

  6. Hissyfit says:

    It’s a cute photo and Kanye seems genuinely happy. But that kid’s facial expression is killing me. It’s like she don’t know these people and just want to be picked up by somebody she actually knows. Lol.

    • Snazzy says:

      IKR? That kid always has the best expressions on her face…
      “Who are these people?”
      “Where’s Nanny?”
      “Why is that crazy plastic woman back and why does she look like a duck?”

    • Jag says:

      My guess is that her mother – I mean nanny – is standing directly beside or behind Kim who is taking the picture. Nori isn’t engaged at all with her father. He might be beaming, but she looks like she has no interest in him whatsoever.

  7. Ag says:

    North is very cute.

  8. NewWester says:

    That is a cute pic of Kayne and North

  9. Dawn says:

    So I am not going to get all sickly sweet about this kid. She is cute just like Kourtney’s kids are cute just like my kids are cute just like my neighbor kids are cute. Most kids are cute. She doesn’t look as weirded out as she normally does but I suspect nanny was not far off and she is in no way interacting with her father. She looks like many kids look when they first sit on Santa’s lap. Just more fodder from Kim trying to make people like her by using her kid.

    • Willa says:

      I agree with everything you wrote.

    • eliza says:

      +1

    • TheOriginalKitten says:

      It’s really hard to see anything they do as genuine, given the fact that everything they do is with their image in mind. Or for publicity.

      So yeah, I’m sure this is just image-crafting for them.

      • Josephine says:

        Especially since they post pics of the kid right after a trip without her. You can can set your watch to it. I’m guessing this is a home studio b/c he flew back from Ibiza and right back out the next day. Neither one of them can seem to give that child the time of day for more than a 2 minute photo op.

    • Belle Epoch says:

      DAWN totally agree. Someone placed her on the chair and said “sit here.” She has no relationship with Kanye at all – no hugging or smiling. He’s smiling because HE DID THIS – she is his creation and part of his grandiosity. Poor kid.

      • TG says:

        @Belle Epoch – I 100% agree with you. I have never seen a photo where the child or the parents look bonded to each other. His smile doesn’t look like it is about love but more about pride like you said “look what I created”. He isn’t even holding touching her. I have never seen a decent parent be able to resist holding a child who is on their lap. Why are there no photos of that baby looking happy to be with them and I don’t just mean smiling. There is zero connection. As was stated elsewhere in this thread this pic looks like Nori is sitting on Santa’s lap not her father’s.

    • amara says:

      Well said, Dawn!

    • Dani says:

      Agreed, my daughter is a few months younger than North and when she’s taking a picture with her dad or grandparents or someone she’s familiar with she physically appears at ease and smiles brightly. North seems a bit tense and nervous.

    • Nicolette says:

      Totally agree.

    • The Original Mia says:

      ITA.

  10. An says:

    North is such a beautiful little girl!

  11. Eleonor says:

    That baby is a cutie. And it’s nice to see Kanye smile once in a while.
    He’s got the “daddy little princess” eyes.

  12. hutter says:

    I never knew Kanye had a tattoo on his leg!

  13. Rhiley says:

    As much as it pains me to write this, North is an absolutely beautiful child and she looks really comfy on her daddy’s lap. Her grandmother looks at her and probably sees $$$ signs, but I hope they hold her back a few years before joining the Kardashian machine. She just looks so sweet and innocent right now. Precious.

  14. Sonya says:

    She is gorgeous! While I do believe that Kim lacks the capacity to love beyond “I love what you can do for me” I don’t think that about Kanye. I don’t like the man, but I do think he is capable of loving his daughter, especially as she is older now and many people find it easier to bond with a child who is more “little person” than infant. I, myself, adored my babies and I miss them being babies – but I felt a great relief when they got to a more verbal and interactive stage – like I felt less lost. Perhaps that is what we will see from him. In the end I think of how he loved his mother and how devastated he was to lose her and I think it will be him who loves this child and cares for her. Him and maybe her sisters, who also seem like they can love beyond money. Hopefully those people in her life can save her from momma pimp and the kat lady.

    • swack says:

      Let’s he’s home with her more than we know. But with all the hopping around the world for concerts, parties and working on his album (which he typically does in Paris) he no more can take care of her than Kim does being around her.

