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2004: First meeting  

Kim and Kanye archetypal met connected a euphony video sprout erstwhile the KUWTK prima was moving arsenic Brandy's stylist and Kanye was moving connected a opus with the songstress. 

At the clip she was inactive joined to Damon Thomas, who she wed successful 2000, and Kanye was dating exemplary Alexis Phifer. 

Speaking astir their archetypal gathering connected the Keeping Up With The Kardashians 10 twelvemonth day special, Kim said: 'I met him I deliberation successful 2002 oregon 2003. He was signaling a opus with Brandy, and I was her friend...

'I vividly retrieve hanging retired with him and past they did a video together, truthful I'd spot him a fewer times...

'He was asking his friends: 'Who is this Kim Kardajan?' He didn't cognize what my sanction was'. 

She aboriginal told Vogue Arabia successful 2019: 'This was earlier you released your archetypal medium and you were known arsenic a euphony producer. I was truly shy...

'You thought I was Brandy’s assistant, which I wasn’t. Ever since you said that, it’s everywhere… similar “Kim is Brandy’s assistant.” I was her person and stylist. [laughs]...

'I thought you were attractive, nice, precise charming, truly funny, almighty – I was successful awe of you, but I was truly shy, quiet, and a small nervous, to beryllium honest.'

Later connected that year, Kim divided from Damon, who she wed erstwhile she was conscionable 19 aft eloping. She attributed home unit for the divided - a assertion helium has ever staunchly denied . 

Kim wrote successful the divorcement papers: 'Before we near retired home, Damon deed maine successful the look and chopped my articulator open.. I fell into the furniture framework and banged my genu hard. I was limping erstwhile we went skydiving.'

2006: Heads turned further 

Kanye's immense crush connected Kim lone grew implicit the years arsenic the rising prima began getting photographed adjacent to her boss-turned-friend Paris Hilton. 

In an interrogation with Ryan Seacrest successful 2013, Kanye revealed that helium genuinely fell for his aboriginal woman aft helium got a glimpse of a definite photograph of her adjacent to her pal Paris successful Australia. 

He said: 'I conscionable knew I wanted her to beryllium my miss for a agelong time. 'I retrieve I saw a representation of her and Paris Hilton, and I retrieve telling my boy, 'Have you seen that miss Kim Kardijon?'' 

Despite his increasing attraction to Kim, Kanye went connected to suggest to longtime woman Alexis successful August of 2006. 

The connection was somewhat much low-key than his eventual connection to Kim galore years later. 

Kanye popped the question to Alexis implicit a lobster and pasta meal during a abrogation to Capri. 

Tradgedy struck the pursuing twelvemonth however, erstwhile Kanye's beloved parent Donda passed away.

Following a fig of procedures for liposuction, a tummy tuck, and a bosom reduction, the pursuing time she experienced a sore throat, symptom and tightening successful her chest, earlier collapsing. A person who was with her called 911 and West was taken to the hospital, wherever she was pronounced dormant successful the exigency room.

After her death, Kanye seemed keen to honour her wishes of his matrimony arsenic helium said of tying the knot to Alexis: 'I'm conscionable going to spell and get joined — I'm not going to marque a large woody retired of it...

'I wouldn't get joined to beryllium thing to anyone. It's for me, for stableness successful my life, and I'm truthful blessed that I recovered idiosyncratic that I truly love, that challenges me, that keeps my beingness interesting, that's conscionable arsenic brainsick arsenic I am.'

2008: A split, Princess Leia and 2 caller loves 

In April, Kanye calls disconnected his year-and-a-half engagement to Phifer, arsenic confirmed by Phifer successful a connection to People, successful which she said: 'It's ever bittersweet erstwhile things similar this end, and we stay friends'. 

Shortly after, Kanye asked Kim to look successful his infamous hip-hop puppet amusement Alligator Boots, wherever she would beryllium playing the portion of Star Wars' Princess Leia.

Although the amusement was rejected by Comedy Central, Kardashian inactive had fond feelings for the task arsenic she shared down the scenes pictures from the acceptable of Alligator Boots to societal media successful 2018.

Kim wrote connected her website: 'We had met earlier this task (back successful 2003), but I would accidental this is erstwhile we archetypal truly connected. These pics are SO funny!' 

At the clip of filming Alligator Boots, Kim was successful a narration with New Orleans Saints moving backmost Reggie Bush, who she started dating successful 2007. 

Meanwhile, Kanye became progressive with exemplary Amber Rose successful September of that year. 

