Here are some photos of Kanye West going to the movies in Hollywood yesterday. I think he went to the movies by himself? No, maybe not – he seemed to get into the passenger’s side of the car, so I guess he went to the movies with a friend, but no one from the Kardashian-Jenner family. Before Christmas, the conversation was all about “will Kanye and Kim announce their divorce soon?” And what’s happening post-Christmas? Same thing, really. The conversation is about whether Kim and Kanye spent any time together over the holiday. They didn’t even go to Kris Jenner’s Christmas party together, although I think Kanye was there.
Rumors are surfacing of a Kimye breakup after Kanye West was a no-show at the Kardashians’ 2016 Christmas bash on Saturday night. Photos of the star-studded party show a sultry Kim Kardashian sporting a lip ring — but not a wedding ring. That prompted London’s The Sun to report that she “ordered” Kanye to stay away from the star-studded party, which featured a performance from John Legend.
“She didn’t want Kanye at her mum’s Christmas bash this year, as she felt it was the first time she could really let her hair down,” an insider told The Sun. Kanye defied Kim’s orders and made a late-night appearance at the Christmas party, according to The Sun. But his remains notably absent from photos of the party, according to pics posted on Snapchat and Instagram by Khloe Kardashian and Kendall Jenner.
On Friday, one night earlier, the celebrity couple was spotted together at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center for a showing of the Nutcracker ballet with daughter North West. The rumored breakup comes after the rap mogul allegedly suffered a breakdown, prompting him to cancel his remaining 2016 tour dates and sparking anger from fans.
As if on cue, People Magazine did a story about exactly what went down. Kim really did go to her mother’s party without Kanye and he turned up hours later, after he got back from the movies. As for Christmas Day….
On Christmas Day, the source confirms the couple celebrated at Kourtney Kardashian‘s house with their two kids, North, 3, and Saint, 1, and the rest of the family before returning to their Bel Air home together later Sunday night. According to the source, the two kept their distance and “barely spoke” during the Saturday bash. Several sources have previously confirmed to PEOPLE in recent weeks that the couple’s marriage has been under strain since West’s health crisis hit — less than two months after his wife’s terrifying robbery at gunpoint in Paris.
“They were focused on making it a fun Christmas for the kids,” says the source. “They hang out with the kids, but are not really getting along otherwise.”
Ouch. When you can’t even get along and speak to each other on Christmas Day, you know there are big problems. So… are we going to get the divorce announcement in the new year? Or do you think Yeezy and Kim will try to hold it together a bit longer?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Kanye is no longer of any use. Kim has crossed over into the “respectability” mainstream. And, let’s be honest, Kanye seems like a narcissistic jerk. I wouldn’t even wish him on a Kardashian.
This. Kanye elevated Kim’s persona. That is done. Staying with him at this point won’t get her anything more. I do think she loves him and I do think they could have a loving family life together (which is priceless), but this family only sees dollar signs. Kris is Kim’s lead advisor in life and Kris knows Kim can profit off a divorce more than sticking by his side. I think Kanye really needs her right now though and a divorce will totally break him.
This, plus what nasty woman said. Kim is figuring out what her next move is that will keep her in the spotlight. They did the wedding….lots of press. They had the kids….lots of press. The robbery, Kanyes breakdown….lots of press. She has to do something now that will keep her in the public eye. Think of all the drama and social media posts that she can generate by dragging out a big, splashy divorce. She can’t get much attention if she just settles into being a wife and mother. Since she has absolutely nothing to offer on her own, this seems to be her only option right now.
She just wants to make money whitch is okey.
I don’t think Kim is going to continue to get the “respectable” invites for events that Kanye unlocked for her. But Kanye might not be getting those invites, either, so it may be a moot point. The problem is that Kim is not really very interesting by herself and will rapidly become less and less interesting as she ages. Shallow people don’t make good interviews once their conventional beauty starts to fade, especially women. The big draw for the cameras was Kanye.
Kim’s Demon Mother Kris Jenner might think that she personally has the power to keep it going, but I doubt it. Kris may well be greatly overestimating her influence outside the weird Kardashian orbit.
It will depend on what looks better for their brand
When people say they hope for a couple to work it out they should look at the partners’ separate abilities to work at relationships, any kind of relationships.
I think Kanye is good at a lot of things, music, a little fashion, entertaining, ranting, but mending broken relationships is not there. He bashed Amber Rose and then Kim smoothed everything over by posing with Amber, he couldn’t even hold his own in front of Taylor Swift, a situation in which he was actually right, he ranted against Jay-Z in moments when there was no need for that, the Bill Cosby comments and numerous moments proved that he is not good at building relationships, not even with his own fans. Maybe, for the sake of his family, he’ll try this time but at the moment, he is playing against his own history.
On the other side, Kim has built her brand on family, love, business relationships but I can’t imagine she wants to be the only one that keeps the marriage going forever.
