Kim Kardashian covers the April issue of ELLE (America) in what Elle describes as “the first-ever personalized magazine cover of its kind featuring Kim Kardashian West for the April issue. Fifty thousand ELLE subscribers will receive a copy of the magazine with a special personal cover a note from Kim made out to the subscriber.” Sure! The photos are fine – they’re not really about the clothes, because Kim’s editorials rarely are. You can see the full editorial and interview here at ELLE. Some highlights from the interview:
Her house is shockingly quiet: “Everyone says that! My kids just aren’t that loud. My daughter has a friend over; they’re in the playroom. But they’re outdoorsy. My dog’s even quiet; it’s the craziest thing.”
Her home is very organized: “My life is chaotic, so my home is supersimple. Everything has to be clean. No clutter. I can’t have a full phone. At the end of the day, I delete everything that’s not a current conversation. If I need some information, then I keep it. If not, it has to be deleted. I can’t see too much noise. If Kanye had a dream project it would be to make a Yeezy product line—like deodorant, every product you could imagine. He would redo them all; he hates how they look.”
She’s super-organized: “If things aren’t organized, I flip out. My kids’ clothes have their name ironed into them on little labels. I know where everything is, and I. Do. Not. Lose. Things.”
Saint’s birth: “After giving birth, your placenta is supposed to come out. But mine was stuck. That’s what women usually die from in childbirth—you hemorrhage and bleed to death and they can’t stop it. To get it out—it’s so disgusting—the doctor had to stick his whole arm in me and scrape it off. It was the most painful.”
Having a baby via gestational carrier: Kim only had a few requests: that the baby be born in L.A., “where all my babies were delivered, and for her to use my doctor. She was totally comfortable with that.” Kim also preferred that the carrier eat as organically as possible, “which is just how she eats, so it was a good match for us.” But she wasn’t tyrannical about it. “I straight-up told her, ‘Look, I ate doughnuts every single day. If you want doughnuts and ice cream, go for it. Do whatever you feel. I’m not going to be picky like that. That’s just ridiculous.’” The two attended doctor’s appointments together and kept in close touch. “I hated being pregnant. But as much as I hated it, I still wished I could have done it on my own. The control is hard at the beginning. Once you let that go, it’s the best experience. I would recommend surrogacy for anybody.”
Her marriage is fine: “He’s taught me to have more of an opinion. I’ve taught him to be a bit more calm or cautious. We’re a good balance.”
The “Bo Derek” braid controversy: “I’m not worried, because I love Bo Derek. It’s a reference. If you genuinely love something, then it’s what you should do. It’s appreciation. It’s one thing when people mock something and are negative. I’m clearly not being negative. Images mean a lot to me. I spend a lot of time on them.”
She’s self-made: “I was never one of those people who were handed everything from their parents. Even when I worked in my dad’s office, I was doing side eBay jobs on my lunch break. I lived a really great life growing up, but we were taught that if we wanted to keep that up, we had to work. At the end of the day, if someone offered me business or fame, I’d take the business side.”
On caring less about what people think of her: “At the beginning, I looked at people’s opinions. Now I’m content in my life, and I don’t care. The Things that make me happy now are different. But I swear you have to be born for this. It’s not for everyone. I know I can handle it.”On why four children would be her maximum: “I don’t think I could handle more than that. My time is spread really thin. And I think it’s important that in all couples, the mom give the husband as much attention as the kids.”
I swear, the thing that struck me was the opening, which is that her house is incredibly quiet even though she has two small kids and an army of nannies, chefs, assistants, whatever. That’s the dream for me: if I could be guaranteed a quiet house even with people and children around, I would take it. What else? I believe her about how organized she is. I believe her about Saint’s birth. I don’t believe her about the Bo Derek braids.
Photos courtesy of Boo George for ELLE.
I think she and her family are in denial. Little kids are usually loud
Eh, I could believe she happens to have quiet kids. Mine were and still are as teens. I also work in a preschool and some classrooms can be surprisingly quiet. It’s usually just a few who crank up the volume to annoying levels.