2009: A fashionable conscionable and a mysterious mention 

In February, Kim and Kanye reunite with 1 different astatine the Y-3 amusement successful New York City. Kim attended the amusement with boyfriend Reggie, portion Kanye arrived solo and snagged a spot adjacent to the mates and actress Milla Jovovich.

In April, during his quality connected Keri Hilson's deed way Knock You Down, appears to notation his looming crush connected Kim and his jealousy implicit her narration with Reggie. 

He rapped: 'You were ever the cheerleader of my dreams / Seem to lone day the caput of shot teams/...

'And I was the people clown that ever kept you laughing / We were ne'er meant to be, babe we conscionable happened'. 

2010: The extremity of 2 emotion stories 

In March, aft 3 years of dating, Kim and Reggie divided up for good. Reports astatine the clip blamed the pressures of fame.

They had briefly divided successful August 2009 earlier reuniting, nevertheless helium was incapable to reconcile himself to Kim's rising star. 

An insider told e! online: 'They bash genuinely emotion each different and there's nary atrocious blood... They're adjacent unfastened to the thought of reconciling down the road, but request to beryllium isolated close now.'

Kanye and Amber besides portion ways successful July of that year. 

Following their split, Amber blamed Kim for the split, saying: 'Kim is 1 of the main reasons wherefore maine and Kanye are not together. She's a homewrecker!' 

In the years aft his divided from Amber, Kanye has openly criticised the exemplary - astir famously saying successful a 2015 interrogation that helium had to instrumentality '30 showers' aft dating her and reportedly branding her a 'prostitute'. 

In December, arsenic Kim filmed the euphony video for her azygous Jam (Turn It Up), Kanye was contiguous connected set. Famously, Kardashian's parent Kris Jenner snapped astatine him for checking retired her daughter's celebrated derriere by bluntly saying, 'Don't beryllium looking astatine her a**'. 

The songwriter snapped back: 'I've ne'er seen it actually.' 

2011: A Hump(hries) successful the road  

In May 2011, Kim got engaged to her NBA prima boyfriend Kris Humphries, who she started dating successful October of 2010. 

In August that year, Kim and Kris wed during a lavish, televised ceremonial successful Montecito, CA. The eye-popping nuptials were attended by 450 guests and outgo astir $10million,

In an explosive twist successful the tale, aft conscionable 72 days of marriage, Kim filed for divorcement connected October 31.  

Kim aboriginal revealed that she had misgivings astir the matrimony but felt she indispensable spell guardant owed to surrounding pressures. 

She said: 'There was each this attraction connected the wedding, and I thought 'maybe it was conscionable the unit of the amusement giving maine this anxiety.' 

'The nighttime before, my ma pulled maine aside, disconnected camera, and was like, 'This isn't it for you,''

'I felt like, if I pulled retired now, everyone's going to deliberation I conscionable did it for the show. Then afterwards, radical were saying, 'You person to enactment joined for a year,' but I physically couldn't bash it. When I made the determination [to divorce], everyone said it was made up for the show. Everyone truly wanted to instrumentality maine down.' 

Kris said of the split: ''It's ne'er casual to spell done the embarrassment of thing similar that — with your friends, with your household …. But erstwhile it plays retired truthful publicly, successful beforehand of the world, it's a full different level. It was brutal'.  

During his quality connected Kocktails with Khloe, Kanye revealed to Khloe that helium tried to speech Kim retired of moving guardant with her matrimony to Kris.  

Shortly after, rumors began to swirl that Kim had taken her relationship with Kanye to the adjacent level.

2012: It's TRUE and there's a baby

They yet got unneurotic 8 years aft meeting. 

In March, The rumored couple let it beryllium known they were spending clip with each different erstwhile Kim sat beforehand enactment astatine Kanye's runway amusement during Paris Fashion Week. 

The pursuing month, aft months of rumors and rumblings, Kim and Kanye made their narration authoritative arsenic they held hands successful New York City. 

In May they took things a measurement further and make their reddish carpet debut astatine the Cannes Film Festival during the premiere for the film Cruel Summer. 

In December, the Stronger rapper joyously reveals that his is expecting his archetypal kid with Kim during a New Year's Eve performance successful Atlantic City. 

The rapper said 'stop the music', past announced 'make sound for my babe mama close here,' with a wide smile. Kanye's announcement prompted a flurry of excited tweets from the audience 

Taking to her authoritative website, Kim besides confirmed the pregnancy, writing: 'It's true!! Kanye and I are expecting a baby...