But this is his first marriage. Kim’s been married three times, so I’d say she’s no better.
All of your points as to why Kanye cannot sustain healthy relationships are actually showing how long he has suffered with poor mental health. He has needed help for a very long time.
As for Kim’s respectability? I suppose making millions off your plastic Ts&A can be respectable.
Kanye has moved away from a circle of people who were on his team from the beginning of his career such as Jay-Z and even Sway the radio DJ. He seems to have cut a lot of people out but now he is all alone.
KKW is not an angel either though as she always seems to run away from relationships when it suits her.
For better or worse?
Yes, Kanyes alienation from peers and friends is a big concern here. He is wading through Kardashian bs flunked by a cousin who depends on him for a paycheck. He has said that other friends, not just Jay Z, disaproved of that marriage. I’m pretty sure it was because they knew he wasnt well and that it would leave him vulnerable in the marriage. And sure enough, he has a public clinical breakdown and now he is a liability. She knowingly married a man with mental health challenges and now wants to cash in, when he needs support the most.
You forget one thing. Kim doesn’t do the ‘or worse’ portion of any relationship. Marital or familial.
She did for worse with Reggie, who I still think is her lobster. She seemed to love him ferociously. But not as much as she loves herself. Which is why she will have problems in any relationship where she isn’t front and center and her partner is an equal, socially and financially.
Kanye has mental health issues. That’s not easy on ANY partner, so I’m not entirely going to fault her if she leaves.
Please, if they’re going the splitsville route, let it at least be the last music death of 2016.
Where’s the wall flowers now?!
Ha! I envision a wall of black flowers. 🙂
I bet they’ll announce their divorce in January. He looks awful, BTW.
Al I see with that hair is a patch of yellow snow. It looks like a dog peed on his head
On the Brangelina threads, a lot of commenters say that it’s gross to speculate because there are children involved. I agree, and I think the same thing applies to this couple. I know a lot of people don’t like them, but there are two young children involved here.
Sadly, the “sources” and the speculation come from within their own family. They spent an intimate Christmas party at her sister’s and then it is all over people’s mag. Their marriage trouble is another line for their show and they are inviting people and the media to guess in their marriage and boost their ratings on tv and social media.
This.
The young children are used to dad being an occasional visitor. They won’t be seriously affected by the divorce as long as their nannies stay the same, since most of their time is spent with them, and their access to Kanye’s family remains the same. I think one of the young nannies is actually a cousin and also we used to see Kanye’s aunt around a lot.
Damn. If People magazine can’t even keep it cute for them…………
So really, this is Kanyes breakup hair.
Bahahahahhahaa you made my morning
Lol “give me the Amber Rose!” “Ah ok fam”
I won’t be surprised if they divorce.
I know Kanye has problems on his own but these family destroy Unintentionally every man who married into the family
I think it’s fine to dislike the Kardashian’s fame whoring but I am so tired of that sexist comment about them destroying men. It’s 2016, not the 1800’s, women are not Eve.
Is not sexist is fact, these men had problems on their own before they get together with these family then they married into the family then their problems double or triple and these men get blame but not the family, even one tabloids said “Kim married a mad man”, is not right to call a person who has mental health problem a mad man
They should help him instead of sending sources to magazines and claiming she’s going to divorce him, those headline would not helping him, he need his family, & not trash him through tabloids
The family put their brand first instead of the human being that need help
The destruction occurs because the Kardashians are a deeply dysfunctional family themselves. The men who came into the relationship with Kim as normal people left with their normality intact. Reggie and Kris Humphries in particular had strong families to support them as the Kardashians got weirder and weirder. But men who come into the K Klan with problems just find those problems magnified by the dysfunctionality that Khloe and Kim especially bring to any relationship.
The constant cameras are no help at all for real relationships anyway. But Khloe and Kim each have big problems with relationships in general for different reasons. Kim is tremendously self-absorbed and limited emotionally as well as intellectually, which is deadly. Khloe wants to relate to other people but seems to lack an understanding of how things work and also suffers from her limited education. Intellectual deficits in both severely limit the type of man likely to be interested in a relationship with them. Both of them operate emotionally at a 13-year-old level.
I’m pretty sure Kim knew Kayne had (mental health) issues way before they got married. And Kayne was aware of Kim’s famewh***ish, vapid, superficial ways. And she had already failed at marriage twice (Kris Humphries, anyone?). So both def should have known what they were getting themselves into. I’m surprised their marriage lasted this long. Poor kids.
Big problems = Kanye is no longer lucrative for the Kardashian family now that his mental health issues have become public and he’s truly suffering. We all know only Kim can suffer in a marriage, because logic. I hope he gets out before they destroy him like they did to Lamar, Scott, and Caitlin (NOT relating to gender, but Bruce was belittled mocked for so long).
they can kiss bye bye to Vanity Fair, The Met appearances
I would love to see Kanye West to perform at Donald Trump inauguration on Jan 20th. This will make his career… Sarcasm….
