Kim Kardashian West filed for divorce from her husband, Kanye West, her publicist confirmed to CBS News on Friday. The reality star and Grammy-winning hip-hop artist have long been rumored to be ending their six-year marriage.
The two married in a ceremony in 2014 in Italy, after the birth of their first daughter, North, 7 years old, and continued to have three more children: Saint, 5, Chicago, 3 and Psalm 1. It was a the third marriage for Kardashian, whose first marriage was to producer Damon Thomas and the second to basketball player Kris Humphreys and the first to West.
The news comes after a tumultuous year for the couple. West, 43, announced via in July Twitter which turned out to be a disorganized campaign for the presidency, a movement he had been playing with for years. He quickly drew criticism for accepting millions of federal incentive funding for his clothing and sneakers business, Yeezy.
After making controversial statements at a campaign rally in South Carolina and posting a series of comments on Twitter late in the evening for his wife, Kardashian came to discuss ongoing struggles with bipolar disorder.
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“It simply came to our notice then [bipolar disorder] or has a loved one in their life who knows, knows how complicated and painful it is to understand, “Kardashian wrote on Instagram at the time.” We have never spoken publicly about how this has affected us at home, because I am very protective of our children and Kanye’s right to privacy when it comes to his health. “
In September, Kardashian, 40, and her family announced the end of their long-running reality show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” the last season of which will premiere next month.
Kardashian turned to advocacy during the last presidential administration. She lobbied for Trump’s White House on criminal justice reform and helped win the launch of Alice Johnson in 2018, visiting The White House in March last year to continue its efforts. He said he was studying become a lawyer. Her father, Robert Kardashian, was a criminal defense attorney who once represented OJ Simpson and died in 2003.
The two did not publicly comment on the division.
Lisa Bacon contributed to the reporting.