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Not necessarily, my boy was quiet and he would be entertained for hours. He also slept for most of the night. I was very lucky.
I have four kids and I am always baffled when I go into a house where the kids are loud. My kids are really quiet, always were. It doesn’t mean there are no laughing fits or the occasional screaming contest but it’s rare (the latter, giggling we get a lot).
I have a theory though, it *sometimes* depends on the parents. My BIL instigates loud behaviour. It’s almost as if he feels that if his kids are not running around and being loud they’re not happy.
Once again I’m so jealous of this! I have four and there are quiet moments but they are rare and it’s only if they are separated. Like if my oldest son is playing in his room and the twins are downstairs. Like you said though it only sometimes depends on the parents because I grew up in a quiet house and am a quiet person. My husband who grew up in a loud house with more siblings still isn’t a loud person but he’s a lot more used to it so it doesn’t drive him nuts like it does me.
@Mel M, Unfortunately it’s not always on the parents! It may have helped that I have now a 17 and an 18 year old and a 12 and 9 year old. There was a gap that prevented me from having 4 kids close in age at the same time.
Looking back, number 3 was a bit more difficult than the others but not loud. So there’s that. We couldn’t go with him anywhere for 3 years. But he was quiet 😉
What stands out to me was how loud her daughter was at the fashion show sitting in the front row. She couldn’t control her and made it uncomfortable for everyone else. So she’s loud and crying outside but quiet inside there home. My mom always said that when u have children quiet in the house something is going on and u better check in on them. Listen she’s wealthy and I’m quite sure she has plenty of help so what she says may be true. However someone as self-absorbed as her and pretentious I just find this hard to be true.
Yeah judge a toddler by one fashion show meltown that happened over three years ago.
I believe her. I was a quiet child and by the time I had my third baby, I told our pediatrician how calm and good all three kids are. He told me it was genetic combined with environment. I doubt there’s a lot of screaming and chaos in their household.
Thank you, BJ. Like what reason do we have to think she’s lying? A toddler at a New York Fashion Week show is really not proof of this. Some kids are quiet. Great for her, I hope I get the same.
I don’t think she is. My daughter who is 4, while by no means is a mouse, is not that loud. At times she can be but for the most part she’s happily playing away quietly with her dolls, genies and ponies. Her sister, on the other hand, I think will be different. 14 months old and she is so loud, running around the house screaming and laughing. All kids are different.
Who knew I’d have the same philosophy — keeping my house clean and tidy helps me better manage all the chaos life and work can bring. Although I guess the difference is I’m the one actually cleaning my house, sigh.
The open mouth pose — grr — looks so damn silly. The other shots are so much better.
Why do I relate to kim so much in this interview? Ahhaha. My home is also quite quiet for having two small children. We go outside to get crazy and are calmer inside, they get it, it works. Also I hate stuff. I HATE. STUFF.
Never knew I had so much in common with Kim!
She just doesn’t get it at all. It was never about Bo Derek. It was about appropriating something that has been a part of black culture since the beginning of time (braids) and crediting a white woman for it.
Pretty much.
I worry about the crap she will tell her children about black culture.
YES! I sometimes wonder if this passion she has for black culture will be a problem in the future, as in her saying to her kids that it all came FROM HER bc she, you know, invents trends.
My 4 son has a classmate and they often play together coz I’m friends with the mom and he is really quiet even when the other kids are being loud, very soft spoken, doesn’t even laugh loudly. His mom says even at home he’s like that. My son always tells me that his friend is like whispering when he talks. My son on the other hand has a built-in in microphone. Not all kids are loud
Kim looks pretty in all these photos, but I feel like she looks really different every time I see her. Here she looks really skinny and I’m not sure how her normally large boobs fit in that top. Also why are her pants so high up? It shortens her torso
The high pants are to emphasize her small waist and rounded hips – all of the Kardashian-Jenner ladies hoik up their bottoms like that in photos.
