Kim Kardashian says parenting has been ‘the most challenging thing’
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im Kardashian says being a guardian is “the most challenging thing” and has had nights when she cried herself to sleep.
The US actuality star, 42, mentioned turning into a mom had been “the thing that has taught me the most about myself” however that there was “nothing that can prepare you” for the expertise.
Speaking on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, Kardashian mentioned private subjects together with parenting, therapeutic trauma and navigating the courting world as a celeb.
She has 4 youngsters with rapper Kanye West – North, Chicago, Saint and Psalm.
“Everyone says the days are long and the years are short, and that couldn’t be a more true statement,” she mentioned.
“When you’re in it, I mean, especially when they’re babies and you’re feeding, there’s madness going on, it’s like full madness. It’s the best chaos though.”
She continued: “I would say parenting is the thing that has taught me the most about myself. It has been the most challenging thing.
“There are nights I cry myself to sleep. Like, what just happened? With all the moods and the personalities.
“There’s nothing that can prepare you… but you will figure it out.”
Kardashian mentioned she wrote a letter to her youngsters on their birthdays to assist them respect her actions as a mom.
“Every year I write each one of my kids about a four or five-page letter on their birthday about what the year was like, who their friends are, silly words they’re saying, their favourite foods, all the silly things that they do,” she mentioned.
“(It’s) a little journey of what the year is like and it’s so fun to see from the first year.
Everyone says the days are long and the years are short, and that couldn’t be like a more true statement… It has been the most challenging thing. There are nights I cry myself to sleep.
“Now, you know, one of them is almost 10 years old, and I know that they’ll appreciate this.“I know that they’ll appreciate everything that they might have thought I was being a little harsh on, me protecting them.
“I know that they’ll get it because I got it with my mom, and I know they’ll get it with me.”
Following her divorce from West in 2022, Kardashian had a nine-month relationship with comic Pete Davidson.
“I think I’ll always be a hopeless romantic and always want to be in love and definitely love sharing my life with someone, and love creating a life with someone,” she mentioned.
“I definitely will take my time. And I think there’s so many factors, especially when you have kids and being mindful of people that enter in your life.”
She added: “I truly think someone is such a solid person when they have really grounded relationships.
“Every relationship can be different. If you have just a mutual respect around… across the board, that’s I think the number one thing.”