    • TG says:

      I think Kanye is a raging narcissist and incapable of love and the only reason everyone thinks he loved his mother so much was because she worshipped the ground he walked on so of course he loved that because it was all about HIM. I think the same way about KimME. They see that baby as an object, otherwise they wouldn’t be flying all over the place without her. I saw pics on the Daily Mail that clearly showed KimME laying around at the pool and the nanny brought the child to HER (same as this photo above, baby had to go to HIM at HIS convenience) and KimME sat on a bench holding the baby and neither she nor the baby were looking at each other and next thing you know she hands the baby back to the nanny since she can’t be bothered to parent more than a couple of minutes at a time it seems.

  15. Tiffany27 says:

    She looks like baby Kanye except cuter.

  16. Tiffany says:

    I wonder how many pics Kim took before she realized that that photo was as good as it was going to get. I mean there has not been one photo released were North is smiling or happy to be around her parents.

    • Tdub30 says:

      She actually looks happy and quite comfy. You can see that she’s leaning back into her daddy’s arm. She isn’t scowling and looks just like my 18 mo old when you call his name for a picture 😁.

  17. BendyWindy says:

    I can’t stand Kim and Kanye. They could be sitting there just breathing and it would annoy the crap out of me, however, I have a baby who doesn’t smile much. Well, that’s not true. She laughs and plays and is very happy. But she doesn’t smile for pictures and she doesn’t smile when we’re out and about and people are in her face. I get told that she’s “grumpy” and “mean” all the time, which is whatever. My point is that just because North doesn’t smile in pictures or when she’s surrounded by paps doesn’t mean she never smiles or that she doesn’t know who her parents are.

    • Jen34 says:

      My oldest didn’t smile around strangers, and it used to hurt my feelings when people would criticize her (me) for that. My second child would put her arms out for strangers to hold, which would delight them, but scare me . My oldest is 12 and still grumpy, while my 10 year old was voted most cheerful in her class. Babies are born with their personalities. I think Nori”s personality is more like her dad than her mom.

      • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

        People criticizing your baby for not smiling is stupid and inexcusable. I just want to slap people sometimes.

      • booboobird says:

        I hear you. If the kid doesnt smile all Cheshire cat then they are shy or sad or miserable. Drives me krazy. It’s normal that my kids do not find everybody worth smiling for/at. Also applies to talking with random people.
        As for North West. She looks pretty comfortable in her dad’s lap and Ye looks very happy.
        But what’s up with the coat/jacket sharing. Is Kimwearing Kanyes outerwear or Kanye likes her clothes. They seem to be sharing also the camel coat.

    • denisemich says:

      +1. I think North West knows who her parents are. I also think North West seems to have a ‘Watcher” personality.

      On a side note: I think the picture above was in Mexico and not after the Ibiza trip.

  18. AlmondJoy says:

    North is a beautiful baby!! Love this pic. I’m no Kim and Kanye fan, but I find it hilarious that so many people seem to have inside details on whether or not she knows/likes her parents. She looks perfectly comfortable on her father’s lap and he seems to adore her. That’s really all I see when I look at this photo, nothing more. I don’t know them personally nor do I watch the show.

    • FingerBinger says:

      This is the happiest I’ve ever seen Kanye and it’s clear North knows that’s her daddy. There’s no way she would be sitting there looking happy if she didn’t know who he was.

      • AlmondJoy says:

        Exactly!!

      • Fan says:

        What makes you think Ignori is happy? She does not have any form of a smile on her cute little face. I think she looks bewildered in every pic.

      • An says:

        @Fan

        Just because Michael K (or whomever) thinks it’s hilarious to call a baby names, doesn’t mean it’s okay to do so. I find that beyond disgusting. And North looks like every other baby I’ve seen when their names are called for pictures. I don’t think people on this site have had any experience with kids that aren’t always smiley/happy if they don’t know that. It was a complete NIGHTMARE to try and get any “good” pictures of my little brother because he just didn’t want to. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t know who her parents are. Ugh. Now you made defend Kim/Kanye. 😒

  19. Peppa says:

    It’s nice to see Kanye with a huge smile and wearing casual clothes. There are cracks in the grumpy cat facade sometimes. I also like that Kanye and Kim are sharing a coat that looks just like one my dad used to wear in the early 90s. Kim’s overly tight plastic face scares me, so I agree more of these types of pictures and less selfies.