Kanye looks like someone coming to terms with the truth. Good for him and good luck to him.
They used him, and now they are done.It was over the second he started calling out Jay-Z and others during concerts, etc. Right then he became a liability instead of an asset.I used to like him back in the day.I know he is still extremely talented but he lost respect with that misalignment to the Trash family.Good luck Kanye.
Entertainment Lawyer had a really interesting post (I believe it was last week) about how he thinks that Kim found out something about the “robbery” and that Kanye going to treatment was a last-ditch effort to salvage things. Threw a little shade about how much her new ring was insured for to boot. I can see it, y’all!
I’m not sure how Kim has become ‘respectable,’ she’s the same as she has always been.
And I’m still convinced that the ‘robbery’ and the ‘breakdown’ gained too much insurance money and publicity to be entirely convincing.
Their whole relationship has been a ‘long con’ and it may just be reaching the end of it’s script. (Yes it produced children, but since when have Kardashian children been anything but tools to get publicity and/or money?)
I’m thinking the robbery wasn’t faked- two words: French police. If I had to pick one group of people too dangerous to lie to, that might be it! I’m no Kardashian fan, but doing something wildly illegal? In a foreign country? Publicity won’t get you out of jail, and as dumb as they all can be they know that.
I cannot believe I am actually saying this because I really don’t care for either one of them. But I do think she had his back when he needed her. Remember the Taylor Twitter incident, among others? Specifically, though, the Taylor incident. However, when Kim needed him he wasn’t around. Yes, I do smell a divorce. She is probably trying to figure out the best way to get out of it, which I do not blame her for. It’s easy to say she knew what she was getting in to, but did she? Yes, it was plain to all of us that he was a narcissistic jerk and I think Kim was a narcissist as well, but something changed after her the robbery in Paris and I do not think they will come back from it.
Kim didn’t really have Kanye’s back during the Taylor incident. She could have nipped the whole misunderstanding in the bud months before but chose not to. Instead, she waited until she needed ratings for her show and had access to several venues to spit out her version of the story rapid-fire, pretending to be the dutiful wife defending her wronged husband. Then she released highly edited snippets of the recorded conversation totalling about a minute out of more than an hour’s recording. Kim did it for Kim, not anybody else. She was stirring up her mentally ill husband, not trying to calm him down.
With most people you would not doubt the horror of being robbed at gunpoint or mental issues that are painful to self and family(.I have had mental challenges and know how challenging it is )but with all the years of bad priorities and public staging you begin to doubt truth and motives and it is very difficult for even the most sympathetic people to fall into the boy who cried wolf category. After all no publicity is bad publicity according to the doctrine of Kris Jenner. Furthermore these guys don’t have a chance.These are adult children but every little thing that happens results in “an emergency family meeting “if you believe what you read. Adult kids do seek advice etc.from the family but deal with it by personal and more private means .Imagine what it’s like when everything you do or feel is analyzed in terms of superficial values together as a group. Most partners and spouses want their primary relationship to be more important especially if children are involved.
I never thought the love they have for one another as conducive to marriage. It always seemed transactional. They both enjoyed the bright and shiny bits but the realities of a relationship seemed beyond their focus. Kanye liked dressing Kim up and showing her off and Kim liked being shown off and photographed.
Kim is not old but neither is she 20 yrs old. Unless her children grow up worshipping her I see conflict particularly with North. Kim will compete with her daughter far worse than Chris competes with Kim. I can’t imagine what will happen with Saint. What role model exists for him?
I think the salvation of those children will be their Aunt Kourtney. Nori already looks happier with her than with Kim and she is very close to Kourtney’s daughter. Saint will have two older boy cousins as well who will be the best grounded of the Kardashian Krew due to their mom actually putting them first and he is close in age to the younger one.
Kourtney isn’t perfect, but she decided when Mason (her first) was born that she really liked being a mom and revised her priorities accordingly. I think that was healing for her – recovering from life with her awful mother by becoming a better mother herself. I think she can protect her kids from Demon Grandmother as needed.
The question will be whether they will all stay in the same physical vicinity to allow this to happen. If Kim at least keeps her home base in the same area and lets her kids stay with Kourtney when she travels, that would be helpful. Nori is becoming an uncooperative prop, so Kim might welcome an excuse to leave the kids home.
I hope that the kids will also maintain close ties with Kanye’s side of the family. They’re gong to really need them also. I wish Kanye were more stable – I always thought when he and Kim broke up, he would take Nori to Paris with him so she could actually get a good French education rather than the Kardashian lackadaisical version of home schooling.
Sorry, but I got my popcorn and coke out for this one.
Oh me too!!! Can’t wait to see what awfulness transpires.
Poor Kanye…kursed.
Ruh-roh. He did the Dennis Rodman thing with his hair. Hair changes always seem to signal the crazy coming down. Kinda like Britney and her new do when she went over the edge.
Another kid?