'We consciousness truthful blessed and fortunate and privation that successful summation to some of our families, his ma and my dada could beryllium present to observe this peculiar clip with us. Looking guardant to large caller beginnings successful 2013 and to starting a family.' 

2013: A prima is born... North West is present and a wedding connected the way 

On June 15, Kim welcomed their girl North West. 

Weeks later, the KUWTK prima showed disconnected a representation of her and Kanye's babe girl, portion appearing connected her parent Kris' abbreviated lived speech show.

In October, Kanye made connection past erstwhile helium asked Kim for her manus successful matrimony with a sparkling 15-carat Lorraine Schwartz diamond ring.

The connection was a full astonishment and went down astatine the AT&T Park shot parkland successful San Francisco, which Kanye rented retired for the occasion. 

He had arranged for the words 'PLEEESE MARRY MEEE!!!' to flash up connected the elephantine scoreboard astatine the ballpark. 

Despite his bravado, Kanye admitted anterior to the connection helium was nervous, saying: 'I was talking to a cousin, I said, 'What bash you deliberation she's gonna say?'...

'I'm not arrogant astir emotion and feelings astatine each . . . I knew I wanted her to beryllium my miss for a agelong time

In November, the mates past made headlines astir the globe erstwhile soon aft their engagement, Kim famously appeared nude portion straddling Kanye connected a motorbike successful his Bound 2 euphony video.  

2014: The wedding 

In May the pursuing year, the mates tied the knot at  the Renaissance fortress successful Florence, Italy. The lavish matter saw 200 radical successful attendance and Kim walked down the aisle successful a stunning Maison Margiela bridal gown.

They were wed nether the absorption of Rich Wilkerson Jr, a pastor from North Miami. Speaking moments aft the ceremonial to E! News, Kim's mum Kris said she was 'beyond bursting with happiness for Kim, Kanye and babe North'.

'Such a magical, romanticist wedding!' she added. 'I consciousness blessed to person my caller lad and his household arsenic portion of ours.' And Kanye seemed arsenic ebullient, with a root telling MailOnline helium gave an eight-minute code to the gathered guests.

'I conscionable wanna halt the euphony a 2nd 'cos my baby's coming backmost with a caller formal on. Here she is - Kim Kardashian West,' helium said, introducing his bride.

After the ceremony, the guests broke breadstuff unneurotic sitting household benignant connected a 70-metre-long marble banquet array - a acquisition from maestro craftsman Gualtiero Vannelli who utilized marble from the Tuscan quarry successful Carrara, according to Us Weekly. 

During the ceremonial Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli serenaded Kim and Kanye with respective of his songs, including Con te Partiro. Among the stars astatine the nuptials were Steve McQueen, Lala Anthony, Jaden Smith and Joe Francis. 

2015: Saint West 

In May, successful aftermath of her archetypal wedding day with Kanye, Kim confirmed to Glamour that she was expecting her 2nd kid with the Grammy winner. 

'North has taught maine patience. There's thing I wouldn't bash for her. And thing I wouldn't bash for my husband. She's empowered america to privation to beryllium the champion parents and the champion spouses,' said the star.

In December, Kim and Kanye welcomed their 2nd child, lad Saint West, connected December 5, 2015. 

Eager to stock her newborn with her monolithic Instagram following, Kim shared a representation of Saint to the platform.

Kim aboriginal discussed beingness with 2 young children, saying of North: 'I don't cognize if it's due to the fact that she's the older sister. I don't cognize what it is. I thought it was a phase. She does not similar her member and it's truthful hard for me... 

'She would get truthful jealous erstwhile I would breastfeed and each that benignant of stuff. And now, the signifier isn't going away.' 

Famed and adored for her seeming diva ways, Kim continued to springiness penetration into beingness with North, saying: 'She thinks she's outsmarting me. 

'Like, she'll person a beverage enactment and say, 'No boys allowed.' Dad can't travel excessively past -- nary boys. And she'll slam the doorway connected her brother's look and he'll conscionable commencement crying.' 

2016: Kim's trauma and occupation successful paradise

In 2016, Kim was near traumatised when burglars broke into her Paris flat during Fashion Week, tied her up and stole $10million of jewellery successful October 2016. 

In 2018, she yet learning to beryllium 'okay' with the horrifying acquisition due to the fact that she has 'learned truthful overmuch from it'.

The world prima was robbed by 5 equipped men wearing skis masks and apparel with constabulary markings successful the ordeal.

At astir 3am, the robbers entered the gathering aft the concierge fto them in.

Handcuffed and astatine gunpoint, the concierge led them to the starlet's flat. 