She had them done for the 8th time.. she got smaller implants this time around.
Its so the smallest part of her waist is seen, thus making her look even moire hourglass shaped.
Photoshop.
I am jealous of her quiet house! But I don’t believe she’s lying. I know a few people who just have really reserved children. I have one. It’s the other two that eff stuff up. Haha.
I also wish I could be that organized. The nannies probably help. When I had only two kids my house was regularly decluttered because I feel better when space is empty. My third child, while the easiest to add to the family, somehow threw everything out of balance and almost 5 years later, I’ve never gotten the rhythm back. Maybe number four will click stuff back into place.
The nannies might be why the kids are quiet. Having someone around whose job is to pay attention to you and only you might turn down the required volume for some kids. Noise is a way to ensure your share of the attention in some cases.
Different cultures have different expected noise levels also.
Don’t feel bad, Bendy Wendy. KK has help – lots of help. There are cleaners who job it is to glean and keep things as tidy and uncluttered as she demands. I’m sure there is someone to prepare meals, amd he/she/they would be required to keep things as spick and span as instructed. She probably only ever goes into her kitchen when there’s a photo to be taken. As for the quiet children… She lives in a massive home with wings in all directions. Who is to say that the nannies don’t keep the children in a wing far from wherever she is in the mansion – when she is actually home, that is? Perhaps they are not as quiet as she thinks: it could be that she’s not home or not around them enough to know, unless there’s a photographer there doing his job…
Didn’t she want to swap out her dog with Kourtneys because it was too noisy,or did that dog also turn up missing. It’s very clear she is not a dog person..actually she doesnt even seem like a baby person.
I’d guess that was a story line for the show – and dogs can also be trained to be quieter/calmer inside the house. We live in a townhouse in England, where loud dogs would be a f*cking nuisance not just for us, but for our neighbors, so with time, effort and age the monsters have learned that inside the house is quiet and calm time and they can be wild when outside.
I can’t comment on her being a dog/baby person or not, as all I know of her is from TV/blogs…shrug
I thought the same thing! They had an entire episode dedicated to how yappy Kim’s dog was. Funny, you don’t see much of that dog anymore. Maybe that’s why its so quiet. lol
Ya’ll know it’s a TV show, right?
I’m really jealous of the quiet house thing. I grew up in a quite house, just me and my sister. My husband is one of five (four boys) though so he’s used to a loud house. My boys are so freakin loud all of the time. The two year old twin screams all of the time. I’m not a loud person and I try so hard to have them use their “inside” voice and not to get crazy in the house but nothing works. They’re just nuts. My daughters are queiter but the two year old twin still has her moments.
Me too! I have only one kid and it seems to never be quiet around the house. However, I rolled my eyes at her comments about being self made (by doing a sex tape?) and choosing business side rather than fame (orly?).
It also probably has something to do with the fact that she lives in a mansion and probably can’t hear everything going on in the house. Whereas I can hear every little thing in every part of my mortal house. There is no escaping the screaming children! My oldest son does have a classmate that we sat next too during the Valentine’s Day party and I honestly thought he had fallen asleep at one point because he was so quiet. The teacher said that’s how he always is though and I’m like, there are kids like this? How? Why can’t I have one? My son is definitely the shit stirer in the class with a couple of his little buddies.
Yeah I think she thinks she’s self made and I also think that with her having this kind of fame for so long she thinks she would do without it but we all know that’s a lie.
Don’t believe her about the “choosing business over fame” thing. She def loves attention & being constantly talked about–good or bad.
Exactly. If that were the case she would’ve gone to college. She wanted to be famous.
I’m still waiting for her 15 minutes to be up! My fingers are crossed
I’d imagine she would now since the robbery. She was thirsty AF before that, it was tragic, but she’s certainly upped the business side of things since then.