  20. word says:

    I saw that episode. There was no mention of giving actual money to the orphans…they handed out toys. There was no mention of who paid for the toys though. Who knows, maybe E Network paid for them. If the Kardashians had spent their own money they would have made it known.

    • Fan says:

      The Kartrashian’s have never been known as generous or giving people. On the episode where they visit the orphanage, Kris is reading from a list of the toys being donated. It was clear she had never seen the list before. I definitely got the impression the toys were bought by E and were just props for the story line.

      • word says:

        Yes, I noticed that too ! She read off a list and it really seemed like a producer just handed it to her.

    • I’ve mentioned this before. They’re the only “celebrities” who get away with never giving anything to charity. And you just know of they did it would be documented on E! The only time I remember them putting in time was when Khloe helped at a soup kitchen and then Kylie and Kendall tried to act empathic but it just came off fake. Kendall used to try that whole down to earth thing, when she was genuinely embarrassed by her family, but I don’t get that anymore. She seems just as empty headed and vain as the rest of them.

  21. Kat says:

    Why does she take her mom and sisters everywhere. Especially her mom does she need to be at all their friends birthday? They are such a weird family.

  22. tat2dgrl77 says:

    If they cameras aren’t around then how do you know that Nori is being ignored by her parents? I think that seems a little harsh. You don’t know what goes on inside that house when the cameras are off. A lot of people complain that Kim won’t do anything if it isn’t on camera but then turn around and say horrible things about her when she is or is not doing something on camera. Kind of a double standard. I’m not a Kardashian fan but I do feel bad for them them sometimes…not most of the time…usually never…but in this case, I do.

    • jwoolman says:

      Kim lives on Instagram. The only pictures we’ve seen of Nori laughing or smiling have carefully avoided showing anybody else in the picture. With her parents, she looks bewildered at best, definitely worried, and sometimes ready to cry. She looks more comfortable than usual in this one, although she still is not engaging at all with Kanye- maybe she’s getting used to them from the recent flurry of photo ops, maybe her memory is improving as she ages. But I see plenty of babies her age in pics with their parents, and hers with either Kim or Kanye are simply strange. It would not be difficult to get a picture of her really engaging with a parent and being definitely happy with them, just quietly sit with cell phone at the ready and wait. But they don’t post such pictures because they don’t have them.

      Regular people have the same problem if absent from their baby for long periods of time- just ask any dad who has been away on business or military deployment. A ten year old will remember dad, a one year old won’t. Babies bond to people who take care of them, and Nori’s parents have delegated the caregiving to other people. It will be quite a while before she will be able to recognize them as her parents under such circumstances. She might be reacting to the crazy in both, also. If Kanye rants in front of her, that’s scary. There’s definitely something wrong with Kim, I don’t think she can actually bond. She was attracted to the Thai orphan perhaps because the girl was halfway to adulthood (not a messy baby) and could be dressed like a doll (or so Kim assumed). It’s going to be a rocky road for them all.

  23. Alexis says:

    The baby is cute but still looks awkward and uncomfortable to me.

  24. Leaflet says:

    It’s a very cute photo of father and daughter. With that being said, I shutter to think of the unchecked behavioral disorders that baby North is being exposed to on a daily basis by being around her father and mother. Unfortunately, I believe that Kanye never received proper treatment for his behavioral disorder that flared up after his mother passed. Kanye used to actually be a very decent and humbled human being before his mother passed, but he isn’t now. I hope he seeks help before his child grows up to think that his behavior is a normality and acceptable amongst society.

  25. Janet says:

    Awwwww… Daddy’s little girl!

    I have to admit that is one beautiful baby.

  26. Ice Queen says:

    Cute!

  27. lili says:

    @leaflet,(and others) yes !
    also,
    hope north’s nanny dresses her in some stimulating colors whilst k&k play away.

  28. Katie says:

    that baby always looks so concerned

  29. Jayna says:

    North is so beautiful, but that is not a smiley baby. She said in an interview North never cries.

    Poor North. She’s probably got Kim’s boring personality it looks like. I hope she got Kanye’s talent and not Kim’s talent or lack of talent, that is.