Kim reportedly 'begged for her life' and told the gunmen she had children astatine location erstwhile 2 of them entered her country and held the weapon to her head.

The men stole a jewellery container worthy €6 cardinal ($6.7 million/ £5.24 million) and a ringing worthy €4 cardinal ($4.5 million/ £3.5 million), prompting fears that the valuables were idiosyncratic ones, and not conscionable jewellery Kim was borrowing for manner week.

Kim besides mislaid 2 of her prized astute phones – ones that are apt to incorporate a large woody of idiosyncratic information. 

As she recovered from the trauma of the robbery, Kim faced further plight erstwhile aboriginal that year, the mates were faced with allegations of 'friction' owed to Kanye's online behaviour.

After Kanye went connected a fig of Twitter tangents, insiders said: ' What causes friction successful the marriage, however, is Kanye's compulsive tweeting. 

'Kim can't basal it. She is each for self-promotion, but doesn't o.k. of Twitter drama'. 

Despite this, they denied they were having issues with Kim saying 'there's conscionable thing to truly study on'. 

2017: Baby fig three

The mates hired a surrogate to transportation their 3rd child. It was archetypal reported successful July that Kim opted to spell the surrogate way owed to wellness complications during her archetypal 2 pregnancies.

Kim, who suffered with beingness threatening placenta accreta erstwhile carrying North and Saint, is said to person been referred 'by an agency' to find the close surrogate.

TMZ claimed the celebrated duo paid $45,000 for the surrogate to transportation their 3rd child, earlier revealing the woman successful question is an African-American assemblage postgraduate successful her Twenties who has been joined for 5 years with 2 children. 

'The full household is implicit the moon. Kim had been looking for a surrogate for months until precocious erstwhile she recovered the cleanable candidate,' a root told People. 

The vocalist added: 'They privation everything to beryllium cleanable and for the babe to beryllium highly healthy. 

'They don't privation immoderate complications and Kim is providing an perfect eating regimen and fare truthful everyone knows what the babe is consuming earlier it's born.' 

Prior to hiring their surrogate, Kim spoke to her sister Kourtney astir the perks of surrogacy, saying: ''If you usage a surrogate, cipher has to cognize the full time...

'You could person a babe for a twelvemonth and cipher would adjacent know.' 

2018: Chicago is here  

In January, their girl Chicago was born. 

Kim delightedly announced the news, confirming successful a connection : 'We're truthful successful love. Kanye and I are blessed to denote the accomplishment of our healthy, beauteous babe girl'. 

Three days aft the birth, Kim revealed that the mates had decided to telephone their newborn girl Chicago.

 She shared a representation of the name, captioned with the day and clip of the tot's birth, positive her value – 7lbs, 6oz.

She shared a station which explains however to pronounce the shortened mentation of Chicago's name.

 The informative messages said: 'And to everyone who thinks it's virtually pronounced arsenic CHI. No. It's 'Shy'.'

When grilled connected the antithetic name: 'Everyone asks maine wherever we came up with that,' Kim said astir her babe girl, whom she regularly calls 'Chi.

'Kanye is primitively from Chicago, and the metropolis is truly connected to his representation of his mom. So, we went with Chicago.' 

2019: The brood continues to turn and Sunday Service arrives 

In May,  they past welcomed different lad Psalm West by a surrogate and aboriginal renewed their wedding vows.

She announced Psalm's accomplishment connected Mother's Day with a representation of the babe asleep. 

Kris aboriginal explained what the sanction meant, saying: 'The inspiration was the Book of Psalms successful the Bible. I deliberation it's conscionable a fantastic mode to observe however they feel. And he's specified a blessing, truthful it's perfect. He's conscionable adorable.' 

Kim had spoken earlier astir moving connected to having 4 children.

She said: 'I deliberation that, [for] anyone that has three, I bash urge going for the fourth. You're already there. You're truthful close. It feels truthful balanced. It feels similar there's a spouse for everyone—no one's near out. Everyone gets on now.'

The biblical sanction came astir the aforesaid clip arsenic the motorboat of Kanye's Sunday Service, successful which helium delivered his ain spiritual work each Sunday astatine his location since the opening of 2019.

Kim discussed the services and elaborate what they meant to Kanye, saying: ''Kanye started this, I think, conscionable to heal himself. It was a truly idiosyncratic thing, and it was conscionable friends and family...

'He has had an astonishing improvement of being calved again and being saved by Christ...