You mean “robbery”. She wasn’t robbed, and she is even more thirsty now. She still posts pics with jewelry, and is naked all the time.
Lies, lies lies……..
@psl Jesus Christ, there were arrest made. What did this family do to you? For someone who claims you hate them so much, you sure seem to spend a lot of time and energy on articles about them.
Nothing ever came of it, her story changed 92 times as she told it. They said she broke out of zip ties!
Oooh, a comment takes a very long time to make. Yes, a ton of time and energy.
Have a nice day, Nick. Go turn on E! and enjoy,
I wanna know why she’s even on the cover. Go figure!
for the same reason you came to comment on her having a cover.
she is a very polarizing figure you either love or hate her. either way she is going to get sales and eyes on a product or in this case magazine.
Thank you. I get so tired of that comment. You feed it, even with the negative comments. People love her or love to hate her. You take the time to read about her, click articles, click pictures and comment. We make them relevant. This has grown her and her family in the cultural icons they are today. And they are icons whether we like this or not.
I’ve noticed that. Some people just have quiet kids and I always wonder what lead to that? Was it just the way they were spoken to and handled their entire life since birth? Is it just innate? My kids are LOUD… probably the LOUDEST on the entire street. It’s a little embarrassing and I have no idea why they’re like that. I’m a quiet kind of woman and god I love silence…
For what it’s worth, same! My eldest son just speaks loudly. It’s not even that he’s shouting, he just has phenomenal projection skills or something. I must get him into theater or singing. The littlest one just likes making funny noises… By funny I mean fart noises, barking, meowing, y’know, all those noises that scream ‘well adjusted individual.’ Going anywhere public and not kid-friendly with them is… interesting….
Have you had their hearing tested? I always wonder if loud people can’t hear very well.
Even just wax in the ears would muffle everything to the speaker (yeller). My brother’s hearing gets really bad with wax buildup, and he is a loud type himself. It’s also cultural for guys, not sure if loud young boys could be explained that way though. But I’ve read one theory that boy babies tend to cry more because their hearing isn’t as sensitive as girl babies (especially at higher frequencies), who are more easily aware of their mother’s voice at a distance.
Which also would suggest that cultures likely to carry babies along with the mom routinely while she works should have quieter kids in general. Don’t know if that correlates.
My second was a very loud baby (and now a very loud child). She had lots of ear infections as a baby, so we took her for some testing. A hearing test was included, and I was SO sure that she had some sort of impairment that was causing her to cry/babble so loudly. But no, everything was just perfect. Now, I wouldn’t trade her loud performances for anything. (The wailing when she cries, however … )
I have four girls and their volume varies individually, but together our house is never quiet. Most kids just make noises, whether it’s with their mouths or tapping or singing. I volunteer at their schools, and I’d say quiet, non-fidgety, non-chatty kids are a rarity. Hard to say if Kim’s are quiet by nature or expectation. Hopefully the former.
@jwoolman that was the first thing I did when I noticed that he was exceptionally LOUD. My sister has hearing problems so it’s something I’ve always been conscious of, but you’re right, so many kids get dismissed as loud or defiant or even autistic (my sister was tested for autism before hearing impairment which just baffles me) when its actually a hearing issue.
Don’t know about anyone else, but if the kiddos are too quiet I go looking to see what is going on.
I’m thinking that compared to Kanye, her kids are probably just not heard. I can see Kanye as speaking loud enough for the whole family!
Sure, Jan. I have a semi-famous friend who also has a very quiet house despite kids, and I’m betting the much richer and more famous Kim achieves hers the same easy way: all loud toys are taken outside the house or donated, and nannies are constantly in attendance to swoop in and claim child when being rambunctious. Voila! Picture perfect children who sit quietly and read or snuggle with mommy and then, mysteriously, vanish to “play outdoors” the instant they get riled up. Her kids even speak quietly, because they’ve been constantly instructed to be quiet and shushed from birth. So, yeah, little angels all.
Well have you seen the size of her house? No way you’d hear kids playing if they were in a bedroom upstairs. What’s stopping her from choosing “business” over “fame” now? Why doesn’t she stop all this and focus on being just a “business woman”. I guarantee if someone asked her to name one business term, she wouldn’t be able to do it. I also don’t believe she didn’t have things handed to her. There are videos of them as kids, getting expensive cars for their birthdays. Rob also outed Kim years ago saying when their dad owned his music business Kim would show up but would be on the computer all day doing other things. Khloe also outed Kim when Kim first got famous she told everyone she was the one who would open the Dash store at 6 am every morning. Khloe said it wasn’t true at all and that Kim rarely stepped foot in the store !
I feel her on the quiet house thing – my older son was always pretty quiet and reserved. He’d usually busy himself playing with his train toys and k’nex and later on his laptop. The younger’s a little more rambunctious, but not too bad. When I go to homes with a lot of little loud children it kind of confuses me lol.
I totally believe she’s that organized, and it’s one thing about her I admire. I WISH I had that skill.
I think she kind of missed the point with the Bo Derek braids criticism.
She doesn’t hear her kids because she is never with them!
I love how she said Kanye needs attention…..hahahahahaha – yeah, post another nude selfie, dear.
For all of you jealous of her “quiet” household, remember one thing – this family lies about everything. Everything.
I read the entire article- the author of the article questioned her on how silent it is- it was the writer’s observation. Kim didn’t bring it up, she addressed it after the writer commented on it and asked about it. Not sure how she could’ve “lied” about it.
Even if she didn’t bring it up, she answered it. And no one in this family is capable of telling the truth.
It’s really easy to be organized when you have a nannies for kids, and people to clean your home, and all the money to buy stuff to organize everything you own!!! Organizing can be really expensive if you don’t want plastic cheap stuff everywhere. I’m slowly organizing each closet in the home. YIKES this isn’t cheap. Honestly, we have to much stuff and my husband is a low key hoarder. Old batteries CHECK, nails and screws to things we have no idea what for CHECK, wires and remotes for items that we haven’t used in years CHECK!!! Plus with two babies my time is limited and all I seem to do is cycle out age appropriate toys and clothing that doesn’t fit/wrong season every time I turn around!!!! LOL
This woman and her family lies about everything she wants to paint this perfect life so bad perfect husband perfect kids seriously she has some mental issues. I have a 2 year old and the only time its quiet is when he’s asleep she’s just so annoying
The comment, “I would recommend surrogacy for anybody” shows how completely out of touch she is as she absurdly attempts to be relatable speaking about her quiet house (multi-million dollar home with nannies), being organized and working hard, even as a kid. Umm…sorry Kimmy, surrogacy is thousands of dollars so um, nope not ‘anybody’ has this option. And you got famous for a porn video. Bullsh*t Artist at its finest.
I’m not the biggest KK fan, but I get her on the clutter free house thing. I’m not super clean by nature but have realized the older I get that visual chaos is anxiety triggering in me. So I try to keep it simple.
Not rebranding deodorant simple, but maybe one day *dusts off my binder that has all instructions for running my empire* 🙄
Likely quiet because everyone else is in a different wing than KIM. Shut up and go away.
If she didn’t have a full staff, would all her kids’ clothing have labels with their names sewn/ironed onto them ? Likewise with her pantry and laundry — SUPER easy to be obscenely organized with others doing everything…and I mean everything. But as others have said, if you believe anything that comes out of her mouth, more fool you.
Absolutely!!! It’s all lies and implants.
Yes, yes, yes!!!!!
Agreed! Honestly the amount of staff she has is incredible. From that Refinery 29 interview with her former assistant, Steph Shep, Kim has two assistants, Stephanie had her own assistant, and I think like there was something like 2 house assistants, not to mention security detail, housekeepers, and nannies. Like what!
Wow. I actually liked her in this interview. omgosh. What am I going to do? lol