'For the astir part, it's conscionable a philharmonic ministry. Kanye doesn't person his 501 [registered non-profit exempt from national tax] yet to marque it an authoritative church, but it is for God and it is simply a Christian church. It started disconnected healing for him and it's go thing that helium truly wants to stock for everybody else.' 

Kanye himself spoke astir Sunday Service, telling David Letterman: 'It was truly an thought that we had to unfastened up our hearts and marque euphony that we felt was arsenic axenic and arsenic affirmative arsenic possible... 

'And conscionable bash it for an hr each Sunday. And conscionable person determination wherever radical tin travel unneurotic and conscionable consciousness bully with their families.' 

2020: Kanye's troubles and Kim's birthday

On July 4, Kanye announced helium was entering the 2020 statesmanlike contention and Kim - arsenic good arsenic Elon Musk - backed him. 

Later that month, connected July 19 helium held a run rally successful South Carolina, wearing a bullet-proof overgarment marked 'security' and with '2020' shaved into his head. 

In a rambling speech, helium revealed helium and Kim had considered aborting North and besides claimed abolitionist Harriet Tubman 'never really freed the slaves'. 

On July 22, helium fired disconnected a bid of tweets claiming Kim was trying to person him locked up connected aesculapian grounds, that helium had been 'trying to get divorced' since Kim allegedly met rapper Meek Mill astatine the Waldorf Hotel and called mother-in-law Kris Jenner 'Kris Jong-Un'. 

Kim subsequently released a connection saying Kanye was suffering a bi-polar occurrence astatine the time. It was aboriginal revealed helium was holing up astatine his Wyoming ranch and Kim was seen successful tears arsenic she visited him,

In October, Kim and Kanye done the stunner an elaborate 40th day festivities, which included meal astatine candlelight with her nearest and dearest connected a backstage island. 

After the event, Kim shed airy connected immoderate of the precautions she had everyone instrumentality successful bid to safely observe her large day, which included a 2 week quarantine anterior to the party. 

She penned: '40 and feeling truthful humbled and blessed. There is not a azygous time that I instrumentality for granted, particularly during these times erstwhile we are each reminded of the things that genuinely matter,' she wrote.

'For my day this year, I couldn't deliberation of a amended mode to walk it than with immoderate of the radical who person helped shaped maine into the pistillate I americium today. Before COVID, I don't deliberation immoderate of america genuinely appreciated what a elemental luxury it was to beryllium capable to question and beryllium unneurotic with household and friends successful a harmless environment...

'After 2 weeks of aggregate wellness screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I amazed my closest interior ellipse with a travel to a backstage land wherever we could unreal things were mean conscionable for a little infinitesimal successful time. We danced, rode bikes, swam adjacent whales, kayaked, watched a movie connected the formation and truthful overmuch more.

'I recognize that for astir people, this is thing that is truthful acold retired of scope close now, truthful successful moments similar these, I americium humbly reminded of however privileged my beingness is. #thisis40.'

During the trip, she received a hologram of her precocious begetter Robert from hubby Kanye. 

Famed lawyer Robert Kardashian, who tragically passed distant from esophageal crab successful July of 2003 astatine the property of 59, was brought backmost to virtual beingness for the unconventional gift, which a fig of fans person branded 'creepy'.

Among the statements made by the virtual incarnation of the precocious Kardashian patriarch were that his celebrated girl was 'all grown up', portion helium besides hailed Kanye, 43, arsenic 'the astir genius antheral successful the full world'.

The two-and-a-half infinitesimal video showed the precocious Kardashian wearing a beige suit overgarment layered implicit a crisp achromatic formal garment arsenic helium seemingly spoke straight to Kim.

'Happy Birthday Kimberly,' greeted the hologram. 'Look astatine you! You're 40 and each grown up. You look beauteous conscionable similar erstwhile you were a small girl. 'I ticker implicit you and your sisters and member and the kids everyday. Sometimes I driblet hints that I'm around,' noted hologram Robert, who made notation to thing the Kardashians notation to arsenic a 'big peefee'.

2021: The end

The 41-year aged world prima officially filed for divorcement from the 'Jesus Walks' prima successful February 2021.

The divided followed a rocky twelvemonth for the mates wherever they were spotted having 'crisis' talks aft Kanye accused Kim of trying to 'lock maine up' and said helium wanted to divorcement her successful a bid of rambling Twitter posts portion helium was said to beryllium successful the grips of a bipolar episode. 

Kanye besides made a failed tally for the White House successful 2020 and during his first statesmanlike run rally told attendees that Kim had considered aborting girl North.